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Barnett, Mac. Count the Monkeys (2013) The reader is invited to count the animals that have frightened the monkeys off the pages.

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Barnett, Mac. Extra Yarn (2012) With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.

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Bently, Peter. King Jack and the Dragon (2011) Jack, Zack, and Caspar build a castle fort, then spend a day fighting dragons and beasts, but at day's end giants carry away first Sir Zack, then Caspar, and King Jack is left to face night creatures alone.

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Bingham, Kelly. Z is for Moose (2012) Moose, terribly eager to play his part in the alphabet book his friend Zebra is putting together, then awfully disappointed when his letter passes, behaves rather badly until Zebra finds a spot for him.

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Daywalt, Drew. The Day the Crayons Quit (2013) When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

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Fyleman, Rose. Mice (2012) Could it be true that mice are…nice? That’s certainly what the cat thinks in this after-dark romp just perfect for young children.

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Heder, Thyra. Fraidyzoo (2013) Little T remembers that she was frightened last time her family visited the zoo but not why, so her creative family helps by imitating animals from A to Z until she recalls exactly what caused her fear.

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Henkes, Kevin. Penny and Her Doll (2012) Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.

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Hills, Tad. Rocket Writes a Story (2012) Rocket writes a story about a new friend, the owl.

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Isadora, Rachel. Old Mikamba Had a Farm (2013) The inhabitants of Old Mikamba's farm in Africa, including a baboon, an elephant, and a lion, are described, verse by verse. Includes facts about African animals.

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Joosse, Barbara. Lovabye Dragon (2012) When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime.

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Klassen, Jon. I Want My Hat Back (2011) A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

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Long, Ethan. Up! Tall! and High! (2012) Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall, and high.

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Pinkwater, Daniel. Bear in Love (2012) Each morning, the bear finds something just outside his cave. The bear knows that someone nice is leaving him these treats. If only he could discover who it is! Should he leave something tasty in return?

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Raschka, Chris. A Ball for Daisy (2011) A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

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Reynolds, Peter H. Sky Color (2012) Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can’t wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint?

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Rylant, Cynthia. Brownie and Pearl Make Good (2012) After accidentally breaking a radio, a little girl and her cat try to make up for their mistake.

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Staake, Bob. Look! A Book! (2011) Easy-to-read, rhyming text invites the reader to search for items on a different theme on each page, while celebrating the wonder of a picture book.

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Stead, Philip C. Bear Has a Story to Tell (2012) Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.

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Sullivan, Mary. Ball (2013) While searching for someone to play ball with him, a dog dreams of fantastical adventures he could have with his ball.

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Willems, Mo. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (2012) Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur... and a Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway. One day--for no particular reason--they decided to tidy up their house, make the beds, and prepare pudding of varying temperatures. And then--for no particular reason--they decided to go…someplace else. They were definitely not setting a trap for some succulent, unsupervised little girl. Definitely not!

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Willems, Mo. Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! (2011) Amanda and her alligator have lots of fun together, but when Amanda's grandfather buys her a panda, Alligator must learn to make new friends.

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Davies, Nicola. Just Ducks! (2012) On her way to school, a young girl spots mallard ducks in the river and enthusiastically describes their appearance, habits, and behavior. Interspersed throughout the pages are facts about ducks.

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Davies, Nicola. Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature (2012) Introduces the sights and sounds of the changing seasons, along city streets and in country meadows.

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Jenkins, Steve. My First Day (2013) The first day of life is different for every animal. Human newborns don’t do much at all, but some animals hit the ground running.

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Messner, Kate. Over and Under the Snow (2011) Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter.

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Seegar, Laura Vaccaro. Green (2012)

This Caldecott Honor book contains illustrations and simple, rhyming text, explore the many shades of the color green.

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Stewart, Sarah. The Quiet Place (2012) A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.

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Wiesner, David. Mr. Wuffles! (2013) Mr. Wuffles ignores all his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small green aliens. When Mr. Wuffles plays rough with the little ship, the aliens must venture into the cat's territory to make emergency repairs.

