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*NEW* 11 Birthdays
by Wendy Mass
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BCCB, BLH, CL, PWH, WC
Amanda and Leo, best friends born on the same
day, have celebrated their birthdays together since
they were babies. On their tenth birthday, however,
Leo said something unforgivable, and Amanda
stopped speaking to him. A year later, they still aren’t
talking, and they hold their eleventh birthday parties
separately. But the next morning, Amanda wakes to
find that it is still her birthday. Both she and Leo are
destined to relive the day over and over.
Isbn: 9780545052399 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" • 288 pp
aR level: 4.1 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 3.7 • sRC Points: 12 • lexile: 640l
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*NEW* Absolute Pressure
by Sigmund Brouwer
SM GROUP (GRADES 7–11)
“Things like broken valves don’t happen to scuba
diving tanks by accident. If it wasn’t an accident,
that left two questions. Who had wrecked the valve?
And why?” Although it was Ian who almost died, he
suspects that the true target of the attack was Uncle
Gord. Word around Key West is that Uncle Gord
has been searching for a sunken pirate ship full of
treasure. Could he be close enough to a major find
that someone is trying to silence him? And if so,
who? To uncover the mystery, Ian stows away on the
GypSea for his uncle’s “weekend fishing trip.”
Isbn: 9781554691647 • Dewey: f • 7 1/4" x 4 1/2" • 176 pp
aR level: 3.9 • aR Points: 3 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: Hl570l
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian u
by Sherman Alexie • pictures by Ellen Forney
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BL, CL, HH, HGs, KH, KLH, PWH, SLJH
The Wellpinit reservation is a rough place to grow
up, but to Arnold, it’s home. So he feels torn when
he begins attending an affluent high school off the
reservation. Things only get worse when Arnold’s
new basketball team returns to play the team from
Wellpinit, and he must face his best friend and
all his former teammates on the court. Could the
crowd really be booing him? “I felt like one of those
Indian scouts who led the U.S. Cavalry against other
Indians.” Illustrated with Arnold’s cartoon drawings.
Winner of the 2007 National Book Award and the
2008 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.
Isbn: 9780316013680 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
aR level: 4.0 • aR Points: 6 • sRC level: 3.3 • sRC Points: 13 • lexile: 600l
JLG: $9.00 • little, brown: $16.99 • JlG Month: noV 2007
Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back!
by Michael Winerip
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, SLJ, WM
A street in Adam’s town is going to be renamed
for Martin Luther King. To celebrate, local real
estate honchos, the Bolands, are sponsoring a
big multicultural ceremony, complete with sushi
and burritos. So why is there no date set for
such a carefully planned event? Adam smells a
rat. Meanwhile, there are a zillion other stories
to investigate: the school-wide bully poll, the
insidiousness of parental help on science fair projects,
the possible demise of a beloved climbing tree. But
how can Adam get the scoop when it seems like
everyone, from Bolands to bullies, is out to get him?
Isbn: 9780763623418 • Dewey: f • 5 1/8" x 7 5/8" • 256 pp
aR level: 4.8 • aR Points: 9 • sRC level: 4.4 • sRC Points: 15 • lexile: 730l
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Agnes Parker: Keeping Cool in Middle School
by Kathleen O’Dell
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BL, CL, KH, KLH, SLJ
Agnes has a strategy to survive seventh grade: hang
out in the art room, avoid the leering eighth-grade
boys—in short, remain invisible. But staying under
the radar turns out to be tricky. Agnes’s outgoing best
friend decides to stand up to the boys with a run for
class president, and she appoints Agnes campaign
manager. Then Agnes tentatively befriends a short,
nerdy, and wonderfully quirky boy—who seems to
pay her a little too much attention.
Isbn: 9780803730786 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 160 pp
aR level: 3.6 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 9 • lexile: 630l
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Alexander the Great Rocks the World u
by Vicky Shecter • illustrated by Terry Naughton
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: HG, SLJ, V
“When Alexander was sixteen, his father left town
on business for a month and put him in charge—not
of the house, of the whole country.” From his start in
Macedonia, Alexander went on to rule all of Greece
by the time he was twenty. At twenty-five he had
conquered Persia and Egypt and had come to believe
he was a god. At thirty-two, he was king of the entire
known world—but Alexander the Great still wanted
more. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Black-andwhite
art.
Isbn: 9781581960457 • Dewey: 938.07 • 7 3/8" x 8 5/8" • 128 pp
aR level: 6.4 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 5.9 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: 900l
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