AUTHOR: Dan Gutman GENRE: Adventure Fiction SUMMARY: The most exciting road trip in history begins! In this action-packed, New York Times bestselling adventure, twelve-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a family vacation you’ll have to read to believe. With the real-kid humor that has earned Dan Gutman millions of fans around the world,…
AUTHOR: C.R. Stewart GENRE: Adventure Fiction SUMMARY: Now in France six months later, Tom and Sarah are trapped on an island fortress, facing an entirely new enemy: a nefarious and clandestine group. Searching for the truth, Tom and Sarah must navigate the streets of Paris, Cathédrale Notre-Dame, and the Eiffel Tower, chased by an assassin…
AUTHOR: Melissa Sweet GENRE: Biography SUMMARY: “SOME PIG,” Charlotte the spider’s praise for Wilbur, is just one fondly remembered snippet from E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. In Some Writer!, the two-time Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet mixes White’s personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell his story, from his…
AUTHOR: Jeanne DuPrau GENRE: Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction SUMMARY: Nickie will grow up to be one of the first citizens of the city of Ember. But for now, she’s an eleven-year-old girl whose father was sent away on some mysterious government project. So when the opportunity to move presents itself, Nickie seizes it. But her…
AUTHOR: Thomas B. Allen GENRE: Biography SUMMARY: A riveting tale of intrigue, spies, counterspies, and secret agents, George Washington, Spymasteris a unique and entertaining account of one of the most important chapters in our nation’s history. The compelling narrative reveals the surprising role played by the first commander-in-chief, General George Washington in the War of…
AUTHOR: Louis Sachar GENRE: Adventure Fiction SUMMARY: Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly…
AUTHOR: Trenton Lee Stewart GENRE: Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction SUMMARY: The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission: to go on a mind-bending international scavenger hunt designed to engage their individual talents. As they search for all the clues and riddles Mr. Benedict has hidden for them, Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance faces…
AUTHOR: Elizabeth George Speare GENRE: Historical Fiction SUMMARY: This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father’s death by forcing the Romans from his land of Israel. Daniel’s palpable hatred for Romans wanes only when he starts to hear the gentle lessons of…
AUTHOR: C.S. Lewis GENRE: Fantasy Fiction SUMMARY: A stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of…
AUTHOR: John Grisham GENRE: Mystery, Legal Drama SUMMARY: A perfect murder. A faceless witness. A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth… and he’s only thirteen years old. Meet Theodore Boone. In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo…
