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(Origional bibliography written came from our Destiny catalog from the cataloging I did to process the books for our library) Please add any information that would make the bibliography better usable for everyone.

** F Ale || Alexie, Sherman. __The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian.__ New York : Little, 2007. Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. || F HAU || Hautman, Pete, 1952-. __All-in.__ 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007. Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart. || 811 Wor || Worth, Valerie. __Animal poems.__ New York : Farrar, 2007. Presents a collection of children's poems about twenty-three different animals. || 709 Art || __ Artist to artist : 23 major illustrators talk to children about their art. __ New York : Philomel, [2007]. Presents works by twenty-three illustrators such as Mitsumasa Anno, Eric Carle and Tomie dePaola as well as letters to children about how they began their careers. || 796.83 Lew || Lewin, Ted. __At Gleason's gym.__ New Milford, CT : Roaring Brook, 2007. Tells how 9-year-old Sugar Boy Younan, National Silver Gloves Champion, goes to the famous Gleason's Gym to shadow box and spar with partners. || F WIL || Wiles, Deborah. __The Aurora County All-Stars.__ 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007. For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything. || F Arn || Arnosky, Jim. __Babies in the bayou.__ New York : Putnam, 2007. There are many babies in the bayou, and even though they might have sharp white teeth, hard shells, webbed feet, or quick claws, their mothers still need to protect them. || F MAR || Martin, Bill, 1916-2004. __Baby bear, baby bear, what do you see?__ 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2007. Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way. || F GRO || Grogan, John, 1957-. __Bad dog, Marley!__ 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007. Marley, a rambunctious puppy, causes lots of trouble in his new home--and feels very sad about it--but then proves beyond a doubt that he is a valuable member of the household. || F BAT || Bateson, Catherine, 1960-. __Being Bee.__ New York : Holiday House, 2007. Bee faces friction at home and at school when her widowed father begins seriously dating Jazzi, who seems to take over the house and their lives, but as shared secrets and common interests finally begin to draw them together, Jazzi accidentally makes a terrible mistake. || F COL || Colfer, Eoin. __Benny and Omar.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2007. Twelve-year-old Benny, a hurling fanatic, moves to Tunisia, North Africa, when his father is transferred and has a hard time adjusting to the new land until he meets Omar. || 398.2 Rum || Rumford, James. __Beowulf, a hero's tale retold.__ Boston, MA : Houghton, 2007. A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom. || F Sni || Sniegoski, Thomas E. __Billy Hooten, Owlboy.__ New York : Random, 2007. Unassuming 12-year-old Billy Hooten, who loves reading superhero comic books, suddenly learns that he has been chosen to become the next Owlboy, whose destiny it is to save the inhabitants of Monstros, a city underneath the cemetery next to Billy's house. || 662 Sol || Solway, Andrew. __Biofuels.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of generating energy from plant and animal materials and the use of biofuels throughout the world. || 363.72 COO || Cooperman, Stephanie. __Biohazard technicians : life on a trauma scene cleanup crew.__ 1st ed. New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 2004. Examines the careers available in the field of biohazard disposal, discussing the necessary education, training, and on-the-job duties. || Pb Mar || Martin, Rafe, 1946-. __Birdwing.__ New York : Scholastic, [2007], c2005. Prince Ardwin, known as Birdwing, the youngest of six brothers turned into swans by their stepmother, is unable to complete the transformation back into human form, so he undertakes a journey to discover whether his feathered arm will be a curse or a blessing to him. || Pb Smi || Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27-. __Bone.__ 1st Scholastic ed. New York : Graphix, 2007. While trying to return a lost ratlike cub to its home in the mountains, Fone and Smiley Bone encounter Rock Jaw, the wicked master of the eastern border. Presented in graphic novel format. || F HAL || Hale, Shannon. __Book of a thousand days.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY : Bloomsbury :, 2007. Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids. || F DAH || Dahl, Michael. __The book that dripped blood.__ Minneapolis, Minn. : Stone Arch Books, c2007. A fur-covered book entitled Claws is loose in the city, and only the Librarian can stop it from claiming more victims. || F KAN || Kantor, Melissa. __The breakup bible : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2007. Jennifer thinks she and Max are the perfect couple, until he decides he just wants to be friends. || F Ant || Antieau, Kim. __Broken moon.__ 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2007. When her little brother is kidnapped and taken from Pakistan to race camels in the desert, eighteen-year-old Nadira overcomes her own past abuse and, dressed as a boy and armed with knowledge of the powerful storytelling of the legendary Scheherazade, is determined to find and rescue him. || 629.222 Mau || Maurer, Tracy Nelson. __Bugatti.__ Vero Beach, FL : Rourke, 2008. Surveys the history of the Bugatti automobile and its designs, engines, performance and future in the automobile industry. || F Reg || Regan, Dian Curtis. __Cam____'s quest : the continuing story of Princess Nevermore and the wizard's apprentice.__ Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Cam stood by while Princess Quinn ventured from Mandria to Earth last year. Now, his world has changed completely, and it's his turn to travel to Earth to find his identity while Princess Quinn waits in Mandria. || F Gut || Gutman, Dan. __Casey back at bat.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2007. The Mighty Casey is back at bat with a 2nd chance to bring joy to Mudville. || F BEN || Bennett, Veronica, 1953-. __Cassandra's sister.__ 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. A fictionalized biography of Jane Austen focusing on her early life growing up with her sister Cassandra in a large country parsonage family in southern England, and the experiences and people which may have inspired the plots and characters of her famous novels. || F Cre || Creech, Sharon. __The Castle Corona.__ New York : HarperCollins, 2007. Two orphaned peasant children discover a mysterious pouch, the contents of which lead them to the majestic Castle Corona, where their lives may be transformed forever. || F Gol || Goldberg, Myla. __Catching the moon.__ New York : Scholastic, 2007. Using a mouse as bait instead of a worm, an old woman fishes all night long, confusing the fishermen as well as the Man in the Moon. || 560 HAR || Harrison, David L. (David Lee), 1937-. __Cave detectives : unraveling the mystery of an Ice Age cave.__ San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2007. "Follow along as paleontologist Matt Forir and his team of experts unravel a prehistoric mystery."--back cover. || 973.7 Hig || High, Linda Oatman. __The cemetery keepers of Gettysburg.__ New York : Walker, 2007. With his father, the caretaker of Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery, off fighting in the Union Army, Fred Thorn endures the three-day Battle of Gettysburg and then helps his mother and grandfather bury around one hundred soldiers. || PB JON || Jones, Marcia Thornton. __Champ.