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THE MIDNIGHT FOX
Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi
“City-bred Tommy hates the idea of
spending the summer at Aunt Millie’s
farm.... Once he’s there, however, a
black fox shatters his conviction that he
and animals share a mutual antipathy. An
exceptional book.”
Rec: BL, CE, CS, E, H, LC, SLJ, W
—Booklist
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 160 pp. 1996
978-0-14-031450-2 $5.99
THE SUMMER OF THE SWANS
“The longest day in the life of a 14-yearold
girl—the summer day her loved,
mentally retarded brother is lost, the day
she discovers compassion in a friend. A
compelling story.” —Publishers Weekly
Rec: AN, BL, C, CE, CS, E, H, HG, LC, PW, SLJ, TE, W
Newbery Medal
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 144 pp. 1981
978-0-14-031420-5
Puffin Modern Classic
$5.99
5 x 7 144 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240114-9 $5.99
TROUBLE RIVER
“One night, while Dewey and Grandma
are alone in their cabin, an Indian attacks.
The two slip away toward possible
safety....A skillful portrayal of the growing
respect between a young boy and an
old woman.” —The New York Times
Rec: AN, CE, LC, NYT, SLJ, TE, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 128 pp. 1989
978-0-14-034243-7 $4.99
THE TV KID
“Lennie, a lonely, 11-year-old modern-day
Walter Mitty, uses television to
dream his day away [until] an accident
brings him to a new outlook....Well-developed
characters, splurges of humor,
and a suspenseful but believable plot.”
—BooklistH
Rec: BLH, C, CE, CS, E, H, LC, PW, SLJ, TE, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 128 pp. 1987/1998
978-0-14-038826-8 $4.99
See index for more titles by Betsy Byars.
CLARK, ANN NOLAN
SECRET OF THE ANDES
Illustrated by Jean Charlot
“The story of an Incan boy who lives in
a hidden valley high in the mountains of
Peru with old Chuto the llama herder.
Unknown to Cusi, he is of royal blood
and is the ‘chosen one’. A compelling
story.” —Booklist
Rec: AN, BL, C, CE, E, H, HG, SLJ, TE, W
Newbery Medal
5 x 7 3/4 136 pp. 1976
978-0-14-030926-3 $5.99
COERR, ELEANOR
MIEKO AND THE FIFTH TREASURE
“The four treasures of traditional East
Asian calligraphy are brush, inkstick,
inkstone, and paper. The ‘fifth treasure,’
as Mieko’s art teacher has told her, is
beauty in the heart, which breathes life
into writing word-pictures (characters).
Mieko lived in a village outside Nagasaki
when the atom bomb was dropped.
Flying glass badly damaged her writing
hand and now, a few months later, she
has been sent to live with her grandparents.
Ashamed of her scars and certain
she has lost the fifth treasure, Mieko
withdraws into herself…a warm, sensitive,
and well-written story with wide
appeal.” —School Library Journal
Rec: K, PW, SLJ
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 80 pp. 2003
978-0-698-11990-1 $5.99
SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND
PAPER CRANES
Illustrated by Ronald Himler
“Sadako Sasaki was two when the atom
bomb was dropped on her city [Hiroshima].
Ten years later the first signs of leukemia
appeared. This story of Sadako’s
twelfth year is filled with life, longing,
fear, hope, love, and inevitability. During
the long days abed Sadako folded paper
cranes, for legend holds that [if] a sick
person folds 1,000 the gods [will] make
her well again....An extraordinary book.”
—BooklistH
Rec: BKL, BLH, C, CE, CSH, H, K, NC, NYT, R, SLJ, TE
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 80 pp. 1999
978-0-698-11802-7 $5.99
Puffin Modern Classics
5 x 7 80 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240113-2 $5.99
See index for more titles by Eleanor Coerr.
See index for more titles by Ronald Himler.
CORBETT, SUE
12 AGAIN
“Overwhelmed with her life as a mother,
wife, and newspaper journalist, Bernadette
McBride decides to spend the night
at her late Irish mother’s house. Helping
herself to some mysterious liquid in the
pantry, Bernadette ruefully wishes to be
young again. When she awakens, she has
been transformed into a 12-year-old on
what should be her 40th birthday.…A
great mix of fairy charms, Irish folklore,
humor, mystery, and familial love.”
—School Library Journal
Rec: BL, K, PW, SLJ
5 x 7 3/4 240 pp. 2007
978-0-14-240729-5 $5.99 Ages 8-12 • Intermediate Independent Reads
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