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TITLE: The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
AUTHOR: Leslie Connor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Con - NOVELS SUMMARY: Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. |
TITLE: Roll with It
AUTHOR: Jamie Sumner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sum - NOVELS SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease. |
TITLE: Red, White, and Whole
AUTHOR: Rajani LaRocca WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F LaR - NOVELS SUMMARY: Feeling disconnected from her heritage as the only Indian-American student in her community, young Reha commits herself to a future different from her dreams when her mother becomes dangerously ill. |
TITLE: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
AUTHOR: Cynthia Leitich Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Smi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp. |
TITLE: Ikenga
AUTHOR: Nnedi Okorafor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Oko - FANTASY SUMMARY: In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while trying to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers. |
TITLE: The Brave
AUTHOR: James Bird WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bir - NOVELS SUMMARY: Targeted by bullies for his escalating OCD, Collin is sent to live with his biological mother on an Ojibwe reservation where his differences are accepted and where he finds companionship in a physically challenged girl whose circumstances inspire Collin to make a difficult choice. |
TITLE: The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
AUTHOR: Brenda Woods WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Woo - NOVELS SUMMARY: A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family. |
TITLE: Measuring Up
AUTHOR: Lily Lamotte WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. |
TITLE: Jukebox
AUTHOR: Nidhi Chanani WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music history, are Shaheen's only clues to her father's abrupt disappearance. She looks to her cousin, Tannaz, who seems just as perplexed, before they both turn to the jukebox which starts...glowing? Suddenly, the girls are pulled from their era and transported to another time! Keyed to the music on the record, the jukebox sends them through decade after decade of music history, from political marches to landmark concerts. But can they find Shaheen's dad before the music stops? |
TITLE: Cub
AUTHOR: Cynthia L. Copeland WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cop - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Author and artist Cindy Copeland comes of age, discovers new talents, and finds her voice as a cub reporter at her local newspaper during the Watergate era. |
TITLE: A Good Kind of Trouble
AUTHOR: Lisa Moore Ramée WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ram - NOVELS SUMMARY: Strictly following the rules to pursue her junior-high ambitions, 12-year-old Shayla is forced to choose between her education and her identity when her sister joins the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of a powerful protest. |
TITLE: Game Changer
AUTHOR: Tom Greenwald WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - NOVELS SUMMARY: While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts. |
TITLE: Go with the Flow
AUTHOR: Lily Williams WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues. |
TITLE: Everything Sad Is Untrue
AUTHOR: Daniel Nayeri WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nay - NOVELS SUMMARY: At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. |
TITLE: Before the Ever After
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Woo - NOVELS SUMMARY: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career. |
TITLE: Clean Getaway
AUTHOR: Nic Stone WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sto - NOVELS SUMMARY: An 11-year-old boy confronts the realities of race relations, past and present, and the mysterious agenda of his unconventional grandmother during an unplanned spring break road trip through the once-segregated American South. |
TITLE: Beetle & the Hollowbones
AUTHOR: Aliza Layne WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lay - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped. |
TITLE: The Crossover: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. |
TITLE: The Magic Fish
AUTHOR: Trung Le Nguyen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tru - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tíên still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tíên, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay? |
TITLE: Snapdragon
AUTHOR: Kay Leyh WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ley - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Snap's town has a witch. At least, that's the rumor. In reality, Jacks is just a Crocs-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells the skeletons of roadkill online. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. Snap needs a favor from this old woman, though, so she begins helping Jacks with her strange work. Snap gets to know her and realizes that Jacks may in fact have real magic--and an unlikely connection to Snap's family's past. |
TITLE: Ali Cross
AUTHOR: James Patterson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pat - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When his best friend Abraham is reported missing, Ali Cross sets out to find him, but he soon learns that being a kid sleuth isn't easy and clues aren't always what they seem. |
TITLE: Look Both Ways
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school. |
TITLE: Ungifted
AUTHOR: Gordon Korman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school. |
TITLE: The Usual Suspects
AUTHOR: Maurice Broaddus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bro - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Thelonius Mitchell, a special education student known for his pranks and tired of being labeled, is falsely accused of hiding a gun at a neighborhood hangout and tries to clear his name with the help of his best friend. |
