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The Giver by Lois Lowry In a perfect future society where each family is assigned two children, all needs are provided by the community, and even emotions are regulated, Jonas is content until the year he turns twelve. Jonas decides it's not fear he feels, but apprehension about the coming Assignment. The Assignment... |
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials series) by Philip Pullman Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives at Oxford University's Jordan College, where she has managed to avoid being educated by the scholars who look after her and runs wild. In this parallel world to ours, everyone has a daemon attached to them always-a sort of alter ego in animal form. Lyra's... |
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The man Jack sets out to kill the whole family, especially the baby, barely a toddler, but the child wanders away in the night, ending up in the nearby graveyard. Mistress Owens and her husband, ghosts, both of them, dead 250 years now, discover the newly orphaned boy and they... |
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan When you first pick up this very brown and battered-looking wordless picture book graphic novel with the sepia-toned photograph on the cover, of a man in a suit and 1950s-style fedora, carrying an old suitcase, it looks like an old photo album you found up in your grandparents' attic. Then... |
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The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Since Anand's father left his family in India to go work in Dubai, he's stopped sending home checks, leaving 12-year- old Anand, his ill younger sister, Meera, and their mother destitute. Anand now works in the Bowbajar Market as a dishwasher at a tea stall, scrubbing the pots and glasses... |
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Eragon (Inheritance Cycle series) by Christopher Paolini The story behind the story is one that really grabs kids: a fifteen year old boy from Montana, born in 1983 and home-schooled all his life, loves to read books about magic and dragons, spurred by reading Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville. He starts to write... |
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Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space (The Larklight series) by Philip Reeve, Illustrated by David Wyatt Larklight is a rambling, ramshackle house that spins on its own remote orbit out in the deeps beyond the moon. It was constructed in the early 1700s, which, if you recall your history, was just a few years after Sir Isaac Newton's discoveries made it possible for people to travel.. |
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Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice series) by Joseph Delaney, Illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith Fifth and sixth graders who think they like scary books are going to clamor for this one, the first in a series of five, once they see the dark and foreboding moonlit cover, but let me warn you—it's really scary. Readers will not sleep at night if they're foolhardy enough... |
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Savvy by Ingrid Law "When my brother Fish turned thirteen, we moved to the deepest part of inland, because of the hurricane and, of course, the fact that he'd caused it." With that first sentence washing you over like a storm, meet Mibs Beaumont, from a most unordinary family, each member having an exceptional... |
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The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Writing an essay about how the Smekday holiday (formerly called Christmas) has changed in the year since the aliens left, eighth grader Gratuity Tucci, known as Tip, offers her story of her singular experiences since the Boov invasion in 2013. Though the aliens have just announced that all Americans must... |
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga series) by Stephenie Meyer When Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga, came out in the summer of 2008, teens went wild, going to midnight costume parties at bookstores in a frenzy second only to the Harry Potter scenes of the past decade. Only one week after... |
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The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, Illustrated by David Small From its first sentence—"There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road."—you are pulled into the aura of this extraordinary book, a melding of two seemingly unrelated stories. First, there is the abandoned calico... |
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Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen Bryce Loski describes how he has scrambled, ever since second grade when his family moved to the neighborhood, to avoid all contact with his pesty, oddball neighbor, Julianna Baker; while Juli recalls the past six years of being smitten with and pursuing blue-eyed Bryce, hoping he would kiss her. I... |
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible." Holden Caulfield takes the reader from... |
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The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Paulsen If you still idolize Wild West men like Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Wyatt Earp, and Kit Carson, author Gary Paulsen will soon set you straight. In his Foreword, he smokes out all of these icons as racist, thieving, shiftless cowards, chronic alcoholics, and outright thugs. In their place he... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie "I was born with water on the brain." So begins the digressive and loquacious narrative and cartoon drawings of 14-year-old Arnold Spirit, better known as Junior. He lays out his limitations straight off: too much cerebral spinal fluid at birth has left him nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in... |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko In 1935, when Moose Flanagan's father gets a job as electrician and guard at Alcatraz prison, the family moves to the twelve-acre rock island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, joining the other families and kids who live there, not to mention the prisoners, including gangster Al Capone. Moose... |
