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12-year old Troy can predict
football plays …. Before they
happen!!
Troy's dreams of the big time
have backfired. Sure, he's moved
to New Jersey to start his new job
as "genius" for the New York Jets,
but his dad has taken his entire
salary, leaving Troy and his mom
broke.
Now Troy has no hope of going to
private school and playing for a
football powerhouse with his
cousin Ty. Instead he's going to be
part of a team with an unbroken
losing streak.
But Troy fights back.

This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited
teams from all across America to compete
in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS.
Will it be fun? Like the commercials say. .
. HELLO? It's a Lemoncello!
But something suspicious is going on . . .
books are missing from Mr. Lemoncello's
library. Is someone trying to CENSOR
what the kids are reading?! In between
figuring out mind-boggling challenges, the
kids will have to band together to get to
the bottom of this mystery.
Coming January 2016!!

Sixteen-year-old Korean
American
moves
from her home in Los
Angeles, California, to
Seoul, Korea, with her
widowed father, and she
soon discovers the
demigod Haemosu has
been stealing the soul of
the oldest daughter of
each generation of her
family for centuries, and
she must find away to
protect herself.

Nere has never
understood
why she feels so
Much more
comfortable and
confident in water
than on land, but everything falls
into place when Nere
learns that she is one of a
group of kids who-
unbeknownst to them-have been
genetically altered to survive in the
ocean.
These products of "The Neptune
Project" will be able to build a
better future under the sea, safe
from the barren country's famine,
wars, and harsh laws.

Sequel:
Genetically engineered to
survive in the ocean, Nere and
her friends are recovering from
their treacherous journey to
Safety Harbor, an undersea
refuge founded by the scientists
of the Neptune Project.
But plenty of enemies prowl
just outside the colony's
boundaries, and when two of
the children are kidnapped,
Nere, her loyal dolphins, and
the other Neptune kids must
set out on an expedition even
more perilous than their first.

A 2015 Newbery Honor Book.
Going to school and making new
friends can be tough. But going to
school and making new friends while
wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped
to your chest?
That requires superpowers! In this
funny, poignant graphic novel memoir,
author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles
her hearing loss at a young age and her
subsequent experiences with the
Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very
awkward--hearing aid.
The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to
hear--sometimes things she shouldn't--
but also isolates her from her
classmates. She really just wants to fit
in and find a true friend, someone who
appreciates her as she is. After some
trouble, she is finally able to harness
the power of the Phonic Ear and
become "El Deafo, Listener for All.”

Raina
and Amara
Two sisters who are
constantly at odds
take a family road
trip that covers more
ground—both
literally and
figuratively—than
they expect.
Graphic Memoir

November 20,
2014
2008
Mockingjay
Part 1

Mockingjay
Part 2
Coming
November 20

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The final Origami Yoda case
file from the kids at McQuarrie
Middle School!
Tommy, Dwight, Sara and …. Ugh,
Harvey, plus Principal Rabbski.

Lyle Hertzog and his friends
Marilla and Dave expect to
spend another dull holiday
passing time at the local
Qwikpick convenience store.
Then an article in their
hometown paper catches
their eye—the sludge
fountain at the nearby
sewage plant is being retired.
With this news, the three friends
decide they’re not just normal kids
who don’t have Christmas plans:
they’re the Qwikpick Adventure
Society. Their first mission: to see
the “poop fountain” before it fades
from glory.

The kids overhear a construction worker
telling his buddies about a rat with a
human face he saw in the basement of an
old research facility. The decision is
unanimous: the next adventure for the
Qwikpick Society is on! But when their trip
to find the rat doesn’t go quite as
expected, the trio gets in big trouble. Will
the second adventure for the Qwikpick
Society also be their last?

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto
meets three mysterious
sisters and finds himself
entwined in a prophecy, a
promise, and a harmonica-
-and decades later three
children, Friedrich in
Germany, Mike in
Pennsylvania, and Ivy in
California find themselves
caught up in the same thread
of destiny in the darkest days
of the twentieth century,
struggling to keep their
families intact, and tied
together by the music of the
same harmonica.

