4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild
4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild
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by Anne Cassidy<br />
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP)<br />
Reviews: BL, HG, K, KLH, PW, SLJH, V, WM, WS<br />
The tabloids are desperate for any information they<br />
can find about the recently released Jenny Jones: now<br />
sixteen, she was arrested at age ten for the murder of<br />
another girl. Details about the killing are all over the<br />
papers, and columnists are asking whether she even<br />
deserves a second chance. Jenny follows the story<br />
in the news—she has begun a new life under a new<br />
name and is terrified of being discovered. She finally<br />
has her first boyfriend, a job, and a roommate she<br />
trusts with her secret. Will she lose it all?<br />
Isbn: 9780152061906 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 336 pp<br />
aR level: 4.9 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 5.2 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 730l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Harcourt: $17.00 • JlG Month: Jan 2008<br />
*NEW* Lost<br />
by Jacqueline Davies<br />
HH GROUP (GRADES 10 & UP) • Reviews: BL, CL, K, SLJ<br />
Sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld of Delancey Street<br />
is working at the Triangle Waist Company when<br />
she meets the newest employee, Harriet Abbott, a<br />
seemingly well-educated, upper-crust young woman<br />
with a big secret. Essie, harboring a few secrets of her<br />
own, is drawn to the mysterious new girl, but their<br />
friendship will be tested as both go to great lengths<br />
to conceal the painful truth about themselves—and<br />
as a series of disasters tests Essie’s fortitude and<br />
compassion.<br />
Isbn: 9780761455356 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp<br />
JLG: $13.25 • Marshall Cavendish: $16.99 • JlG Month: JUn 2009<br />
The period details in Lost are spot-on<br />
and really brought me into the world of<br />
the story. The book’s many unexpected<br />
twists—both mysterious and tragic—<br />
compelled me to keep reading.<br />
—Georgia, JLG Assistant Editor<br />
Lost and Found u<br />
by Andrew Clements<br />
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BL, H, HGs, K, SLJ, WC<br />
“From the first moment of their lives . . . the twins<br />
were constantly compared with each other. And<br />
almost no one was able to see any difference at all.<br />
Except Jay and Ray themselves.” When Jay and<br />
Ray are accidentally enrolled as one student in<br />
their new school, the twins decide to play along,<br />
attending—and ditching—school on alternate days.<br />
But can pretending to be one person finally let<br />
them feel like two?<br />
Isbn: 9781416909859 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 160 pp<br />
aR level: 5.0 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: 780l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • atheneum: $16.99 • JlG Month: seP 2008<br />
Magpie Gabbard and the Quest for the Buried Moon<br />
by Sally Keehn<br />
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, PWH, SLJ, WM<br />
All girls receive magic on their thirteenth birthday,<br />
and Magpie Gabbard is no exception. But magic<br />
might not be enough to help Magpie reunite her<br />
brother Milo with his missing foot, satisfy the<br />
demands of a moody floating head and his wild boar,<br />
best the pernicious Sizemore family, avoid Goblins,<br />
and find the buried moon all by herself—especially<br />
when she has only thirteen days.<br />
Isbn: 9780399243400 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 208 pp<br />
aR level: 4.4 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 9 • lexile: 770l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Philomel: $16.99 • JlG Month: MaR 2007<br />
Mao’s Last Dancer: Young Reader’s Edition<br />
by Li Cunxin<br />
NM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: HG, K, SLJ, V<br />
“Great things don’t come easily!” a ballet teacher<br />
once told Li Cunxin. It was a lesson that Li knew<br />
well. Born to bitter poverty in rural China, he was<br />
chosen by a group of visiting officials to attend the<br />
Beijing Dance Academy. There, Li had to learn<br />
extraordinarily difficult dance moves while also<br />
studying to be a good Maoist. His hard work earned<br />
him the chance to visit the United States—where Li<br />
faced his greatest challenge. Afterword. Historical<br />
note. Time line. Glossary of Chinese words. Blackand-white<br />
photographs.<br />
Isbn: 9780802797797 • Dewey: 792.8/092 b • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • 300 pp<br />
aR level: 5.9 • aR Points: 11 • sRC level: 5.3 • sRC Points: 16 • lexile: 810l<br />
JLG: $9.00 • Walker: $16.95 • JlG Month: seP 2008<br />
*NEW* Marcelo in the Real World<br />
by Francisco X. Stork<br />
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP)<br />
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, HH, KH, PWH, SLJH, V<br />
When Marcelo Sandoval’s father challenges him to<br />
intern at his law firm over the summer, Marcelo is<br />
anxious. He has a condition similar to Asperger’s<br />
syndrome and attends a school that caters to his<br />
needs. Reluctantly, he begins to work at the firm,<br />
where the complications of the “real world” confront<br />
him immediately. Marcelo’s coworker, Jasmine,<br />
is kind and beautiful, but is frustratingly aloof.<br />
Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm,<br />
attempts to use Marcelo’s naïveté to manipulate<br />
him. Then, as Marcelo sorts documents one day, he<br />
stumbles upon a shocking piece of evidence marked<br />
“trash” that seems to incriminate his father.<br />
Isbn: 9780545054744 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp<br />
aR level: 4.6 • aR Points: 12 • sRC level: 5.3 • sRC Points: 20 • lexile: Hl700l<br />
JLG: $13.25 • arthur a. levine: $17.99 • JlG Month: JUn 2009<br />
“It is a rare novel that reaffirms<br />
a belief in goodness; rarer still is one<br />
that does so this emphatically.”<br />
—The Horn Book MagazineH<br />
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