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I Kill the Mockingbird
Paul Acampora - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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When Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see "To Kill A Mockingbird" included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic. They... |
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The Crossover
Kwame Alexander - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Newbery Medal Winner2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award WinnerNew York Times Bestseller "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year... |
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The Terrible Two
Mac Barnett - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller "A double helping of fun and mischief!" - Jeff kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series "Hilarious." - Dav Pilkey, author of the Captain Underpants series Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy... |
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The Lemonade War
Jacqueline Davies - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied his fourth pitcher of the day. And I am the Lemonade King. Fourth-grader Evan Treski is people-smart. He's good at talking with people, even grownups. His younger sister, Jessie, on the other... |
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Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series, 1)
Jack Gantos - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the years best contribution to childrens literature and the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named... |
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Ungifted
Gordon Korman - Balzer + Bray; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From 1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel in which one middle-school troublemaker accidentally moves into the gifted and talented programand changes everything. For fans of Louis Sachar and Jack Gantos, this funny and touching underdog... |
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11 Birthdays
Wendy Mass - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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GROUNDHOG DAY meets FLIPPED in this tale of a girl stuck in her birthday.It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited -- after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's... |
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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
James Patterson - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's... |
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Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell) , she goes jeans shopping with her mother (an accomplishment in diplomacy) , she learns to drive shift in a truck... |
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Holes
Louis Sachar - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishmentStanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over a hundred years... |
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The Wednesday Wars
Gary D Schmidt - Clarion
Format: Print book
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In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York.Meet Holling Hoodhood,... |
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