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Bang, Molly. Ocean Sunlight (2012) On land or in the deep blue sea, we are all connected-and we are all a part of a grand living landscape. Packed with clear, simple science this informative, joyous book will help children understand and celebrate the astonishing role our oceans play in human life.

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Corey, Shana. Here Come the Girl Scouts! (2012) The amazing, all-true story of the first Girl Scouts and their visionary founder. Juliette Gordon Low--Daisy to her friends and family--was not like most girls of the Victorian era.

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Florian, Douglas. Poem Runs: Baseball Poems (2012) Douglas Florian's collection of baseball poems brings wordplay, wit, and laughter to America's springtime tradition. From the first pitch to the last out, and all nine innings in between, these poems offer something for anyone who's ever played-or watched-a game of baseball.

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Ham, Katherine. Step Inside!: A Look Inside Animal Homes (2012) Discover crevices and pits where eels and reef fish make camouflaged homes. Peek through a bubble nest to find a spittlebug nymph hiding inside, cool and disguised. Then travel underground to see the trick tunnels of trapdoor spiders and the intricate highways and byways of moles.

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DiCamillo, Kate. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (2013) Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

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Gaiman, Neil. Fortunately, the Milk (2013) While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.

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Grabenstein, Chris. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library (2013) Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.

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Hannigan, Katherine. True (…Sort of) (2011) For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, RB, and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.

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Henkes, Kevin. Junonia (2011) The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they always are.

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Hicks, Betty. The Worm Whisperer (2013) Ellison Ellis Coffey, a lonely fifth-grader, discovers he might have the special gift of talking to bugs and decides to use his ability to win his town's annual Woolly Worm Race.

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Kimmel, Eric A. Moby Dick: Chasing the Great White Whale (2012) Captain Ahab takes his crew on a mission to find Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.

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Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine and the Spring Trip (2013) Third-grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink on the bus.

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Reich, Susanna. Minette’s Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat (2012) While Julia is in the kitchen learning to cook up elaborate, delicious dishes, the only feast Minette is truly interested in is that of fresh mouse. Includes biographical information about Julia Child.

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Choldenko, Gennifer. No Passengers Beyond This Point (2011) With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.

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Bray, Libba. Beauty Queens (2011) When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

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Lancaster, Mike A. Human.4 (2011) Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.

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Levithan, David. Every Day (2012) Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

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Schmidt, Gary. Okay for Now (2011) While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds and unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.

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Sloan, Holly. Counting by 7s (2013) Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

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Thompson, Holly. Orchards (2011) Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.

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Voorhoeve, Anne. My Family for the War (2012) Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.

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Watson, Larry. American Boy (2011) On Thanksgiving Day 1962, the shooting of a young woman sets off a chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota, all revolving around Matthew Garth, who becomes obsessed with the shooting victim and with the lavish lifestyle of a local doctor's family.

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Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s first Black Paratroopers (2013) Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.

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Walker, Sally M. Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World (2012) On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?

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Willerslev, Rane. On the Run in Siberia (2012) An extraordinary, chilling tale of one year living in exile among Yukaghir hunters in the stark Siberian taiga region. At turns shocking and quietly moving, On the Run in Siberia is a pulse-pounding tale of idealism, political corruption, starvation, and survival (with a timely assist from Vladimir Putin) as well as a striking portrait of the Yukaghirs’ shamanistic tradition and their threatened way of life, a drama unfolding daily in one of the world’s coldest, most enthralling landscapes.

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Shen, Prudence. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (2013) Charlie, the captain of the basketball team, and Nate, the president of the robotics club, are best friends. Their friendship is tested when the robotics club and the cheerleading squad‐‐who use Charlie as their figurehead‐‐compete for student group funding.

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Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed (2013) The best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.

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LaBan, Elizabeth. The Tragedy Paper (2012) While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.

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Lewis, Stewart. You Have Seven Messages (2011) Teenaged Luna, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her movie director father, tries to piece together the death of her mother with the seven unheard messages left on her forgotten cell phone.

