#100 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, 2009 ISBN13: 9780545123266 #99 Running Loose by Chris Crutcher. Greenwillow Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780060094911 224 pp #98 Prama by Jamie Ponti. Simon Pulse Publishing, 2008. ISBN13: 9781416961000 194 pp #97 The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein by Libby Schmais. Delacorte Books for Young Readers, December, 2009 ISBN13: 9780385906739. 288 p. #96 Mick Harte [...]
During this winter vacation, I am supposed to be writing new guidelines for my teachers and staff for my middle school library. My principal is encouraging me to do this because <gasp> it is possible that I am working too hard, teaching too much, and trying to please too many people at once. He may [...]
#29 The Secret Journal of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum. Deseret Book Company, 2005. ISBN: 9781590383995 , 352 pp. Publisher’s Description: Kathy Colton can’t stand her brother, Brett. Her family talks as if he were perfect! All Kathy really knows about her brother is that he died of leukemia when he was seventeen and [...]
#34 The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. Greenwillow Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780688174231, 288 pp. Publisher’s Description: When his small mountains country goes to war with the powerful nation of Attolia, Eugenides the thief is faced with his greatest challenge. He must steal a man, he must steal a queen, and he must steal [...]
#39 Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. Puffin, 2004 (First published in the UK 2000). ISBN: 9780142401651, 256 pp. Publisher’s Description: When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises. Then, armed with his own special [...]
#44 A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck. Dial, 1998 ISBN 0803722907 , 192 pp. Publisher’s Description: What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice — two city slickers from Chicago — make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel’s seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he [...]
Scholastic released their list of Ten Trends in Children’s Literature in 2010. This list was compiled with suggestions from Scholastic Publishing, Scholastic Book Clubs, and Scholastic Book Fairs. I notice that they don’t discuss nonfiction trends, but I’ll focus on just one of their trends. Go to their press release to read more. “#4 Multimedia [...]
#49Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult. Atria Books, March 2005 ISBN: 9780743454544, 432 pp. Publisher’s Description: Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as [...]
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