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Sure Signs of Crazyby Karen Harrington

Sarah’s mother is mentally unbalanced and the girl thinks she will be crazy just like her mother. Sarah spends the summer looking for signs of being like her crazy mother or becoming like her alcoholic father.

Sure Signs of Crazyby Karen Harrington

Sarah’s loves to read and to write.

Both prove to be just what she needs to face the challenges of growing up, falling in love, and taking care of the Plant she talks to as her best friend.

Does this means she’s crazy, too?

Sure Signs of Crazyby Karen Harrington

“Most people don’t know what they think until they writing it down.

Don’t you want to know what you think?”

(p.39)

“It’s funny how you don’t know you’re in pieces until someone hugs you together.” (p.140)

Thought provoking quotations

The Saturday Boyby David Fleming

Eleven-year-old Derek Lamb likes superhero comic books, Saturday morning cartoons and Chocolate Ka-Blams. He’d gladly trade all of these things to have his father come home Afghanistan where he pilots Apache helicopters for the US Army.

Provocative Questions• How long before his

classmates forget Derek waited in the rain to catch the bus to school on a Saturday?

• Why is Derek’s neighbor his best friend at home and the bully who picks on him at school?

The Saturday Boyby David Fleming

The Saturday Boyby David Fleming

Being good at building model airplanes and drawing superheroes just wasn’t enough.

Maybe when Derek embraces a girl in the school play the guys will stop teasing him.

Lara’s Giftby Anne Marie O’Brien

An intriguing historical novel about Russians

who breed special dogs to hunt wolves!

Lara’s Giftby Anne Marie O’Brien

• So what’s historical fiction?

• Seems like contradictory terms.

• History is factual; fiction need not be.

• Historical fiction a made up story based on real people, places and events.

Russian Nobles Treasured Borsoi DogsLara’s Gift

by Anne Marie O’Brien

Lara’s father, the Count’s Kennel Master, breeds championship borsoi dogs.

Kara loves the work and eagerly looks forward to following in his footsteps!

But will a girl become Kennel Master when she has a brother who should inherit this role?

Learn a little Russian vocabulary as you read about Lara’s gift which seals her fate.Image

Paper Boyby Vince Vawter

“I’m typing about te stabbing for a good reason. I can’t talk.” (p.1)This twelve year old boy really, really has a hard time talking. Not just to anybody, but to nearly everybody and not because he is shy.

Paper Boyby Vince Vawter

Real life newspaper journalist writes

about his life as a stutterer,

someone who has a hard time

speaking words out loud.

Paper Boyby Vince Vawter

Realistic fiction, sometimes called memoirs or autobiographical novels are books people write about a specific time in their own lives.

Often these are famous people in sports, music, or politics.

Paper Boy is about an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. Read about ways he tries to overcome it.

What would you have done?

The Thing About Luckby Cynthia Kadohata

“Kouun is “good luck” in Japanese, and one year my family had none of it.”

The Thing About Luckby Cynthia Kadohata

Middle schooler, Summer and her little brother, Jaz, have to leave school early to join their grandparents on their job. No, not a couple hours early from school, but a couple of months! The family helps bring in the wheat harvest on giant agri-business farms out West.

The Thing About Luckby Cynthia Kadohata

With simple drawings and detailed descriptions, award winning author, Cynthia Kadahata takes you right

into the fertile fields and into the heart of the family whose luck runs out in the middle of the season. Image

The Thing About Luckby Cynthia Kadohata

Why are there Lego designs on the cover? Do have anything to do with “Kouun?”

One Came Homeby Amy Timberlake

•One what came home?•When? •From where?This historical novel set in 19th Century Wisconsin unfolds as a mystery in which you learn answers to questions like these and others like them.

One Came Homeby Amy TimberlakeImage

How useful will her sharpshooting skills be on this hunt for the killer?

One Came Homeby Amy Timberlake

• What happened to the passenger pigeons in the United States?

• After reading this novel, the answer to this question no longer will be a mystery.

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The Book Thiefby Markus Zusak

How does DEATH

tell such an intriguing

story about LIFE?

The Book Thiefby Markus Zusak

In this historical fiction book, learn about revenge and love, how courage

and friendship in the face of cowardice

and hate during the reign of Hitler in Nazi

Germany.

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You’ve seen the movie…

…now read the book.

Texting the Underworldby ellen booraem

He’s a wimp, who’s scared of spiders,

but he’s strong enough to visit the underworld to try to save his family

from death.

Texting the Underworldby ellen booraem

He nearly caves under peer and

parental pressure and sibling rivalry, but smart enough to pretend he not

brilliant at algebra.

Texting the Underworldby ellen booraem

Connor, with the help of his friend,

Javier, use cell phones to defeat

the ravens of death as can only happen in fantasy

fiction like this,