Nine-year-old Ada has never left her
one-room apartment. Her mother is
too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot
to let her outside. So when her little
brother Jamie is shipped out of
London to escape the war, Ada
doesn't waste a minute—she sneaks
out to join him.
So begins a new adventure of Ada,
and for Susan Smith, the woman
who is forced to take the two kids
in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a
pony, learns to read, and watches
for German spies, she begins to
trust Susan—and Susan begins to
love Ada and Jamie. But in the end,
will their bond be enough to hold
them together through wartime? Or
will Ada and her brother fall back
into the cruel hands of their
mother?

This brilliant novel by Newbery Medal
winner Rebecca Stead explores multiple
perspectives on the bonds and limits of
friendship.
Bridge is an accident survivor who's
wondering why she's still alive. Emily
has new curves and an almost-
boyfriend who wants a certain kind of
picture. Tabitha sees through
everybody's games--or so she tells the
world. The three girls are best friends
with one rule: No fighting. Can it get
them through seventh grade?
This year everything is different for
Sherm Russo as he gets to know Bridge
Barsamian. What does it mean to fall
for a girl--as a friend?
On Valentine's Day, an unnamed high
school girl struggles with a betrayal.
How long can she hide in plain sight?
Each memorable character navigates
the challenges of love and change in
this captivating novel.

Companion to:
P.S. Be Eleven
One Crazy Summer
"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern
are off to Alabama to visit their
grandmother, Big Ma, and her
mother, Ma Charles. Across the
way lives Ma Charles's half
sister, Miss Trotter. The two half
sisters haven't spoken in years.
As Delphine hears about her
family history, she uncovers the
surprising truth that's been
keeping the sisters apart. But
when tragedy strikes, Delphine
discovers that the bonds of
family run deeper than she ever
knew possible"-

Do you believe in magic?
Micah Tuttle does.
Even though his awful Great-Aunt
Gertrudis doesn't approve, Micah
believes in the stories his dying
Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the
magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible
tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful
flying birdwoman, and the magician
more powerful than any other--the
Man Who Bends Light. Finally, Grandpa
Ephraim offers proof. The Circus is real.
And the Lightbender owes Ephraim a
miracle. With his friend Jenny
Mendoza in tow, Micah sets out to find
the Circus and the man he believes will
save his grandfather.
The only problem is, the Lightbender
doesn't want to keep his promise. And
now it's up to Micah to get the miracle
he came for.

In this magnificent reimagining of the
form he originated, two stand-alone
stories-the first in nearly 400 pages of
continuous pictures, the second in prose-
create a beguiling narrative puzzle.
The journey begins on a ship at sea in
1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel.
After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work
in a London theatre. There, his family
flourishes for generations as brilliant
actors until 1900, when young Leontes
Marvel is banished from the stage.
Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs
away from school and seeks refuge with
an uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's
strange, beautiful house, with its
mysterious portraits and ghostly
presences, captivates Joseph and leads
him on a search for clues about the
house, his family, and the past.

The Dennis Sever House,
London

Steve just wants to save his baby
brother—but what will he lose in the
bargain?
For some kids summer is a sun-soaked
season of fun. But for Steve, it's just
another season of worries. Worries
about his sick newborn baby brother
who is fighting to survive, worries
about his parents who are struggling
to cope, even worries about the
wasp's nest looming ominously from
the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp
queen invades his dreams, offering to
"fix" the baby, Steve thinks his prayers
have been answered.
All he has to do is say "Yes." But "yes"
is a powerful word. It is also a
dangerous one. And once it is uttered,
can it be taken back?

A California girl born and raised,
Mai can't wait to spend her
vacation at the beach. Instead,
though, she has to travel to Vietnam
with her grandmother, who is going
back to find out what really
happened to her husband during the
Vietnam War.
Mai's parents think this trip will be a
great opportunity for their out-of-
touch daughter to learn more about
her culture. But to Mai, those are
their roots, not her own. Vietnam is
hot, smelly, and the last place she
wants to be. Besides barely speaking
the language, she doesn't know the
geography, the local customs, or
even her distant relatives. To survive
her trip, Mai must find a balance
between her two completely
different worlds.

