Posts filed under '* 7th – 8th grade'
Patrick Ness. The third book in the riveting Chaos Walking series, the Ask, lead by the cruel Mayor Prentiss and the Answer, a group that could be viewed as terrorist or freedom fighters, must work together when the native species, the Spackle, attack. Todd and Viola are fighting for peace, but the Mayor and the [...]
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Patrick Ness. Since his mother’s been sick, Conor has had the same nightmare, but the monster that turns up outside his window isn’t the one from his dreams. The monster will tell Conor three stories, and that the end, Conor must tell a story, and it must be the truth.
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Tim Wakefield and Tony Massarotti. Very few baseball pitchers can throw a knuckleball pitch well, but if you’re a Red Sox fan, you’ve probably been watching Tim Wakefield throw it for years. This is Tim’s story of how he learned to throw the pitch, and how the pitch took over his life.
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Nancy Werlin. Phoebe thinks she is only ordinary. When Mallory and her brother Ryland unexpectedly come into Phoebe’s life, she finds out that she has something they both want and need so their faierie world can survive. Can Phoebe become extraordinary to fight her way back to the real world?
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Roland Smith. When Chase’s father gets hit by lightning, Chase’s father decides to become a storm runner to help people rebuild after these destructive storms. When a threat of a bad storm is near, Chase and his friends at school are told to evacuate which Chase knows is the wrong thing to do. Will Chase’s [...]
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Raina Telgemeier. One ordinary day, Raina has an accident that knocks out both her front teeth. As if being in middle school wasn’t bad enough, now she’s in middle school without any front teeth. Raina’s accident is followed by years of painful surgery and all kinds of unpleasant mouth related drama. While all this is [...]
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Kristin Levine. Dit, a 12 year old living in Alabama in 1917, is surprised when the new post master is black, and even worse, he has a daughter, rather than the son that Dit was hoping for. But through the year that Emma lives in Moundville, she and Dit become good friends, have adventures, and [...]
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Joanne Bell. Rachel’s idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father’s depression, the family’s relocation to “town” and her father’s subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childhood home. [...]
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by Gary Paulsen. Samuel returns from a hunting trip to find his settlement destroyed and his parents captured. As the Revolutionary War turns everything he knows upside down, can he use his wits and his knowledge of the woods to find and rescue his parents?
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