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 September 26th, 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 September 26th, 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.
27 comments September 26th, 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 September 26th, 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.
48 comments September 26th, 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.
23 comments September 26th, 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 September 26th, 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 September 26th, 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.
42 comments September 26th, 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.
19 comments September 26th, 2009
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