The Summer Sherman Loved Me

Author	Matt Whyman
ISBN	0060746653

In the South American town of Medellin, where drug dealers rule and hope is scarce, young assassins are in large supply. Take Shorty and Alberto: two hardened best friends from poor homes whose biggest dream is to see a live soccer match. These boys understand that the one true power they will ever possess...

Author	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN	0689843968

All Alice wants is a friend.
Well, a pet and pierced ears and really long hair would be nice, too -- and most of all, Alice wishes she still had a mother. But starting third grade in a new school in a new town can be lonely, especially if the closest thing you have to a friend is weird Donald Sheavers from...

Author	Martha Brooks
ISBN	0374349851

Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn't her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally's tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her...

Author	Barthe DeClements
ISBN	0140327606

Marianne is turning into a daydreamer in class, drifting back through her memories of happier times, and falling way behind in her schoolwork. Despite her father's efforts, the months since Marianne's mother died have been one long stretch of loneliness and hurting. Like her friend Jack, who's a good...

Author	Lisa Papademetriou
ISBN	0786851708

Allie Kimball is excited to be starting sixth grade. Her best friend is going to be in the same school and she is going to try out for the soccer team. But she soon learns that middle school is a very different world, full of strange new beasts, like glommers--girls who never go anywhere alone--and norks-a...

Author	David Lubar
ISBN	0618439099

To the Bozo, the clown who sits inside the cage above the dunk tank, everyone is a "mark." Once he has zeroed in on his victim, the Bozo comes up with the perfect wisecrack something funny enough to make people stop and listen, and cruel enough to hook the mark. Now the mark is bent on revenge, and he'll buy...

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	Debra Garfinkle
ISBN	0142407828

The journal of Michael "Storky" Pomerantz tells the tumultuous tale of life as a high-schooler—complete with the fact that the love of his life is dating a high school football player. As he chronicles the highs—and, of course, the most embarrassing lows—of his freshman year in high school,...

Author	Blake Nelson
ISBN	0142405744

Music is Pete's life. He's happiest when playing his Fender P-Bass. He doesn't care about prestige or getting girls; it's the quality of the music that matters. Then he meets the Carlisle brothers. They can't sing and they can barely play, but somehow they have a following. Pete can't resist, and he joins...

Author	Adele Griffin
ISBN	0786815639

Ten-year-olds Claire and Luna are idential twins--and witches. Even though they can cast simple spells (with the supervision of their five-star-witch gandmother, Grandy) and know all sorts of magic, unfortunately no special charm can keep their divorced father from deciding to remarry. When he...

Author	Jill Murphy
ISBN	0763634352

I loved my book so much.It was so funny.It was funny because of the things Mildred did.Like how she turned Ethel into a pig.It was so funny.I couldn't wait until I got to the next book.I loved it.I really enjoyed Mildred as a person too.Pg.22 and 23.
Someone who would like this book is someone who likes...

Author	Wendelin Van Draanen
ISBN	0440419433

A funny friendship turns serious in this haunting book about secrets, lies, and what it means to be a true friend.
 
Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He’s funny, daring, mischievous—and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he’s done. Luckily,...

Author	Eileen Spinelli
ISBN	0375840613

Every year a rented pink cottage full of family, swapping stories, and riding waves mean Summerhouse Time for Sophie. Best of all is sharing a room with her favorite cousin and laughing and trading secrets like two happy peas in a cousin pod. Sophie can't wait! But when she asks the now-a-teenager Colleen...

Author	Sue Stauffacher
ISBN	0440419344

Franklin Delano Donuthead is a fifth grader with a lot of problems: For starters, his last name is Donuthead. He considers himself handicapped because one arm and leg are shorter than the other (by less than half an inch), his mother is trying to poison him with non-organic foods (like salami), he doesn’t...

Author	Deborah Davis
ISBN	0618720936

"Starting a new chapter" is how Kayla’s mother, Marilyn, has always referred to their abrupt moves—five in the past two years. But what 15-year-old Kayla hates even more than moving is Marilyn’s drinking. It once landed Kayla in foster care, and she’ll do anything to keep that from happening...

Author	John Kloepfer
ISBN	0062230956

Zombies take Manhattan in Empire State of Slime, book four of John Kloepfer's hilarious and stomach-churning Zombie Chasers tween series, with illustrations by David DeGrand. Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, The Zombie Chasers #4: Empire State of Slime...

Author	Meredith Badger
ISBN	0312378874

Step away from the wand...

We aren't usually big fairy fans, but for Elly Knottleweed-Eversprightly, we've made an exception. You see, Elly, although she is a fairy, isn't a big fan of fairies either.

In fact, she hates being a fairy.

She hates her itchy tutu school uniform...

Author	Kathleen O'Dell
ISBN	0142403946

At her school in California, fourth-grader Ophie Peeler has it all: starring roles in all the school plays, plenty of attention and, of course, the best best friend a girl could ask for. Like Dorothy, Ophie is on the yellow brick road to a glamorous, adventurefilled life. But all of that changes when Ophie...

Author	Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
ISBN	0060755458

Dear Readers, How exciting that you chose to read this book! My book! I have so much to tell you! First, I have found myself on the brink of love with The Boy. And then there's my job with a Real Writer, my adventures in rock climbing (or perhaps I should replace the word adventures with misadventures), and...

Author

Andrew Lang

A fascinating treatise on the study of modern mythology the construction of myths so soon after an event. Andrew Lang was the foremost scholar in folklore and mythology of his time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...

Author	Stephanie Greene
ISBN	0142421057

Make reading sparkle with the fourth title in the adorable Princess Posey chapter book series!

Halloween is right around the corner and Princess Posey is super excited to have a party with her first grade classmates and go trick-or-treating. But sometimes Halloween tricks are scary. When...

Author	Charise Mericle Harper
ISBN	0618959734

Everyone’s favorite Grace is back. And this time she has a dog.
Unfortunately, he’s only made of cardboard and rides a skate board. Grace is determined though to prove to her parents that she is responsible and dependable enough to get a real dog.
Things you learn in this book:
1. Sometimes...

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0060087846

They're in the "revenge" business Jess and Frank's father has stopped their allowances for four whole months That means that Jess can't go anywhere or do anything with her friends. Worse yet, Frank owes money to Buster Knell, the bully. How can Jess and Frank earn some cash -- fast?

By starting...

Author	Robin Wasserman
ISBN	0545100658

Candy Apple books . . . just for you. Sweet. Fresh. Fun. Take a bite!

Ruby Day is a star. Or at least she was, until she got too old for her role on the international tour of Bye Bye Birdie. She knows all there is to know about Parisian room service, signing autographs for fans, and navigating strange...