Kids
Raymie nightingale
Kate DiCamillo
jFICTION DiCamillo, Kate
Kids
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup and a spool of thread
Kate DiCamillo
jFICTION DiCamillo, Kate
Kids, Fantasy
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
Added by Anne W
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
jFICTION DiCamillo, Kate
Kids
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Added by Anne W
The journey of Little Charlie
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Kids, Historical Fiction
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
Added by Anne W
Bud, not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Kids, Historical Fiction
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Added by Anne W
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Kids, Historical Fiction
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Added by Anne W
Walk two moons
Sharon Creech
jFICTION Creech, Sharon
Kids
After her mother leaves home suddenly, as thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Added by Anne W
Aru Shah and the song of death
Roshani Chokshi
jFICTION Chokshi, Roshani
Kids, Fantasy
Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.
Added by Anne W
See you in the cosmos
Jack Cheng
jFICTION Cheng, Jack
Kids
"Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--
Added by Anne W
The storm runner
Jennifer Cervantes
jFICTION Cervantes, Jennifer
Kids, Fantasy
To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
Added by Anne W
Added by Anne W