Jelly Belly

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0440484944

Fourteen-year-old Enid Crowley can't stand her name. When she takes a summer job baby-sitting young Joshua W. Cameron IV, Enid decides it's time for a change: she calls herself Cynthia, and Joshua becomes Tom Terrific. Every day they're off to Boston's Public Garden, where Enid hopes to meet people...

Author	Liz Kessler
ISBN	0763628115

For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity,...

Author	Liz Kessler
ISBN	0763625043

5/5 stars

Between the thunders of the upper deep
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth
-Alfred Lord Tennison

There are some books that fill your heart with brightness and exploding suns. There are some stories...

Author	B.J. Novak
ISBN	0803741715

A book with no pictures?

What could be fun about that?

After all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page.

Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...

Hey, what kind of book is this, anyway?

At...

Author	Matthew Cordell
ISBN	1250076366

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A little girl is leaving school for the day and has to endure a really bad snowstorm on the way home. As she begins her journey, she stumbles upon a wolf pack and a little wolf cub that appears...

Author

Meika Hashimoto

Toby has to finish the final thing on The List.It's a list of Brave, Daring, Totally Awesome Things that he and his best friend, Lucas, planned to do together, and the only item left is to hike the Appalachian Trail. But now Lucas isn't there to do it with him.Toby's determined to hike the trail alone and...

Author

Charles de Lint

Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tanglewood Forest, a magical rolling wilderness, that she imagines to be full of fairies. The trouble is, Lillian has never seen a wisp of magic in her hills-until the day the cats of the forest save her life by transforming her into a kitten. Now Lillian must...

Author

Ralph Fletcher

Destiny Burke

“STOP FIGHTING.” Fig pudding is a garbage book. Fig pudding teaches you about family dynamics and the family in the book seems very realistic. Two realistic things are one of the brothers died from a really bad bike wreck. The Grandma and Uncle move in to help out. I think Allyn...

Author	Suzanne LaFleur
ISBN	0385740301

Elise and Franklin have always been best friends. Elise has always lived in the big house with her loving Uncle and Aunt, because Elise's parents died when she was too young to remember them.  There's always been a barn behind the house with eight locked doors on the second floor.
When Elise and Franklin...

Author

Mo Willems

I can't believe that I was looking forward to a children's book! But it is about our favourite pigeon .