The Kids Corner Bookmobile
Joe
Hilton's Monthly Picks
for June 2009
by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of
Philadelphia
- - Here is the link to our annual summer reading program that runs from June 15 to August 7.
Kids up to grade 6 can sign up at their local Library and start a reading game board. The more they read, the more stickers and prizes they can earn. They can also earn stickers for checking out and returning Library materials or by participating in special activities.
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/summerreading/
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Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris Nancy thinks that Paris, France is beautiful, the city and the language. When she finds out that the new boy in her classroom is from Paris she really wants to be his friend. Grades K- 3
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At Home in a New Land In the late 1860s Carl Erik and his family must leave Sweden during a food shortage to start a new life in Minnesota. As an immigrant he must learn a new language, customs and people. Grades 1-3
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Horrible Harry and the Dead Letters Harry and Doug’s classmates have started their own post office with a real mailbox right in the classroom. When mail goes missing they must try to solve this mystery. Grades 2-4 |
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My New Best Friend Stacey and Ida are now in the fourth grade and best friends. After finding a mermaid night-light in an attic they start making wishes that seem to come true sometime. Can this be true, is the lamp magical? Grades 3-5 |
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The One and Only Zoe Lama Seventh-grader Zoë Monday Costello was the best at giving out good advice to the kids at her school. But now she is being replaced by Devon Sweeney a sixth-grader who also has a talent for giving excellent advice to the same classmates and teachers. Grades 4-7 |
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Love Me Tender Thirteen-year-old Elvira’s father leaves home to compete in an Elvis impersonator competition. As soon as he’s gone her mother received an urgent phone and the rest of the family takes off to Memphis to meet her grandmother and aunt for the first time. Grades 5–8 |
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Eve of the Emperor Penguin The magic tree house can take you to any time and place in history. This time it takes Jack and Annie in search for the fourth secret of happiness to help Merlin the Magician. Grades 3-5 |
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The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Follow the exciting tales of King Arthur with his special sword Excalibur, the legendary Knights of the Round Table and Merlin the Magician on their many wonderful adventures in the middle- ages. Grades 4-8 |
