Monday, July 9, 2012

Liar & Spy


 Liar & Spy
by Rebecca Stead
Random House, 2012

When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend?

Sunday, July 1, 2012

May B.


May B. 
by Caroline Starr Rose
Schwartz & Wade, 2012

When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster


Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
by Deborah Hopkinson
Scholastic, 2012

Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.

A Diamond in the Desert


A Diamond in the Desert
by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Viking 2012

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

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The False Prince


The False Prince
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Scholastic, 2012

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war. 

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Glory Be


Glory Be
by Augusta Scattergood
Scholastic, 2012


In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it. 


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Wonder

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Wonder
by R.J. Palacio
Random House 2012

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. 

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