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Paterson, James
| Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Characters: Leonardo The Silent, Ms. Donatello, Carl, Jeane Galletta, Rafael Khatchadorian, Georgia Khatchadorian, Jules Khatchadorian Miller, Mr. Dwight, Mrs. Stricker

Summary: Rafe Khatchadorian has an awesome and very creative imagination and a slight problem with authority, and many of these things come together when Rafe transfers to a middle school where students are expected to follow the rules. This doesn't sit well with Rafe because he loves to break the rules. With help from his new friend Leo Thomas Barbusca, the things that drives his principal Andy Daly crazy while also using his charm and intelligence to impress a girl Isabela Moner and battle the bullies.

Philbrick, Rodman
| The Young Man and the Sea
The young man and the sea. Summary: After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna.

Sherry, Shanon
| Death Mountain

Summary:
It was an afternoon hike in the Sierra Mountains turned into a struggle for survival when two teenage girls become lost in an electrical storm and must rely on their own ways to survive in the Middle of no where. About a year ago, Erin's mother Lannie suddenly left home without any permission. Now Lannie wants to see her, but Erin feels miserable and unsure about seeing her mother because she may be getting in trouble if she see's her.

Sloan, Holly
| Counting by 7’s
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.

Smith, Roland
| Elephant Run
Nick moves to Burma, to escape the bombs in England, and soon the Japanese invade this small village, and force everyone to work, killing and injuring many. They force Nick to stay in a small room working outdoors, and being locked up for almost a year. Nick is beaten by a man named Bukong who wants to take over the village. Nick consistantly works on a garden, and he is growing very weary of all of this work. Also, his father is on a Japanese work camp, and he grows very weak 2-3 times, dying almost. Nick keeps on pleading to see him, and eventually he gets his wish.

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
| The Egypt Game
'The Egypt Game'' by Zilpha Keatley Snyder is about six kids who invent an elaborateon-going imaginative game based around their interest of ancient Egypt. In this lesson, we will look at the plot summary and the main characters of this award winning novel.

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Holm, Jennifer
| Our Only May Amelia, Summary: Our Only May Amelia is a Newberry Award winning novel by writer Jennifer L. Holm. The novel is about a Finnish family that has settled on the Nasel River in Washington State. May Amelia is the only daughter in a family of eight children and the only girl among the Finnish families on the Nasel. For this reason, May Amelia tends to dress and play like a boy as well as cause the same amount, if not more, trouble than her brothers. Our Only May Amelia is a touching story of one girl's struggle to find where she belongs in her family, a story that many readers will find they can relate to.

Characters: May Amelia Jackson

Setting: Nasel River in Washington State.

Purpose: To tell a fiction story about a tomgirl named amelia and her life journies

Houston/Houston
| Farewell to Manzanar , Summary:  Book Summary. Beginning with a foreword and a time line, Farewell to Manzanar contains an autobiographical memoir of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's wartime incarceration at Manzanar, a Japanese-American internment camp.

Characters:

Jeanne Wakatsuki - The protagonist and author of Farewell to Manzanar. ...

Papa (George Ko Wakatsuki) - Jeanne's father and the patriarch of the American branch of the Wakatsuki family. ...

Mama (Rigu Sukai Wakatsuki) - Jeanne's mother. ...

Woodrow “Woody” Wakatsuki - The third Wakatsuki child.

Setting: Manzanar
Purpose:  To show the non trust between the u.s. and japan ans their spies.

Hunt, Irene
| The Lottery Rose, Summary:

The Lottery Rose. Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures.

Characters: Gorgies Burgess, Steve, Ms. Sims, Sister Mary Angela, Miss Cressman, Timothy, Judge Oneil, Rennie Burgess, Miss Ellen Ames, Sister Monica.
Setting:Non
Purpose: To tell about a girl Being abused at school and at Home.

Lasky, Kathryn
| Guardians of Ga’hoole 02: The Journey

L’Engle, Madeleine
| Ring of Endless Light

Park, Linda Sue
| A Single Shard

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Curtis, Christopher Paul
Bud, Not Buddy
Summary: Bud, Not Buddy centers around Bud Caldwell, a 10 year old orphan who has grown up in Flint, Michigan. The book opens in 1936, four years after Bud's mother's death. Bud has just been placed with the Amoses, his third foster family. Unfortunately, the Amoses' son Todd bullies Bud, causing Bud to escape.
CHARACTERS: Bud Caldwell, Herman E. Calloway, Angela Janet Caldwell, Lefty Lewis.

Dowd, Siobhan
| The London Eye Mystery
Summary: The story revolves around the Spark family. Ted (13), is the protagonist. He has an older sister, Kat. Their mom, Faith, is a nurse, and their father, Ben, is a demolitions expert. Ted and Kat take their cousin, Salim, who is visiting from Manchester, on a sightseeing tour of London. Salim rides on the London Eye, the Ferris wheel on the Thames in London. But Ted and Kat don't see him get off. It's almost as if he disappeared into thin air. It would have made a great mystery for Sherlock Holmes to solve. The novel follows Ted and Kat as they try to unravel the mystery of Salim's disappearance.
Characters: Aunt Gloria, Kate, Salim, Marcus, Ted.