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Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray (2011) In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

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Silvey, Craig. Jasper Jones (2011) In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

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Thomas, Samuel. The Midwife’s Tale (2013) A tale set against a backdrop of the 1644 Siege of York finds midwife Bridget Hodgson joining forces with resourceful servant Martha Hawkins to prove the innocence of a woman who has been sentenced to burn at the stake for murdering her husband.

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Walker, Karen Thompson. The Age of Miracles (2012) The rotation of the earth has begun to slow and the environment is thrown into disarray. Julia is also coping with the fissures in her family, the loss of friends, the hopeful anguish of love and other normal disasters of everyday life.

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Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones: A Novel (2011) Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

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Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity (2012) In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

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Whaley, John Corey. Where Things Come Back (2011) Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

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Zarr, Sara. How to Save a Life (2011) Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.

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Alexander, Eben. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (2012) Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.

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Bar-Zohar, Michael and Mishal, Nissim. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (2012) The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. This book unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency's more than sixty-year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear facility, and the elimination of key Iranian nuclear scientists.

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Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012) The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

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Brimner, Larry Dane. Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor (2011) Examines the history of the civil rights battle fought between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor in the 1950s and 1960s. Explores the lives of both men, Fred a young black preacher and Bull an old white commissioner, utilizing dozens of photographs from the era, FBI files, and archived newspapers detailing the events of the riots that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, incited by these two men.

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Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (2012) Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts–from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

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Foer, Joshua. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (2011) Having achieved the seemingly unachievable-- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion-- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.

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Harden, Blaine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (2012) Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.

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Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011) In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, this work portrays Brown's uprising revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict.

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Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement (2012) This compelling personal history from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, uses the inauguration of President Obama to look back on her own involvement in the civil rights movement, as one of two black students who forced the University of Georgia to integrate, and to relate the pivotal events that swept the South as the movement gathered momentum through the early 1960s.

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Kargar, Zarghuna. Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of Women in Afghanistan (2012) Collects thirteen real-life stories of Afghani women who speak out about their hidden lives, from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud to a widow shunned by society, revealing their suffering and strength.

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Kilmeade, Brian. George Washington’s Secret Six: the Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution (2013) Shares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes.

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Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (2011) Candice Millard chronicles the life of President James A. Garfield, from his upbringing to his untimely death.

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Murray, Liz. Breaking Night : A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard (2011) The memoir of a young woman who at age 15 was living on the streets but survived to make it to Harvard. Murray's story was featured in the Lifetime Original Movie "Homeless to Harvard."

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O'Reilly, Bill and Martin Dugard. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (2011) A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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Owen, Mark and Kevin Maurer. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (2012) A memoir of a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 about his career in the military, including his firsthand account of the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

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Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013) The humor scientist behind Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife takes a tour of the human digestive system, explaining why the stomach doesn't digest itself and whether constipation can kill you.

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Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (2011) The remarkable story of a woman who set up a flourishing business under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

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Wasik, Bill and Murphy, Monica. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus (2012) Charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies, documenting how before its vaccine the disease caused fatal brain infections and sparked the creations of monsters, including werewolves, vampires and zombies.

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Zuckoff, Mitchell. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (2013) Drawing on intensive research and a firsthand account of the dangerous 2012 expedition, this thrilling true story of survival, which moves between World War II and today, follows the survivors of a U.S. cargo plane crash in 1942 and their 148 days spent fighting for their lives during a brutal Arctic winter.

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Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan. Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012) Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project. Along the way, Fetter-Vorm takes special care to explain the fundamental science of nuclear reactions. With the clarity and accessibility that only a graphic book can provide, Trinity transports the reader into the core of a nuclear reaction—into the splitting atoms themselves.

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PREK-K FICTION

Barnett, Mac. Count the Monkeys (2013) The reader is invited to count the animals that have frightened the monkeys off the pages.

Barnett, Mac. Extra Yarn (2012) With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.

Bently, Peter. King Jack and the Dragon (2011) Jack, Zack, and Caspar build a castle fort, then spend a day fighting dragons and beasts, but at day's end giants carry away first Sir Zack, then Caspar, and King Jack is left to face night creatures alone.

