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11 Birthdays
Wendy Mass - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Amanda and Leo, best friends with the same birthday, had a falling out on their tenth birthday and have not spoken since, but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their eleventh birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
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Babe: The Gallant Pig
Dick King-Smith - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
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Bayou Magic
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
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Beetle Boy
M G Leonard - Chicken House
Format: Book
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After his father goes missing, Darkus moves in with his eccentric uncle and cousins and discovers that the beetles infesting their home are an intelligent super-species in danger of extermination at the hands of a mad scientist.
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Book Scavenger
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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Delightedly moving to San Francisco, 12-year-old Emily longs to meet a favorite author who lives nearby and who is savagely attacked just before the release of his latest online puzzle series.
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The Incredible Journey
Sheila Every Burnford - Yearling Books
Format: Audiobook
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Two dogs and a cat must work together through hardships, hunger, and danger as they travel two hundred fifty miles to reach home.
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas - Clarion Books
Format: Book
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Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s.
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The Lincoln Project
Dan Gutman - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Invited by billionaire Miss Z to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events, Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia are sent to the year 1863 to capture Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address.
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Masterminds
Gordon Korman - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book
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When a group of kids discover they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, they likewise realize they can trust no one, least of all their own parents
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Moo
Sharon Creech - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
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One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia - Amistad
Format: Library Binding
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After travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, Delphine and her two sisters discover that their mother, a dedicated poet, wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L Holm - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
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Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
Jackson Pearce - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Book
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Pip is spending the summer with her aunt. At first it's all fun, games, and chatting until Fuzzles appear and start bursting into flames.
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Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks - Scholastic Pr
Format: Book
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Ravi, who has just moved to America from India, and Joe, who is learning disabled, gain strength from each other as they struggle to navigate middle school, family relationships, and friendships.
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Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Book
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
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Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Book
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Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
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Three Times Lucky
Sheila Turnage - Dial Books
Format: Book
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafâe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Wish
Barbara O'Connor - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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Charlie Reese is sent to live with a family she barely knows, but with the help of a skinny stray dog who captures her heart and a neighbor boy named Howard, she learns what the real meaning of family may be.
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Wonder
R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind... |
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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