Juvenile Fiction
- Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street. 2008.
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plan to stop him. - Birney, Betty. The Princess and the Peabodys. 2007.
When the wizard flubs the spell and a princess arrives in the Peabody house, everyone must learn to adapt and broaden their outlooks. - Byng, Georgia. Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine. 2007.
Molly Moon's hypnotic eyes give her the power to stop the world and travel through time. Now Molly makes a stunning new discovery-she's a mind reader! - Broach, Elise. Masterpiece. 2008.
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to recover a Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. - Emerson, Kevin. The Vampire's Photograph. 2008.
Oliver, a young vampire, discovers he is a little more human than his vampire family and classmates. - Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book. 2008.
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens in the graveyard. - Gutman, Dan. Nightmare at the Bookfair. 2008.
When fifth-grader Trip Kindleman, who does not like to read very much, is hit on the head by a heavy box and becomes a character in a series of different books-from a sports story to a science fiction novel to an adventure tale-his view of reading is changed forever. - Hahn, Mary. All the Lovely Bad Ones: a Ghost Story. 2008.
While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace." - Haworth, Danette. Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning. 2008.
In 1970s Florida, 11-year-old Violet's world is upturned by the arrival of a girl from Detroit who seems bent on stealing Violet's best friends. - Korman, Gordon. Swindle. 2008.
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's store and steal the card back. - Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls. 2008.
Ten-year-old Emmy wants to be an ordinary girl but the evil nanny, Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges, and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe and their rodent friends to stop her. - Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. School Spirit. 2008.
Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning 13, and although she would prefer to be normal, Kat must come to terms with her talent. - Lanthier, Jennifer. The Mystery of the Martello Tower. 2008.
In their attempts to solve the mystery of their father's disappearance, Hazel and her brother, Ned, find themselves involved with a trio of art thieves and uncover some disturbing family secrets. - Palatini, Margie. Geek Chic: the Zoey Zone. 2008.
Counting the days until sixth grade, Zoey tries to figure out her life and hopes for a fairy godmother and a makeover to make her cool. - Prineas, Sarah. The Magic Thief. 2008.
A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City. - Shazam. Shazam! the Monster Society of Evil. 2007. (graphic novel)
Granted the powers of the ancient gods, young Billy Batson transforms into Captain Marvel whenever he says the magic word, Shazam! Now, Captain Marvel faces an alien invasion and must stop the Monster Society of Evil from taking over the world. - Soo, Kean. Jellaby. 2008. (graphic novel)
Not long after Portia Bennett and her mother move to a new town to start their lives over, Portia discovers a huge purple monster she names Jellaby. - Tubb, Kristin O'Donnell. Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different. 2008.
Autumn, an 11-year-old living in Tennessee during the Great Depression, watches as her grandfather tries to convince their neighbors to back a proposed National Park, but who is telling the truth about what will happen to their homes? - White, Ruth. Little Audrey. 2008.
In 1948, 11-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in southwest Virginia, where Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
Non-fiction
- Boys of Steel: the Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman. 2008. [J 741.5092 NOB]
Learn about Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman. - Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a Celebration of Poetry with a Beat edited by Nikki Giovanni. 2008. [J 811.008 HIP]
Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you've found poetry with a beat! - My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky. 2008. [J 811.54 PRE]
Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan or a witch in a hardware store? You will have, once you've read this collection of poems. - Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka. 2008. [JB SCIESZKA JON]
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill and more.
revised May 2009