__ New York : Scholastic, c2007. Riley struggles to make his father proud, despite his poor athletic abilities, but when he meets Champ, a three-legged former show dog, Riley learns that winning doesn't always have to mean coming in first. || E DON || Donaldson, Julia. __Charlie Cook's favorite book.__ New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2006. A circular tale in which each new book character is reading about the next, beginning and ending with Charlie Cook. || F Haa || Haas, Jessie. __Chase.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, c2007. In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound. || F Wil || Williams, Marcia. __Chaucer's Canterbury tales.__ Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2007. An illustrated retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury. || F CHI || Child, Lauren. __Clarice Bean, don't look now.__ 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. Clarice Bean has a list of things to worry about. How does she handle them?. || F Cli || __ Click. __ New York : Scholastic, 2007. Stories within a story, written as separate chapters by ten juvenile authors including Linda Sue Park, Eoin Colfer, and Tim Wynne-Jones, reveal the adventurous life and legacy of George "Gee" Keane, a photojournalist and world traveler. || F RIN || Rinaldi, Ann. __Come Juneteenth.__ 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007. Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free. || F FEI || Feinstein, John. __Cover-up.__ 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2007. Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show. || F Sci || Scieszka, Jon. __Cowboy & Octopus.__ New York : Viking, 2007. A cowboy and an octopus learn a thing or two about friendship as they struggle through a knock-knock joke, ugly hats, and a special dinner of beans. || 808.0392 DAT || __ The Coyote Road : trickster tales. __ New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2007. One odd shoe / by Pat Murphy -- Coyote Woman / by Carolyn Dunn -- Wagers of Gold Mountain / by Steve Berman -- The listeners / by Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Realer than you / by Christopher Barzak -- The fiddler of Bayou Teche / by Delia Sherman -- A tale for the short days / by Richard Bowes -- Friday night at St. Cecilia's / by Ellen Klages -- The fortune-teller / by Patricia A. McKillip -- How Raven made his bride / by Theodora Goss -- Crow roads / by Charles de Lint -- The chamber music of animals / by Katherine Vaz -- Uncle Bob visits / by Caroline Stevermer -- Uncle Tompa / by Midori Snyder -- Cat of the world / by Michael Cadnum -- Honored guest / by Ellen Kushner -- Always the same story / by Elizabeth E. Wein -- The señorita and the cactus thorn / by Kim Antieau -- Black rock blues / by Will Shetterly -- The Constable of Abal / by Kelly Link -- A reversal of fortune / by Holly Black -- God clown / by Carol Emshwiller -- The other labyrinth / by Jedediah Berry -- The dreaming wind / by Jeffrey Ford -- Kwaku Anansi walks the world's web / by Jane Yolen -- The evolution of trickster stories among the dogs of North Park after the change / by Kij Johnson. A collection of stories and poems about tricksters in all parts of the world by a variety of authors. || F Kad || Kadohata, Cynthia. __Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog. || 342.73 BUR || Burgan, Michael. __The creation of the U.S. Constitution.__ Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2007. In graphic novel format, tells the story of the debates, disagreements, and compromises that led to the formation of the U.S. Constitution during 1787. || F URB || Urban, Linda. __A crooked kind of perfect.__ 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007. Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life. || Pb Hob || Hobbs, Will. __Crossing the wire.__ 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2007, c2006. Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico. || 629.227 Arm || Armentrout, David. __Custom bikes.__ Vero Beach, FL : Rourke, 2008. Takes a look at customized motorcycles, including frames, suspensions, and body work. || F COO || Cooney, Caroline B. __Diamonds in the shadow.__ 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007. The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way. || F CRO || Cronin, Doreen. __Diary of a fly.__ 1st ed. [New York, N.Y.] : Joanna Cotler Books, c2007. A young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flypaper and that heroes come in all shapes and sizes. || F KIN || Kinney, Jeff. __Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal.__ New York : Amulet Books, c2007. Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. || 92 Cha || Matthews, Elizabeth. __Different like Coco.__ Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2007. An illustrated look at the life and work of French fashion icon Coco Chanel. || F Hil || Hill, Kirkpatrick. __Do not pass go.__ 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2007. When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were. || F Kel || Keller, Laurie. __Do unto otters : a book about manners.__ 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2007. Mr. Rabbit worries about getting along with his new neighbors, who are otters, until he is reminded of the Golden Rule. || 811.54 CLE || Clements, Andrew, 1949-. __Dogku.__ 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007. Tells a story through haiku about a dog and the many things a dog named Mooch does, such as riding in a car, barking at the neighbors, and chewing on dirty socks. || F BAU || Bauer, Michael Gerard, 1950-. __Don't call me Ishmael.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, 2007. Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new boy arrives, he shows Ishmael that things could be different. || F DRA || Drake, Salamanda. __Dragonsdale.__ 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House/Scholastic, 2007. Cara loves taking care of the dragons in her father's stable even though she has been forbidden to ride since the accident that caused her mother's death, but rather than just watch as all her friends begin preparing their dragons for the Island Championships, she decides to train the wild dragon Skydancer in secret. || F BAR || Barkley, Brad. __Dream factory.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Dutton Books, c2007. Alternating chapters present the view points of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falling in love. || F Spi || Spinelli, Jerry. __Eggs.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives. || F CUR || Curtis, Christopher Paul. __Elijah of Buxton.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007. In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom. **2008 Newbery Honor Book** **2008 Coretta Scott King Award, Author** || F Tar || Tarshis, Lauren. __Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree.__ New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2007. A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers. || F Jon || Jonell, Lynne. __Emmy and the incredible shrinking rat.__ New York : Henry Holt, 2007. When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal. || F LaR || LaRochelle, David. __The end.__ New York : Scholastic, 2007. When a princess makes some lemonade, she starts a chain of events involving a fire-breathing dragon, 100 rabbits, a hungry giant, and a handsome knight. || F FLE || Fleischman, Sid, 1920-. __The entertainer and the dybbuk.