Abrahams, Peter. Into the Dark.
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather’s name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
20 comments Tagged: Mystery September 26, 2009
Aguilar, David. 11 Planets.
Brilliant photorealistic illustrations and fascinating facts straight from the latest astronomy news bring a comprehensive look at our solar system as we’ve never seen it before.
14 comments Tagged: Nonfiction September 26, 2009
Balliett, Blue. The Calder Game.
When seventh grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village–along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn–his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
22 comments Tagged: Art, Mystery September 26, 2009
Bradbury, Jennifer. Shift.
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating from high school and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
19 comments Tagged: Adventure, Mystery September 26, 2009
Broach, Elise. Masterpiece.
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover an Albrecht Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
18 comments Tagged: Art, Fantasy, Mystery September 26, 2009
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem conduct an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she volunteers to take her younger sister’s place.
47 comments Tagged: Adventure, Science fiction September 26, 2009
Daley, Michael. Rat Trap.
Bioengineered Rat and her twelve-year-old human companion, Jeff, stand together when Dr. Vivexian, who considers Rat his masterpiece, arrives at the space station to capture her.
17 comments Tagged: Adventure, Animals, Science fiction September 26, 2009
Dowell, Frances O’Roark. Shooting the Moon.
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world in which she has grown up.
19 comments Tagged: Family, Historical fiction September 26, 2009
Farr, Richard. Emperors of the Ice.
Apsley “Cherry” Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott’s expedition to Antarctica in 1910, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins, nearly dying in the attempt.
5 comments Tagged: Adventure, Historical fiction September 26, 2009
Feldman, Jody. The Gollywhopper Games.
Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling from Golly Toy and Game Company.
20 comments Tagged: Fantasy September 26, 2009
Frost, Helen. Diamond Willow.
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of ancestors and friends who care for her.
26 comments Tagged: Adventure, Family, Poetry September 26, 2009
Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book.
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
26 comments Tagged: Fantasy September 26, 2009
George, Jessica Day. Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow.
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.
12 comments Tagged: Fantasy September 26, 2009
Goodman, Allegra. The Other Side of the Island.
Born in the eighteenth year of Enclosure, ten-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up to Honor and her friend Helix, another “unpredictable,” to uncover a terrible secret about their island and the corporation that runs everything.
23 comments Tagged: Science fiction September 26, 2009
Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan.Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
This biography of contemporary artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude is a
story of the power of collaboration and vision, and of the creation of the spectacular Gates in New York’s Central Park and other incredible installation artworks.
11 comments Tagged: Art, Nonfiction September 26, 2009
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found.
When thirteen-yearolds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
37 comments Tagged: Mystery, Science fiction September 26, 2009
Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale. Rapunzel’s Revenge.
In this graphic novel Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws–including Gothel, the witch.
46 comments Tagged: Fantasy, Graphic novel, Western September 26, 2009
Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea.
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip in the Bahamas and have a harrowing adventure at sea.
11 comments Tagged: Adventure, Family September 26, 2009
Law, Ingrid. Savvy.
Mibs Beaumont’s thirteenth birthday has revealed her “savvy”–a magical power unique to each member of her family–just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
22 comments Tagged: Family, Fantasy September 26, 2009
Napoli, Donna Jo. Mogo, the Third Warthog.
When Mogo is cast out of his burrow to make room for a new litter, he learns how to survive and find the joy of friendship and love.
10 comments Tagged: Animals, Fantasy September 26, 2009
Nuzum, K.A. The Leanin’ Dog.
In wintry Colorado during the 1930s, eleven-year-old Dessa Dean mourns the death of her beloved mother, but the arrival of an injured dog and the friendship they form is just what they need to change their lives forever.
13 comments Tagged: Animals, Family, Historical fiction September 26, 2009
O’Connor, Barbara. Greetings from Nowhere.
In North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the rundown motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.
11 comments Tagged: Family September 26, 2009
Pearson, Ridley. Steel Trapp: The Challenge.
On a two day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington,D.C., fourteen-year-old Steven “Steel” Trapp, possessor of a remarkable photographic memory, becomes embroiled in an international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.
12 comments Tagged: Adventure, Mystery September 26, 2009
Qamar, Amjed. Beneath My Mother’s Feet.
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
6 comments Tagged: Family September 26, 2009
Rutkoski, Marie. The Cabinet of Wonders.
Twelve-yearold Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
16 comments Tagged: Fantasy September 26, 2009
Scieszka, Jon. Knucklehead.
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
68 comments Tagged: Biography, Family September 26, 2009
Shusterman, Neal. Antsy Does Time.
Fourteen-year-old Anthony “Antsy” Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a presumed terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
11 comments Tagged: Contemporary September 26, 2009
Soo, Kean. Jellaby.
Not long after Portia Bennett and her mother move to a new town to start their lives over, Portia discovers a huge purple monster she names Jellaby and enlists the help of fellow student Jason, as the two search for a way to find their new friend’s true home–a search which may connect Portia to her
missing father.
39 comments Tagged: Fantasy, Graphic novel, Mystery September 26, 2009
Spradlin, Michael P. Keeper of the Grail.
In 1191, fifteen-year-old Tristan, a youth of unknown origin raised in an English abbey, becomes a Templar Knight’s squire during the Third Crusade and soon finds himself on a mission to bring the Holy Grail to safety.
13 comments Tagged: Adventure, Historical fiction September 26, 2009
Vande Velde, Vivian. Stolen.
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.
17 comments Tagged: Fantasy, Mystery September 26, 2009
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