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Pieces Of The Picture (Barbara M. Joosse) Emily is a girl, isolated from everyone, whose father has recently died. The family has been forced to move from Chicago to a country town “at the end of nowhere,”' and Emily's mother is totally involved with her new responsibilities running an inn. Emily has more trouble understanding her mother, a woman ``born to live a life of dullness and work.'' The discovery of some old trunks offer Emily insights to the past, not only about her mother, but about herself. While tending a Canada goose that has been left behind by the rest of the flock, Emily remembers how she too was abandoned after her father's accident. When she frees the goose, she simultaneously expels her own deep-rooted anger and begins to heal. 11+ http://www.oztion.com.au/--Pieces-Of-The-Picture-By-Barbara-M-Joosse/auction/3207285.aspx
Fourth Grade Celebrity (Patricia Reilly Giff – author of SL titles ‘Nory Ryan’s Song’ and ‘Pictures Of Hollis Woods’ & ‘Lily’s Crossing’) Tired of being compared with her popular older sister, Casey decides she will make herself over. Cassandra Eleanor Valentine searches for a way to become a celebrity in her school. 9-12 YO http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Fourth-Grade+Celebrity (Cover art different)
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. (Bette Greene) Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the sixth grade, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in class work, sports, and almost everything else doesn't bother Beth at first. Then she realizes that Philip might be best because she's letting him beat her. Beth knows that she deserves to be Number One--and she's going to prove it! This funny, universal story of a girl learning that she matters in the world has delighted readers for over twenty years. 9+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Philip-Reckon-Puffin-Newberry-Library/dp/0141303123/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190790735&sr=1-2
Missing May (Cynthia Rylant) This wonderful book revolves around a few delightfully named characters: Summer, Uncle Ob, Aunt May and Cletus Underwood. After being passed among relatives, Summer joins her aunt and uncle and marvels at the couple's deep love for one another. But after Aunt May dies, Summer and Uncle Ob are brought together in their struggles to come to terms with the death. Cletus, a neighbour boy, comes along to help provide an answer. 11+ A NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Missing-May-Cynthia-Rylant/dp/0439771285/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190702232&sr=1-1
The Noonday Friends (Mary Stolz) Living in New York City – in Greenwich Village – should be exciting. Franny dreams of being rich and becoming a ballerina. She doesn’t get to share her dreams with too many friends because she must take care of her little brother while her mother works. She doesn’t get to play after school. Will her noonday friends be all she ever has? 9+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Noonday-Friends-Harper-Trophy-Books/dp/0064400093/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190789948&sr=1-1 (Cover different)
The Summer Of The Swans (Betsy Byars) Sara is a teenage girl with lots of reasons to be angry. Her mother is dead, her father has left her to be raised by her aunt, her older sister seems prettier and more mature, and her younger brother Charlie is mentally retarded. She often feels put upon to look after Charlie when nobody else wants to. On top of all this, she is having the worst summer vacation ever. She learns to see her world with new eyes, though, when Charlie disappears one day. 10+ A NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Swans-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/0142404411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190703218&sr=1-1 (Cover different)
Onion John (Joseph Krumgold) Onion John is the kindly-given nickname given to a man from Eastern Europe, whose English is undecipherable to everyone but Andy--who has to work at understanding his speech, until he discovers the trick of translating John's gutteral tongue and bizarre (medieval) ideas. The boy, with no more ambition than to become a shopkeeper in New Jersey, becomes a companion to the strange but friendly hermit; they combine forces and enthusaism as they attempt to produce first rain, then gold. 9+ A NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Onion-John-Joseph-Krumgold/dp/0064401448/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190790417&sr=1-2
Hope Was Here (Joan Bauer) Hope is a strong, faithful, friendly and lively 16-year-old girl. She is raised as a waitress with Addie, a cook. The two live a great life except for one thing; every time they feel comfortable and settled into a town, the diner they work for shuts down, and they have to start all over somewhere else. This time the diner they work for in Brooklyn, New York shuts down so they journey to Mulhoney, a small rural town in Wisconsin. Mulhoney holds one of the greatest diners; The Welcome Stairways where Hope and will Addie will work. 11+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Was-Here-Joan-Bauer/dp/0439322367/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190789490&sr=1-2
Afternoon Of The Elves (Janet Taylor Lisle) A fascinating portrayal of a touching friendship. Nine-year-old Hillary lives in comfortable suburbia with her parents. In the house behind lives tough, independent Sara-Kate. Her father's gone, her sick mother hides, she dresses like an urchin, and is despised and mocked at school. However, Hillary stumbles on Sara-Kate's secret; she tends a tiny village in her weed-filled back yard, a village where she says elves live. Hillary is fascinated, and in helping her neighbour maintain the village, gradually becomes closer to Sara-Kate despite her school friends' disdain and parental disapproval. 10+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Afternoon-Elves-Janet-Taylor-Lisle/dp/0698118065/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190793275&sr=1-1
Bridge To Terabithia (Katherine Paterson) Despite their superficial differences, it's clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. 10+ A NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-to-Terabithia/dp/0439366771/ref=sr_1_7/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190702402&sr=1-7
Joey Pigza Loses Control (Jack Gantos) The loveable, disaster-prone hero Joey Pigza is now in charge of his attention deficit disorder and ready to greet the world as a normal kid--with the help of his new and improved meds, of course. Now that Joey has a handle on his actions, he feels prepared to face the most mysterious member of his family--his estranged father, Carter Pigza. He convinces his skeptical mom to let him spend part of his summer vacation getting to know his dad again. 10+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Pigza-Loses-Control-Summer-Reading/dp/0060739436/ref=sr_1_10/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190791028&sr=1-10
Dicey’s Song (Cynthia Voigt) The four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother's rundown farm on the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has dreamed of for her three younger siblings, but after watching over the others for so long, it's hard to let go. Who is Dicey, if she's no longer the caretaker for her family? Dicey finds herself in new friends, in a growing relationship with her grandmother, and in the satisfaction of refinishing the old boat she found in the barn. 12+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Diceys-Song-Tillerman-Cynthia-Voigt/dp/0689863624/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190703724&sr=1-1 (Cover different)
Nothing But The Truth (Avi) After Philip Malloy, a clownish, rather unmotivated freshman, is punished for causing a disturbance (humming "The Star Spangled Banner"), facts about the incident become exaggerated until a minor school infraction turns into a national scandal. Philip's parents, several reporters and a neighbour (who happens to be running for the school board) accuse the school of being unpatriotic. Philip gains fame as a martyr for freedom; his homeroom teacher, Miss Narwin, however, faces dismissal from her job. After gleaning the points of view of many characters, readers will side with Miss Narwin and will recognize the hollowness of Philip's eventual victory. A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-But-Truth-Orchard-Classics/dp/043932730X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0167571-1104920?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191031701&sr=1-1 (Cover different)
Capped! (Rowena Cory Lindquist) It looks like fists, not slammers, when the school bully decides to 'play.' 9+
Bug Brother (Pete Johnson) Jamie is smaller than his younger brother Harry and he's fed up with everyone thinking he's the youngest. Then Jamie finds a magic cloak and accidentally turns Harry into a bluebottle. In the mad panic of trying to rescue him, Jamie discovers that being a big brother has nothing to do with size. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/pete-johnson/bug-brother.htm