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The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau Like almost every 16-year-old in the United Commonwealth, Cia Vale hopes to be called for the Testing, her ticket out of rural Five Lakes Colony and into the University in Tosu City. Cia’s father was selected, but only vaguely remembers the experience in nightmares. Her four older brothers were passed over. Just when she has resigned herself to life as a mechanic or farmer, she gets word that she ...
The Witches by Roald Dahl Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There’s nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma’s stories—but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!...
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There’s Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who’s thirteen and an “official juvenile delinquent.” When Momma and Dad decide it’s time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons set out on a tri...
Jumping the Fence by Maureen Esnard In 19th century New Orleans, members of the wealthy interracial Esnard family risk everything as they seek to jump the fence between African American heritage and white identity. Racially charged political turbulence — pervading the city’s famous French Quarter — only raises the stakes....
Holes by Louis Sachar Stanley Yelnats is a kid under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys “build character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn’...
Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin Franny Katzenback, while recovering from polio, reads and falls in love with the brand-new book Charlotte’s Web. Bored and lonely and yearning for a Charlotte of her own, Franny starts up a correspondence with an eloquent flea named Fleabrain who lives on her dog’s tail. While Franny struggles with physical therapy and feeling left out of her formerly active neighborhood life, Fleabrain is th...
The Familiars #4: Palace of Dreams by Adam Jay Epstein Peace has returned to the queendom of Vastia. Paksahara has been defeated, and the three familiars Aldwyn, Skyler, and Gilbert are the heroes to thank. But when a birthday celebration at the palace goes dreadfully wrong, and Queen Loranella falls victim to a curse, it seems the familiars are the prime suspects. After narrowly escaping the palace dungeons, they’ll have to embar...
Double Dog Dare by Lisa Graff What would you do to win a dare war? In this novel, fourth-graders Kansas Bloom and Francine Halata start out as archenemies, until–in a battle of wits and willpower–they discover that they have a lot more in common than either would have guessed. A story for boys and girls alike — and for anyone who has ever wanted anything so badly that they’d lick a lizard to get it!...