It's time for our second list. These are the books that will be brought to the table at our adults Mock Newbery meeting and voting session on Saturday, January 8, 2011. This will be an all-day session, from 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the Main Library Children's Services Storytime Room. Registration for this program will begin May 1, 2010, from this link.
They Called Themselves the KKK by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Crunch by Leslie Connor
Falling In by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Drizzle by Kathleen Van Cleve
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Please click on any title and leave your comments. Also, check out our first list from July 1, 2010. We will also keep links at the top right of the page.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Ubiquitous by Joyce Sidman
Houghton Mifflin Children's Books
April 2010
Unpaged
Summary
Poems and factual information about some of the creatures that live on Planet Earth.
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis Holt
Henry Holt
May 2010
309 pgs.
Summary
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
May 2010
191 pgs.
Summary
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen and a Joker by Louis Sachar
May 2010
336 pgs.
Summary
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Scholastic Press
May 2010
377 pgs.
Summary
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear..."--Dust jacket flap.
Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman
April 2010
167 pgs.
Summary
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook by Beverly Patt
Marshall Cavendish
March 2010
92 pgs.
Summary
Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II.
Is it Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
March 2010
205 pgs.
Summary
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson
March 2010
276 pgs.
Summary
A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.
Take Me With You by Carolyn Marsden
March 2010
160 pgs.
Summary
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
Star in the Forest by Laura Resau
March 2010
149 pgs.
Summary
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge her trailer park's of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
If Stones Could Speak by Marc Aronson
March 2010
64 pgs.
Summary
What are the secrets of the ancient stone circle? Were the carefully placed stones a burial site, an ancient calendar, a place of Druid worship...or even a site of sacrifice? World-renowned archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has spent the last seven years on a quest to answer these and many other questions. In If Stones Could Speak, award-winning author Marc Aronson joins the research crew and records their efforts to crack Stonehenge’s secrets. National Geographic helped sponsor the Riverside archeological team’s mission, and now young readers can journey behind the scenes to experience this groundbreaking story first-hand, through the eyes of the experts.Mike and his team have revolutionized our understanding of Stonehenge by exploring the surrounding landscape for clues about the stones -- an idea first suggested by a visitor from Madagascar. The results have been breathtaking: The team recently unearthed the largest Neolithic village ever found in England. Marc Aronson had total access to the site, the team, and their work over two seasons of digging and brings the inspirational story of the discoveries taking place at this World Historical Site to young readers. The informative and drama-driven text includes tales of dead bodies, cremations, feasting, and ancient rituals, as well as insights into the science of uncovering the ancient past.
The expert text, stunning photography, and explanatory maps and illustrations will all help young readers see this ancient monument in totally new ways, and inspire future generations of archaeological explorers.
Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer
March 2010
Unpaged
Summary
A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
Finally by Wendy Mass
Scholastic Press
March 2010
296 pgs.
Summary
After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Batboy by Mike Lupica
March 2010
247 pgs.
Summary
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole
February 2010
342 pgs.
Summary
Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.
Ratfink by Marcia Thornton Jones
Dutton Children's Books
February 2010
216 pgs.
Summary
Creative, impulsive Logan vows to turn over a new leaf in fifth grade so his parents will let him have a pet, but when a competitive new girl arrives at school and his forgetful and embarrassing grandfather takes over the basement of Logan's house, doing the right thing becomes harder than it has ever been.
Monday, July 19, 2010
The War To End All Wars: WWI by Russell Freedman
August 2010
176 pgs.
Summary
The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands of casualties all contributed to the "great war," which people hoped and believed would be the only conflict of its kind. In this clear and authoritative account, the author shows the ways in which the seeds of a second world war were sown in the first. Numerous archival photographs give the often disturbing subject matter a moving visual counterpart
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
May 2010
80 pgs.
May 2010
80 pgs.
Summary
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
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