Bingham, Kelly. Z is for Moose (2012) Moose, terribly eager to play his part in the alphabet book his friend Zebra is putting together, then awfully disappointed when his letter passes, behaves rather badly until Zebra finds a spot for him.

Daywalt, Drew. The Day the Crayons Quit (2013) When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

Fyleman, Rose. Mice (2012) Could it be true that mice are…nice? That’s certainly what the cat thinks in this after‐dark romp just perfect for young children.

Heder, Thyra. Fraidyzoo (2013) Little T remembers that she was frightened last time her family visited the zoo but not why, so her creative family helps by imitating animals from A to Z until she recalls exactly what caused her fear.

Henkes, Kevin. Penny and Her Doll (2012) Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge. [Series]

Hills, Tad. Rocket Writes a Story (2012) Rocket writes a story about a new friend, the owl. [Series]

Isadora, Rachel. Old Mikamba Had a Farm (2013) The inhabitants of Old Mikamba's farm in Africa, including a baboon, an elephant, and a lion, are described, verse by verse. Includes facts about African animals.

Joosse, Barbara. Lovabye Dragon (2012) When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime.

Klassen, Jon. I Want My Hat Back (2011) A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

Long, Ethan. Up! Tall! and High! (2012) Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall, and high.

Pinkwater, Daniel. Bear in Love (2012) Each morning, the bear finds something just outside his cave. The bear knows that someone nice is leaving him these treats. If only he could discover who it is! Should he leave something tasty in return?

Raschka, Chris. A Ball for Daisy (2011) A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

Reynolds, Peter H. Sky Color (2012) Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can’t wait to begin! But wait‐how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint?

Rylant, Cynthia. Brownie and Pearl Make Good (2012) After accidentally breaking a radio, a little girl and her cat try to make up for their mistake. [Series]

Staake, Bob. Look! A Book! (2011) Easy‐to‐read, rhyming text invites the reader to search for items on a different theme on each page, while celebrating the wonder of a picture book.

Stead, Philip C. Bear Has a Story to Tell (2012) Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.

Sullivan, Mary. Ball (2013) While searching for someone to play ball with him, a dog dreams of fantastical adventures he could have with his ball.

Willems, Mo. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (2012) Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur... and a Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway. One day‐‐for no particular reason‐‐they decided to tidy up their house, make the beds, and prepare pudding of varying temperatures. And then‐‐for no particular reason‐‐they decided to go…someplace else. They were definitely not setting a trap for some succulent, unsupervised little girl. Definitely not!

Willems, Mo. Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! (2011) Amanda and her alligator have lots of fun together, but when Amanda's grandfather buys her a panda, Alligator must learn to make new friends.

PREK-K NON-FICTION Davies, Nicola. Just Ducks! (2012) On her way to school, a young girl spots mallard ducks in the river and enthusiastically describes their appearance,

habits, and behavior. Interspersed throughout the pages are facts about ducks.

Davies, Nicola. Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature (2012) Introduces the sights and sounds of the changing seasons, along city streets and in country meadows.

Jenkins, Steve. My First Day (2013) The first day of life is different for every animal. Human newborns don’t do much at all, but some animals hit the ground running.

Low, William. Machines Go to Work in the City (2012) This book provides illustrations and fold‐out pictures of machines that are used in a city.

Messner, Kate. Over and Under the Snow (2011) Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter.

Seegar, Laura Vaccaro. Green (2012) This Caldecott Honor book contains illustrations and simple, rhyming text, explore the many shades of the color green.

PREK-K GRAPHIC NOVEL

Duffy, Chris, ed. Nursery Rhyme Comics (2011) Presents fifty traditional nursery rhymes in comic book format, with illustrations by well‐known cartoonists.

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Grades 1-2 FICTION

Brett, Jan. Mossy (2012) Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is taken from her home and new friend to become an exhibit in a museum, until the director’s niece, Tory, notices how sad Mossy is and helps arrange for her to go home.

Catrow, David. The Fly Flew In (2012) A fly flies into a concert hall wreaking havoc.