What if your pencil had all the answers?
Would you ace every test? Would you
know what your teachers were thinking?
When Ava Anderson finds a scratched up
pencil she doodles like she would with
any other pencil. But when she writes a
question in the margin of her math quiz,
she hears a clear answer in a voice no
one else seems to hear.
With the help of her friend Sophie, Ava
figures out that the pencil will answer
factual questions only - those with
definite right or wrong answers - but
won't predict the future. Ava and Sophie
discover all kinds of uses for the pencil,
and Ava's confidence grows with each
answer. But it's getting shorter with
every sharpening, and when the pencil
reveals a scary truth about Ava's family,
she realizes that sometimes the bravest
people are the ones who live without all
the answers...

A boy named Mark, tired of being sick
with cancer, conceives a plan to climb
Mount Rainier, and runs away from
home with his dog, Beau--but with
over two hundred miles between him
and his goal, and only anger at his
situation to drive him on, nothing will
be easy, and only his best friend,
Jessie, suspects where he is heading.

Twelve-year-old Peter has never
felt at home with his noisy family,
but begins to find the strength to
live and to be himself when he
discovers a special valley in the
Texas Hill Country and meets Annie,
a girl dying of cancer who knows
and accepts him from the start.

Ally has been smart enough to fool
a lot of smart people. Every time
she lands in a new school, she is
able to hide her inability to read by
creating clever yet disruptive
distractions. She is afraid to ask for
help; after all, how can you cure
dumb? However, her newest
teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright,
creative kid underneath the trouble
maker. With his help, Ally learns
not to be so hard on herself and
that dyslexia is nothing to be
ashamed of.
As her confidence grows, Ally feels
free to be herself and the world
starts opening up with possibilities.
She discovers that there's a lot
more to her--and to everyone--than
a label, and that great minds don't
always think alike.

Be careful. Your next step may be
your last.
Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh
grader Marshall Walsh have been
walking to and from Woodridge
Academy together since elementary
school. But their routine is disrupted
when bully Chad Hilligas challenges
Marshall to a fight. To avoid the
conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut
home through the off-limits woods.
Tamaya, unaware of the reason for
the detour, reluctantly follows. They
soon get lost. And then they find
trouble. Bigger trouble than anyone
could ever have imagined.
In the days and weeks that follow,
the authorities and the U.S. Senate
become involved, and what they
uncover might affect the future of
the world.

Nineteen-year-old Gage decides he
can no longer live with a bossy
guardian, and runs off with his little
sister Ari. The two struggle to find a
place to live and to get Ari into the
middle school for gifted students
they promised their mother she'd get
into.
“Hiding in plain sight”

When a burning cross set by the
Klan causes panic and fear in 1932
Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-
grader Stella must face prejudice
and find the strength to demand
change in her segregated town.

"Moonpenny is a tiny island in a great lake. When the summer
people leave and the ferries stop running, just the tried-and-true
islanders are left behind. Flor and her best, her perfect friend,
Sylvie, are the only eleven-year-olds for miles and miles--and Flor
couldn't be happier. But come the end of summer, unthinkable
things begin to happen.
Sylvie is suddenly, mysteriously whisked away to school on the
mainland. Flor's mother leaves to take care of Flor's sick
grandmother and doesn't come back. Her big sister has a secret,
and Flor fears it's a dangerous one. Meanwhile, a geologist and
his peculiar daughter arrive to excavate prehistoric trilobites, one
of the first creatures to develop sight. Soon Flor is helping them.
As her own ability to see her life on this little lump of limestone
evolves, she faces truths about those she loves--and about
herself--she never imagined"-

Sixth-grader Theo leaves
everything behind to live
with his Uncle Chester, a
Vietnam War veteran
and loner, in Destiny,
Florida.
However, he is drawn to
play the piano in Miss
Sister's dance school and
soon makes friends with
the feisty Anabel, a
baseball fanatic who
invites Theo to help solve
a mystery.

