The Kids Corner Bookmobile
Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for February 2012
by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of
Philadelphia
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Twelve-year-old goalie Ari Fish wants to be like his older brother and lead his soccer team to greatness. After finding a special trading card he believes luck is on his side and he can do anything on the soccer field until his card goes missing. Grades 5-8 |
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Flyaway Thirteen-year-old Isla and her father each year go to watch the swans that migrate to a nearby lake each winter but her father has become ill and is hospitalized. While visiting her father at the hospital she meets Harry a patient who is her age and a lost swan at the lake that has been separated from its flock. Grades 5-8 |
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The Watson Go To Birmingham 1963 Fourth-grader Kenny Watson older brother starts to get into so much trouble his parents decide to take him back "home" to Birmingham, Alabama, to stay with his strong and strict grandmother who will teach him some sense. So the family leaves Flint, Michigan and drives south during the civil right movement. Grades 5-8 |
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The Last Musketeer Fourteen-year-old Greg Rich and his parents travel to Paris to sell their family treasures despite Grandpa Gus’s warning not to go. When the family is suddenly transported back in time to 1615 Greg needs the help of his three new friends the future Three Musketeers to rescue them from a prison. Grades 5-8 |
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Maggie & Oliver or A Bone of One’s Own Maggie a 10-year-old orphan loses her job as a maid and finds herself on the streets of Boston in 1905 looking for work, food and shelter. Across town Oliver a brown dog has lost his home and is searching for a new owner. When their paths meet can they become friends and find a place to live together? Grades 4-6 |
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Marty McGuire When Marty's teacher cast her as the princess in the third-grade play she is anything but happy. She likes to climb trees, play in the mud and catch frogs and fish. She is not interested in taking acting and dance lessons with her classmates but the show must go on. Grades 3-4 |
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Minnie and Moo: Will You Be My Valentine? After dressing up in costumes Minnie and Moo decide that everyone on the farm needs some of their love poems. Grades K-3
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Number One Kid Mitchell and his sister Angel are new students at the Zelda A. Zigzag School where they must learn to make new friends in their classrooms and after school program. Grades 1-3. |
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