Cole, Brock. The Money We’ll Save (2011) In nineteenth‐century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble‐‐and expense‐‐in their tiny apartment.

Degen, Bruce. I Gotta Draw (2012) Elementary school student Charlie Muttnik loves to draw so much that it interferes with his schoolwork, until his teacher comes up with a creative solution.

Emmett, Jonathan. The Princess and the Pig (2011) When a new baby princess accidentally changes places with a piglet, both of their lives are forever changed.

Gutman, Dan. The Day Roy Riegels Ran the Wrong Way (2011) A boy's grandfather tells him about the famous Rose Bowl game in 1929 when the University of California Golden Bears lost after one of their players ran the wrong way down the football field.

Hanlon, Abby. Ralph Tells a Story (2012) Although his teacher insists there are stories everywhere, Ralph cannot think of any to write.

Henkes, Kevin. Penny and her Marble (2013) Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day. [Series]

Hobbie, Holly. Gem (2102) Through her watercolor paintings, the author vividly depicts the journey of a toad in its natural habitat, from early springtime mud to the lily pads of summer, in this nearly wordless book about survival and renewal. [Series]

Jenkins, Emily. Lemonade in Winter: A Book about Two Kids Counting Money (2012) Pauline and her brother John‐John set up a stand to sell lemonade, limeade, and lemon‐limeade one cold, wintry day, then try to attract customers as Pauline adds up their earnings.

Juster, Norton. Neville (2011) When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.

Kirk, Daniel. Library Mouse: Home Sweet Home (2013) While the library that Sam and his adventurous friend Sarah live in is being renovated, the two mice try to make new homes for themselves in the attic, constructing everything from a yurt to a geodesic dome. Includes photographs of real house styles discussed and a brief glossary of terms. [Series]

Lin, Grace. Ling & Ting Share a Birthday (2013) Ling & Ting are twins. They share a birthday. They bake cakes, and they make birthday wishes. They tell stories and wrap gifts. They also share a birthday secret! [Series]

Lovell, Patty. Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon (2012) When Gertie moves in next door with fancy toys and a huge television set, Molly shares lessons she learned from her grandmother about home‐made playthings and imagination. [Series]

Mack, Jeff. Frog and Fly: Six Slurpy Stories (2012) Through a series of easy‐to‐read scenes, Frog always gets the better of Fly but in the end, Fly has the last word. [Series]

McDonald, Megan. Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout (2013) Croak! Squeenk! Ribbet! After a close encounter with a mutant amphibian makes him freaky for frogs, water‐shy Stink becomes a swimming success. [Series]

Moundlic, Charlotte. The Bathing Costume: Or The Worst Vacation of My Life (2013) On his first vacation without his parents, eight‐year‐old Myron faces a scary grandfather, teasing older cousins, his first dive off the ten‐foot board, and his grandmother's encouragement to write his mother daily, telling her of his adventures.

Rau, Dana Meachen. Robot, Go Bot! (2013) A young girl makes so many demands on the robot she has constructed that he runs away.

Roy, Rob. October Ogre (2013) In the tenth book of the Calendar Mysteries, an early chapter‐book mystery series featuring the younger siblings of the A to Z Mysteries detectives, there's a haunted house in Green Lawn! [Series]

Smith, Lane. Grandpa Green (2011) A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great‐grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.

Spinelli, Eileen. Miss Fox’s Class Gets It Wrong (2012) Miss Fox’s class assumes their teacher’s association with a police officer is something other than what it really is. [Series]

Stewart, Sarah. The Quiet Place (2012) A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.

Wiesner, David. Mr. Wuffles! (2013) Mr. Wuffles ignores all his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small green aliens. When Mr. Wuffles plays rough with the little ship, the aliens must venture into the cat's territory to make emergency repairs.

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Grades 1-2 NON-FICTION

Bang, Molly. Ocean Sunlight (2012) On land or in the deep blue sea, we are all connected‐and we are all a part of a grand living landscape. Packed with clear, simple science this informative, joyous book will help children understand and celebrate the astonishing role our oceans play in human life.