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, c2008. A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s. || F COL || Colfer, Eoin. __Eoin Colfer's legend of-- the worst boy in the world.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : Hyperion books for Children, 2007. Will Woodman has a hard time getting anyone in his family to listen to him, so he turns to his grandfather, who, in turns out, has more terrible sob stories than Will. || 331.702 DEV || Devantier, Alecia T. __Extraordinary jobs in the service sector.__ New York : Ferguson, c2007. Profiles careers in the service sector industries, with a career description, education and training requirements, salary range, and employment outlook for each position. || 808.81 Fai || __ Faith & doubt : an anthology of poems. __ 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2007. A collection of poems from around the world that explores the many facets of faith and doubt. || TC 649 MCG || McGraw, Phillip C., 1950-. __Family first : your step-by-step plan for creating a phenomenal family.__ New York : Free Press, c2004. || F O'C || O'Connor, Jane. __Fancy Nancy and the posh puppy.__ 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007. Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing. || || **Feathers** by Woodson, Jacqueline "Hope is a thing with feathers" starts Frannie's poem. Not that she thinks about hope much. Instead, there's her friend Samantha who gets more "holy", and the new boy called "Jesus Boy" who looks like a white kid, but says he isn't. **2008 Newbery Honor Books** ||
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Pb D'La || D'Lacey, Chris. __Fire star.__ 1st Scholastic hardcover ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2007. David Rain is faced with the most perilous task yet when Gwilanna returns, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice cap of the Tooth of Ragnar, unless David and her friends can stop her. || F STE || Stead, Rebecca. __First light.__ 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007. When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible. || 571.8 See || Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. __First the egg.__ New Milford, CT : Roaring Brook, 2007. Die-cut illustrations and simple text provide an introduction to sequences, such as the tadpole then the frog, the seed then the flower, and the egg then the chicken. **2008 Caldecott Honor Book** **2008 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Books** || 799.1 Kle || Klein, Adam G. __Fishing.__ Edina, MN : Abdo, 2008. An introduction to fishing that explains some reasons fishing is popular, introduces commonly caught fish, fishing locations, equipment and methods, and discusses the history of the sport. || PB HIA || Hiaasen, Carl. __Flush.__ 1st Knopf trade pbk. ed. New York : Knopf, 2007, c2005. With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. || F Wil || Willard, Nancy. __The flying bed.__ New York : Blue Sky, 2007. A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence. || 629.222 Bul || Bullard, Lisa. __Ford Mustang.__ Mankato, MN : Capstone, 2008. Briefly describes the history and models of the Ford Mustang. || F Bra || Brashares, Ann. __Forever in blue : the fourth summer of the Sisterhood.__ 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007. As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other. || 662 Sol || Solway, Andrew. __Fossil fuels.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of collecting and refining fossil fuels and the use of fossil fuel energy throughout the world. || F Cof || Coffelt, Nancy. __Fred stays with me!__ New York : Little, 2007. A child describes how she lives sometimes with her mother and sometimes with her father, but her dog is her constant companion. || F HAR || Hart, Alison, 1950-. __Gabriel's horses.__ 1st ed. Atlanta : Peachtree, c2007. In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey. || F HAR || Hart, Alison, 1950-. __Gabriel's triumph / bk 2.__ 1st ed. Atlanta, Ga : Peachtree, c2007. A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York. || 621.44 Sau || Saunders, Nigel. __Geothermal energy.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of collecting heat from under the Earth's crust and the use of geothermal energy throughout the world. || F HEA || Headley, Justina Chen, 1968-. __Girl overboard.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is. || 428.2 Tru || Truss, Lynne. __The girl's like spaghetti : why, you can't manage without apostrophes!__ New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2007. See how using (or not using) an apostrophe can change the meaning of a sentence. || F ALE || Alexander, Lloyd. __The golden dream of Carlo Chuchio.__ 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, c2007. Naive and bumbling Carlo, his shady camel-puller Baksheesh, and Shira, a girl determined to return home, follow a treasure map through the deserts and cities of the infamous Golden Road, as mysterious strangers try in vain to point them toward real treasures. || F Hen || Henkes, Kevin. __A good day.__ New York : Greenwillow, 2007. A bird, a fox, a dog and a squirrel overcome minor setbacks to have a very good day. || || **Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village** by Schlitz, Laura Amy A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor. **2008 Newbery Medal ** || 973.91MAR || Marrin, Albert. __The great adventure : Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of modern America.__ 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007. A boy of old Manhattan -- The life of effort -- A thundering express train -- Following the drum : from battlefield to White House -- At home in the White House -- I believe in power -- Conservation is a great moral issue -- The young giant of the West -- The most difficult task -- The Rough Rider's last fight. Describes the life of American president Theodore Roosevelt, exploring his experiences as a scholar, cowboy, and war hero, his domestic and foreign policies, and his impact on world history. || F Tan || Tankard, Jeremy. __Grumpy Bird.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, c2007. Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him. || F Mye || Myers, Walter Dean. __Harlem__ __summer.__ New York : Scholastic, 2007. In 1920s Harlem, 16-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz. || F ROW || Rowling, J. K. __Harry Potter and the deathly hallows.__ 1st ed. New York : A.A. Levine, 2007. Follows the journey of the series' protagonist Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his archenemy, Lord Voldemort. || 599.884 Pim || Pimm, Nancy Roe. __The heart of the beast : eight great gorilla stories.__ Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Read biographies of eight real gorillas as you learn about how gorillas are both like and unlike humans. || F Spi || Spinelli, Eileen. __Heat wave.__ Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2007. Abigail, Ralphie, and the other citizens of Lumberville struggle to endure a week-long heat wave. || F Lev || Levine, Ellen. __Henry's freedom box.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007. A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia. **2008 Caldecott Honor Book** || F EAS || Easton, Kelly. __Hiroshima__ __dreams.__ 1st ed,. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007. Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, develops a close relationship with her Japanese grandmother, who shares Lin's gift of precognition. || 636.08 HOD || Hodgman, Ann. __The house of a million pets.