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Kira-Kira
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 4.7. Mature Content. Author: Cynthia Kadohata. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.
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Dragon Spell
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Interest: Grade 4-8. Reading Levels: 5.0-5.3. Author: Donita K. Paul.
The story is set in the fictional world of Amara and focuses on a girl named Kale and a boy named Bardon and their adventures to rescue dragon eggs, free enslaved dragons, and rouse knights from chambers of sleep. They learn to hatch, bond, and release young dragons.
As their adventures take them throughout the world of Amara, Kale and Bardon grow and develop into leaders of their world.
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Dragon Light
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Interest: Grade 4-8. Reading Levels: 5.0. Author: Donita K. Paul.
As Kale and her father are busy hatching, bonding, and releasing the younger generation of dragons as helpers throughout the kingdom, the light wizard has little time to develop her skills. Her husband, Sir Bardon-despite physical limitations resulting from his bout with the stakes disease-has become a leader, serving on the governing board under Paladin.
When Kale and Bardon set aside their daily responsibilities to join meech dragons Regidor and Gilda on a quest to find a hidden meech colony, they encounter sinister forces. Their world is under attack by a secret enemy.
Can they overcome the ominous peril they can't even see?
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DragonFire
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Interest: Grade 4-8. Reading Levels: 5.1. Author: Donita K. Paul.
Three years of strife have passed since Kale and Bardon freed Paladins knights. Now, fiery dragons scorch their beautiful countryside as an evil husband-and-wife wizard duo battle one another for supremacy. The people of Amara just want to be left alone, hoping the conflict with disappear. But Paladin is dying, and Bardon and Kale,now married, must accept fateful assignments if their land is to survive.
Will their efforts turn the tide against their adversaries? They face a deadly threat, and a challenging choice
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Peter and the Starcatchers
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.2. Authors: Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson.
This New York Times best selling series is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry, who teamed up with fellow humorist Ridley Pearson to tell the tales of Peter Pan before he met Wendy.
This wonderful book leads readers on an unforgettable journey -- fraught with danger yet filled with mystical and magical moments. A splendid mix of humor and thrills for a young audience.
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Not the End of the World
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.3. Mature Content. Author: Geraldine McCaughrean. Key Award: Whitbread Award (Now called the Costa Award).
"The end of the world is a busy time if you mean to outlive it." So says Timna, sole daughter of Noah, as she and her family prepare to face the flood that will cleanse the Earth.
But during the forty days and nights before the waters recede, the inhabitants of the Ark experience more than just a simple boat ride. As events take a terrifying turn, and as lines between right and wrong increasingly blur, Timna must find it in her heart to question her father when no one else will.
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Dragon Keeper
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.4. Author: Carole Wilkinson.
A slave girl saves the life of an aging dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl Ping and the dragon make an epic journey across China carrying a mysterious stone that must be protected. Ping hides from her enemies in the shadow of the Tai Shan mountains where she struggles to care for Kai, the baby dragon she has become responsible for. Who can Ping trust? Will Ping and Kai find sanctuary and safety? Will Ping embrace her true destiny?
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Undercover
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Interest: Grades: 4-8. Reading Level: 5.5. Author: Beth Kephart. Key Award: National Book Award nominee.
A lyrical story of Elisa’s finding her voice through the love notes she pens for her friends’ romantic endeavors, the emotional turmoil she feels while her parent’s relationship hangs in the balance.
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Igraine the Brave
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.6. Author: Cornelia Funke.
Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth is, life at the family castle is rather boring. Until the nephew of the baroness-next-door shows up. He's got a dastardly plan to capture the castle and claim as his own the wonderful singing spell books that belong to Igraine's magician parents. To make matters worse, at the very moment of the siege, her mom and dad botch a spell, turning themselves into pigs! Aided by a Gentle Giant and a Sorrowful Knight, it's up to Igraine to be brave and save the day—and the books!
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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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Queste
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.8. Author: Angie Sage.
In this fourth book of the series, Septimus goes on a perilous quest to the House of Foryx to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time. Septimus, aided by ancient alchemist Marcellus Pye, learns of a place where all time meets: the House of Foryx.
With the help of the Questing Stone and Nicko's faded maps, will Septimus be able to find the House of Foryx, and save Nicko and Snorri?
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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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Mister Monday
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Levels: 5.9-6.5. Author: Garth Nix.
12-year-old asthmatic Arthur was supposed to die, until a mysterious visitor brought him a strange key that opens a house that only he can see. Arthur doesn't know what's inside the house...but he know that his life and the lives of countless others depend on his finding out!
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Tom's Midnight Garden
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.1. Author: Philippa Pearce. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
Tom is furious. His brother, Peter, has measles, so now Tom is being shipped off to stay with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan in their boring old apartment. Then one night the landlady's antique grandfather clock strikes thirteen times, leading Tom to a wonderful, magical discovery and marking the beginning of a secret that's almost too amazing to be true. Tom discovers a special friend named Hatty and more than a summer's worth of adventure for both of them!
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Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-1832
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Interest: Grades: 4-8. Reading Level: 6.7. Author: Joan W Blos. Key Awards: Newbery Medal. National Book Award.
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
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Hero and the Crown, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 7.0. Author: Robin McKinley. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
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May Bird & The Ever After
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Interest: Grades 6-8. Reading Levels: 5.1-5.8. Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson.
Most people aren't very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. There, she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don't understand her. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess, and her cat, Somber Kitty, is her brave guardian. Then May falls into the lake. When she crawls out, May finds herself in a world that most certainly does not feel like a fuzzy mitten. In fact it is a place few living people have ever seen. Here, towns glow blue beneath zipping stars and the people -- people? -- walk through walls. Here the Book of the Dead holds the answers to everything in the universe. And here, if May is discovered, the horrifyingly evil Bo Cleevil will turn her into nothing. May Bird must get out. Fast!
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Wildwood Dancing
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Interest: Grades 6-8. Reading Level: 5.4. Author: Juliet Marillier.
Set in historical Transylvania and loosely based on the fairytale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses", Wildwood Dancing centres on a family of sisters who have a secret bond with the mysterious Other Kingdom, where they go to dance at every Full Moon. When their father must go away for the winter, Jena and her sisters find themselves fighting for everything they hold dear – their home, their independence and the survival of the otherworld kingdom.
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Wicked Lovely
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.7. Author: Melissa Marr. New York Times Bestseller.
All teenagers have problems, but few of them can match those of Aislinn, who has the power to see faeries. Quite understandably, she wishes that she could share her friends' obliviousness and tries hard to avoid these invisible intruders. But one faery in particular refuses to leave her alone. Keenan the Summer King is convinced beyond all reasoning that Aislinn is the queen he has been seeking for nine centuries. What's a 21st-century girl to do when she's stalked by a suitor nobody else can see?
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Eragon
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Levels: 4.9. Author: Christopher Paolini.
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power.
Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire.
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