Corey, Shana. Here Come the Girl Scouts! (2012) The amazing, all‐true story of the first Girl Scouts and their visionary founder. Juliette Gordon Low‐‐Daisy to her friends and family‐‐was not like most girls of the Victorian era.

Florian, Douglas. Poem Runs: Baseball Poems (2012) Douglas Florian's collection of baseball poems brings wordplay, wit, and laughter to America's springtime tradition. From the first pitch to the last out, and all nine innings in between, these poems offer something for anyone who's ever played‐or watched‐a game of baseball.

Ham, Katherine. Step Inside!: A Look Inside Animal Homes (2012) Discover crevices and pits where eels and reef fish make camouflaged homes. Peek through a bubble nest to find a spittlebug nymph hiding inside, cool and disguised. Then travel underground to see the trick tunnels of trapdoor spiders and the intricate highways and byways of moles.

Huber, Raymond. Flight of the Honey Bee (2013) Demonstrates how Scout the bee searches for nectar to sustain her hive and pollinates flowers to produce seeds and fruits.

Krull, Kathleen. Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets (2011) Chronicles the life of Jim Henson, describing how he pushed the boundaries of entertainment and brought the art of puppets to a new level with the creation of his Muppets.

Leedy, Loreen. Seeing Symmetry (2012) Introduces the concept of symmetry, discussing how it appears in the world. Includes activities.

Lowry, Amy. Fox Tails: Four Fables from Aesop (2011) Four of Aesop's fables are combined in this tale about three animal friends who outsmart a tricky fox.

Macaulay, David. Castle: How It Works (2012) Every part of the castle has a function. Walls keep the enemy out. Towers protect the lord and the soldiers. From the moat and portcullis to the great hall and dungeon, see how a castle works as an enemy army tries to storm the walls. [Series]

McDonnell, Patrick. Me—Jane (2011) Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.

Miller, Debbie S. Survival at 120 Above (2012) Introduces the variety of animals who call the Australian Simpson Desert home and shows how they have adapted to survive extreme temperatures.

Warner, Carl. A World of Food: Discover Magical Lands Made of Things You Can Eat! (2012) Photographs of twelve miniature landscapes made entirely from edible ingredients accompanied by rhyming verses introduce a variety of foods and colors.

Grades 1-2 GRAPHIC NOVEL

Coudray, Phillipe. Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking: A Toon Book (2011) Although he is a very serious bear, Benjamin Bear has a funny way of doing things, like drying dishes on a rabbit’s back or sharing his sweater without taking it off. [Series]

Duffy, Chris, ed. Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales told by Extraordinary Cartoonists (2013) Presents seventeen fairy tales, including classics such as "Puss in Boots" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and more obscure tales such as "The Prince and the Tortoise."

Knight, Hilary. Nina in That Makes Me Mad! (2011) Lots of little, everyday frustrations make Nina mad, and she is very good at expressing her feelings. [Series]

Luciani, Brigitte and Eve Tharlet. Peace and Quiet (2012) Despite their different habits, Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox get their blended family ready for winter. [Series]

Modan, Rutu. Maya Makes a Mess (2012) Maya’s unique table manners turn the palace upside down when she accepts an invitation to dine with the queen.

Ponti, Claude. Chick & Chickie Play All Day! (2012) Two young chicks have fun making masks and playing with the letter A.

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Grades 3-4 FICTION

Applegate, Katherine. The One and Only Ivan (2012) When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down‐and‐out circus‐themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Atinuke. Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus!(2011) Anna Hibiscus, a little girl who lives in Africa, is excited by the prospect of visiting her grandmother in Canada for Christmas and seeing snow for the first time, but feels a little anxious about being so far from home. [Series]

Cheng, Andrea. The Year of the Book (2012) Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth‐grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.

Clements, Andrew. Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School: In Harm’s Way (2013) As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars. [Series]

Cole, Henry. Unspoken: A History from the Underground Railroad (2012) In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.

Cronin, Doreen. The Trouble with Chickens: A J.J. Tully Mystery (2011) A hard‐bitten former search‐and‐rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.

