The Kids Corner Bookmobile
Summer is a perfect time to catch up on your reading! Bring a book or three with you on your summer vacations, or simply stretch out in the backyard and dive into a good book! All local libraries offer some form of Summer Reading prorgams - to learn about the Summer Reading Programs being offered within the Free Library of Philadelphia - just click the art to the left!
Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for July 2010
by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of
Philadelphia
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Liberty Porter, First Daughter What is it like to live in the White House with your parents and pets? Nine-year-old Liberty Porter's dad is being inaugurated as President of the United States and she is planning to be the best First Daughter ever. Grades 4-5 |
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How to Survive Middle School David Greenberg lives with his teenager sister, father, grandmother and he is just starting the sixth grade. David has created his own version of the Jon Stewart Show and he loves posting his homemade talk show on the internet. His new classmate Sophia sends it to everyone she knows and the next thing you know……. Grades 4-6 |
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Zoobreak Eleven-year-old Savannah’s pet monkey Cleo has gone missing and in order to solve this mystery good friends Griffin, Savannah and Ben join forces to search, find, and rescues her pet from a floating zoo. Grades 5-8 |
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The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z Seventh-grader Gianna’s science school project must be completed if she wants to participate in the upcoming sectionals cross-country track meet. Now she has less than one week to complete her leaf project but she keeps getting distracted for very good reasons at home and school. Grades 5-7 |
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City Boy Samuel Sangala grew up in the city but after losing his parents to the Disease he must move to a country village in the bush with his closest relatives where there is no electricity, no computer, and no private schools. Grades 5-8 |
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The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen Neef is sent to Miss Van Loon's School for Mortal Changelings from the parallel word of New York Between. While trying to adjust to her new classmates she must find the Mermaid Queen’s magic mirror or things will go bad, very bad in the city. Grades 5-8 |
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Peanut and Pearl's Picnic Adventure Peanut and Pearl are best friends and next-door neighbors who go on a picnic together. When they both go off in different directions they end up lost. Grades K-2 |
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Annie and Simon It is summer time and Annie gets to hang out with Simon her teenage brother and they share some funny adventures together with their dog Hazel. Grades 2-3 |
