Gregor the Overlander (book) (book on cd)
By Suzanne Collins
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
By Suzanne Collins
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
The Amulet of Samarkand (book) (book on cd)
By Jonathan Stroud
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
By Jonathan Stroud
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
Twelve-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, DC,
during the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst the
pervasive threat of nuclear war, Franny must face the tension between
herself and her younger brother, figure out where she fits in with her
family, and look beyond outward appearances.
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old
Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving
some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and
three talking cats.
Each
of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative
hold one of the group exerts on the others, and the hurt and self-doubt
that it causes them.
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Twelve-year-old Petra,
accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve
the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is
aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
At his great-grandmother's house, Green Knowe, Tolly finds he has lots of other children to play with, who had once lived in the house centuries before.
Frindle (book) (book on cd)
By Andrew Clements
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Boys are Dogs (book) (book on cd)
By Leslie Margolis
When her mother gets a new boyfriend, sixth-grader Annabelle gets to
cope with a new town, a new school, and a new puppy and, while training
her puppy, she decides to apply some of the same techniques to tame the
unruly boys that are making her middle-school life miserable.
Esperanza
and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege
in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where
they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers
on the eve of the Great Depression.
After his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is
forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend
Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the
target of bullies.
In
Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled
and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins
treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the
orchard and send her to public school.
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death,
but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone
she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a
strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New
York, flourishes.
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