DiCamillo, Kate. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (2013) Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic‐reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

Gaiman, Neil. Fortunately, the Milk (2013) While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.

Grabenstein, Chris. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library (2013) Twelve‐year‐old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.

Hannigan, Katherine. True (…Sort of) (2011) For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, RB, and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good‐‐and happy‐‐again.

Henkes, Kevin. Junonia (2011) The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they always are.

Hicks, Betty. The Worm Whisperer (2013) Ellison Ellis Coffey, a lonely fifth‐grader, discovers he might have the special gift of talking to bugs and decides to use his ability to win his town's annual Woolly Worm Race.

Kimmel, Eric A. Moby Dick: Chasing the Great White Whale (2012) Captain Ahab takes his crew on a mission to find Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.

Lin, Grace. Dumpling Days (2012) When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parents go to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma’s sixtieth birthday, the girls learn a great deal about their heritage.

McKissack, Patricia C. Never Forgotten (2011) In eighteenth‐century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements‐‐Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth‐‐is captured and taken to America as a slave.

Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine and the Spring Trip (2013) Third‐grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink on the bus.

Reich, Susanna. Minette’s Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat (2012) While Julia is in the kitchen learning to cook up elaborate, delicious dishes, the only feast Minette is truly interested in is that of fresh mouse. Includes biographical information about Julia Child.


Asim, Jabari. Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington (2012) Award‐winning artist Bryan Collier captures the hardship and the spirit of one of the most inspiring figures in American history, bringing to life Booker T. Washington's journey to learn, to read, and to realize a dream.

Bishop, Nic. Snakes (2012) With breathtaking full‐page images, Sibert Medal‐winning photographer Nic Bishop introduces the terrifying and beautiful world of snakes. [Series]

Burleigh, Robert. The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn (2011) Everyone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, and now it's time for young 'uns everywhere to get acquainted with the man behind the pen.

Chin, Jason. Island: A Story of the Galápagos (2012) An island is about to be born‐ one that in time will become the home of plants and animals that exist nowhere else on Earth. This book is the biography of a Galápagos island‐ from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond.

Floca, Brian. Locomotive (2013) Presents a visual exploration of America's early railroads, examining the sounds, speed, and strength of the fledgling transcontinental locomotives and the experiences of pioneering travelers.

Freedman, Russell. The Boston Tea Party (2012) Tells the story of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 from the arrival of the ships full of controversial taxed tea in Boston Harbor, through the explosive protest meetings at the Old South Church, to the defiant act of dumping 226 chests of fine tea into the harbor on December 16.

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Griffiths, Andy. What Body Part Is That? (2012) Readers take a fresh approach to the human body by discovering its functions in terms that don't make their brains explode like water balloons from too much technical jargon!

Jenkins, Steve. The Beetle Book (2012) Introduces beetles, including their different parts, their life cycles, what they eat, and what makes them special in the insect world.

Kalman, Maira. Looking at Lincoln (2012) Abraham Lincoln is one of the first giants of history children are introduced to, and now Maira Kalman brings him to life with her trademark style and enthusiasm.

Lewis, Patrick J. (ed.) National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry (2012) Combines photography with lyrical text celebrating the animal world, in a compilation that includes works by such poets as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Rudyard Kipling.

McMillan, Beverly. A Day in the Life of Your Body (2012) Detailed, scientifically accurate color illustrations are complemented with a lively text that explains the many ways a typical healthy child's body functions at different times of a typical day.

Noble, Trina Hakes. The People of Twelve Thousand Winters (2012) Ten‐year‐old Walking Turtle, of the Lenni‐Lenape tribe, is close to his younger cousin, Little Talk, who has difficulty walking and worries about what will become of him when the time comes for Walking Turtle to leave his childhood friends to begin training at warrior school.

Nobleman, Marc Tyler. Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co‐creator of Batman (2012) Recounts the life of the unrecognized co‐creator of the Batman comic strip and details the author's quest to find out more about him.

