4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild
4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild
4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild
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The White Gates<br />
by Bonnie Ramthun<br />
SM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, WC<br />
When Tor’s mother, Susan Sinclair, is hired as the<br />
new town doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, Tor<br />
is excited—but nervous—about his new home.<br />
He’s eager to learn to snowboard on the beautiful<br />
mountains that loom over the town, but he can’t<br />
figure out why the school’s snowboarding team hates<br />
him already or why his mother is the only doctor<br />
in town. Tor learns from his new friends, Raine and<br />
Drake, that it has something to do with an old mine<br />
and a Ute curse, but he has no idea just how deep the<br />
mystery really runs.<br />
Isbn: 9780375945540 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp<br />
aR level: 5.1 • aR Points: 8 • sRC level: 6.2 • sRC Points: 15 • lexile: Hl790l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Random House: $19.99 • JlG Month: MaR 2009<br />
White Sands, Red Menace<br />
by Ellen Klages<br />
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9)<br />
Reviews: BCCB, BL, H, HGs, K, KL, PWH, SLJ, WC<br />
Dewey’s mother left years ago, and her father recently<br />
died, so Dewey lives with her best friend, Suze<br />
Gordon, and Suze’s parents. They’ve just moved to<br />
Alamogordo, New Mexico, where Mr. Gordon builds<br />
V-2 rockets. Soon the girls are exploring their artistic<br />
and scientific interests and making new friends.<br />
After a year has passed, though, life is tense: Mrs.<br />
Gordon wants to go home to Berkeley, California,<br />
while Mr. Gordon insists on continuing his work for<br />
the space program. What’s more, Dewey’s unreliable<br />
mother reappears to claim her daughter. Author’s note<br />
includes list and descriptions of research sources.<br />
Isbn: 9780670062355 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp<br />
aR level: 4.2 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 690l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Viking: $16.99 • JlG Month: noV 2008<br />
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas u<br />
by Russell Freedman<br />
NM GROUP (GRADES 7–11)<br />
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, H, HGs, KH, SLJH<br />
While it is commonly believed that Christopher<br />
Columbus was the first to make a successful roundtrip<br />
voyage to the Americas, in recent years new<br />
evidence has cast this idea into doubt. It suggests that<br />
there may have been Chinese and Viking “discoveries”<br />
of the New World that predate Columbus’s arrival.<br />
This book considers these possibilities and describes<br />
the complex societies explorers would have found,<br />
built by the tens of millions of people native to North<br />
and South America. Full-color illustrations. Includes<br />
notes and a select bibliography.<br />
Isbn: 9780618663910 • Dewey: 970.01 • 9 1/2" x 9 1/2" • 96 pp<br />
aR level: 8.6 • aR Points: 3 • sRC level: 11.8 • sRC Points: 7 • lexile: 1310l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Clarion: $19.00 • JlG Month: DeC 2007<br />
The Whole Sky Full of Stars u<br />
by René Saldaña Jr.<br />
SM GROUP (GRADES 7–11)<br />
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, K, SLJ, V, WM<br />
Alby is in serious trouble. He got in over his head<br />
in a poker game, and he owes a loanshark money<br />
he doesn’t have. There might be a way out, though:<br />
the upcoming “Man o’ Might” boxing competition,<br />
which has a cash prize for the winner. Not that Alby<br />
will be doing the fighting—he wants to manage his<br />
best friend Barry, who’s never boxed in a ring but<br />
can punch hard enough to make anyone see stars. All<br />
Alby has to do now is convince him. <strong>Library</strong> edition<br />
with trade jacket added.<br />
Isbn: 9780385900782 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 144 pp<br />
aR level: 4.2 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 9 • lexile: 680l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Wendy lamb: $18.99 • JlG Month: aPR 2007<br />
*NEW* Why I Fight<br />
by J. Adams Oaks<br />
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: BLH, K, V<br />
When Uncle Spade, an unemployed drifter, saves<br />
twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves from his neglectful<br />
parents, Wyatt thinks he’s found a real home. But<br />
all Spade sees in Wyatt is a potential meal ticket: a<br />
taller-than-average kid with a mean punch who could<br />
become a bare-fist fighting champion with the proper<br />
training. By the time Wyatt is fourteen, he can win<br />
any fight—but that doesn’t mean he enjoys it. How<br />
can he break away from his uncle when Spade is the<br />
only family who’s ever really cared for him?<br />
Isbn: 9781416911777 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 240 pp<br />
aR level: 4.9 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 4.7 • sRC Points: 12 • lexile: 770l<br />
JLG: $13.25 • atheneum: $16.99 • JlG Month: MaY 2009<br />
Why I Fight—JLG Reading Guide<br />
JLG Reading Guides give you the tools to use JLG<br />
selections in the classroom or library to meet specific<br />
learning objectives for both whole-class settings and<br />
for individual students. Each guide includes:<br />
• activities based on national and state standards<br />
• reinforcements for reading and writing skills<br />
• connections to other content areas<br />
• library applications<br />
• specific correlations to National Standards<br />
• and much more!<br />
You will receive both a Student Edition and a Teacher<br />
Edition of the JLG Reading Guide.<br />
JLG: $5.00 • Isbn: 9780982296486
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