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book talks: autumn 2010
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Favorite books from our librarians. We're no longer recording the book talks, but check out these new titles for some great reads! Here's some recorded book talks, too.
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Alvarez, Julia Return to Sender After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders. 2009 Children's Fiction Book ALVAREZ |
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Appelt, Kathi Keeper On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea. 2010 Children's Fiction Book APPELT |
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Beard, George The Adventures of Ook and Gluk : Kung-fu Cavemen from the Future Friends Ook and Gluk are always getting into trouble with their village chief until they pass through a portal into a future run by the chief's descendant, where they learn kung fu so they can return to the past and free their people. 2010 Children's Graphic Novel BEARD |
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Beaty, Andrea Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies At Camp Whatsitooya, twins Joules and Kevin and new friend Nelson face off against large, rabbit-like creatures from the Mallow Galaxy who thrive on sugar, but are not above hypnotizing and eating human campers. 2010 Children's Fiction Book BEATY |
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Cottrell Boyce, Frank Cosmic 12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good. 2010 Children's Fiction Book COTTRELL BOYCE |
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Davis, Eleanor Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his nerdy persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes. 2010 Children's Graphic Novel DAVIS |
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Draper, Sharon M. Out of My Mind Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. 2010 Children's Fiction Book DRAPER |
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Giff, Patricia Reilly Storyteller Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feel a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles. 2010 Children's Fiction Book GIFF |
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Ignatow, Amy The Popularity Papers : Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt Julie Graham-Chang Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook. 2010 Children's Fiction Book IGNATOW |
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Jones, Diana Wynne Enchanted Glass After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives. 2010 Children's Fiction Book JONES |
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La Fevers, R. L. Flight of the Phoenix In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a beastologist. 2009 Children's Fiction Book LA FEVERS |
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Landon, Kristen The Limit When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to the Federal Debt Rehabilitation Agency workhouse, where he discovers illicit activities are being carried out using the children who have been placed there. 2010 Children's Fiction Book LANDON |
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Lasky, Kathryn Chasing Orion In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung. 2010 Children's Fiction Book LASKY |
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Nesb, Jo Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes. 2010 Children's Fiction Book NESBO |
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Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilarious. When her mother takes up with the unfortunately named Dudley Wiener, Violet and her friend Phoebe decide that they need to take control. If Violet's mom can't pick a decent man herself, they will help her snag George Clooney. 2010 Children's Fiction Book NIELSEN-FERNLUND |
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Shiga, Jason Meanwhile In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine. 2010 Children's Graphic Novel SHIGA |
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Soup, Cuthbert A Whole Nother Story Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up. 2010 Children's Fiction Book SOUP |
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Turner, Glennette Tilley Fort Mose : and the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America Tells the story of Fort Mose, the first free African settlement to legally exist in what is now the United States, established in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1738, and includes over forty images, as well as notes on the uncovering of the fort. 2010 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Walliams, David The Boy in the Dress Dennis' life is boring and lonely. His mother left two years ago, his truck driver father is depressed, his brother is a bully and, worst of all, no hugging is one of their household rules. But one thing Dennis does have is soccer---he's the leading scorer on his team. Oh, and did we mention his secret passion for fashion?--Jacket. 2009 Children's Fiction Book WALLIAMS |
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Walsh, Pat The Crowfield Curse In 1347, when fourteen-year-old orphan William Paynel, an impoverished servant at Crowfield Abbey, goes into the forest to gather wood and finds a magical creature caught in a trap, he discovers he has the ability to see fays and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery involving Old Magic, a bitter feud, and ancient secrets. 2010 Children's Fiction Book WALSH |
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