When her blind dog slips his collar,
twelve-year old Lily meets Salma
Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose
migrant family are in Maine for the
blueberry-picking season, and, based
partly on their mutual love of dogs,
the two forge a friendship while
painting bee boxes for Lily's
grandfather--but as the Blueberry
Queen pageant approaches Lily and
Selma are confronted with some of
the hard truths of prejudice and
migrant life.
Lucky

Twig, aged twelve, is
practically ignored by
classmates and other
residents of Sidwell,
Massachusetts, but gets
along fine with just her
mother and brother, whose
presence must be kept
secret, until descendants of
the witch who cursed her
family move in next door
and want to be her friends.

In this stunning debut novel, two
very different characters--a black
boy who loses his home in
Hurricane Katrina and a white boy
in Vermont who loses his best
friend in a tragic accident--come
together to find healing.
A hurricane, a tragic death, two
boys, one marble. How they
intertwine is at the heart of this
beautiful, poignant book. When
ten-year-old Zavion loses his home
in Hurricane Katrina, he and his
father are forced to flee to Baton
Rouge. And when Henry, a ten-
year-old boy in northern Vermont,
tragically loses his best friend,
Wayne, he flees to ravaged New
Orleans to help with hurricane
relief efforts--and to search for a
marble that was in the pocket of a
pair of jeans donated to the Red
Cross.

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs yearns
for real life and true love. But what
hope is there for adventure, beauty, or
art on a hardscrabble farm in
Pennsylvania where the work never
ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan
pours her heart out into her diary as
she seeks a new, better life for
herself—because maybe, just maybe, a
hired girl cleaning and cooking for six
dollars a week can become what a
farm girl could only dream of—a
woman with a future. Laura Amy
Schlitz relates Joan's journey from the
muck of the chicken coop to the
comforts of a society household in

Sequel to:
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette.
As spring arrives on Gardam Street,
there are surprises in store for each
Penderwick, from neighbor Nick
Geiger's return from the war to
Batty's new dog-walking business,
but her plans to use her profits to
surprise her family on her eleventh
birthday go astray.

A companion to Wonder"—
The Julian Chapter, 2014;
Pluto, 2015; and Shingalin 2015.;
Three previously-published novellas
that shed further light on the world
of Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy
with an extraordinary face, set
before he entered Beecher Prep and
during his first year there and told
from other characters' points of
view. "The Julian Chapter" reveals
why the bully dislikes Auggie so
much. "Pluto" is about the lifelong
friendship between Auggie and
Christopher. And, finally,
"Shingaling" offers a view of how
the girls at Beecher Prep see Auggie
when he first comes on the scene.

Disfigured in childhood
by a rare disease,
Joseph is rejected by
his family, bullied in
the streets, and
ridiculed at his job.
While touring Europe
with a freak show, he's
robbed and
abandoned.
Joseph seems to
encounter misfortune
at every turn, but
eventually finds
friendship with a kind
doctor in England.
Though he died young,
Joseph became world
famous and inspired
many with his
gentleness and dignity.

It's basketball season. And for once, triple
threat Alex Myers is not the one in the
spotlight. There's a new new guy in town,
and Max Bellotti promises to turn the Lions'
losing streak around and lead the team to a
conference title.
Alex is psyched, but some of the older guys
on the team resent being benched in favor of
an upstart freshman. Team morale is rocky at
best. And when Max comes out as gay, not
everyone takes the news in stride. Snide
comments and cold shoulders escalate into
heated protests and an out-and-out war with
the school board.

The
Missing
Series
#8
After traveling through history
multiple times and finding out his
original identity, Jonah thought
he'd fixed everything. But some of
his actions left unexpected
consequences. His parents—and
many other adults—are still stuck
as teenagers. And now Jonah has a
new sibling, an identical twin
brother named Jordan.

