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More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World
selected and retold by Arielle North Olson and
Howard Schwartz • illustrated by E. M. Gist
MM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, SLJ, WC
“There, under the rider’s right arm, was a head unlike
any head Morty had ever seen. It was ashy pale, with
skin pulled tight against the skull, huge black eyes,
and a mouth that reached from ear to ear.” These
twenty-two spooky tales, whose origins span the
globe from Iceland to Hawaii, include a vengeful
mermaid, a woman who turns her husband into a
werewolf, and a physician whose severed head can
talk. Black-and-white illustrations.
Isbn: 9780670063390 • Dewey: 398.27 • 6" x 9" • 176 pp
aR level: 5.3 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: 730l
JLG: $9.00 • Viking: $15.99 • JlG Month: seP 2008
Morning in a Different Place
by Mary Ann McGuigan
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, SLJ
In the fall of 1963, the United States is at a moral
and political crossroads. So is Fiona. To escape
Fiona’s alcoholic and abusive father, her mother has
temporarily moved the family into Aunt Maggie’s
cramped apartment. Meanwhile, Fiona’s friendship
with Yolanda is causing tension at home and in
school because Fiona is white and Yolanda is black.
Now Fiona must decide what is truly important to
her and then discover within herself the strength to
stand up and fight for it.
Isbn: 9781590785515 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 176 pp
aR level: 4.3 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 13 • lexile: Hl710l
JLG: $9.00 • front street: $17.95 • JlG Month: feb 2009
*NEW* The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
by Rodman Philbrick
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7)
Reviews: BCCB, BL, CL, H, K, PWH, SLJ, WC
1863: Twelve-year-old Homer Figg and his older
brother, Harold, live with their uncle, Squinton
Leach, “the meanest man in the entire state of
Maine.” When Squinton illegally sells Harold to the
Union Army, Homer runs away to find his brother
and save him from the war. As Homer makes his
way south looking for Harold, he is captured by
slave catchers, stars as the “Amazing Pig Boy” in a
medicine show, flies off in a surveillance balloon, and
is arrested as a spy. Back matter includes glossary of
Civil War facts and slang.
Isbn: 9780439668187 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 192 pp
aR level: 5.6 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 7.4 • sRC Points: 11 • lexile: 950l
JLG: $13.25 • scholastic: $16.99 • JlG Month: JUl 2009
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The Musician’s Daughter
by Susanne Dunlap
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, K, SLJ, V
Eighteenth-century Vienna: Amid the glamour of
musical court life, fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria
must solve the brutal murder of her father, an
acclaimed violinist. Who stole his violin, and why
was he found near a Gypsy encampment, wearing a
valuable pendant Theresa has never seen before? Her
quest for answers soon puts her in the middle of an
ongoing battle between serf sympathizers and the
Hungarian nobility.
Isbn: 9781599903323 • Dewey: f • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • 304 pp
aR level: 6.5 • aR Points: 13 • sRC level: 7.4 • sRC Points: 19 • lexile: 950l
JLG: $9.00 • bloomsbury: $16.99 • JlG Month: feb 2009
My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the
Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
by L. A. Meyer
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, KL, V
At last, Jacky Faber is reunited with her beloved
Jaimy—in a French jail. Though she escapes, he
remains imprisoned. Jacky is forced into a treacherous
deal: the British authorities will trade prisoners and
free Jaimy, but only if Jacky spies for the British in
Paris, the heart of Napoléon’s empire. Jacky’s sharp
mind and stunning looks are more than a match for
the French intelligence service, but then she meets a
dashing Frenchman named Jean-Paul. Will her heart
lead her to ruin?
Isbn: 9780152061876 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 448 pp
aR level: 5.9 • aR Points: 18 • sRC level: 7.4 • sRC Points: 26 • lexile: 950l
JLG: $9.00 • Harcourt: $17.00 • JlG Month: noV 2008
My One Hundred Adventures u
by Polly Horvath
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, CL, H, HGs, KH, PWH, SLJH, WC
Jane lives with her poet mother and three younger
siblings in a beach house in a small Massachusetts
town. Twelve-year-old Jane wants “something more
to do . . . than the usual wading in the shallows and
reading and building castles on the shore.” She wants
the “I know not what, which is what adventures
are about” and decides to pray for one hundred
adventures. All summer long, Jane gets her wish—
in one unexpected way after another.
Isbn: 9780375955822 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 272 pp
aR level: 5.0 • aR Points: 8 • sRC level: 5.3 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 810l
JLG: $9.00 • schwartz & Wade: $19.99 • JlG Month: feb 2009
Mysteries of the Mummy Kids
by Kelly Milner Halls
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, SLJ
Mummies aren’t just artfully preserved Egyptian
royalty. Explorers and archaeologists have discovered
mummies all over the world, from the Andes
Mountains to the deserts of China. Mummies may
be children or adults, wealthy or poor, revered or
reviled members of society, and inadvertently or
intentionally preserved. Looking at child mummies
from different countries and cultures, Halls asks
how these mummies came to exist and why people
find them so fascinating. Full-color diagrams and
photographs. Interviews with specialists.
Isbn: 9781581960594 • Dewey: 393.3 • 11" x 9 3/8" • 72 pp
aR level: 8.1 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 8.9 • sRC Points: 7 • lexile: 1150l
JLG: $9.00 • Darby Creek: $18.95 • JlG Month: aPR 2007
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