__ 1st ed. New York : H. Holt and Co., c2007. Learn about Ann and her life with all her pets. || F YOL || Yolen, Jane. __How do dinosaurs go to school?__ New York : Blue Sky Press, c2007. Ten dinosaurs show that while they have the potential to create mischief at school, they know how to control themselves. || F OCo || O'Connor, Barbara. __How to steal a dog : a novel.__ New York : Farrar, 2007. Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer. || 551.55 TRE || Treaster, Joseph B. __Hurricane force : in the path of America's deadliest storms.__ Boston : Kingfisher, c2007. Describes how violent storms and hurricanes are formed and notes some of history's greatest storms to hit the U.S. such as Hurricane Katrina. || F Bun || Bunting, Eve. __Hurry! hurry!__ Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2007. All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out of an egg. || 665.8 Sol || Solway, Andrew. __Hydrogen fuel.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of generating energy from hydrogen and the use of hydrogen fuel cells throughout the world. || F Gan || Gantos, Jack. __I am not Joey Pigza.__ New York : Farrar, 2007. Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better. || F Emm || Emmett, Jonathan. __I love you always and forever.__ New York : Scholastic, c2007. Longtail tells Littletail that no matter what else changes one thing will always stay the same throughout their lives. || E F Dis || Driscoll, Laura. __I love you, my bunnies.__ 1st ed. New York : Disney Press, c2007. Thumper and his sisters work very hard to make a beautiful bunny basket for their mother. || F FUN || Funke, Cornelia Caroline. __Igraine the brave.__ 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House/Scholastic, 2007. The daughter of two magicians, twelve-year-old Igraine wants nothing more than to be a knight; and when their castle is attacked by a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their singing magic books, Igraine has an opportunity to demonstrate her bravery. || 363.738 Gor || Gore, Al. __An inconvenient truth : the crisis of global warming.__ Rev. ed. /. New York : Viking/Rodale, 2007. Environmental advocate and former Vice President Al Gore argues that rising carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere are responsible for changes in temperature and precipitation patterns in this version adapted for younger readers. || F Jef || Jeffers, Oliver. __The incredible book eating boy.__ New York : Philomel, 2007. Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring. || F SEL || Selznick, Brian. __The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, c2007. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. || F NIC || Nicholson, William. __Jango / bk 2.__ 1st U.S. ed. Orlando : Harcourt, 2007. Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning Star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside. || F Pra || Pratchett, Terry. __Johnny and the bomb.__ 1st HarperCollins ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England. || F SHE || Sheth, Kashmira. __Keeping corner.__ 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2007. In India in the 1940's, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms. || F Ken || Kent, Rose. __Kimchi & calamari.__ New York : HarperCollins, 2007. Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, 14-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past. || || **Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity** by Willems, Mo A tale about what happens when Daddy's in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong. **2008 Caldecott Honor Book** || 599.78 HAT || __ Knut : how one little polar bear captivated the world. __ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2007. Presents the story of Knut, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, and the efforts of Thomas Dorflein, a zookeeper who nurtured and fed him after the cub's mother rejected him. || F Nix || Nix, Garth. __Lady Friday.__ New York : Scholastic, 2007. Young Arthur Penhaligon must weigh an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity that he must seize. || 629.222 Haw || Hawley, Rebecca. __Lamborghini.__ New York : Rosen, 2007. Presents an illustrated look at the Lamborghini sports car, including history, famous models, and racing. || F BEL || Bell, Hilari. __The last knight.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Eos, c2007. In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their noble quest to bring Lady Ceciel to justice while trying to solve her husband's murder. || F Pau || Paulsen, Gary. __Lawn boy.__ 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007. Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business. || F Dav || Davies, Jacqueline. __The lemonade war.__ Boston, MA : Houghton, 2007. Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand. || F Kir || Kirk, Daniel. __Library mouse.__ New York : Abrams, 2007. Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author. || || **Lightship** by Floca, Brian Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, floating where lighthouses could not be built. Follow the crew of one as they work! **2008 Robert F. Sibert Honor Books** || 591.47 Jen || Jenkins, Steve. __Living color.__ Boston, MA : Houghton, 2007. Introduces colorful animals and explains how coloring can help an animal survive. || 781.642 Ber || Bertholf, Bret. __The long gone lonesome history of country music.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. An illustrated history of American country music along with brief profiles of country music legends such as Jimmie Rodgers, Minnie Pearl, and Hank Williams. || 793.73 STE || Steiner, Joan (Joan Catherine). __Look-alikes around the world.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. Pictures of famous sites around the world, rendered in household objects. || F SPI || Spinelli, Jerry. __Love, Stargirl.__ 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2007. Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania. || F GER || Gerver, Jane E. __Lucky.__ New York : Scholastic, c2007. Spurred on by her older sister, Amy works hard to overcome her nervousness so that she and her horse Lucky can compete in their first horse show. || F Kee || Keehn, Sally M. __Magpie Gabbard and the quest for the buried moon.__ New York, NY : Philomel Books, c2007. In Kentucky in 1872, when goblins capture the moon, thirteen-year-old Magpie must rise above her family's fighting legacy and put her "cussedness" to use to save the moon and her loved ones, according to "the age-old prophecy.". || F KER || Kerrin, Jessica Scott. __Martin__ __Bridge__ __: out of orbit!__ Toronto, ON ; : Kids Can Press, c2007. Crosswalk -- Spyder -- Draw Zip Rideout!. Martin participates in his school's parade, learns how to draw Zip Rideout from the comic book's illustrator, and rethinks his dream of becoming an astronaut. || F Ker || Kerrin, Jessica Scott. __Martin__ __Bridge__ __: sound the alarm!__ Toronto ; : Kids Can Press, c2007. Martin Bridge, a big fan of television space cadet Zip Rideout, has a number of experiences, including being locked in a toy store with scary mannequins, that make him realize he is growing up. || F Don || Donofrio, Beverly. __Mary and the mouse, the mouse and Mary.__ New York : Random, 2007. While Mary, a girl whose family lives in a big house, is learning things at school, a young mouse whose family lives in a small house within the big one is learning the same things at her school, and when the two eventually meet they become friends. || F COU || Couloumbis, Audrey. __Maude March on the run!, or, Trouble is her middle name.