Power Of Un

Author	Michelle R. McCann
ISBN	1582460981

Why am I still alive? Why was I spared?

One night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska’s questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Luba knew if the Nazis caught her she could be executed.

But they are someone’s children....

Author	Lynne Cherry
ISBN	0152163727

This story was selected as one of the books for the September 2012 - Ecosystems reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.

I nominated this book because I discovered that it was about the Nashua River and discusses the area where I grew up. For my entire childhood,...

Author	Rochelle Strauss
ISBN	1553379543

Seen from space, our planet looks blue. This is because almost 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water. Earth is the only planet with liquid water --- and therefore the only planet that can support life.

All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier...

Author	David Lubar
ISBN	0765357666

The book Hidden Talents, by David Lubar was a very, very good book. It is about a young boy, about our age, who has gotten kicked out of all of the schools back in his hometown for lipping off to the teachers and somehow always knowing just the right thing to make them feel bad. Now Martin is onto his last resort,...

Author	Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN	0440418305

Twelve-year-old Dani is running away from home, or what’s left of home anyway. Her older brother, who had muscular dystrophy, died a few months ago. Then her father left and her parents got divorced. Now home is just Dani and her sad, silent mother, and Dani’s got to get away. She plans to do something...

Author	Kate Coombs
ISBN	0374363617

When Meg’s dragon, Laddy, flies away from home, she knows she must go on a quest to find him. But she hasn’t counted on her parents, the king and queen of Greeve, sending ten guardsmen along. Fortunately, she is also accompanied by her best friends: Dilly, a lady-in-waiting and a cool head in any crisis...

Author

Jennifer Anne Kogler

Not just an
Otherworldly...
an Unusual.

Fern is not like other girls. She has strange and vivid visions and has the ability to teleport—anywhere, anytime. Fern is an Otherworldly, a special kind of vampire that lives in the human world. What's more, Fern is one of the Unusual Eleven,...

Author	Sid Fleischman
ISBN	0061345032

When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm—three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor,...

Author

Vivian Vande Velde

Selwyn is brokenhearted when the beautiful Anora chooses to marry the awful,but rich, Farold. It's bad enough when Farold beats Selwyn up in front of the villagers. But nothing prepares Selwyn for Farold's being found murdered. All accusing fingers point to Selwyn, who is promptly sealed in a burial...

Author

Avery Olive

Who knew kissing a corpse would change everything? Death always hits Xylia Morana too close to home, but she likes it that way. She hangs out with the terminally ill, attends random funerals, and every so often, when the weather is right, she sleeps in open graves. But after Landon Phoenix, the high school...

Author	Cynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN	0380713586

The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his...

Author	Adrian Fogelin
ISBN	1561452815

Twelve-year-old Cassie's life is changed when Jemmie, an African-American girl, and her family move in next door. Can she and Jemmie overcome family prejudice and cultural differences in a small, working-class town?
Cass is dreading a long, lonely summer until Jemmie and her family move in next...

Author	Peni R. Griffin
ISBN	0780748204

The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...

Author	Dee Garretson
ISBN	0061953474

A Junior Library Guild selection - Just once Luke Brockett would like to do something slightly dangerous, but when your father is the President of the United States, that is not an option. Always surrounded by Secret Service agents and kept in a bubble of safety, Luke sees Camp David, the presidential...

Author

Vivian French

I enjoyed this book. I want to read them all. This is set in a magical kingdom ruled by Queen Bluebell the 28th. She has to announce her heir and her daughter is missing. the witches are typically silly, yet one shows up using deep magic which is black magic and things start happening.

Gracie lives...

Author	Diane M. Haynes
ISBN	1937254453

After a minor earthquake, the enchanted forest in Bidwell, MA, is infested with monster-spewing rifts. Gisele's great nephew, the gifted Micah, and his distant cousin, Selena, arrive to assist. Together with Gisele's summer students, twins Haley and Lacey, they will try to help the magical forest....

Author	Peter Golenbock
ISBN	0152006036

This book is about the crazy road of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. It does a great job talking about how hard it was for Jackie to get into the major leagues and how much he had to go through to play the sport that he loved. As time went on, he was on the team and Pee Wee Reese had to stand up for whats right and...

Author	J. Patrick Lewis
ISBN	0811846687

Spot the Plots takes the reader, along with two young detectives and their dog to figure out the stories that are being discussed on each page. The riddles, which are set up as poems, are interesting because they are of many various forms and lengths. Sometimes their forms are even part of the clues. The...

Author	Nikki Grimes
ISBN	0688154719

Grimes, N. (1997). Meet Danitra Brown. (F. Cooper, Illus.). New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Genre: Poetry, Juvenile poetry Recommended grade level: 3-4 Format: African American Poetry and Picture book
Themes: Friendship, bullying, and family Major Awards: Coretta Scott King Illustrator...

Author	Mary Jane Auch
ISBN	0823420876

We really enjoyed this story! It shows a chicken going to the library for both pleasure reading as well as research; it offers tips on writing a story; and it's a funny story about a chicken. What more could you ask for?!?

The humor was often subtle, but our girls got most of the jokes without me having...

Author	Mark Teague
ISBN	0439458684

Ike LaRue--the devilish dog hero of Mark Teague's Book Sense Book of the Year, Dear Mrs. LaRue--goes from obedience school dropout to shrewd sleuth in this exceedingly funny sequel.

As if obedience school wasn't bad enough, Ike now finds himself in jail--wrongly accused (of course!) of terrorizing...

Author	Judith L. Roth
ISBN	0670014400

Sara has always loved cats. She surrounds herself with pictures of cats, stuffed cats, even cat-headed slippers. But she’s never been allowed to have a real cat of her own. Her father has always told her no, for reasons he won’t explain.

So when a fluffy snowball of a kitten darts through...

Author	Mélanie Watt
ISBN	1554532876

In this uproarious sequel to Chester, the battle of the picture-book makers continues. Which author-illustrator will come out on top -- Chester or Melanie Watt -- is anybody's guess! This time, there's no denying (in Chester's mind) that he's the star of the show. His already outsize ego has ballooned...