4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild
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A Curse Dark as Gold u<br />
by Elizabeth C. Bunce<br />
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)<br />
Reviews: BCCBH, BL, HGs, K, SLJ, V<br />
When Charlotte Miller inherits her family’s<br />
troubled woolen mill, she is determined to make<br />
it a success—and to ignore the rumors of the curse<br />
that haunts it. But strange accidents frighten the<br />
workers and threaten to sink the business. One day,<br />
a mysterious man named Jack Spinner arrives and<br />
offers his assistance. “You’d have to be able to make<br />
gold appear from thin air to be much help to us now,<br />
I’m afraid,” Charlotte says. With straw, not air, Jack<br />
Spinner obliges. Though he hasn’t yet named his<br />
ultimate price. . . .Winner of the 2009 William C.<br />
Morris Award.<br />
Isbn: 9780439895767 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 352 pp<br />
aR level: 5.9 • aR Points: 17 • sRC level: 5.5 • sRC Points: 25 • lexile: 840l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • arthur a. levine: $17.99 • JlG Month: MaY 2008<br />
Darkside<br />
by Tom Becker<br />
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)<br />
Reviews: BL, HG, K, KL, SLJ, V, WM<br />
Fourteen-year-old Jonathan Starling isn’t sure<br />
how to help his father, Alain, who suffers mental<br />
breakdowns. Jonathan only knows that Alain’s<br />
sickness originated in Darkside—whatever or<br />
wherever that might be. When a family friend helps<br />
him enter Darkside, Jonathan’s amazed: it’s a seedy<br />
underbelly of London stuck in a Victorian-era<br />
time warp, inhabited by criminals, monsters, and<br />
combinations of the two. Even if Jonathan does<br />
manage to stay alive on Darkside’s mean streets, can<br />
he ever unearth Alain’s secret? And if he does, will<br />
anyone in London believe him?<br />
Isbn: 9780545037396 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 272 pp<br />
aR level: 5.4 • aR Points: 8 • sRC level: 5.2 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 790l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • orchard: $16.99 • JlG Month: MaR 2008<br />
Darkwing u<br />
by Kenneth Oppel<br />
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7)<br />
Reviews: BLH, H, HGs, KH, KLH, SLJ<br />
In the waning days of the dinosaurs, a new world<br />
emerges. Dusk is different from the other chiropters<br />
in his colony. While they glide to get from tree to<br />
tree, Dusk has the urge—and, he soon discovers,<br />
the ability—to actually fly. As the leader’s son, he<br />
is protected for a time, but his father asks him to<br />
suppress his unusual talent to avoid being shunned—<br />
or worse. Then a new threat emerges, when a group<br />
of felids, led by Carnassial, stops eating only fruit,<br />
roots, and grubs to become predators. Black-andwhite<br />
illustrations. Author’s note. A 2008 TD<br />
Canadian Children’s Literature Award Finalist.<br />
Isbn: 9780060850555 • Dewey: f • 6" x 9" • 432 pp<br />
aR level: 5.0 • aR Points: 14 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 23 • lexile: 730l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • HarperCollins: $17.89 • JlG Month: noV 2007<br />
*NEW* Darkwood<br />
by M. E. Breen<br />
FM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BL, KH<br />
Annie has been raised by a strict aunt and a greedy<br />
uncle in the hardscrabble farming community of<br />
Dour County in Howland. The whole country lives<br />
in fear of the surrounding forest inhabited by fierce<br />
kinderstalk who hunt for children after dark. But<br />
when Annie overhears her uncle preparing to sell<br />
her to the mines, her only chance to save herself is<br />
to escape into the woods. While on the run, Annie<br />
uncovers some surprising truths about the kingdom,<br />
its mines, and the ferocious kinderstalk.<br />
Isbn: 9781599902593 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 288 pp<br />
aR level: 4.7 • aR Points: 9 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 700l<br />
JLG: $13.25 • bloomsbury: $16.99 • JlG Month: seP 2009<br />
The Dead & the Gone u<br />
by Susan Beth Pfeffer<br />
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9)<br />
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, HG, K, PWH, SLJ, V<br />
An asteroid hits the moon, throwing it out of orbit<br />
and causing tsunamis, earthquakes, and general<br />
devastation on Earth. In Manhattan, Alex and his<br />
two younger sisters must fight to survive as their food<br />
supply dwindles and the weather gets increasingly<br />
severe. All the while they pray that their mother,<br />
last known to be at her job in Queens, and their<br />
father, who was visiting relatives in Puerto Rico,<br />
will return home.<br />
Isbn: 9780152063115 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 352 pp<br />
aR level: 4.3 • aR Points: 12 • sRC level: 4.2 • sRC Points: 20 • lexile: 680l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Harcourt: $17.00 • JlG Month: JUn 2008<br />
Death in the Air:<br />
The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 2nd Case u<br />
by Shane Peacock<br />
MM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: HG, SLJH, V<br />
A famed acrobat nearly dies when he falls—right<br />
at Sherlock Holmes’s feet—during a performance.<br />
Certain the fall was no accident, the teenage detective<br />
investigates. When he links the notorious Brixton<br />
gang to the attempted murder, Sherlock is excited:<br />
evidence leading to the gang’s arrest is worth £500,<br />
enough to finance the education he so desperately<br />
wants. But can Sherlock ever convince the police to<br />
believe a poor, scruffy boy like him?<br />
Isbn: 9780088776851 • Dewey: f • 5 1/8" x 7 5/8" • 260 pp<br />
aR level: 6.2 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 6.3 • sRC Points: 16 • lexile: 910l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Tundra: $19.95 • JlG Month: MaY 2008<br />
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