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The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows
edited by Jonathan Strahan
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, H, HGs, SLJH
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A boy struggles to drop below his spaceship’s
weight limit so that he can bring his most treasured
possession with him to a distant planet; a girl’s
obsession with tanning cream causes her to turn
orange and draws the attention of extraterrestrials; an
Internet celebrity switches from one custom-made
body to another, desperate to keep his fans interested.
In sixteen stories, authors including Neil Gaiman,
Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan imagine
the lives of teens in the near and distant future.
Introduction. Brief author’s note and biography after
each story. Editor’s note.
Isbn: 9780670060597 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 560 pp
aR level: 5.9 • aR Points: 24 • sRC level: 5.6 • sRC Points: 32 • lexile: 870l
JLG: $9.00 • Viking: $19.99 • JlG Month: MaY 2008
Streams of Babel u
by Carol Plum-Ucci
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP) • Reviews: H, HGs, KH, SLJ, V
A terror cell has injected a deadly biochemical agent
into the water supply of Trinity Falls, New Jersey. The
first to die is Cora’s mother; next is Mrs. Eberman,
mother of Cora’s classmate Owen and his brother
Scott, on whom Cora has a hopeless crush. To help
find the terrorists, U.S. Intelligence brings Shahzad
Hamdani, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani computer spy,
to the United States. As Cora and Owen begin to
suffer the effects of the mysterious poison, Shahzad
races to find the terrorists and discover just what
they’ve done to the water.
Isbn: 9780152165567 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 432 pp
aR level: 5.8 • aR Points: 17 • sRC level: 5.5 • sRC Points: 25 • lexile: 840l
JLG: $9.00 • Harcourt: $17.00 • JlG Month: aUG 2008
Sunrise over Fallujah u
by Walter Dean Myers
YM GROUP (GRADES 11 & UP)
Reviews: BCCB, BL, HH, HGs, KH, PWH, SLJH, V, WM, WS
Robin Perry of Harlem, New York, has enlisted
and been shipped off to Iraq. There, he and his
Civil Affairs unit undertake a series of missions
that lead to some baffling interactions with Iraqis.
They help arrest an old man who Robin thinks may
be innocent; they search the house of a seemingly
harmless family and find bomb detonators hidden
in the kitchen. Increasingly unsure of who is a friend
and who is an enemy, Robin and his fellow soldiers
are suddenly sent on their most dangerous mission:
to rescue three kidnapped Iraqi children. Glossary.
Winner of the 2009 Christopher Award.
Isbn: 9780439916240 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
aR level: 5.3 • aR Points: 11 • sRC level: 4.7 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 780l
JLG: $9.00 • scholastic: $17.99 • JlG Month: JUn 2008
*NEW* Super Stock Rookie
by Will Weaver
SM GROUP (GRADES 7–11) • Reviews: BL, K, SLJ, V
“Team Blu is a division of Karchers and Ladwin, a
worldwide privately owned agribusiness corporation.
We are gearing up to launch an energy drink
marketed to twelve- to eighteen-year-olds.” Sixteenyear-old
small-town stock-car racer Trace Bonham
is everything Team Blu wants in a driver—he’s
articulate, attractive, and polite. He also knows how
to handle himself on the track. The custom-built
Team Blu machine is a dream ride, and it comes with
an impressive paycheck. But is Trace prepared to
leave behind his family, friends, and hometown crush
for the glories—and loneliness—of the road?
Isbn: 9780374350611 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 208 pp
aR level: 4.6 • aR Points: 6 • sRC level: 5.4 • sRC Points: 12 • lexile: Hl720l
JLG: $13.25 • farrar, straus & Giroux: $14.95 • JlG Month: JUl 2009
The Surrender Tree:
Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom u
by Margarita Engle
C GROUP (GRADES 6–9)
Reviews: BLH, H, HG, K, SLJ, V, WM, WS
“I know his face, and I can tell that he recognizes
me. / We were children, we were enemies. . . . / now
he is my patient, / but why should I cure him, /
wasting precious medicines / on a spy who must
have been sent / to kill me?” During Cuba’s fight for
independence from Spain, Rosa and her husband,
José, hide in caves and use natural remedies to heal
anyone in need—even “Lieutenant Death.” Winner
of the 2009 Jane Addams Award and the 2009 Pura
Belpré Award. A 2009 Newbery Honor Book.
Isbn: 9780805086744 • Dewey: 811/.54 • 5 1/2" x 8" • 176 pp
aR level: 6.4 • aR Points: 2 • sRC level: 5.2 • sRC Points: 6 • lexile: nP
JLG: $9.00 • Holt: $16.95 • JlG Month: JUl 2008
Swindle u
by Gordon Korman
B GROUP (GRADES 5–7) • Reviews: BCCB, BL, HG, K, SLJ, V
Griffin’s father’s invention, the Smartpick Fruitsafe
picking mechanism, has endangered the family’s
finances. So when Griffin finds a Babe Ruth baseball
card, he takes it to a collectibles shop, hoping to cash
in. The proprietor, S. Wendell Palamino, declares it
a knockoff and pays him just one hundred twenty
dollars—only to display the card on TV the next day
as one that could “break the million-dollar barrier.”
Furious at the injustice, Griffin assembles a group of
kids with unique talents to get the card back.
Isbn: 9780439903448 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 240 pp
aR level: 4.9 • aR Points: 5 • sRC level: 4.4 • sRC Points: 10 • lexile: 710l
JLG: $9.00 • scholastic: $16.99 • JlG Month: MaR 2008
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