__ 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007. Due to a misunderstanding over her involvement in a botched robbery, Maude, with younger sister Sallie, hides out at the home of an uncle, but when she is discovered and arrested, the orphaned sisters flee, trying to clear Maude's name. || F KEN || Kennedy, Marlane. __Me and the pumpkin queen.__ [New York, N.Y.] : Greenwillow Books, c2007. Although Aunt Arlene tries to interest her in clothing and growing up, ten-year-old Mildred is entirely focused on growing a pumpkin big enough to win the annual Circleville, Ohio, contest, as her mother dreamed of doing before she died. || F COL || Collins, Ross. __Medusa Jones.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008. In ancient Greece, Medusa Jones, a gorgon, and her friends, a minotaur and a centaur, are mocked and sneered at by the other Acropolis Academy children whose parents are kings and gods, but when they go on a school camping trip together, the "freaks" become true heroes. || F DIC || DiCamillo, Kate. __Mercy Watson : princess in disguise.__ 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007. Persuaded by the word "treating" to dress up as a princess for Halloween, Mercy the pig's trick-or-treat outing has some very unexpected results. || F HOL || Holm, Jennifer L. __Middle school__ __is worse than meatloaf : a year told through stuff.__ New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. The first year of middle school can be exciting, or scarey, just ask Ginny. || F LAY || Laybourn, Emma. __Missing magic.__ New York, N.Y. : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2007. In a world where everyone has magical abilities, eleven-year-old Ned has none, but when the world turns upside down his lack of powers turns out to be his best asset. || F MEY || Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.), 1942-. __Mississippi__ __Jack : being an account of the further waterborne adventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman, fine lady, and the Lily of the West.__ 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007. In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River. || F Osb || Osborne, Mary Pope. __Monday with a mad genius : a Merlin mission.__ New York : Random, 2007. Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness. || 629.227 Arm || Armentrout, David. __Motorcycle gear.__ Vero Beach, FL : Rourke, 2008. Takes a look at motorcycle helmets, boots, luggage compartments, and other equipment. || F Sha || Sharenow, Robert. __My mother the cheerleader : a novel.__ New York : HarperCollins, 2007. Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans. || 393.3 Hal || Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957-. __Mysteries of the mummy kids.__ Plain City, Ohio : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Learn about child mummies from the Incas and other ancient civilizations around the world, plus a Civil War-era mummy from the United States. || F STE || Stewart, Trenton Lee. __The mysterious Benedict Society.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. || F KON || Konigsburg, E. L. __The mysterious edge of the heroic world.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. Amedo moves to a new town with a dream. He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search. || F Tho || Thompson, Kate. __The new policeman.__ New York : Greenwillow, 2007. Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na n'Og, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed. || F Tho || Thompson, Kate, 1956-. __The new policeman.__ 1st American ed. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, 2007. Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed. || || **Nic Bishop Spiders** by Bishop, Nic Amazing close-up images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders. Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about body parts, life cycles, webs, and prey. **2008 Robert F. Sibert Honor Books** || Pb Gol || Goldman, Leslie. __Night at the museum : a junior novelization.__ Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, c2007. A junior novelization of the movie "Night at the Museum," in which a new security guard at New York's Museum of Natural History learns that the institution's exhibits come to life at night and, astonished, shares this information with his son. || F SAL || Salisbury, Graham. __Night of the howling dogs.__ 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007. In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami. || F CLE || Clements, Andrew, 1949-. __No talking.__ 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007. The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest. ||
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A really fun book that you could have the students tell about the story using the 3-word sentences that weere used in the book to - tell about the book or about a book their group has read. 621.48 Sau || Saunders, Nigel. __Nuclear energy.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of converting the power of the atom into electricity and the use of nuclear energy throughout the world. || F FIE || Fienberg, Anna. __Number 8.__ New York : Walker :, 2007. While hiding out from the mob in the suburbs with his mother, a singer, Jackson uses his fascination with math and numbers to make friends, but strange phone calls and even greater threats endanger not only Jackson and his mother, but his new girlfriend, as well. || 594 Her || Herriges, Ann. __Octopuses.__ Minneapolis, MN : Bellwether Media, 2007. An introduction to octopuses, describing their physical characteristics, and discussing how they eat, and how they hide from enemies. || F MUR || Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. __The off season.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations. || F POT || Potter, Ellen, 1963-. __Olivia Kidney and the secret beneath the city.__ New York, NY : Philomel Books, c2007. While preparing for her participation in the princepessa's wedding, adjusting to being a student at a school for the arts, and dealing with surprise visitors at home, twelve-year-old Olivia ventures into the New York City subway tunnels in search of a man who might help her friend Frannie. || 796.7 Arm || Armentrout, David. __On the tracks.__ Vero Beach, FL : Rourke, 2008. Takes a look at the history and types of motorcycle racing. || F Wal || Wallace, Rich. __One good punch.__ 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, 2007. Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his life--until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change everything. || E F Fre || Freedman, Claire. __One magical day.__ Intercourse, PA : Good Books, 2007. From the dawn's first light to the full moon's gleam, animals enjoy a wonderful summer day. || 553.7 Str || Strauss, Rochelle, 1967-. __One well : the story of water on Earth.__ Toronto, ON ; : Kids Can Press, c2007. Water is a necessity of life on earth. Learn ways to protect it while learning water's story. || F CLI || Clippinger, Carol. __Open court.__ 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007. A thirteen-year-old tennis prodigy grapples with her seemingly incompatible desires to be an exceptional athlete and a normal teenager. || F Rya || Ryan, Pam Muñoz. __Paint the wind.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007. After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode. || F Mad || Maddox, Jake. __Paintball blast.__ Minneapolis, MN : Stone Arch, 2007. When Max and Tyler start losing paintball matches to a new player named Ryan, Max is suspicious and sets out to prove that Ryan is cheating. || F SMI || Smith, Roland, 1951-. __Peak.