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All Shook Up by Shelley Pearsall "Looking back, I would say everything in my life changed the summer I turned thirteen and my dad turned into Elvis." Isn't that a killer first sentence? Josh Greenwood is already what he calls a "shared kid," having spent the last eight years shuttling between his mother's place in Boston... |
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Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits First there was the uproariously kinetic book, Technically It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems narrated by Robert, who, in 28 concrete or shape poems, spends a fair amount of time complaining about his annoying big sister, Jessie. Now it's Jessie's turn to snipe. She's in ninth grade, so... |
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, Illustrated by Robert Byrd Baltimore school librarian, storyteller, and playwright Laura Amy Schlitz has a passion for history. When her fifth grade students were studying the Middle Ages, she set to writing 17 short monologues to stage so each child could have a decent part to memorize. It evolved into this powerful 2008 Newbery... |
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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller Reading this biographical novel, narrated by Anne Sullivan and based on her many letters, I was reminded once again why I, like so many others, have always been captivated by the story of Anne and Helen Keller, the little girl whose life she transformed. It starts in 1887 with 20-year-old... |
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Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time by Lisa Yee Because he's just flunked sixth-grade English, Stanford Wong, who thinks of himself as "the only stupid Chinese kid in America," won't be able to go to basketball camp this summer. Instead, he'll be taking a summer school English class with Mr. Glick, AKA Teacher Torturer. If he fails it, he'll... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee's only novel, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, is one of the most taught pieces of literature in the U.S., and as such, students will read it in school and see the Academy Award winning film with the memorable Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. It's... |
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The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt "Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo Junior High School, there was one kid that Mrs. Baker hated with heat whiter than the sun. Me." So starts the sometimes slapstick, sometimes serious account by Holling Hoodhood about the Wednesday afternoons he is forced to spend with his... |
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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix In 1840, with more of the children falling ill in their isolated little village of Clifton, Indiana, Jessie's ma takes her into the woods to look for herbs. Ma has been acting secretive and strange, but what she now tells Jessie is incomprehensible. It seems that Clifton isn't an ordinary... |
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The Case of the Cat with the Missing Ear (The Adventures of Samuel Blackthorne series) by Scott Emerson Meet Yorkshire terrier detective Samuel Blackthorne as seen through the eyes of his chronicler, friend, and fellow canine, Edward R. Smithfield, a retired veterinarian. In their first thrilling case together, they come to the assistance of elegant greyhound, Molly Kirkpatrick, who seeks their help to find out why her brother,... |
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The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd When Ted and his older sister, Kat, get a free ticket from a stranger to ride the London Eye, the huge observation wheel, they give it to their visiting thirteen-year-old cousin, Salim. They track his capsule as the wheel makes it orbit, but when it lands and the passengers disembark,... |
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Watership Down by Richard Adams Fiver has a vision that the warren he and the other rabbits live in will soon be covered in blood. A small group of rabbits, Bigwig, Blackberry, Holly, Pipkin, and more, led by Fiver's brother, Hazel, heed Fiver's warnings and they set out to find a new warren. The group... |
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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel Aboard the gargantuan airship, Aurora, riding high above the Pacificus, heading from Sydney to Lionsgate City, 15-year-old cabin boy, Matt Cruse, helps to rescue an unconscious man in a hot air balloon that is listing in the night sky. The sixty-year-old pilot, Benjamin Malloy, who had been attempting to float... |
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The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins Young pickpocket Ludlow Fitch manages to escape from the dank and squalid basement where the notorious tooth surgeon of Old Goat's Alley, Barton Gumbroot, plans to extract the boy's teeth for money, assisted by Ludlow's own drunken and larcenous parents. There's no place he can hide in the City, so... |
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The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo Now you don't have to wait until you're older to appreciate the dark, hip, wiseguy first person detective style of Dashiell Hammett in The Maltese Falcon and Raymond Chandler in The Big Sleep. Move over Bogart, now there's Matt Stevens on the job, a worthy successor... |
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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator (Gilda Joyce series) by Jennifer Allison 13-year-old Gilda Joyce has been interested in surveillance ever since reading Harriet the Spy back in elementary school. One of her plans for her boring summer vacation is to continue spying on Plaid Pants, AKA Hector Flack, who works at the convenience store and whom Gilda thinks could be a... |
