AUTHOR: Rosanne Parry GENRE: Fiction SUMMARY: For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family’s matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable.…
AUTHOR: Julia L. Sauer GENRE: Fiction SUMMARY: Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was walking in the woods and the mist was closing in, she saw the…
AUTHOR: Jeanne DuPrau GENRE: Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy Fiction SUMMARY: It’s been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn up and missing…
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AUTHOR: Janet & Geoff Benge GENRE: Biography SUMMARY: Suddenly, Corrie’s ordered life was lost in the insanity of war. With bravery and compassion, her family and countless other Dutch citizens risked everything to extend God’s hand to those innocents marked for certain execution in a world gone mad. Corrie ten Boom’s life of determination, faith,…
AUTHOR: C.R. Fulton GENRE: Mystery SUMMARY: “STAMPEDE!” Isaiah yells as the herd heads straight at his and Ethan’s tent… Twelve-year-old Isaiah Rawlings wished for only one thing this summer, a camping trip outside of Kentucky. I’m so tired of camping in my backyard, he groaned. Isaiah pleads with his parents to reconsider their usual summer…
AUTHOR: Marianne Hering & Marshal Younger GENRE: Historical Fiction SUMMARY: Patrick and Beth arrive in World War II Holland in the farm country. They must smuggle a baby (by bicycle) into the capable hands of Corrie ten Boom at her home in Haarlem. Along the way they hide from Nazi soliders, meet a Russian surgeon…
AUTHOR: Pam Muñoz Ryan GENRE: Historical Fiction SUMMARY: When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront…
AUTHOR: Chris Grabenstein GENRE: Fantasy Fiction SUMMARY: Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the…
AUTHOR: C.S. Lewis GENRE: Fantasy Fiction SUMMARY: The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure in NARNIA…where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life…a new world where the adventure begins. Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their…
