The Kids Corner Bookmobile
Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for March 2012
by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of
Philadelphia
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Two Latino families have moved to Vermont with their Aunt Tia and make plans to open up a weekend bed-and-breakfast business in a very large house but unfortunately, strange things start happening around the house. Grades 4-7 |
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Always Neverland Ashley is off from school and has nothing to do until Peter Pan and Tinker Bell show up at her window and fly the sixth-grader off to Neverland to help the Lost Boys with spring cleaning. But Ashley has her own ideas and is looking for her own adventures in Neverland. Grades 4-6 |
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Wild Life When both of his Army Reserve parents are ordered to Iraq for six-month deployments twelve-year-old Eric is sent from upstate New York to live with grandparents he hardly knows in North Dakota. After having a disagreement over finding and keeping a lost dog Eric runs away with the hope that his hunting skills will keep him alive with winter approaching. Grades 4-7 |
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I Pledge Allegiance Best friends since the fourth grade four buddies all join the military as a group after one of them is drafted and sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Morris joins the Navy, Beck, the Air Force, Ivan, the Army, and Rudi, the Marines. Follow their unforgettable experiences in the war zone. Grades 7-9 |
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Guardian Of The Green Hill The Guardian of the Green Hill is the one who keeps peace between humans and fairies. The next in line for this position is Meg Morgan but Gwidion a distant relative and madman will doi anything to become the next Guardian and control the Green Hill the dangerous crossover between the human and fairies worlds. Grades 4-7 |
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Floors The New York City's Whippet Hotel is a very strange place unlike any other. Each of its floors have secret rooms with wacky inventions. It is the only home that Leo Fillmore the 10-year-old son of the hotel's maintenance man has ever known. But since the owner is missing Leo and his father must help protect the building and look after all the guests. Grades 4-6 |
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The Berenstain bears And The Wishing Star Sister Bear learn learns about the magic of wishing stars and how important it is to work for what you really want. Grades K-3
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Clara And The Bookwagon Clara, a young farm girl growing up in rural Maryland in 1905 and dreams of being able to read and to learn, but her hard working father says, "Books are for rich people. Farm people like us do not have time to read." Grades 1-3 |
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