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Holes by Louis Sachar For stealing a famous basketball player's sneakers, overweight, unlucky, but innocent Stanley Yelnats, is sentenced to hot, desolate Camp Green Lake in Texas, a detention center for bad boys. Every day each of the teen inmates must dig a hole five feet around and five feet deep in the bone... |
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The Mysterious Benedict Society (Mysterious Benedict Society series) by Trenton Lee Stewart, Illustrated by Carson Ellis "ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES?" That newspaper ad brings together four resourceful and multitalented children, all of whom are orphans or alone in the world, to become secret agents for Mr. Benedict, a genius who has uncovered a nefarious international mind-control plot. There's Reynie Muldoon, whose... |
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Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure by Michael Hoeye Mild-mannered watchmaker Hermux Tantamoq is a quiet guy for a mouse. He likes nothing better than to fix clocks and watches, and then go home for a nice pot of soup and the company of his pet ladybug, Terfle. Bliss for Hermux is his ten a.m. break for coffee and... |
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Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick "Before I tell you about the biggest fish in the sea and how it tried to kill me and then ended up saving my life, first you got to know about the leaky boat, 'cause it all began right there." Now that is one great first sentence and it pulls... |
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Bartoletti won both a Newbery Honor and a Sibert Honor for her provocative, chilling exploration of the mass movement of children and teenagers who willingly or reluctantly joined Hitler Youth, the Nazi Party's organization formed in 1926. Starting with 15-year-old Herbert Norkus, whose murder by a gang of Communist youths... |
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Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming What the author describes as a scrapbook is a handsome and mesmerizing collection of biographical and often humorous anecdotes, "bits and pieces" arranged within a broader subject, starting with "Boyhood Memories," and covering all aspects of Franklin's life and career, from scientist to statesman. Copiously illustrated with portraits, cartoons, paintings,... |
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Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist by Peter Larson Peter Lawson, the paleontologist who found and dug up Sue, the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex ever, reveals his down-in-the-dirt trade secrets about finding, excavating, preparing, and studying dinosaur fossils. For dinomaniacs, this is a gorgeously laid out hands-on manual, packed with color photos of bones and kids working with them in... |
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Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud by Susan Goldman Rubin This innovative and enticing biography introduces 20th century painter Wayne Thiebaud, famed for painting ordinary objects like cakes, slices of pie, ice cream cones, rows of shoes, and pinball machines. Color runs riot in this compact little book that reminds you of a box of candy. Each smooth-textured page and... |
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The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming This handsome and weighty compendium is not the usual linear biography for children, starting with the subject's birth and moving on inexorably through childhood, career, reasons for fame, and then death. Instead, it is a meaty medley of stories, anecdotes, photographs and black and white reproductions that digs into the... |
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The Tarantula Scientist (Scientists in the Field series) by Sy Montgomery, Illustrated by Nic Bishop Meet arachnologist Sam Marshall as he explores the floor of the rainforest of French Guiana in South America, studying the habits and habitat of the Goliath birdeater tarantula, the world's largest spider. Marshall was an indifferent student at Bard College until he found his passion, researching the habits and behavior... |
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis Award-winning children's book author and illustrator Peter Sís grew up in Prague, Czechoslovakia after World War II, and came to the U.S. in the 1970s. This remarkable autobiographical picture book, told in the third person, is about the making of an artist in a place where creativity was discouraged, free... |
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Washington at Valley Forge by Russell Freedman We've come to expect quality nonfiction from Newbery Medal winner Russell Freedman, but he manages to exceed our expectations with his eloquent and gripping account of the brutal winter George Washington and his bedraggled army spent at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Students who claim history is dull will pay full attention... |
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The Way We Work by David Macaulay and Richard Walker, Illustrated by David Macaulay When you delve into David Macaulay's extraordinary and encyclopedic ode to engineering, The New Way Things Work (1998), you are awed by the way he zeroes in on an object and explains, in words and pictures, how it is put together. Macaulay's full-page pen and ink and watercolor illustrations makes... |
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We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson As handsome and riveting as any nonfiction book I've ever read, this imposing and stately sports book is unforgettable and spectacular. Enough adjectives for you? Until you hold it in your hands, you can't imagine the impact it will have, starting with the stoic gaze of Negro League superstar Josh... |
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