The Kids Corner Bookmobile
Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for July 2009
by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of
Philadelphia
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Beavers Beware When a family finds fresh twigs, branches, and down trees appear every day on their dock by river they have a mystery to solve. The beavers are hard at work but what are building? Grades 1-3 |
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Nate the Great and the Stolen Base Nate the Great is on a new case. His baseball team’s second base is missing and he must find it. The search is on for a purple plastic octopus the team uses for second base. Grades 1-3
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Return To Sender 11-year-old Tyler Paquette lives on a dairy farm in Vermont. After his father is injured in a tractor accident his family must hire illegal migrant workers because without their help the family is in danger of losing their farm. Grades 5-8 |
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Hard Gold Fourteen-year-old Early Whitcomb needs to raise enough money to save the family farm from foreclosure. Early travels west from Iowa to Pike's Peak in search of gold, hoping to strike it rich. Grades 6-8 |
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Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet Calvin lives in Hawaii and is going into the fourth grade. A school bully is on his case and teenage Stella form Texas has moved into his room. Grades 4-5 |
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Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash Thirteen-year-old Sammy Keyes secretly lives with her grandmother at the seniors-only apartment building. While climbing up the fire escape to her grandmother’s place she meets an old man sneaking down and that where the mystery begins. Grades 6-8 |
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Dog Gone Twelve-year-old Dill has lost her mother now her dog, Dead End runs off. She hopes her dog is not part of a pack that is attacking livestock on farms. Grades 6-8 |
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Escape Under the Forever Sky Thirteen-year-old Lucy Hoffman’s is now living in Ethiopia because her mother is the United States Ambassador to the country. When Lucy and a friend sneak out of the embassy and travel toward the city she is kidnapped and held for ransom. Grades 4-8 |
