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Here Lies Arthur u
by Philip Reeve
FM GROUP (GRADES 7–11)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, HH, HGs, KH, KLH, PWH, SLJH, V
When Gwyna’s village is burned, a bard named
Myrddin takes her in. He immediately puts her to
work helping him invent legends to legitimize the
violent rule of his master. Myrddin serves the same
brutish warlord who burned Gwyna’s village, and
her first job is to present the warlord, who is named
Arthur, with a supposedly magical sword—by
swimming underwater with the sword and holding
it aloft in the middle of a lake. Gwyna enjoys her
adventurous new life but soon grows uncomfortable
with her role in enabling Arthur’s vicious reign.
Winner of the 2008 Carnegie Medal.
Isbn: 9780545093347 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp
aR level: 5.6 • aR Points: 11 • sRC level: 5.7 • sRC Points: 18 • lexile: 890l
JLG: $9.00 • scholastic: $16.99 • JlG Month: DeC 2008
Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose u
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: HGs, K, SLJH
The newspaper boy delivers tissues instead of
newspapers because the news is too sad; a batch of
cookies brings together strangers at an airport; and
a hopeful explanation for the disappearance of the
world’s bees is offered: “They are sick of the word
‘busy.’ They are on strike.” In these poems and
narratives about contemporary life, assumptions are
questioned, surprises are common, and everything—
and everyone—is interconnected.
Isbn: 9780060853914 • Dewey: 811/.54 • 5" x 7 1/8" • 128 pp
sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 8
JLG: $9.00 • Greenwillow: $17.89 • JlG Month: JUl 2008
How to Ditch Your Fairy u
by Justine Larbalestier
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, H, HGs, K, PW, SLJ, V
In New Avalon, almost everyone has a fairy. Most
people love their fairies, but Charlotte, better known
as Charlie, isn’t one of them. While other people
have fairies that give them perfect tennis serves,
blemish-free skin, or enviable wardrobes, Charlie’s
fairy gives her good parking spots. Not very useful
for a girl who’s fourteen, can’t drive, and doesn’t like
cars. So when Fiorenze—a classmate who, thanks to
her every-boy-will-like-you fairy, is dating Charlie’s
crush—suggests that they swap fairies, Charlie
agrees without a moment’s thought. Includes a list of
“known fairies” and a glossary of New Avalon slang.
Isbn: 9781599903019 • Dewey: f • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • 288 pp
aR level: 4.1 • aR Points: 9 • sRC level: 3.3 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 580l
JLG: $9.00 • bloomsbury: $16.99 • JlG Month: Jan 2009
The Humming of Numbers
by Joni Sensel
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: BCCB, KL, SLJ
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Ireland, AD 920. Aidan has an unusual gift: “Others
heard birdsong, windsong, human speech . . .
Nobody else caught numbers with their ears.” Aidan
hopes to gain understanding of his mysterious ability
over years of quiet, solitary contemplation as a monk.
But when a pretty girl named Lana arrives and hums
of eleven, a number Aidan has never heard, he is
enthralled. A devastating attack by Viking raiders
forces the two together, and as they strive to save
their village, they also must struggle to understand
their strong connection.
Isbn: 9780805083279 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
aR level: 5.9 • aR Points: 8 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 830l
JLG: $9.00 • Holt: $16.95 • JlG Month: JUl 2008
The Hunger Games u
by Suzanne Collins
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, CL, HGs, K, KLH, PWH, SLJH, V
In a post-apocalyptic future, North America has
become Panem—a collection of twelve districts
surrounding a prosperous Capitol City. Each year,
as punishment for a long-ago rebellion, the Capitol
selects one boy and one girl from each district to
compete in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to
the death. When Primrose, Katniss’s younger sister,
is among the two names called from District 12,
Katniss volunteers to take her sister’s place. After all,
it’s her skill with a bow and arrow that has put food
on the family table since their father’s death. But
can Katniss, who is willing to risk her life to save
her sister’s, learn to kill humans the same way she
hunts—without mercy?
Isbn: 9780439023481 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 420 pp
aR level: 5.3 • aR Points: 15 • sRC level: 5.3 • sRC Points: 23 • lexile: 810l
JLG: $9.00 • scholastic: $17.99 • JlG Month: oCT 2008
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee u
by Charles J. Shields
NM GROUP (GRADES 7–11)
Reviews: BL, CL, HGs, K, SLJ, WM, WS
As soon as Nelle Harper Lee was old enough to write
stories of her own, her father gave her a rugged,
steel-encased Underwood No. 5 typewriter. She and
her neighbor Truman immediately began writing
stories set on their street, South Alabama Avenue,
casting the residents as characters. “In small town life
and in rural life . . . you know everything about your
neighbors,” Lee later said. She would draw heavily on
this knowledge when writing her masterpiece, To Kill
a Mockingbird. Notes. Bibliography. Media sources.
Index. Black-and-white photographs.
Isbn: 9780805083347 • Dewey: 813/.54 b • 6" x 9" • 256 pp
aR level: 8.3 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 10.6 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 1120l
JLG: $9.00 • Holt: $18.95 • JlG Month: MaY 2008
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