4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild

Someone Named Eva u
by Joan M. Wolf
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9) • Reviews: BLH, K, PW, SLJH, V, WM
Ten-year-old Milada and her family lead a pleasant
life in Czechoslovakia in spite of wartime privations.
Then one night, the Nazis come. Within hours,
Milada, her mother, grandmother, and sister are
separated from her father and brother. Within days,
Milada is taken from her female relatives, too. All
Milada has now are questions: Why did the Nazis
tear her family apart? Why did they send her to an
all-girls’ school in Poland? And why does every girl in
the school have blond hair and blue eyes?
Isbn: 9780618535798 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 208 pp
aR level: 5.1 • aR Points: 7 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 13 • lexile: 820l
JLG: $9.00 • Clarion: $16.00 • JlG Month: aUG 2007
Something Rotten: A Horatio Wilkes Mystery u
by Alan Gratz
Y GROUP (GRADES 9 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, HG, K, KLH, WM, WS
“Denmark, Tennessee, stank. Bad. Like dead fish
fricasseed in sewer water.” Horatio Wilkes is visiting
his friend Hamilton Prince in Denmark, but the
sulfurous air created by the Elsinore Paper Plant isn’t
the only thing that smells fishy. Hamilton’s father is
dead, and Hamilton’s mother just married Hamilton’s
uncle. Horatio detects murder, but the killer is harder
to determine when there are several possible suspects
and motives. Can Horatio figure out whodunit before
anyone else falls prey to rotten deeds?
Isbn: 9780803732162 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 208 pp
aR level: 4.8 • aR Points: 8 • sRC level: 4.6 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 790l
JLG: $9.00 • Dial: $16.99 • JlG Month: DeC 2007
Something Wicked: A Horatio Wilkes Mystery
by Alan Gratz
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, KL, V
Horatio Wilkes joins his good friend, Mac, at the
Mount Birnam Highland Games, an annual festival
of Scottish food, sport, and family. When the founder
of the games, Duncan MacRae, is murdered, the
clues point to his son, Mal, as the culprit. However,
Horatio soon realizes that the case against Mal
is weak . . . and the true killer still roams the
mountain. A modern murder mystery inspired by
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Isbn: 9780803736665 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 272 pp
aR level: 4.6 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 18 • lexile: 740l
JLG: $9.00 • Dial: $16.99 • JlG Month: noV 2008
Sovay
by Celia Rees
HH GROUP (GRADES 10 & UP) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, PWH, V
1794: Sovay Middleton’s father, a British noble, is
falsely accused of being a Jacobin spy. Sovay cleverly
intercepts the warrant for his arrest, then travels to
the family’s London estate to warn her father of the
danger he faces. When she arrives, she learns that
Sir Middleton is missing, as is Sovay’s brother, Hugh.
Rumor has it that both men are trapped—and likely
in danger—in France. To reunite her family, Sovay
must risk her life, evading revolutionaries and traitors
at every turn.
Isbn: 9781599902036 • Dewey: f • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • 416 pp
aR level: 5.7 • aR Points: 17 • sRC level: 5.3 • sRC Points: 24 • lexile: 810l
JLG: $9.00 • bloomsbury: $16.99 • JlG Month: oCT 2008
Sports Shorts: Eight Short Stories
edited by Tanya Dean
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BL, K, KL, SLJ, WC, WM
An “undergrown, inept, suicidally eager kid” finds
triumph in a gym-class game of Bombardment. A
runner starts a race “like a cheetah on fire”—and is
shocked to see his opponents fly past him. A girl tries
to set her school’s high jump record, only to end up
famous for a different—and embarrassing—reason. In
this collection of short tales, eight authors remember
pivotal sports moments from their childhoods.
Isbn: 9781581960402 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 7 5/16" • 128 pp
aR level: 5.4 • aR Points: 3 • sRC level: 6.4 • sRC Points: 7 • lexile: 880l
JLG: $9.00 • Darby Creek: $15.99 • JlG Month: DeC 2005
*NEW* Sprout
by Dale Peck
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP) • Reviews: BL, K, SLJ, V
Fleeing all that reminds him of his wife’s death,
Bob Bradford runs out of gas in the middle of
nowhere. That’s why native Long Islander Daniel
Bradford, a.k.a. Sprout, ends up living in a trailer in
Hutchinson, Kansas. Sprout’s preternatural writing
talent has earned him the attention of Mrs. Miller, a
teacher who’s determined to make Sprout a winner at
the state’s annual essay-writing contest. Sprout wants
to write about his sexual identity, but Mrs. Miller
knows that won’t fly in her conservative state. Then
Sprout meets Ty, a neighboring boy from an abusive
family, whose friendship raises questions Sprout
can’t answer.
Isbn: 9781599901602 • Dewey: f • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • 288 pp
aR level: 6.3 • aR Points: 13 • sRC level: 9.5 • sRC Points: 19 • lexile: 1060l
JLG: $13.25 • bloomsbury: $16.99 • JlG Month: aUG 2009
Starclimber u
by Kenneth Oppel
FM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: H, K, SLJH, V
The Canadian government has invited budding
zoologist Kate de Vries on the first trip into outer
space, and there’s a place for her boyfriend, airship
pilot Matt Cruse, too, if he manages to pass the
grueling series of tests required to become an
astralnaut. Will Matt be able to compete with the
world’s best and brightest? Can Kate convince the
scientific community that all her discoveries are real?
And what will happen when the Starclimber’s mission
is targeted by saboteurs?
Isbn: 9780060850586 • Dewey: f • 6" x 9" • 400 pp
aR level: 4.9 • aR Points: 15 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 24 • lexile: 700l
JLG: $9.00 • HarperCollins: $17.89 • JlG Month: MaR 2009
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