4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild

Firebirds Soaring:
An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
edited by Sharyn November • decorations by Mike Dringenberg
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, K, SLJ, V
A young girl raised as a mercenary begins to question
the authority of her leader. Two student mages go
on a bender in a world where mythological creatures
use magic like drugs. A girl determined to escape the
cycle of poverty in her rural southern town begins to
fall for a boy who goes to remarkable extremes to get
her attention. This wide-ranging anthology includes
stories set twenty-five million years ago—and far into
the future. Authors’ biographies and notes. Blackand-white
illustrations.
Isbn: 9780142405529 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 544 pp
aR level: 5.4 • aR Points: 22 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 31 • lexile: 820l
JLG: $9.00 • firebird: $19.99 • JlG Month: MaR 2009
The Fold u
by An Na
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, K, PW, SLJ, WM, WS
“John Ford Kang. She was finally going to talk to
him.” Joyce is determined to impress her crush, but
when she gathers the courage to actually speak to
him, he confuses her with another Korean girl, whom
Joyce considers “the ugliest girl in school.” Joyce is
devastated, especially when she discovers John has a
crush on her beautiful older sister, Helen. Then her
aunt offers to pay for cosmetic eyelid surgery. “You
will never be as pretty as your sister,” her aunt says,
“but with my doctor’s help, you can look very nice.”
Isbn: 9780399242762 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 288 pp
aR level: 4.6 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 700l
JLG: $9.00 • Putnam: $16.99 • JlG Month: JUn 2008
Football Hero u
by Tim Green
SM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: HG, K, SLJ, V, WC
Twelve-year-old Ty is devastated when his uncle Gus
tells him he has to spend afternoons scrubbing toilets
for the family’s cleaning service instead of playing
on the football team. But when Ty’s older brother,
Thane, is selected in the NFL draft, the local mob
boss takes an interest. He persuades Gus into letting
Ty play football in exchange for insider information
about Thane’s team. All Ty wanted was a chance to
succeed like his brother. Now the brothers are caught
in the middle of a Mafia betting scheme, and their
futures are in jeopardy.
Isbn: 9780061122750 • Dewey: f • 6" x 9" • 304 pp
aR level: 5.1 • aR Points: 9 • sRC level: 5.5 • sRC Points: 15 • lexile: 840l
JLG: $9.00 • HarperCollins: $17.89 • JlG Month: aUG 2008
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*NEW* The Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, PWH, SLJH
Mary dreams of a world beyond her village. But she
also knows how impossible that dream is; according
to the Sisters, no other village still exists. The
Unconsecrated, the undead who claw at the village’s
fence, have infected everyone outside it. But one day
the impossible happens: a normal, healthy-looking
young woman emerges from the forest outside the
village. Her presence gives Mary hope. It is hope she
needs when, soon after, the Unconsecrated breach the
village fence. To survive, Mary must escape from the
village into the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Isbn: 9780385906319 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp
aR level: 5.8 • aR Points: 14 • sRC level: 6.2 • sRC Points: 21 • lexile: 900l
JLG: $13.25 • Delacorte: $20.99 • JlG Month: aPR 2009
“Fresh and riveting.”
—Publishers WeeklyH
The Forest of Hands and Teeth—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: 9780982296455
Fortune’s Fool
by Kathleen Karr
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9)
Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, K, KL, WC, WM
“I shall quest for a new master. An enlightened new
master.” So declares Conrad the Good, court jester
to the cruel Count Otto of Schwarzenberg, who
frequently punishes Conrad with a whip. Conrad
makes good on his promise, stealing away with his
beloved Christa and his trusty horse, Blackspur. As
they travel, their small troupe grows . . . and so do
their problems. For the road brings not only freedom,
but plague, fierce winter storms, and a ruler even
more vicious than Otto.
Isbn: 9780375948169 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 224 pp
aR level: 5.0 • aR Points: 6 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 11 • lexile: 740l
JLG: $9.00 • Knopf: $18.99 • JlG Month: MaY 2008
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