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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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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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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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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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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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Caddie Woodlawn
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Interest: Grades: 4-8. Reading Level: 6.0. Author: Carol Ryrie Brink. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years.
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I, Juan de Pareja
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.5. Author: Elizabeth Borton De Trevino. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
When the great Velázquez was painting his masterpieces at the Spanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertly mixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his slave, Juan de Pareja. In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty and the cruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño tells the story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplished and respected artist.
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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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Trumpeter of Krakow, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.1 Author: Eric P. Kelly. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
The Trumpeter of Krakow is a children's historical novel by Eric P. Kelly that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1929. Centered around the historical fire that burned much of Kraków in 1462, The Trumpeter of Krakow tells the fictional story of a family of Ukrainian peasants who flee to Kraków, Poland, in 1461 after their home is burned to the ground by the Cossack-Tartar Bogdan Grozny, commonly known to the Poles as Peter of the Button Face because of the button-shaped pockmark on his cheek.
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Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 8.0. Author: Cornelia Meigs. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
The fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott, from her happy childhood to her successful career as a writer. Children who loved Little Women will enjoy reading about the real-life Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
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