Back in December, Apple Pie posted this about Grounded:
“I am alive today because I was grounded.” Fave line ever!
I’m inviting you to comment here about your fave lines from this year’s list. Please include the book it came from, and the reason why it caught your attention.
Add comment Posted in Uncategorized January 3, 2012
by Tom Angleberger 
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
103 comments Posted in Strange Case of Origami Yoda Tagged: Contemporary, Friendship, School June 30, 2011
by Blue Balliett 
In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
41 comments Posted in Danger Box Tagged: Adventure, Contemporary, Mystery June 30, 2011
by Jane Leslie Conly 
In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger whose captain has no qualms about murdering any crewman who fails to meet his demands.
34 comments Posted in Murder Afloat Tagged: Adventure, Historical fiction, Relocating June 30, 2011
by Audrey Couloumbis 
When ten-year-old Jake’s widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
42 comments Posted in Jake Tagged: Contemporary, Family June 30, 2011
by Sharon M. Draper 
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
61 comments Posted in Out of My Mind Tagged: Contemporary, Family June 30, 2011
by Kathryn Erskine 
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.
43 comments Posted in Mockingbird Tagged: Contemporary, Family, Friendship, School June 30, 2011
by Kat Falls 
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier’s underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
63 comments Posted in Dark Life Tagged: Adventure, Fantasy, Friendship, Mystery June 30, 2011
by Stuart Gibbs 
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo’s star attraction–Henry the hippopotamus–is murdered.
94 comments Posted in Belly Up Tagged: Animals, Contemporary, Mystery June 30, 2011
by Heather Henson 
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
33 comments Posted in Dream of Night Tagged: Animals, Contemporary, Friendship, Relocating June 30, 2011
by Jennifer L. Holm 
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
30 comments Posted in Turtle in Paradise Tagged: Family, Historical fiction, Relocating June 30, 2011
by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel 
On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her unusual name.
25 comments Posted in Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt Tagged: Contemporary, Friendship, Relocating, School June 30, 2011
by David Klass 
On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.
22 comments Posted in Stuck On Earth Tagged: Adventure, Relocating, Science fiction June 30, 2011
by Kate Klise 
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn’s life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town’s new crematorium.
31 comments Posted in Grounded Tagged: Contemporary, Family, Relocating June 30, 2011
by Debbie Levy 
Using her mother’s poetry album, Levy recounts the story of eleven-year-old Jutta’s life in Germany in 1938 as the country descends into madness.
23 comments Posted in Year of Goodbyes Tagged: Family, Friendship, Historical fiction, Poetry, Relocating June 30, 2011
by Cynthia Lord 
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island’s one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school’s population.
37 comments Posted in Touch Blue Tagged: Contemporary, Family, Friendship, Relocating, School June 30, 2011
by Mike Lupica 
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President’s globe-trotting troubleshooter until “the Bads” killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
66 comments Posted in Hero Tagged: Adventure, Fantasy June 30, 2011
by Margaret McMullan 
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother’s and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
15 comments Posted in Sources of Light Tagged: Family, Friendship, Historical fiction, Relocating June 30, 2011
by Kate Messner 
When Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers twelve-year-old farm girl Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid, she encounters a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything.
27 comments Posted in Sugar and Ice Tagged: Contemporary, Friendship June 30, 2011
by Don Mitchell 
A biography of Henry Ford, the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man’s toy into affordable necessity.
17 comments Posted in Driven Tagged: Biography, Nonfiction June 30, 2011
by Sy Montgomery 
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 Kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands; now a team of scientists is trying to restore the Kakapo population.
26 comments Posted in Kakapo Rescue Tagged: Animals, Nonfiction June 30, 2011
by Barbara O’Connor 
After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
38 comments Posted in Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester Tagged: Animals, Friendship June 29, 2011
by Kenneth Oppel 
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project–an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills–he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
42 comments Posted in Half Brother Tagged: Animals, Family June 29, 2011
by Laure Resau 
After eleven-year-old Zitlally’s father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park’s forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.
21 comments Posted in Star in the Forest Tagged: Animals, Contemporary, Family June 29, 2011
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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.
14 comments Posted in Ninth Ward Tagged: Adventure, Contemporary June 29, 2011
by Polly Shulman
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the “New-York Circulating Material Repository,” and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
44 comments Posted in Grimm Legacy Tagged: Fantasy June 29, 2011
by Alan Silberberg 
In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the “One Eyed Jack” of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.
56 comments Posted in Milo Tagged: Contemporary, Family, Friendship June 29, 2011
by Jordan Sonnenblick 
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen who is studying drums in Africa.
64 comments Posted in After Ever After Tagged: Contemporary, Family, Friendship, School June 29, 2011
by Raina Telgemeier
In this graphic memoir, Telgemeier recounts the dental hell and accompanying social problems she went through as an adolescent.
171 comments Posted in Smile Tagged: Contemporary, Family, Graphic June 29, 2011
by Rita Williams-Garcia
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
29 comments Posted in One Crazy Summer Tagged: Family, Historical fiction, Relocating June 29, 2011
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and his sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with their new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.
25 comments Posted in Prince of Mist Tagged: Adventure, Fantasy June 29, 2011
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