__ 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2007. A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. || F Lon || Long, Melinda. __Pirates don't change diapers.__ Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2007. Braid Beard and his pirate crew return to retrieve the treasure they buried in Jeremy Jacob's backyard, but first they must help calm his baby sister, Bonney Anne, whom they awoke from her nap. || 599.2 COL || Collard, Sneed B. __Pocket babies and other marsupials.__ Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Teaches about the marsupials of the world, including opossums, kangaroos, koalas, and others. || 398.2 Dal || Daly, Niki. __Pretty Salma : a Little Red Riding Hood story from Africa.__ New York : Clarion, 2007. In this version of "Little Red Riding Hood," set in Ghana, a young girl fails to heed Granny's warning about the dangers of talking to strangers. || F Rex || Rex, Adam. __Pssst!__ Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2007. The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit. || F Doy || Doyle, Brian. __Pure Spring.__ Toronto : Groundwood Books ;, c2007. It's spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Matin has found a true home. He's also working even though he had to lie about his age to get the job. Martin is also in love, but his boss is robbing the family of the one he loves. || 394.2663 ARO || Aronson, Marc. __Race : a history beyond black and white.__ 1st ed. New York : ginee seo books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. Why? Where did those feelings come from? Why are they so powerful?. || 92 ARN || Murphy, Jim, 1947-. __The real Benedict Arnold.__ New York : Clarion Books, c2007. "Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers, who made a choice that continues to reveberate through American history.". || F Wel || Wells, Rosemary. __Red moon at Sharpsburg.__ New York : Viking, 2007. When India Moody's father goes missing in action she leaves her Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, home to find him, and she is caught in the Battle of Antietam where her friends are harboring an injured Yankee soldier. || SC F RES || __ The restless dead : ten original stories of the supernatural. __ 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. The wrong grave / Kelly Link -- The house and the locket / Chris Wooding -- Kissing dead boys / Annette Curtis Klause -- The heart of another / Marcus Sedgwick -- The necromancers / Herbie Brennan -- No visible power / Deborah Noyes -- Bad things / Libba Bray -- The gray boy's work / M.T. Anderson -- The poison eaters / Holly Black -- Honey in the wound / Nancy Etchemendy. In this companion volume to "Gothic! ten original dark tales" discover why we fear the undead. || F COM || Compestine, Ying Chang. __Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2007. Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter. || F Bry || Bryant, Jennifer. __Ringside, 1925 : views from the Scopes trial.__ 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens. || 975.61 MIL || Miller, Lee. __Roanoke__ __: the mystery of the Lost Colony.__ New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2007. Describes the two failed attempts by English colonists to establish a settlement on Roanoke Island at the end of the sixteenth century. || F YOL || Yolen, Jane. __The Rogues.__ New York, NY : Philomel Books, c2007. After his family is evicted from their Scottish farm, fifteen-year-old Roddy forms an unlikely friendship with a notorious rogue who helps him outwit a tyrant landlord in order to find a family treasure and make his way to America. || F NEW || Newton, Robert, 1965-. __Runner.__ 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, c2007. In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty. || F Hoo || Hoobler, Dorothy. __A samurai never fears death.__ New York, NY : Sleuth Philomel, c2007. Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend. || 92 Kou || Doeden, Matt. __Sandy Koufax.__ Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, c2007. "Sandy Koufax grew up in Brooklyn, New York, dreaming of playing basketball for the New York Knicks. He played baseball just for fun, but in college his pitching attracted the attention of scouts from across the country. Sandy joined his hometown team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and followed them a few years later to Los Angeles. Along the way, he dazzled batters with his fastball and curveball."--Jacket. || F PAR || Parkinson, Siobhán. __Second fiddle, or, How to tell a blackbird from a sausage.__ 1st American ed. New Milford, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, 2007, c2006. Outspoken Mags decides to help her new friend Gillian, a talented violin student, reconcile with her estranged father so that he will allow her to attend a prestigious music school in England. || F Bel || Bell, Hilari. __Shield of stars / bk 1.__ 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, c2007. When the Justice he works for is condemned for treason, fourteen-year-old and semi-reformed pickpocket Weasel sets out to find a notorious bandit who may be able to help save his master's life. || 811 Bag || Bagert, Brod. __Shout! : little poems that roar.__ New York : Dial, 2007. Shout -- Kid's rule! -- The library cheer -- The learner -- Our classroom zoo -- Snack time -- Quack -- Big fat hen -- Taking turns -- My shadow -- Scarecrow eyes -- Play time -- Finger paints -- The spice of life. A collection of humorous, illustrated poetry for young readers. || Pb Kid || Kidd, Rob. __Silver.__ 1st ed. New York : Disney Press, c2007. Arabella Smith discovers that the mother she thought was dead is alive and the captain of the pirate ship "Fleur de la Mort," but when Jack and his crew are forced aboard the "Fleur," they might not be able to get away. || F Sch || Schachner, Judy. __Skippyjon Jones and the big bones.__ New York : Dutton, 2007. Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that wants to be a Chihuahua dog, goes hunting for dinosaurs. || 720.483 Cur || Curlee, Lynn. __Skyscraper.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. Examines the history of the design of tall buildings. || 92 SOC || Dell, Pamela. __Socrates : ancient Greek in search of truth.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point Books, c2007. A man on trial -- Fortunate beginnings -- The birth of philosophy -- Peace, war, and plague -- A mission from Apollo -- End of a golden age -- Criminal charges -- The trial of the century -- Swan song. Chronicles the life of Athenian philosopher Socrates, describing the world in which he lived, his experiences as a soldier, the development of the Socratic method of questioning, his teachings, and his trial and death. || 621.31 Roo || Rooney, Anne. __Solar power.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of converting sunlight into electricity and the use of solar energy throughout the world. || F Uma || Umansky, Kaye. __Solomon Snow and the stolen jewel.__ 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. While trying to rescue Prudence's father from prison, Solomon, Prudence, the Infant Prodigy, and Mr. Skippy the rabbit find themselves caught up in the mad plans of the villainous Dr. Calimari to steal a fabulous and cursed ruby. || F WOL || Wolf, Joan M., 1966-. __Someone named Eva.__ New York : Clarion Books, c2007. From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history. || F GRA || Gratz, Alan, 1972-. __Something rotten : a Horatio Wilkes mystery.__ New York, NY : Dial Books, c2007. In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee. || F SAN || Sandell, Lisa Ann. __Song of the sparrow.