At the outset of World War II,
Denmark did not resist German
occupation. Deeply ashamed of his
nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud
Pedersen resolved with his brother
and a handful of schoolmates to take
action against the Nazis if the adults
would not. Naming their secret club
after the fiery British leader, the
young patriots in the Churchill Club
committed countless acts of sabotage,
infuriating the Germans, who
eventually had the boys tracked down
and arrested.
But their efforts were not in vain: the
boys' exploits and eventual
imprisonment helped spark a full-
blown Danish resistance. Interweaving
his own narrative with the
recollections of Knud himself, here is
Phillip Hoose's inspiring story of these
young war heroes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjkJfhUOfAg

In the early 1900s, Robert
Miller, a.k.a. "Count
Victor Lustig," moved to
Paris hoping to be an artist. A
con artist, that is. He used his
ingenious scams on
unsuspecting marks all over
the world, from the Czech
Republic, to Atlantic ocean
liners, and across America.
Tricky Vic pulled off his most
daring con in 1925, when he
managed to "sell" the Eiffel
Tower to one of the city's
most successful scrap metal
dealers! Six weeks later, he
tried to sell the Eiffel Tower all
over again. Vic was never
caught. For that particular
scam, anyway. . . .

1890 - 1947Robert Miller Count Victor Lustig

Social Circus refers to the growing movement toward the use of circus
arts as mediums for social justice and social good. It uses alternative
teaching tools to work with youth who are marginalized or at social or
personal risk.

Circus Harmony, St. Louis
Circus Galilee, Israel

The author explores the world of youth social circus--a
movement that brings kids from different worlds together to
perform remarkable acts on a professional level.
Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that
also work together periodically: Circus Harmony, in St. Louis,
whose participants are inner-city and suburban kids, and
Circus Galilee in Israel, whose participants and Jews and Arabs.
As the kids' relationships evolve over time, the members learn
how to overcome assumptions, animosity, and obstacles both
physical and personal.

Raised in South Carolina and New
York, Woodson always felt halfway
home in each place.
In vivid poems, she shares what it was
like to grow up as an African American
in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the
remnants of Jim Crow and her growing
awareness of the Civil Rights
movement.
Touching and powerful, each poem is
both accessible and emotionally
charged, each line a glimpse into a
child's soul as she searches for her
place in the world. Woodson's
eloquent poetry also reflects the joy
of finding her voice through writing
stories, despite the fact that she
struggled with reading as a child. Her
love of stories inspired her and stayed
with her, creating the first sparks of
the gifted writer she was to become.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4l_EQCwzJc

Throughout history, animals have
shaped the world as we know it.
But rarely have they received the
recognition they deserve.
This inside look at history's most
famous animals features wacky
verse, cool facts, historical stats,
and zany cartoon art.

Witty and nimble verse about
body parts pairs with whimsical
drawings in this informative, fun
collection.
It begins with an invitation to
solve a series of poetic riddles:
"Of course you have a body, /
But do you have a clue /
Where all the body parts you've
got are found /
And what they do?"
Each poem that follows poses a
puzzle in verse (with a sly wink
and a nod to Shakespeare) and
provides hints for uncovering the
body part in question. Sidebars
further educate readers about
the anatomical subject in
question.

Subtitle:
“Mutts, Mares and
Laughing Dinosaurs”

The Newbery Honor–winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong
shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals,
highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of
adventure.
Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods,
survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns.
None of this would have been possible without his truest
companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a
sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him
across a desert. Through his interactions with dogs, horses, birds,
and more, Gary has been struck with the belief that animals know
more than we may fathom.
His understanding and admiration of animals is well known, and in
This Side of Wild, which has taken a lifetime to write, he proves
the ways in which they have taught him to be a better person.

http://gingerhaze.com/nimona/comic/page-1

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her
beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist
Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic.”
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this
brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring
an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual
sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel
is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle
many new ones.
Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy.
Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and
supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious
havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and
his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the
heroes everyone thinks they are.
But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart
realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And
her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to
admit.

"Think Survivor and Robinson Crusoe,
with a helping of Jurassic Park
and a seasoning of The Time Machine.”
--School Library Journal

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