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Bird
by Rita Murphy
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: CL, H, HGs, K, WC
Miranda, who lives an isolated life with Wysteria,
an elderly widow, recollects little about the time
before she arrived at Bourne Manor. Blown there
by the wind and pulled from a tree by Wysteria’s
wolfhounds, Miranda says, “I was lost and Wysteria
found me. Or perhaps the Manor itself found
me, beckoning me to its gates.” The Manor is a
mysterious, menacing place, and Miranda is kept
inside its locked doors. Then one day a boy named
Farley appears and inspires Miranda to discover a
destiny beyond Wysteria and Bourne Manor.
Isbn: 9780385905572 • Dewey: f • 5" x 7 1/2" • 176 pp
aR level: 6.2 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 7.5 • sRC Points: 9 • lexile: 1010l
JLG: $9.00 • Delacorte: $18.99 • JlG Month: feb 2009
Bird Lake Moon u
by Kevin Henkes
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7)
Reviews: BLH, H, HGs, K, PWH, SLJH
After Mitch’s father leaves the family, Mitch and his
mother retreat to her parents’ house on Bird Lake.
To stave off his misery, Mitch imagines taking over
the abandoned house next door and living a new,
better life there. So, when the house’s rightful owners
show up to claim it, Mitch decides to haunt the
house and “drive the intruders away.” Unfortunately,
only Spencer, the ten-year-old boy next door, notices
the haunting.
Isbn: 9780061470783 • Dewey: f • 5" x 7 3/8" • 192 pp
aR level: 4.9 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 9 • lexile: 740l
JLG: $9.00 • Greenwillow: $16.89 • JlG Month: JUl 2008
Black Box u
by Julie Schumacher
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, CL, HG, K, KLH, PWH, SLJH, V
Dora and Elena are as different as two sisters can be.
Dora’s tall and theatrical; Elena is short and practical.
“It was as if, growing up, Dora had occupied a certain
space and developed a certain kind of personality,”
Elena says, “and I had taken what was left over. On
a barometer, Dora was a storm on the horizon; I was
the needle that always pointed to steady.” But after
Dora is admitted to the local hospital following a
suicide attempt, Elena finds it increasingly difficult
to remain the family’s “steady Eddie.” Author’s Note.
Resources.
Isbn: 9780385905237 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 176 pp
aR level: 4.1 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 3.4 • sRC Points: 10 • lexile: 600l
JLG: $9.00 • Delacorte: $18.99 • JlG Month: noV 2008
*NEW* The Black Death:
Pivotal Moments in History
by Diane Zahler
HH GROUP (GRADES 10 & UP) • Reviews: CL, SLJ
“In 1347 western Europe teetered on the brink
of disaster.” The Great Famine, followed by the
widespread death and destruction of the Hundred
Years’ War, had weakened the population, had
worsened already filthy living conditions, and had
created a breeding ground for disease. When the
bubonic plague arrived in Sicily by trading boat,
it rapidly spread to every corner of Europe. This
“black death” killed an estimated 30 to 60 percent
of the population—devastating and transforming
the continent in just five years. Map. Primary source
research. Time line. Glossary. Who’s who. Source
notes. Selected bibliography. Further reading and
Web sites. Index. Full-color illustrations
and reproductions.
Isbn: 9780822590767 • Dewey: 614.5'732 • 6" x 8 1/2" • 160 pp
aR level: 9 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 10.6 • sRC Points: 9 • lexile: 1150l
JLG: $13.25 • lerner: $38.60 • JlG Month: aPR 2009
*NEW* Blade: Playing Dead
by Tim Bowler
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: BL, H, HGs, PWH, V
Fourteen-year-old Blade has been on the run most
of his life. A girl from his past gave him his name
because he was so good with a knife. Too good. Now
she’s gone, and he’d just as soon leave all that behind
him, including his name. But he’s been followed to
this new city where he’s been “playing dead” so no
one can find him. This works for a while, until he
meets people he comes to care about, only to watch
them slip into his past, too.
Isbn: 9780399251863 • Dewey: f • 6" x 9" • 240 pp
aR level: 2.9 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 3.2 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 360l
JLG: $13.25 • Philomel: $16.99 • JlG Month: aUG 2009
Blade: Playig Dead—JLG Reading Guide
JLG Reading Guides give you the tools to use JLG
selections in the classroom or library to meet specific
learning objectives for both whole-class settings and
for individual students. Each guide includes:
• activities based on national and state standards
• reinforcements for reading and writing skills
• connections to other content areas
• library applications
• specific correlations to National Standards
• and much more!
You will receive both a Student Edition and a Teacher
Edition of the JLG Reading Guide.
JLG: $5.00 • Isbn: 9780982350645
Bog Child u
by Siobhan Dowd
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, CL, HGs, KH, KLH, PWH, SLJH, V
Ireland, 1981: Death looms over Fergus’s first
summer out of high school. His brother, Joey, a
convicted member of the IRA, has joined a hunger
strike in prison. That same week, while digging
for peat in the mountains by his home, Fergus
discovers the body of a girl, murdered and buried
hundreds of years ago. Soon, the girl, dubbed Mel,
is haunting Fergus’s dreams, and Fergus is helping
an archaeologist and her teenage daughter uncover
Mel’s story. Author’s note. Winner of the 2009
Carnegie Medal.
Isbn: 9780385751704 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 336 pp
aR level: 3.6 • aR Points: 9 • sRC level: 3.2 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 530l
JLG: $9.00 • David fickling: $19.99 • JlG Month: Jan 2009