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007. In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine of Ascolat describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the struggle against the invading Saxons and copes with feelings of jealousy toward the beautiful Gwynivere. || F Blu || Blume, Judy. __Soupy Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One.__ 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007. Seven stories with universal situations giving a peek at how a brother and sister relate to each other. || F Kan || Kanninen, Barbara. __A story with pictures.__ New York : Holiday, 2007. An author forgets to give her manuscript to an illustrator who begins to paint whatever she herself wants, making the author a character in the book, along with a meddlesome duck and other creatures. || 629.227 Arm || Armentrout, David. __Stunts, tricks, and jumps.__ Vero Beach, FL : Rourke, 2008. Takes a look at the jumps, tricks, and other stunts performed by expert motorcycle riders. || 398.209729 Sto || Storace, Patricia. __Sugar Cane : a Caribbean Rapunzel.__ New York : Hyperion, 2007. Presents a version of the folktale Rapunzel, set in the Caribbean. || F Lup || Lupica, Mike. __Summer ball.__ New York, NY : Philomel Books, c2007. Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp. || F Pee || Peet, Mal. __Tamar.__ 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007. In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family. || F ZUC || Zuckerman, Linda. __A taste for rabbit.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007. Quentin, a rabbit who lives in a walled compound run by a militaristic government, must join forces with Harry, a fox, to stop the sinister disappearances of outspoken and rebellious rabbit citizens. || 92 Bar || Barakat, Ibtisam. __Tasting the sky : a Palestinian childhood.__ New York : Farrar, 2007. The author recounts her experiences as a child when her family was forced to flee their home for more than four months in 1967 during the Arab-Israeli conflict. || F PET || Petrucha, Stefan. __Teen, Inc.__ New York : Walker :, 2007. Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it. || 305.235 DON || Donovan, Sandra, 1967-. __Teens in Japan.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point Books, c2007. Pressure to succeed -- Daily routines -- Social groups -- Festivals & holidays -- Working for a living -- Having fun -- Looking ahead. Examines the experience of teens in Japan, looking at a typical day, what happens in school, family life, holidays, work, and entertainment. Includes photographs,a glossary, and a historical time line. || 811 Sid || Sidman, Joyce. __This is just to say : poems of apology and forgiveness.__ Boston, MA : Houghton, 2007. A collection of rhymes, pantoums, haiku, and other poems in which the authors apologize to their classmates, family, friends, pets, and others. || 910.91 TEM || Temple, Bob. __The Titanic : an interactive history adventure.__ Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2008. All aboard! -- A first-class experience -- On the way to America -- To protect and serve -- After the disaster. Describes the events surrounding the sinking of the ship Titanic in 1912. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a first-class passenger, a third-class passenger, and a crewmember. || F HEL || Heldring, Thatcher. __Toby Wheeler, eighth-grade benchwarmer.__ 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007. When Toby finally decides to join the middle school basketball team, he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend JJ, who is the team's star player, as well as in other areas of his life. || 895.6 Kob || Kobayashi, Issa. __Today and today.__ New York : Scholastic, 2007. A collection of Haiku depicting special times in the life of a family. || 551.46 BUR || Burns, Loree Griffin. __Tracking trash : flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Describes the work of a man who tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents. || F AVI || Avi, 1937-. __The Traitors' Gate.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family. || 629.224 Mor || Morganelli, Adrianna. __Trucks : pickups to big rigs.__ New York : Crabtree, 2007. Examines the history of trucks showing many different models and types that have existed from the late 1800s to today. || PB LUB || Lubar, David. __True talents.__ 1st ed. New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2007. A group of psychic friends from Edgeview Alternative School unite to rescue Eddie "Trash" Thalmeyer who has been kidnapped by a shady character after testing his telekinetic abilities in a bank by moving a stack of cash into his pocket. || F TAY || Tayleur, K. (Karen). __The truth!__ Minneapolis, Minn. : Stone Arch Books, 2007, c2004. Caught "bending the truth" again, young David Mortimore Baxter decides to follow a strict diet of honesty which lands him in even more trouble. || 811 Won || Wong, Janet S. __Twist : yoga poems.__ New York : McElderry, 2007. Breath -- Child's pose -- Cat/cow -- Down dog -- Warrior -- Cobra -- Low crow -- Half-moon -- Triangle -- Tree -- Eagle -- Mountain/volcano -- Lion -- Bridge -- Finding the center -- Twist. Presents a collection of children's poems featuring the poses of yoga. || F Mie || Mieville, China. __Un Lun Dun.__ New York : Ballantine, 2007. Various lost persons and objects collect in an alternate London filled with menacing creatures and odd delights, including two young friends who become entangled in a prophecy calling for the city's redeemer. || F LEV || Levy, Debbie. __Underwater.__ Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Sixth-grader Gabe, a middle child, is unsure of himself and how he fits in his family and the rest of his world. Both his brothers have learning disabilities, does he? Is he a "difficult child," as the book his mom has suggests? Or, does he simply need to find his place?. || F LEV || Levin, Betty. __The unmaking of Duncan Veerick.__ 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2007. Reluctantly, thirteen-year-old Duncan helps his neighbor, a widow recovering from a stroke, by hiding valuable antiques and art objects her husband had collected, but disaster strikes and the secrets he has been asked to keep may mean big trouble for Duncan. || P2 WRI || Adkins, Jan. __Up close : Frank Lloyd Wright, a twentieth-century life.__ New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2007. The story of the man who changed architecture from "dark, Victorian clutter" to space open to air and movement. || 92 KEN || Aronson, Marc. __Up close : Robert F. Kennedy, a twentieth-century life.__ New York, NY : Viking, 2007. Learn about Robert F. Kennedy's childhood and beyond. || 592.16 SIN || Singer, Marilyn. __Venom.__ Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Learn about venom and the animals that produce it and use it to survive, including spiders, insects, snakes and other reptiles, frogs and toads, fish, and ocean invertebrates. || 92 EVA || Nau, Thomas. __Walker Evans : photographer of America.__ 1st ed. New Milford, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, c2007. Walker Evans was one of America's greatest photographers. || 92 Sis || Sis, Peter. __The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain.__ New York : Farrar, 2007. The author mixes drawings with his personal journal entries and historical references to discuss his childhood, growing up during the Cold War in Prague, Czechoslovakia. **2008 Caldecott Honor Book** **2008 Robert F. Sibert Honor Books** Compare a map of 1950's to a map today... why or how were the new countries established? || 956.04 HAM || Hampton, Wilborn. __War in the Middle East : a reporter's story : black September and the Yom Kippur War.