Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
We first met Louisiana Elefante in Kate DiCaimillo’s book Raymie Nightingale. Louisiana lived with her granny, wore hand-me-down cloths and didn’t always have enough food to eat. Louisiana was one of Raymie’s best friends, […]
Charlie Hernandez & the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo
This is for Riordan fans who want to learn Latino and Hispanic mythology. Charlie has lost his parents and his house has burnt down. So he has it rough and then he sprouts horns, followed […]
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Cassidy Blake’s parents are ghost hunters on TV, but Cassidy can actually see ghosts. Cassidy almost drowned when she was younger, but she was saved by Jacob, who turns out, is a ghost himself. The […]
Accidental Pirates series by Claire Fayers
Who is Brine Seaborne? Found 3 years earlier in a small boat at sea, she doesn’t know either or what her real name is. Assigned to be a maid in the house of a local […]
City of Islands by Kali Wallace
Mara lives in a city made up of islands, appropriately called the City of Islands. This is a mysterious land where music has power and magic is real. Twelve-year-old Mara works for the Lady of […]
The Legend of Greg by Chris Rylander
Why is Chicago a blue collar city with amazing architecture? Dwarves! Yes, indeed. Dwarves live within and below the great city of Chicago and have strongly influenced its development. And if you would like to […]
Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke
It’s summer, and Jack is left at home to take care of his autistic sister, Maddy, while his mother works two jobs to support the family. For Jack, this means chores and boring days. But […]
Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet by Jacqueline Kelly
This is a spinoff early reader series from one of my favorite books — The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Calpurnia is a spunky precocious girl in Texas at the turn of the century, the […]
Siren Sisters by Dana Langer
What do you do as your 13th birthday nears and on that day you will become a siren like your three older sisters? Lolly Salt does not enjoy singing ships to their doom but when […]
The Great Shelby Holmes by Elizabeth Eulberg
In The Great Shelby Holmes, John Watson has just moved to Harlem with his mother after growing up on Army bases. Having moved many times, he is used to making new friends but he […]
The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
The god Apollo has fallen on hard times. Having angered his father, Zeus, Apollo finds himself cursed to live as a human, teenage boy named Lester. Apollo is pretty sure this is the worst thing […]
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
Crow was cast away as a baby, set adrift in a small boat on the sea. She is found by Osh, washed up on a beach at Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. Years later, when she is […]
How to Be a Supervillain by Michael Fry
Victor Spoil has one major problem, he’s not bad enough. His parents are supers, supervillains to be exact. The Spoil Sports. Poor Victor has tried being bad: running with scissors (fail! doesn’t everyone wear a […]
Boy X by Dan Smith
Ash McCarthy awakes to bright lights in a strange room hooked up to an IV. As things start coming back to him, he remembers watching his Mother being grabbed and injected with something while the […]
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Every year, people in a particular village leave a baby in the woods as an offering for the local witch so that she won’t terrorize them. The villagers don’t seem to know that the witch […]
Knights of the Borrowed Dark by Dave Rudden
Denizen Hardwick knows his name and his birthday, but nothing else about his life before coming to live at Crosscaper Orphanage. Just before his thirteenth birthday, Denizen finds out he has an aunt, and he […]
The Poet’s Dog by Patricia MacLachlan
One day, during a terrible snow storm, a family car gets stuck along the side of the road. Nicholas and Flora’s mother leaves them in the car to go find help, and when she doesn’t […]
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
It is 1975 and Raymie Clarke is determined to learn to twirl a baton so she can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition. If she does, she is sure she will get her […]
Little Robot & Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
I have discovered a treasure, and this type of treasure only gets more valuable with the sharing. What treasure, you ask? Clearly, it is not a winning lottery ticket, because would already be living in […]
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
One fateful day, a ship is caught in a hurricane and sinks, but not before five boxes are thrown free to float away. Four of the boxes meet an untimely end on the rocky shores […]
George by Alex Gino
George is a boy with a secret: on the inside, George is a girl. She manages to hide her secret most of the time, but it makes her miserable. Her class is planning a play […]
The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Claire
Callum Hunt has been warned by his father to stay away from magic, but on his 12th birthday, Callum has no choice but to take the entrance exam for the Magisterium, as his family is […]
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
I really enjoy reading about different diseases, but I like to get the books from the Youth Department. They have just enough information with out being too technical for my interest. Fatal Fever: Tracking […]