War Comes to Willy Freeman

Author	Garth Nix
ISBN	0439856264

Arthur Penhaligon's first days at his new school don't go too well, particularly when a fiendish Mister Monday appears, gives Arthur a magical clock hand, and then orders his gang of dog-faced goons to chase Arthur around and get it back. But when the confused and curious boy discovers that a mysterious...

Author	Garth Nix
ISBN	0439703700

The second incredible book in The Keys to the Kingdom, now in hardcover
Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who...

Author	Rosa Guy
ISBN	0440226678

A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship.

Phyllisia Cathy--She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up by classmates. What Phyllisia needs, God not being...

Author	Virginia Hamilton
ISBN	1416914102

Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.

Most of the time they have been in the...

Author	Malvina G. Vogel
ISBN	1577658108

Personal Response: I think this book was very interesting. The book had lots of plot twist. The dog narrates the book with its thoughts. I think that makes the book interesting because it's different than what we are used to. The author did a great job of painting a good picture in my head.

Plot...

Author	Jim O'Connor
ISBN	0399542310

Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed.

When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed...

Author	Malvina G. Vogel
ISBN	0866119922

First published in 1726, this classic work of satire presents a world gone haywire, where humans, despite their pomposity and grandiose illusions, are no better than weak and helpless fools. Lemuel Gulliver#39;s journeys take him to Lilliput, a country whose inhabitants are no more than six inches...