Freedman, Russell
| Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
Summary:  Benjamin Franklin ran away from his apprenticeship in Boston and arrived in Philadelphia a tired, dirty and hungry 17-year-old who impressed 15-year-old Deborah Read, his future wife, as a young man with a “most awkward ridiculous appearance.” With characteristic grace, Freedman sketches his subject’s career: Franklin settled into life in Philadelphia and became a printer, first publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1733. Franklin led the Junto, which fostered such civic improvements as America’s first lending library, lighting Philadelphia’s streets, and founding the firefighting company, the first hospital and Philadelphia’s first college. By age 44, Franklin was prosperous enough to retire from business, but he continued to be busy, inventing bifocals, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove. He was active in the creation of a new nation, signing all of the major documents that created the United States. Freedman is a master at shaping stories that bring history to life, with clear and lively prose rooted in solid research. The stylish volume includes many reproductions of portraits, engravings, and newspaper and almanac pages to enliven the fascinating portrait of Franklin and his times.
Characters: Ben Franklin

George , Jean Craighead
| On the Far Side of the Mountain
Summary:  Sam Gribley still lives in a hollow tree with Frightful, his faithful falcon. Sam has neighbors now: his sister Alice lives in a nearby treehouse and his old friend Bando has bought a nearby cabin. Sam's summer plans are disrupted when a conservation officer accuses him of harboring an endangered species and confiscates Frightful. Sam is so devastated by the loss of his companion that several days pass before he realizes that Alice has left home. Setting out to track his sister down, Sam crosses paths with a band of falcon smugglers and is given the chance to take back Frightful for his own. Faced with a difficult decision, Sam chooses wisely and the story ends on a satisfying note, full of hope for the future. Since nature has become chic in the years since Sam's first adventures were published, sophisticated readers will enjoy the author's wry references to the new fashion for Adirondack furniture and her description of an eatery that specializes in gourmet wild foods. Filled with accurate details (it is possible to trace Sam's journey on a map), likeable characters and plenty of backwoods lore, this sequel is worthy of its predecessor.
Characters: Sam Gribley, Mrs. Turner, Mr. Gribley, Bill, Bando, Mrs. Thomas Feilder.

Giff, Patricia Reilly
| Pictures of Hollis Woods
Summary:  After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill. Hollis is a talented artist and her life stories unfold through her pictures. One revealing picture is the "W" picture Hollis drew for a first grade class assignment on the letter "w". Hollis drew her Wish, her Want. She drew a picture of a family. Hollis had that family in the Regan's, but fear of attachment and motional turmoil caused her to run away. As Josie's forgetfulness grows worse, Hollis is forced into the role of caretaker. Through her artwork and her care of Josie, Hollis Woods finds her family.
Characters: Hollis Woods, The Regans: Old man, Izzy, Steven.

Hansen , Joyce
| Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
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Soto, Gary
| Baseball in April

Tolen, Stephanie S.
| Surviving the Applewhites

Van Draanen, Wendelin
| Sammy Keys and the Hotel Thief

Woodson, Jacqueline
| Feathers

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Avi, Greg
| City of Orphans

Summary:
The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year-old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno’s boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies--but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer (among other employments) to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection.

Against a backdrop alive with the sights and sounds of tenement New York, Maks, as boy detective, must confront a teeming world of wealth and crime, while struggling against powerful forces threatening new immigrants and the fabric of family love.

Main characters:
Bartleby ,Donck, Maks,Emma,Bruno,Plug Uglies,Maks,newsie, Willa.

Bauer, Joan
| Stand Tall

Summary: At a time when heroes are too rare, C. Vivian Stringer sets a shining example. She has time and again shown character, fortitude, and heart, both on and off the hardwood, and in the face of unbearable loss. In Standing Tall, she shares her remarkable life story, inspiring us to find this fortitude within ourselves.

“Work hard, and don’t look for excuses,” Stringer’s parents told her, “and you can achieve anything.” But her faith and perseverance would be tested many times. A gifted athlete, she had to fight for a place on an all-white cheerleading squad in the sixties. In 1981, just as her coaching career was taking off, her fourteen-month-old daughter, Nina, was stricken with spinal meningitis. Nina would never walk or talk again. Still grieving, Stringer brought a small, poor, historically black college to the national championships—a triumph hailed as “Hoosiers with an all-female cast.” In 1991, her husband, Bill—her staunchest supporter, the father of her children, and the love of her life—fell dead of a sudden heart attack, but that same year, she led yet another young team to the Final Four. Through these dark times and others—including her bout with cancer, shared here for the first time—Stringer has carried her burdens with grace. Given her history, it was no surprise that she led her team to respond to Don Imus’s slurs with dignity and courage.

Standing Tall is a story of quiet strength in the face of punishing odds. Above all, it is an extraordinary love story—love for the game, for the players she has coached, for her close-knit family, and for the husband she lost far too soon. It will resonate long after the last page.

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lBond, Nancy
| A String in the Harp
Summary: in an ideal blend of absorbing fantasy and realistic fiction, A String in the Harp tells the story of 12-year-old Pete Morgan who, on a visit to Wales, finds a harp key that shows him scenes from the life of the ancient bard Taliesin. Set in both present-day and ancient Wales, this Newbery Honor title has become a contemporary ...

Boyne, John
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Burgan, Michael
| Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. ... Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century.

Creech, Sharon
|walk the two moons