The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
‘With a bolt of lightning on my kicks... The court is SIZZLING. Cuz tonight I'm delivering’ 12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan are the kings of the basketball court. Their father was a champion player and they each want nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. But is winning everything? |
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sarah Crewe leads a pampered life. Unfortunately, Sarah’s fortunes quickly change when her father dies suddenly. Now a penniless orphan, Sarah is forced to live in the attic at the girl’s school she attends and becomes the servant of the cruel headmistress, Miss Minchin. |
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
When orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, her time is occupied by wondering about the secret garden the Late Mrs. Craven created and a strange crying that can sometimes be heard around the house which the servants ignore or deny. |
The Wild Girls - Pat Murphy
It's 1972. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves, and then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called Fox, and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. They write stories together. |
Wonder - R. J. Palacio
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school. Can he convince his classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all? |
First Boy - Gary Schmidt***
"You're my first boy, Cooper, my first boy," grandfather says just before he dies. All alone in the world, without even a dog, the only thing that keeps Cooper going is running the dairy farm. Then Cooper's barn is burned to the ground, and his house is broken into in the night. |