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Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for June 2008

By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia

One Saturday Afternoon
by Barbara Baker (Easy Reader)
Meet the bear family and spend a very busy day with Mama, Papa, Lily, Rose, Daisy, and baby Jack. Join in the fun as each member of the family do their own activity on a Saturday afternoon. Grades 1-3

 

A Frog's Best Friend
by Marion Dane Bauer (Easy Reader)
When Frog wakes up from his winter sleep it is spring time again. It is time to play with his best and only friend Turtle. Frog finds it hard to share his friend with Squirrel, Bird, and Otter. Grades 1-3

 

The Incredible Journey
by Shelia Burnford  (Classic) Audio Book
Tells the story of  three pets, a young Labrador retriever, an old bull terrier, and Siamese cat, who are stranded over two hundred miles from home. They travel through the Canadian wilderness to return and find their family. Grades 4-6

 

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
by Mary Downing Hahn
Twelve-year-old Ali will be in Maine this summer visiting her Aunt Dulcie and babysitting Emma her four-year-old cousin. Her mother does not want her to go. When she arrives Ali starts to have bad dreams about something that happened many years ago. Grades 4-7

 

The True Meaning of Smekday
by Adam Rex
When eleven-year-old Gratuity (Tip)Tucci writes her five-page essay on the meaning of Smekday it will be a out of this world story. It will give her the chance to write about the alien invasion, alien abductions, the Boov, Captain Smek, the Gorg, rocketpods, and Smekland. Grades 5-8

 

The Glitch in Sleep
by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
There's a glitch in the department of sleep, and people of Earth cannot fall to sleep. Twelve year-old Becker Drane is the Seems's youngest fixer on his first job. Fixers fix everything around us, like the weather, our dreams, and time. So who or what is disrupting the sleep? Grades 4-6

 

Night of the Howling Dogs
by Graham Salisbury
Eighth-grader Dylan a Boy Scout senior patrol leader hikes on the Island of Hawaii with eight Scouts and two adult leaders when a terrible earthquake hits followed by a tsunami. Based on true events they must rely on each other and their own survival skills. Grades 4-6

 

Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer
by Laini Taylor
Unknowing humans have set free devil demons held in enchanted bottles for 25,000 years. Young Magpie (Pie) Windwitch, the hunter must gather her armies of faeries to recapture them and stop this evil dark force from swallowing Dreamdark, the great Faerie land and the world. Grades 5-8

   

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