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Fashion Disaster that Changed My Life, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.0. Author: Lauren Myracle.
Alli longs to be popular, but fate just keeps conspiring to make her totally uncool. Who else would be humiliated by a piece of her mom’s underwear stuck to her butt by static cling? Despite the fact that Alli is certain the universe is plotting against her, she does eventually break into the inner circle of seventh-grade cool.
But nothing is as she expected, and there’s ugliness lurking behind even the prettiest face. Alli bares it all to her journal as she figures out where she fits in and, most important of all, what it means to be a real friend.
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London Eye Mystery, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.1. Author: Siobhan Dowd. Key Award: Red House 2008 Nominee.
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.
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Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.3. Author: Chris Riddell. Key Awards: Carnegie Medal nominee. Red House Award. Nestle Prize.
Meet Ottoline Brown and her best friend, Mr. Munroe. No puzzle is ever too tricky for the two of them to solve. A string of daring burglaries has taken place in big City, and precious lapdogs are disappearing. Who is behind this crime wave?
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Shiloh
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Levels: 4.4-4.9. Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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Ella Enchanted
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.6. Author: Gail Carson Levine. Key Award: Newbery Honor.
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. At her birth, Ella of Frell was given a foolish fairy's gift - the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it's hopping on one foot for a day or chopping off her own head! But strong-willed Ella does not tamely accept her fate. She goes on a quest, encountering ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, fairy godmothers, and handsome princes, determined to break the curse - and live happily ever after!
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And Now Miguel
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.8. Author: Joseph Krumgold. Key Award: Newbery Award.
When you act like and adult but get treated like a child, what else can you do but keep your wishes secret and pray that they'll come true. This is the story of a twelve-year-old Miguel Chavez, who yearns in his heart to go with the men of his family on a long and hard sheep drive to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains -- until his prayer is finally answered, with a disturbing and dangerous exchange.
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Skulduggery Pleasant Series - 2 Book Set
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.9. Author: Derek Landy.
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: Ace Detective, Snappy Dresser, Razor–tongued Wit, Crackerjack Sorcerer, and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton —as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old. These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil. The end of the world? Over his dead body.
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Summer of the Swans, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.9. Author: Betsy Byars. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.9. Author: Beverly Cleary. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.1. Author: Robert C. O'Brien. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
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Root Cellar, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.2. Author: Janet Lunn.
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
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Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading List: 5.2. Author: Peter Sis. Key Award: Caldecott Honor. Many Awards.
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.”
Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities—creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed.
By joining memory and history, Sís takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.
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Dark is Rising Box Set
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Levels: 5.3-6.2. Author: Susan Cooper. Key Awards: Newbery Medal. Carnegie Medal Honor.
The Dark Is Rising is the name of a five-book series of children's novels by Susan Cooper originally published in the 1960s and 1970s. The series is written as contemporary fantasy, and depicts the struggle between the forces of good, called The Light, and the forces of evil, known as The Dark. The series is based on the Arthurian mythos, and is written primarily for older children and young adults. One of the books won the Newbery medal, and another was an honor book. The Dark Is Rising is also the title of the second book in the series, whose main character is an eleven-year-old boy who learns that he is an Old One, destined to wield the powers of The Light in an ancient struggle with The Dark. Children, both magical and ordinary, feature prominently in the struggle portrayed in the five books.
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Ruby Holler
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.3. Author: Sharon Creech. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
"Trouble twins" Dallas and Florida are orphans who have given up believing there is such a thing as a loving home. Tiller and Sairy are an eccentric older couple who live in the beautiful, mysterious Ruby Holler, but they're restless for one more big adventure. When they invite the twins to join them on their journeys, they first must all stay together in the Holler, and the magic of the place takes over. Two pairs of lives grow closer, and are changed forever.
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Sounder
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.3. Author: William Armstrong. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education.
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Over Sea, Under Stone
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Levels: 5.4. Author: Susan Cooper.
OVER THE SEA, UNDER THE STONE is the first book in The Dark is Rising book series, a set of classics written in the 1960's and 1970's.
Three children on vacation in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the Dark.
In this tale, Susan Cooper introduces us to Merriman, a pivotal character for the forces of the Light and also ties him with the three young mortal children in a quest by the sea which will lead them over sea and under stone to find a grail of legend to help the Light in its struggle against the Dark.
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Canning Season, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.6. Author: Polly Horvath. Key Award: National Book Award.
One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark’s ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn’t look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Also, Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy – whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly’s open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts.
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Miss Hickory
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level; 5.9. Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
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View from Saturday, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading level: 5.9. Author: E.L. Konigsburg. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
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Higher Power of Lucky, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.9. Author: Susan Patron. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in their care!
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