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The Graveyard Book u
by Neil Gaiman • illustrations by Dave McKean
MM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BCCB, BLH, CL, HH,
HGs, KH, KLH, PWH, SLJ, V, WC
Nobody Owens, better known as Bod, is an ordinary
boy, except he happens to live in a graveyard and has
parents who are ghosts. While other living children
go to school, Bod learns how to Fade, how to Haunt,
and how to open ghoul-gates—skills that prove
useful when Jack, the man who killed Bod’s biological
family, returns to town to finish what he started.
Black-and-white illustrations. Winner of the 2009
Newbery Medal. A 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book
Honor Book.
Isbn: 9780060530938 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 192 pp
aR level: 5.1 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 820l
JLG: $9.00 • HarperCollins: $18.89 • JlG Month: Jan 2009
The Great Adventure:
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
by Albert Marrin
NM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BL, H, HGs, SLJH
“His legacy includes a Nobel Prize, the first ever won
by an American. . . . It includes laws to regulate big
business, laws to guarantee the purity of our food and
drugs, national parks, and millions of acres of land set
aside to protect our national heritage. . . . Although
Theodore Roosevelt died nearly a century ago, in a
sense we still live in the America he helped to shape.”
Includes notes and suggestions for further reading.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
Isbn: 9780525476597 • Dewey: 973.91/1092 • 8" x 10" • 256 pp
aR level: 8.0 • aR Points: 15 • sRC level: 7.7 • sRC Points: 20 • lexile: 1000l
JLG: $9.00 • Dutton: $30.00 • JlG Month: feb 2008
*NEW* The Great Death
by John Smelcer
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9)
The world changes for sisters Millie and Maura the
day three visitors come to their Alaskan village. The
girls are amazed to see that two of the men have lightcolored
skin and blue eyes. The third visitor, from a
neighboring village, has red spots covering his body.
He tells of a great death among his people. Shortly
after this visit, the plague hits Millie and Maura’s
village, leaving no one alive but the two sisters. As
winter sets in, the girls must undertake a dangerous
wilderness trek downriver in search of a new village
and a new home.
Isbn: 9780805081008 • Dewey: f • 176 pp
JLG: $13.25 • Henry Holt: $15.99 • JlG Month: seP 2009
The Great Race:
The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908
by Gary Blackwood
NM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, K, V, WM
In 1908, when long distance automobile races were
all the rage, The New York Times and Paris’s Le Matin
cosponsored a race from New York to San Francisco
and from Siberia to Paris. Teams from France,
Germany, Italy, and the United States competed.
They were beset by breakdowns, mud, snow, fog, a
sandstorm, “Chinese brigands, well mounted and
armed,” the Parisian police (who almost arrested the
Americans for driving with a broken headlight), and,
according to one report, a pack of “not less than fifty
wolves.” Bibliography. Index of quotes. Black-andwhite
photographs.
Isbn: 9780810994898 • Dewey: 796.72 • 7" x 9" • 144 pp
aR level: 7.9 • aR Points: 6 • sRC level: 10.7 • sRC Points: 10 • lexile: 1130l
JLG: $9.00 • abrams: $19.95 • JlG Month: JUl 2008
The Hand You’re Dealt
by Paul Volponi
HI GROUP (GRADES 10 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BL, CL, HG, K, SLJ, V
Each year, the winner of the local poker tournament
in Huck’s town gains the right to wear a silver watch
blessed by the Pope. Last year, Mr. Abbott, “the most
obnoxious poker player anybody had ever seen,”
won the event and swiped the watch right off Huck’s
father’s wrist as he lay dying in the hospital. This
year, Huck is in Mr. Abbott’s precalculus class at high
school. He’s going to study Abbott’s every move,
enter the tournament, and get that watch back.
Isbn: 9781416939894 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 176 pp
aR level: 5.3 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 5.5 • sRC Points: 10 • lexile: 850l
JLG: $9.00 • atheneum: $16.99 • JlG Month: feb 2009
Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859,
A Tale of the Old West
by Avi
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7)
Reviews: BL, CL, HG, K, KL, SLJ, V, WC
1859: A drought has settled on the middle of the
country, and crops aren’t growing. If fourteen-yearold
Early Wittcomb’s family can’t pay the mortgage
on their Iowa farm, the bank will take the land and
sell it to the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Uncle Jesse thinks the answer to their problems
is gold—rumored to be plentiful in the Rocky
Mountains—and heads west. Then he writes that
his life is in danger, and Early sets off on a perilous
journey of his own. Glossary. Author’s Note.
Bibliography. Black-and-white photographs and
illustrations.
Isbn: 9781423105190 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 224 pp
aR level: 4.6 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 11 • lexile: 740l
JLG: $9.00 • Hyperion: $15.99 • JlG Month: DeC 2008
Hattie Big Sky u
by Kirby Larson
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9)
Reviews: BCCB, HG, K, SLJH, WM, WS
“Being of sound mind, I do hereby leave to Hattie
Inez Brooks my claim and the house and its contents,
as well as one steadfast horse named Plug and a
contemptible cow named Violet.” When orphaned
sixteen-year-old Hattie inherits her uncle’s Montana
homestead, she jumps at the chance to finally have
a home of her own. Hattie must “prove up” the
claim, however, by fencing off and cultivating the
land within ten months—or she’ll lose everything.
Recipes. Suggestions for further reading. Library
edition with trade jacket added. A 2007 Newbery
Honor Book.
Isbn: 9780385903325 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 304 pp
aR level: 4.4 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 6.3 • sRC Points: 18 • lexile: 700l
JLG: $9.00 • Delacorte: $17.99 • JlG Month: Jan 2007