TITLE: Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More
AUTHOR: Dustin Hansen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 794.8 Han SUMMARY: A middle-grade nonfiction book about the history and impact on pop culture of video games. |
TITLE: The Hidden Oracle
AUTHOR: Rick Riodan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rio - FANTASY SUMMARY: After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor. |
TITLE: When You Reach Me
AUTHOR: Rebecca Stead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ste - NOVELS SUMMARY: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. |
TITLE: Ghost Boys
AUTHOR: Jewell Parker Rhodes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rho - NOVELS SUMMARY: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till. |
TITLE: I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
AUTHOR: Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.23 Ali SUMMARY: Chronicles the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from Zimbabwe, discussing how a class assignment was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives. |
TITLE: Merci Suárez Changes Gears
AUTHOR: Meg Medina WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Med - NOVELS SUMMARY: Alienated from her more privileged classmates at a Florida private school, sixth-grade scholarship student Merci Suarez is targeted by a competitive rival at the same time her beloved grandfather begins to develop memory problems. |
TITLE: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
AUTHOR: Deborah Heiligman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 920 Hei SUMMARY: A meticulously researched account of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh draws on hundreds of letters written by the master artist that illuminate how Theo supported Vincent throughout the latter's creative and interpersonal struggles. |
TITLE: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
AUTHOR: Rachel Renée Russell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rus - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to simply be herself. |
TITLE: Secrets of Bearhaven
AUTHOR: K. E. Rocha WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Roc - FANTASY SUMMARY: After Spencer Plain flees his uncle's car and hides in the woods, he is rescued by a bear who brings him to Bearhaven, a refuge filled with bears who can talk and who may help him find the whereabouts of his parents. |
TITLE: The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.01 Ale SUMMARY: Kwame Alexander shares poetry and inspiring lessons about the rules of life, as well as uplifting quotes from athletes such as Stephen Curry and Venus Williams and other exemplars like Sonia Sotomayor and Michelle Obama in this motivational and inspirational book just right for graduates of any age and anyone needing a little encouragement. |
TITLE: Refugee
AUTHOR: Alan Gratz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gra - NOVELS SUMMARY: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together. |
TITLE: The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
AUTHOR: Marc Aronson with Adrienne Mayor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 398.2 Aro SUMMARY: Traces the research scientist co-author's explorations in Greece and the Gobi Desert for the origins of the mythical griffin, relating the story of the ancient Scythians and the griffins that were said to have guarded their treasure. |
TITLE: Squirrel Meets World
AUTHOR: Shannon Hale & Dean Hale WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hal - FANTASY SUMMARY: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together. |
TITLE: As Brave as You
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires -- literally. |
TITLE: Pax
AUTHOR: Sara Pennypacker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pen - NOVELS SUMMARY: After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back. |
TITLE: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
AUTHOR: Margarita Engle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Eng SUMMARY: In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. |
TITLE: Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
AUTHOR: Karen Blumenthal WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 363.4 Blu SUMMARY: Chronicles the history of Prohibition in the United States, a period from 1920 to 1933 during which it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, discussing how what began as a movement to heal social ills, became a burden to ordinary citizens and a boon to criminals. |
TITLE: Top Prospect
AUTHOR: Paul Volponi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Vol - NOVELS SUMMARY: Travis, a pre-teen quarterback with big potential, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the coach of Gainesville University football program offers him a scholarship before Travis even gets to high school. |
TITLE: Prisoner B-3087
AUTHOR: Alan Gratz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gra - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau. |
TITLE: Wild Born
AUTHOR: Brandon Mull WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mul - FANTASY SUMMARY: As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts -- a bond that gives great powers to all of them. |
TITLE: The Crossover
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. |
TITLE: The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
AUTHOR: Paul B. Janeczko WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 327.73 Jan SUMMARY: A collection of true spy stories from throughout the history of the United States, discussing personalities, missions, traitors, technological advances, and more. |
TITLE: New Kid
AUTHOR: Jerry Craft WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cra - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds—and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself? |
TITLE: Space Boy
AUTHOR: Stephen McCranie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor. |
TITLE: The Nameless City
AUTHOR: Faith Erin Hicks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hic- GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives it is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive. |
