The Silent Storm

Author	E.L. Konigsburg
ISBN	0689862210

How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic...

Author	Faïza Guène
ISBN	0156030489

He thought I'd forged my mom's name on the slip. How stupid is that? On this thing Mom just made a kind of squiggly shape on the page. That jerk didn't even think about what he was saying, didn't even ask himself why her signature might be weird. He's one of those people who think illiteracy is like AIDS. It...

Author

Glenda Millard

This complex and haunting exploration of life on the edge and what it takes to triumph over adversity is a story about the indomitable nature of hope.

Two young boys, an old tramp, a beautiful teenage dancer, and the girl's baby-ragtag survivors of a sudden war-form a fragile family, hiding...

Author	Bob Graham
ISBN	1406334197

Care about diversity? Drive 'A Bus Called Heaven'!

“OURS!” little Stella cries in A Bus Called Heaven. That’s the defining moment in Bob Graham’s new book and the words stand alone in a big double-page spread, echoing through his urban landscape.

There are thousands of children’s...

Author	Laura Sibson
ISBN	0451481119

In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson and Sara Zarr, one girl embraces the power of her voice: rules are meant to be broken and she won’t stay silent.

Seventeen-year-old Skye has her sights set on one thing: getting the heck out of Dodge. Art school is her ticket out and she’s already been...