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The double life of Zoe Flynn

Carey, Janet Lee,


When Zoe's family has to live in their van for months after moving from California to Oregon so her father can find work, Zoe tries to keep her sixth-grade classmates from discovering that she is homeless.
Date Published:2004

Jazz

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014,


A collection of illustrated poems that celebrate the roots and various styles of jazz music, such as ragtime, bebop, and swing.
Date Published:2006

Coraline

Gaiman, Neil,


"Ages 8 up"--Cover pages [4]. 2012 Harper edition: 10th anniversary edition includes "The Coraline Reading Group Guide" ; "A Coraline Q&A with Neil Gaiman" ; an excertp of Neil Gaiman's Newbery Medal-winning novel, "The Graveyard Book." Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Date Published:2012

"Ages 8 up"--Cover pages [4]. 2012 Harper edition: 10th anniversary edition includes "The Coraline Reading Group Guide" ; "A Coraline Q&A with Neil Gaiman" ; an excertp of Neil Gaiman's Newbery Medal-winning novel, "The Graveyard Book." Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Date Published:2012

Australian aborigines


Includes index. A discussion of the early Aborigines, including who the people were, where they lived, the rise of civilization, social structure, religion, art and architecture, science and technology, daily life, and entertainment and sports. Features include timelines, fact boxes, glossary, list of recommended reading and web sites, and index.
Date Published:2009

The rain came down

Shannon, David, 1959-


An unexpected rain shower causes quarreling among the members of a small community.
Date Published:2000

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Schmidt, Gary D.


In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
Date Published:2013

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

Rowling, J. K.,


"Year 1". 2015 Arthur A. Levine edition: "illustrated by Jim Kay." Sequel: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Date Published:2023

The lightning thief

Riordan, Rick,


Some copies with ISBN 9780786838653 and 9781484750346 may have Teacher's Edition on the cover and A Common Core Teacher's Guide to Percy Jackson and the Olympians at the back of the book. This guide contains information about the book, discussion questions, classroom activities and an exerpt from Magnus Chase and athe God's of Asgard. Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Date Published:2010

Some copies with ISBN 9780786838653 and 9781484750346 may have Teacher's Edition on the cover and A Common Core Teacher's Guide to Percy Jackson and the Olympians at the back of the book. This guide contains information about the book, discussion questions, classroom activities and an exerpt from Magnus Chase and athe God's of Asgard. Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Date Published:2010

Toby Wheeler : eighth-grade benchwarmer

Heldring, Thatcher,


When Toby finally decides to join the middle school basketball team, he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend JJ, who is the team's star player, as well as in other areas of his life.
Date Published:2007

Salting the ocean : 100 poems by young poets


Students grades one through twelve created original poems.
Date Published:2000

Love will see you through : Martin Luther King Jr.'s six guiding beliefs (as told by his niece)

Watkins, Angela Farris,


The niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals six timeless and universal principles that encompass the civil rights leader.
Date Published:2015

Hoyos

Sachar, Louis, 1954-,


2016 SM edition: "ilustraciones de Jorge Monlongo" Translation of: Holes. Criticas, May 2002. Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.
Date Published:2016

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels

Lemke, Donald B,


Includes glossary. This book, in graphic novel format, retells the story of "Gulliver's Travels" as Lemuel Gulliver has some strange adventures in Lilliput and Blefuscu.
Date Published:2008

Grooves : a kind of mystery

Brockmeier, Kevin,


After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.
Date Published:2006

Abuela, don't forget me

Ogle, Rex


Abuela's house -- To and from -- Gifts and fists -- An education -- Senior year -- There and back again -- Now. Booklist, August 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, July 2022. Pub Weekly, August 2022. School Library Journal starred, October 2022. "Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself"--Provided by the publisher.
Date Published:2022

Abuela's house -- To and from -- Gifts and fists -- An education -- Senior year -- There and back again -- Now. Booklist, August 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, July 2022. Pub Weekly, August 2022. School Library Journal starred, October 2022. "Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself"--Provided by the publisher.

Date Published:2022

What happened to Rachel Riley

Swinarski, Claire,


Booklist starred, January2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December2022. Kirkus Review, November2022. Publishers Weekly, November2022. School Library Journal starred, January2023. "Thirteen-year-old new girl Anna Hunt decides to make an investigative podcast about how fellow classmate Rachel Riley went from being the most popular girl in school to the most hated"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

Booklist starred, January2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December2022. Kirkus Review, November2022. Publishers Weekly, November2022. School Library Journal starred, January2023. "Thirteen-year-old new girl Anna Hunt decides to make an investigative podcast about how fellow classmate Rachel Riley went from being the most popular girl in school to the most hated"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2023

Time bomb

Charbonneau, Joelle,


Booklist, February 2018. Kirkus Review, December 2017. Library Media Connection starred, March 2018. Publishers Weekly, January 2018. Publisher's Weekly, January 2018. School Library Journal, January 2018. "Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
Date Published:2018

Blank confession

Hautman, Pete,


A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorios drug dealer before turning himself into the police for killing someone.
Date Published:2010

Aster and the mixed up magic

Pico, Thom,


"The titles in this work were originally published in two separate v. in the French language in Belgium as Aubépine 3: Pourquoi tant de laine?, copyright ©2019 Dupuis by Thom Pico & Karensac, and Aubépine 4: La fin de tout (et du reste)"--Page facing t.p. Translated from the French. Booklist, February2021. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March2021. School Library Journal, December2020. Aster continues her adventures in the mountains, including facing a horde of sheep armed to the teeth who are trying to take control of the valley, the village, and perhaps the world.
Date Published:2021

"The titles in this work were originally published in two separate v. in the French language in Belgium as Aubépine 3: Pourquoi tant de laine?, copyright ©2019 Dupuis by Thom Pico & Karensac, and Aubépine 4: La fin de tout (et du reste)"--Page facing t.p. Translated from the French. Booklist, February2021. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March2021. School Library Journal, December2020. Aster continues her adventures in the mountains, including facing a horde of sheep armed to the teeth who are trying to take control of the valley, the village, and perhaps the world.

Date Published:2021

Lincoln through the lens : how photography revealed and shaped an extraordinary life

Sandler, Martin W,


Contains biographical information. Contains over one hundred images of the life of Abraham Lincoln that provide a portrait of his presidency and the events surrounding it.
Date Published:2008