TITLE: A Night Divided
AUTHOR: Jennifer A. Nielsen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nie - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom. |
TITLE: Positively Izzy
AUTHOR: Terri Libenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lib - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Tells the intersecting stories of dreamer Izzy, who has trouble focusing on schoolwork, and Brainy Bri, who wants people to think of her as more than a brainiac. |
TITLE: Brave
AUTHOR: Svetlana Chmakova WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Chm - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A follow-up to the Eisner Award-nominated Awkward finds a misfit art club targeted by the school's bullies while Jenny and Akilah try to raise awareness, only to find their friendship tested by differing perspectives. |
TITLE: Ghost
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential. |
TITLE: Wishtree
AUTHOR: Katherine Applegate WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F App - FANTASY SUMMARY: An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk. |
TITLE: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
AUTHOR: J. K. Rowling WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Row - FANTASY SUMMARY: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
TITLE: Hot Cocoa Hearts
AUTHOR: Suzanne Nelson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nel - NOVELS SUMMARY: While working at her parents' Santa photography booth at the mall, Emery meets Alex and begins to question her crush on Sawyer, the moody lead singer of a band. |
TITLE: Wolf Hollow
AUTHOR: Lauren Wolk WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wol - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran. |
TITLE: Wonder
AUTHOR: R. J. Palacio WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. |
TITLE: Fish in a Tree
AUTHOR: Lynda Mullaly Hunt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hun - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read. |
TITLE: The Thing About Jellyfish
AUTHOR: Ali Benjamin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ben - NOVELS SUMMARY: After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door. |
TITLE: Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
AUTHOR: Gail Carson Levine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 808 Lev SUMMARY: Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares the secrets of her writing success, including how to get ideas, creating beginnings and endings, writing great dialogue, developing memorable characters, and more. |
TITLE: Inside Out & Back Again
AUTHOR: Thanhha Lai WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lai - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. |
TITLE: How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
AUTHOR: Sandra Uwiringiyimana WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Uwi SUMMARY: A memoir by the co-creator of the Foundation of Hope Ministries shares the remarkable story of her survival during the Gatumba massacre and how after moving to America she found healing through art and activism. |
TITLE: One for the Murphys
AUTHOR: Lynda Mullaly Hunt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hun - NOVELS SUMMARY: Carley struggles with being open to love after she suffers a betrayal that forces her to move in with a foster family. |
TITLE: Red Thread Sisters
AUTHOR: Lynda Mullaly Hunt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hun - NOVELS SUMMARY: After an American family adopts eleven-year-old Wen from a Chinese orphanage, she vows to find a family for her best friend, too. |
TITLE: All the Broken Pieces
AUTHOR: Ann E. Burg WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bur - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. |
TITLE: Mockingbird
AUTHOR: Kathryn Erskine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ers - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father. |
TITLE: A Maze Me: Poems for Girls
AUTHOR: Naomi Shihab Nye WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Hye SUMMARY: Written for a young female audience, captures the wide array of coming-of-age emotion, drama, angst, and joy through poems dealing with friendship, school, community, love, and family. |
TITLE: Ninth Ward
AUTHOR: Jewell Parker Rhodes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rho - NOVELS SUMMARY: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them. |
TITLE: Num8bers
AUTHOR: Rachel Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F War - FANTASY SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned. |
TITLE: Chains
AUTHOR: Laurie Halse Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. |
TITLE: Heat
AUTHOR: Mike Lupica WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lup - NOVELS SUMMARY: Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. |
TITLE: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
AUTHOR: Rachel Ignotofsky WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 509.2 Ign SUMMARY: Highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. |
TITLE: Guts
AUTHOR: Raina Telgemeier WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tel - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In graphic novel form, Raina Telegmeier relates her struggles with stress and anxiety as a child. |
TITLE: For Every One
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Rey SUMMARY: Presents a poem in which the author inspires kids to dream, even though dreams may take time and involve countless struggles. |
TITLE: Brown Girl Dreaming
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Woo SUMMARY: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. |
TITLE: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
AUTHOR: C. S. Lewis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lew - FANTASY SUMMARY: Four English school children find their way into a magical land where they help Aslan, the noble lion, free Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. |
TITLE: A Wrinkle in Time
AUTHOR: Madeleine L'Engle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F L'En - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. |