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Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for January 2011

by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of Philadelphia

The Suburb Beyond The Stars
by M.T. Anderson

Best friends Brian and Gregory are in the middle of a an ancient conflict between the Thusser and Norumbregans two alien civilizations at battle in the woods of Vermont with the future of the earth at stake. Grades 6-8

 

A Nest for Celeste
by Henry Cole

Celeste, a kindly little mouse, lives below the dining-room floorboards at a Louisiana plantation in New Orleans. When the owner John Audubon comes to stay at the house she makes new friends with the family in 1821. Grades 4-5

 

Storyteller
by Patricia Reilly Giff

Elizabeth has to stay with her late mother's sister, Libby, while her father is away out of the country. While there she sees a portrait of a young girl who looks remarkably like her Zee, an ancestor who lived during the American Revolution War and whose life story needs to be told. Grades 4-7

 

Northward To The Moon
by Polly Horvath

Jane, the oldest of four children tells her family story as they search for her stepdad's long-lost brother. Traveling from Massachusetts to Saskatchewan then New Brunswick they meet up with very interesting long lost family members. Grades 5-7

 

Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol
by Jim Krieg

Griff Carver, a new transfer to Rampart Middle School, has just joined the school’s Safety Patrol and he is out to break up the counterfeit hall-pass operation that may have connections to the class-president-candidate Marcus Volger. Grades 4-6

 

The Reinvention Of Moxie Roosevelt
by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

13-year-old Moxie Roosevelt Kipper is at a new boarding school so she decides to become a brand new person hoping to leave her ordinary personality behind. Who should she become? The Mysterious Earth Goddess, Hale and Hearty Sports Enthusiast, Detached, Unique Coolly Knowing Individual, or the Assertive Revolutionary Activist. Grades 5-7

 

Max & Mo Make A Snowman
by Patricia Lakin (Easy Reader)

When Max and Mo the hamsters see the kids in the art room go outside to make snowmen they decide to make one too. Grades 1-3

 

Zelda And Ivy The Big Picture
by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Easy Reader)

After watching a secret agent movie the fox sisters Zelda and Ivy and their best friend Eugene  practice their new detective skills by becoming secret agents in the neighborhood. Grades 1-3

 

 

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