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Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire
Sundee Tucker Frazier · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 213
Format: Print book |
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Cleopatra Edison Oliver has always been an entrepreneur, just like her inspiration, successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies. So when Cleo's fifth-grade teacher assigns her class a "Passion Project," Cleo comes up with her best business idea yet: the finest "tooth-pulling"... |
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Chloe in India
Kate Darnton · Delacorte Press
Pages: 217
Format: Print book |
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A poignant and delightful story involving class, race, social customs, and a unique friendship that questions them all. Though they're divided by class, language, appearance - you name it - Chloe and Lakshmi have a lot in common. Both girls are new to Class Five at Premium Academy in New Delhi,... |
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Astrotwins -- Project Blastoff
Mark Kelly · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover |
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A team of middle schoolers prepares for blastoff in this adventure from the author of the New York Times bestselling Mousetronaut, based on the childhoods of real-life astronauts Mark Kelly and his twin brother Scott.It's a long, hot summer and Scott and Mark are in big trouble for taking... |
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The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
Anne Michaels · Tundra Books
Pages: 124
Format: Print book |
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Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky,... |
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Centaur Rising
Jane Yolen · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover |
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One night during the Perseid meteor shower, Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm. About a year later, one of their horses gives birth to a baby centaur. The family has enough attention already as Arianne's six-year-old brother... |
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Fortune Falls
Jenny Goebel · Scholastic Press
Pages: 201
Format: Print book |
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Welcome to Fortune Falls, a magical town where superstitions are real. Four-leaf clovers really do bring good fortune, and owning a rabbit's foot is the secret to success. However, there aren't enough charms in the universe to help Sadie Bleeker. She can't pass a ladder without walking... |
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The Last Bogler
Catherine Jinks · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 319
Format: Print book |
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With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. It's dangerous work that takes Ned into... |
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Susan Marcus Bends the Rules
Jane Cutler (Author, Illustrator) · Holiday House
Format: Hardcover |
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As a New York-to-Mississippi transplant in 1943, ten-year-old Susan Marcus discovers a world of prejudice right in her own backyard and makes a small but courageous stand toward equality. , |
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My Diary from the Edge of the World
Jodi Lynn Anderson · Aladdin
Pages: 419
Format: Print book |
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Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.Spirited, restless Gracie... |
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The Girls of Gettysburg
Bobbi Miller · Holiday House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Pickett's Charge, the suicidal assault led by Robert E. Lee on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, was a valiant effort but stunning defeat for the Rebel army. It serves as the powerful climax of this Civil War novel, told from the viewpoints of three girls.Twelve-year-old Annie... |
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VIP : I'm with the band
Jen Calonita · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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"Twelve-year-old Mackenzie Lowell goes on the road with her favorite boy band when her mom gets a job as the band's tour manager"-- |
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The Tiara on the Terrace
Kristen Kittscher · Harper
Pages: 391
Format: Print book |
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In this funny, clever novel, perfect for fans of Pseudonymous Bosch and Gordon Korman and a companion to The Wig in the Window, tween sleuths Sophie Young and Grace Yang go undercover at Luna Vista's Winter Sun Festival to catch a murderer before he or she strikes again. Sophie Young and Grace... |
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Hero two doors down : a story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend.
Sharon Robinson · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Based on the true story of a boy in Brooklyn who became neighbors and friends with his hero, Jackie Robinson. Steven Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing-the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages... |
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