__ 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007. A documentary containing the author's experiences covering these two pivotal wars offering readers a portrait of major world events. || 070.0 GOU || Gourley, Catherine, 1950-. __War, women, and the news : how female journalists won the battle to cover World War II.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. The personal stories of women journalists who fought to be allowed to cover World War II. || 621.31 Sol || Solway, Andrew. __Water power.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of generating electricity from moving water and the use of water power throughout the world. || F BRU || Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. __The way.__ Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. Cody LeBeau, the new kid, becomes the new target for the bullies even though he is Abenaki like most of the school, but things begin to change when his uncle comes to town for a martial arts competition and he and Cody begin training together. || || **Wednesday Wars** by Schmidt, Gary Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker does't like Holling-he"s sure of it. **2008 Newbery Honor Books**  || 577.68 Kal || Kalman, Bobbie. __Wetland food chains.__ New York : Crabtree, 2007. Explores the food chains and ecological diversity of the world's wetlands. || 599.5 HOD || Hodgkins, Fran, 1964-. __The whale scientists : solving the mystery of whale strandings.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007. With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer. || 591.6 Dav || Davies, Nicola. __What's eating you? : parasites--the inside story.__ Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2007. Explains what parasites are, how they invade their hosts, the various harmful effects, and how they are treated. || 523.48 Sco || Scott, Elaine. __When is a planet not a planet? : the story of Pluto.__ New York : Clarion, 2007. Discusses the history of the planets in our solar system and why Pluto is no longer considered a planet. || F Spi || Spinelli, Eileen. __Where I live.__ New York : Dial, 2007. In a series of poems, Diana writes about her life, both before and after her father loses his job and she and her family move far away to live with Grandpa Joe. || F McC || McCaughrean, Geraldine. __The white darkness : a novel.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY : HarperTempest, 2007. Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. || 970.01 FRE || Freedman, Russell. __Who was first? : discovering the Americas.__ New York : Clarion Books, c2007. Before Columbus -- Admiral of the ocean sea -- Did China discover America? -- Leif the lucky -- The not-so-new world -- Who really discovered America?. "For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers ..."--Book jacket. || F Sal || Saldaña, René. __The whole sky full of stars.__ 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007. Eighteen-year-old Barry competes in a non-sanctioned boxing match in hopes of helping his recently-widowed mother, unaware that his best friend and manager, Alby, has his own desperate need for a share of the purse that may put their friendship on the line. || F Wal || Walker, Alice. __Why war is never a good idea.__ New York : HarperCollins, 2007. Simple, rhythmic text explores the wanton destructiveness of War, which has grown old but not wise, as it demolishes nice people and beautiful things with no consideration for the consequences. || F MUR || Murphy, Pat, 1955-. __The wild girls.__ New York : Viking, 2007. Twelve-year-old Joan, worried that she will not have any friends when her family moves from Connecticut to California, bonds right away with Sarah, a girl who prefers to be called Fox, and the two spend a joyous summer playing outside, making up stories, and attending a writing class. || 821.709 And || Andronik, Catherine M. __Wildly romantic : the English Romantic poets--the mad, the bad, and the dangerous.__ 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2007. "In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their words changed literature forever."--Dust jacket. || 621.4 Sau || Saunders, Nigel. __Wind power.__ Pleasantville, NY : G. Stevens, 2008. Discusses the process of converting the power of the wind into electricity and the use of wind energy throughout the world. || 509 FRA || Fradin, Dennis B. __With a little luck : surprising stories of amazing discoveries.__ 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2006. Discusses eleven scientific discoveries found as a result of chance events and unexpected laboratory results, from Newton's discovery of gravity after observing an apple fall to Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin when mold landed on a bacteria culture. || F Pre || Prelutsky, Jack. __The wizard.__ New York : Greenwillow, 2007. An illustrated, rhyming tale of a wicked wizard and his evil deeds, as he uses "elemental sorcery" to change a bullfrog into a series of objects, from a flea to a flame. || 372.6 O'C || O'Conner, Patricia T. __Woe is I jr. : the younger grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English.__ New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2007. Uses simple language and fun examples to show how to speak English properly. || 811 Kul || Kulka, Joe. __Wolf's coming!__ Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda, 2007. All of the forest animals go into hiding because the wolf is coming, but why they are hiding is the big surprise. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own autobiography.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write autobiographies. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own biography.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write biographies. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own fairy tale.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write fairy tales. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own folktale.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write folktales. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own legend.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write legends. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own myth.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write myths. || 808.1 Sal || Salas, Laura Purdie. __Write your own poetry.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write poetry. || 808 Ros || Rosinsky, Natalie M. __Write your own tall tale.__ Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point, 2008. A how-to guide for young writers to use with tips and techniques for learning how to write tall tales. || F LIP || Lipsyte, Robert. __Yellow flag.__ 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperTeen, 2007. When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer. || 372.62 Bul || Bullard, Lisa. __You can write a story! : a story-writing recipe for kids.__ Minnetonka, MN : Two-Can, 2007. Offers activities, ideas and instructions for writing fictional stories. || 428 Kli || Klingel, Cynthia. __You're clean as a whistle : (and other silly sayings).__ Mankato, MN : Child's World, 2008. Presents a number of common idioms and their meanings. || PB KVA || Kvasnosky, Laura McGee. __Zelda and Ivy : the runaways.__ 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007, c2006. In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice. || Bottom of Form