Kim Suggs' Library
Montgomery Central Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780743253970 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. | Scribner |
| 9781338185188 | Bailey's Story | W. Bruce Cameron | When Bailey meets eight-year-old Ethan, he quickly figures out his purpose: to play with the boy, to explore the Farm during summers with the boy, and to tidy the boy's dishes by licking them clean (only when Mom isn't watching). But Bailey soon learns that life isn't always so simple--that sometimes bad things happen--and that there can be no greater purpose than to protect the boy he loves. | |
| 9780765385581 | Ban This Book | Alan Gratz | You’re Never Too Young to Fight Censorship! In Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, a fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don’t mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship. Ban This Book is a stirring defense against censorship that’s perfect for middle grade readers. Let kids know that they can make a difference in their schools, communities, and lives! “Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one’s for you." —Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath “Ban This Book is absolutely brilliant and belongs on the shelves of every library in the multiverse.”—Lauren Myracle, author of the bestselling Internet Girls series, the most challenged books of 2009 and 2011 “Quick paced and with clear, easy-to-read prose, this is a book poised for wide readership and classroom use.”—Booklist "A stout defense of the right to read." —Kirkus Reviews “Gratz delivers a book lover’s book that speaks volumes about kids’ power to effect change at a grassroots level." —Publishers Weekly | Starscape |
| 9781338712865 | Blended | Sharon Mills Draper | Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they're always about her. And she is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad involves more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it's also about switching identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white. And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn't just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you're only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police. | |
| 9780590132008 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. | Hippo Books |
| 9780545385725 | Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman | Dav Pilkey | George and Harold have really done it this time--they've created a monster! She's faster, smarter, and more evil than anything the world has seen before--she's Wedgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her horrendous hairdo, Wedgie Woman is on a mission to take over the world, and she'll give a whopping wedgie to anyone who stands in her way--including Captain Underpants. | |
| OS_6438606A6FF20600B4794CFB | Charlie and the chocolate factory | Ronald Dahl | ||
| 9781338268348 | Clayton Byrd Goes Underground | Rita Williams-Garcia | Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping he can join them on the road. But on the journey that takes him through the New York City subways and to Washington Square Park, Clayton learns some things that surprise him. | |
| 9780545835428 | Dash | Kirby Larson | When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash. | |
| 9781419711763 | Diary of a Wimply Kid, Hard Luck | Kinney, Jeff | Amulet | |
| 9781338796445 | Dog Driven | Terry Lynn Johnson | Ever since her vision started deteriorating, fourteen-year-old McKenna Barney has felt out of place in the world. Now, to help her younger sister with her own ongoing battle with an eye disease, McKenna finds herself at the head of her team of eight sled dogs in a race she's not sure she can even see, let alone win. For three days of shifting lake ice, sudden owl attacks, bitterly cold nights, and frequent snow squalls, McKenna faces both the Canadian wilderness and her terrifying vision loss. But she hides the truth from everyone, including her toughest rival, Guy, despite their budding alliance. | |
| 9780439585491 | Double Fudge | Judy Blume | Fudge, Peter, and the rest of the gang are back in this long-awaited, New York Times bestselling continuation of Blume's beloved series, now in mass market paperback. | Scholastic |
| 9781338037043 | Ellie's Story | Joyce Muriel, W. Bruce Cameron | Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways. | |
| 9780545916141 | Fantasy League | In Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Charlie's skill at fantasy football gains the attention of both the local media and the owner of a professional football team. | ||
| 9780440428138 | Freckle Juice | Judy Blume | Andrew pays fifty cents for a magic formula to create freckles | Yearling Books |
| 9780545863773 | Frosted Kisses | Heather Hepler | After her parents' separation Penny and her mother moved from New York City to upstate Hog's Hollow--now, six months later, Penny is still coping with the dynamics of her new situation, including possible boy friends, enemies at school, and getting swept up in her best friend Tally's campaign to raise money to save the local animal shelter. | |
| 9780545611275 | Geronimo Stilton- Book 1 ; the Journey Through Time | Geronimo Stilton | Even though Geronimo Stilton isn't exactly known for taking risks, he can't always say no to adventure -- especially when he's invited to be the first time-traveling mouse! But Geronimo's invitation does come with a catch. Professor Paws von Volt doesn't just want him to observe the past; Geronimo must investigate what caused the dinosaur extinction. Will Geronimo solve one of history's greatest mysteries, or will this time-traveling mouse end up being dinosaur dinner? | |
| 9780062894366 | Glitch | Laura Martin |