The Kids Corner Bookmobile
Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for October 2009
by Joe Hilton
of the Free Library of
Philadelphia
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Word Bird’s Rainy-Day Dance Word Bird and his classmates perform a story dance in their classroom to show how you grow plants with the help of the farmer, seeds, sun, and rain. Grades K-2 |
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Coco and Cavendish: Fire Dogs (Easy Reader) Coco the poodle and Cavendish a border collie must win in a test against two robot dogs to be become the new fire dogs at the fire station. Grades K-3 |
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The Puzzling World of Winston Breen Winston Breen is obsessed with puzzles. He likes to solve them and he also creates them. When a potato chip tycoon offers a big money prize for the winner of his puzzle hunt the competition becomes rough. Grades 6-8 |
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It’s Not the End of the World 12-year-old Karen Newman’s parents have decided to get a divorce and she can’t understand why. When her father moves out of the house Karen tries to bring them back together because she believes they are making a big mistake. Grades 5-8 |
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The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap Set in 1787 three ships of British convicts are shipwrecked off the coast of North America. The land is magical. Snowcap and Lucy both twelve, one the child of the governor the other a native Colay islander must work together to remove the evil curse over the island. Grades 5-8 |
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The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen Collier Gene Richards can’t believe that he is talking to his own insides, but a strange voice from his body threatens his family. Gene and his two best friends must try to uncover an old secret murder mystery. Grades 5-8 |
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The Graveyard Book When a villain kills his family Nobody Owens finds a new family to care of him in an ancient graveyard. The ghosts who live there take him in as a toddler to keep him safe and raise him as one of their own. Grades 5-8 |
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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox Yumi Ruiz Hirsch is Cuban, Jewish and Japanese. She is going into the 8th grade this year and her mom is dating, the school orchestra is being discontinued and her grandfather does not have long to live. Grades 7-9 |
