Category Archives: New Children Books

Still A Work In Progress

 by Jo Knowles

In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Noah faces the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis.

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The Haunting of Falcon House

 by Eugene Yelchin

Nineteenth-century Saint Petersburg:  Prince Lev goes to live at his family’s estate, a spooky house full of dark secrets.  Only Lev, the spitting image of his grandfather, can set them free.

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Raymie Nightingale

 by Kate DiCamillo

Raymie’s father has left.  Raymie’s plan to get his attention by winning Little Miss Central Florida Tire becomes complicated by the new friendships that develop at baton-twirling lessons.

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Brave Like My Brother

 by Marc Tyler Nobleman

While Joe, an American soldier in England, prepares for D-Day, he writes to his younger brother in Ohio.  Joe hopes the descriptions of his training and secret mission make it past the censors.

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Cody Harmon, King of Pets

 by Claudia Mills

Cody can’t afford to enter his nine animals in the school pet show, so he lends some to classmates.  Despite some misgivings, Cody even lets his friend Tobit borrow his rooster.

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A Piece of Home

 by Jeri Watts

“In Korea I was ordinary…not different.  I was just me, like so many others.”  But when Hee Jun and his family move to West Virginia, he discovers that he stands out.  How will he adjust?

 

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Fish

 by Liam Francis Walsh

In this wordless book, a boy and his dog embark on an unusual fishing trip.  First they hook a letter F, then an I and an S.  But that final letter is remarkably, even dangerously, elusive.

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