All of the Above

Author	N.H. Senzai
ISBN	1442484969

A rough and tumble tomboy, twelve-year-old Ariana couldn’t be more different from her cousin Laila, who just arrived from Afghanistan with her family. Laila is a proper, ladylike Afghan girl, one who can cook, sew, sing, and who is well versed in Pukhtun culture and manners. Arianna hates her. Laila...

Author	Jung-man Cho
ISBN	1935934732

Witch-hunting galore in 320 page omnibus format!



Witch Hunter is an all new shonen fantasy manga series in the vein of Soul Eater and Full Metal Alchemist, presented in two-volumes-in-one omnibus format. Seven Seas will release the entire action-packed series across...

Author	Mike Grosso
ISBN	0544707109

Sam knows she wants to be a drummer. But she doesn’t know how to afford a drum kit, or why budget cuts end her school’s music program, or why her parents argue so much, or even how to explain her dream to other people.

But drums sound all the time in Sam’s head, and she’d do just about anything...

Author	Michael Williams
ISBN	0316077909

Just down the road from their families, Deo and his friends play soccer in the dusty fields of Zimbabwe, cheered on by Deo's older brother, Innocent. It is a day like any other . . . until the soldiers arrive and Deo and Innocent are forced to run for their lives, fleeing the wreckage of their village for the...

Author	Karen Day
ISBN	0375837752

MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball....

Author	Derrick Barnes
ISBN	0545135737

With piercing insight and humor, Derrick Barnes delivers a fresh, thoughtful look at two very different teen boys thrown together in after-school detention.


Robeson Battlefield and Pacino Clapton meet in detention, where they discover they both had scuffles with the same person,...

Author	Sundee T. Frazier
ISBN	0385734395

Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and...

Author

James Howe

The Gang of Five is back in this much-anticipated follow-up to The Misfits and Totally Joe . Addie Carle, the only girl in the group of friends, is outspoken, opinionated, and sometimes…just a bit obnoxious. But as seventh grade progresses, Addie’s not so sure anymore about who she is. It seems her...

Author	G. Neri
ISBN	1584302798

Three moves is all it takes to change the outcome of the game.

In Marcus's world, battles are fought everyday on the street, at home, and in school. Angered by his sister's death and his father's absence, and pushed to the brink by a bullying classmate, Marcus fights back with his fists.

One...

Author	Paula J. Freedman
ISBN	1419708066

During the fall leading up to her bat mitzvah, Tara (Hindi for "star") Feinstein has a lot more than her Torah portion on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there doesn’t seem to be enough time to hang out with her best friend Ben-o--who might also be her boyfriend--and...

Author	Jess Keating
ISBN	1402297580

Ana Wright's summer just got terrifying. She's finally getting used to living in a zoo (no, seriously—she lives with her family in an actual zoo), when she's assigned to work in the new shark tank. With her worst enemy. Forget about sharks! Ashley is the ultimate predator. And after Ana's favorite...

Author	Emma Shevah
ISBN	1492622508

My name is Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto.
I have no idea why my parents gave me all those hideous names but they must have wanted to ruin my life, and you know what? They did an amazing job.As a half-Japanese, half-Italian girl with a ridiculous name, Amber’s not feeling molto bene (very...

Author	Griffin Keener
ISBN	7777777771

Never truly able to fit in, Kail Davis has the intestinal fortitude of a 400-pound gorilla inside the body of a 96 pound 6th grader. Luckily, he can always count on his precocious sister, Mani, to bail him out of his daily regimen of bullies and beatings.

When Kail runs across a stone in his granny's...

Author	Greg Pace
ISBN	0399257063

Ben has been an underdog his whole life. But when he meets Merlin—the Merlin—the wizard delivers devastating news: a vicious band of aliens are approaching, and Ben could be the champion Earth desperately needs. 
Soon Ben joins the Round Table Reboot, where legendary heroes are training...

Author	Trevor Pryce
ISBN	1613124724

I've been reading this book slowly over a matter of months as time allows. Each time I've chosen to pick it up for my "me" time rather than doing something else, I haven't been very disappointed.

The book was very well edited and the illustrations were very charming, almost graphic novel in appearance....

Author	Ruth White
ISBN	0374345805

"What else would you wish for?" Daddy says. "If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?"
I shrug. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe . . ."
"Maybe what?"
"For us to live better than we do."
He does not say anything.

In 1948, award-winning author Ruth White lived in Jewell...

Author	Cory Putman Oakes
ISBN	1492605379

Sometimes being different is good...even if it means having a tail and spikes

Everyone knows the dinosaur gene skips a generation. So it wasn't a complete surprise when Sawyer sprouted a tail and spikes before he started fifth grade. After all, his grandfather was part stegosaurus.

Despite...

Author	Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN	0440229197

Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government...

Author	Wendy Lichtman
ISBN	0061229555

Wendy Lichtman’s Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra depicts an 8th grade student named Tess. Tess has always relied on her mother, math, and her two best friends, but as she enters the eighth grade, she begins to question their trust. Tess views the world through math and constantly relates everyday...

Author	Dawn FitzGerald
ISBN	1596431377

If the levy doesn't pass, there will be no buses for away-games, no uniforms, no teams. Tess plans to follow her own rules for soccer chicks. Soccer Chick Rule Number 3--Always support your teammates! But when real life doesn't offer a slam-dunk ending, Tess realizes there may be something to learn from...

Author

Elissa Brent Weissman

Ten-year-old Gabe has just been accepted to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment. That means he’ll be spending six weeks at sleepaway camp, writing poetry and perfecting logic proofs. SCGE has been a summer home of some legendary middle-school smarty-pants (and future Jeopardy! contestants),...

Author	Jennifer Anne Kogler
ISBN	0802721842

Dear Person-Holding-This,

I guess you must've found my letter. Well, when you read it, keep in mind that passing Mrs. Tweedy's English class is hard enough. But when the fate of the world suddenly rests on your shoulders, it's difficult to focus on school. I wish I'd handled things better, but...

Author

Annie Brewer

On the outside, 17 year old Abby Lewis has it all. She is dating the HS Football star, has a best friend anybody would kill for and a love and passion for singing that could send her to Broadway. But on the inside a storm is raging inside of her that she can no longer hide. As her life at home becomes more unbearable...

Author	Ruth Freeman
ISBN	0823436950

It's hard to start at a new school . . . especially if you're in a new country. Back home, Anais was the best English student in her class. Here in Crazy America she feels like she doesn't know English at all. Nothing makes sense (chicken FINGERS?), and the kids at school have some very strange ideas about...