Heat, by Mike Lupica
Twelve-year-old Michael Arroyo pitches for the Clippers, a Bronx, New York Little League team, and it looks like Michael’s team might go to the Little League Championship in Williamsport. But then...
View ArticlePictures of Hollis Woods, by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hollis Woods ran away from her foster home. Again. Like always. So next she’s placed with Josie, a retired art teacher, who encourages Hollis’ artistic talent. As Josie and Hollis fall into a...
View ArticleIf the Witness Lied, by Caroline B. Cooney
Laura Fountain found out she had liver cancer while pregnant with her fourth child. Advised to abort the baby and begin life-saving chemo, Laura chooses to give life to her baby and die in the...
View ArticleLocomotion, by Jacqueline Woodson
Eleven-year-old Lonnie Collins Motion (a.k.a. Lo Co Motion) tells his story in a series of school poetry journal entries. Lonnie remembers happy times spent with his family before his parents die in...
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The Fairy-Tale Detectives, by Michael Buckley; pictures by Peter Ferguson
“Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.”(Follett Titlewave) As the first volume in the Sisters Grimm series, this...
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Peace, Locomotion, by Jacqueline Woodson
Twelve-year-old foster child Lonnie Collins Motion (a.k.a. Locomotion) writes letters to his younger sister, Lili, who lives in a separate foster home. He describes his life with his foster mother and...
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Palace of Mirrors, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (c2008)
Follett Title Fourteen-year-old Cecilia knows that she is a true princess even though she has been raised as a peasant. Her parents, the king and queen of Suala, were killed soon after her birth and...
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The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater (c2011)
Follett Titlewave As November draws near, water horses rise from the rough seas that surround Thisby Island. Some islanders capture and tame the bloodthirsty animals. Always some people die. The...
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