Person, Stephen. Saving Animals after Tornadoes (2012) Describes the rescue efforts involved in saving the lives of animals affected by a tornado. [Series]

Petrie, Kristin. Food and Energy: Striking a Healthy Balance (2011) Describes how food plays a vital role in daily life with explanations of calories, serving sizes and food labels. [Series]

Prelutsky, Jack. I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus (2012) Presents more than 100 funny poems and silly pictures that are mostly about a variety of real and not‐so‐real animals.

Salas, Laura. BookSpeak!: Poems about Books (2011) A collection of wacky, whimsical poems about books and all the treasures they contain.

Silverstein, Shel. Every Thing On It (2011) A collection of poems and drawings features an assortment of characters, including Stick‐A‐Tongue‐Out Sid and Transparent Tim.

Sweet, Melissa. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (2011)Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Van Allsburg, Chris. Queen of the Falls (2011)Recounts the stunt performed by sixty‐two‐year‐old retired charm school instructor Annie Edson Taylor, who went over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel in an effort to gain fame and fortune.


Aguirre, Jorge. Giants Beware! (2012) Claudette wants nothing more than to slay a giant, but her little village is too safe and quiet.

Castellucci, Cecil. Odd Duck (2013) Despite the fact that she swims with a teacup balanced on her head and stays north when all of the ducks fly south for the winter, Theodora believes herself to be a normal duck and makes a friend in Chad, who may be as eccentric as she is.

Chantler, Scott. The Captive Prince (2012) Dessa, Topper and Fisk, still searching for Dessa's missing twin brother, find themselves in a mess after Dessa accidently rescues a prince. [Series]

Eaton, Maxwell. The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan (2012) Two beavers thwart an evil plot by penguins who plan to turn Beaver Island into a frosty resort. [Series]

Holm, Jennifer. Game On! (Squish #5) (2013) Squish the amoeba neglects his homework, parents, friends, and even his Super Amoeba comic books when he discovers the video game Mitosis. [Series]

Phelan, Matt. Bluffton: My Summers with Buster (2013) Henry bonds with a young Buster Keaton over games of baseball while the latter summers locally with a troupe of vaudeville performers.

Spiegelman, Nadja and Trade Loeffler. Zig and Wikki in the Cow (2012) Two extraterrestrial friends land on Earth in the center of a farm ecosystem, where an argument forces them to separate, only to be brought back together in the stomach of a cow. [Series]

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Grades 5-6 FICTION

Booraem, Ellen. Small Persons with Wings (They Hate to Be Called Fairies) (2011) When Mellie Turpin's grandfather dies and leaves her family his run‐down inn and bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy guardians, and now that the fairies want an important ring returned, the Turpins become involved in a series of magical adventures as they try to locate the missing ring.

Carter, Scott William. Wooden Bones (2012) Pino and his father, Gepetto, face grave danger when they are forced to go on the run after villagers learn that a puppet made by Pino to represent Gepetto’s dead wife can move as Pino, himself, did before becoming a real boy.

Choldenko, Gennifer. No Passengers Beyond This Point (2011) With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.

Gantos, Jack. Dead End in Norvelt (2011) In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve‐year‐old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.

Gibbs, Stuart. Spy Camp (2013) As almost thirteen‐year‐old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER. [Series]

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Caught (2013) Jonah and Katherine come face to face with Albert Einstein in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series. [Series]

Johnson, Peter. The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini (2012) Thirteen‐year‐old John "Houdini" Smith tries to write a book about what is happening in his life, from his parents’ worries about money and his brother in Iraq, to his new understandings of people while he and his friends rake lawns in their East Side Providence, Rhode Island neighborhood.

Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out & Back Again (2011) Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life‐changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Meloy, Colin. Wildwood (2011) When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh‐grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness‐‐a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon‐‐and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

O’Connor, Sheila. Sparrow Road (2011) Twelve‐year‐old Raine spends the summer at a mysterious artists colony and discovers a secret about her past.

Palacio, R.J. Wonder (2012) Ten‐year‐old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home‐schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

Reinhardt, Dana. The Summer I Learned to Fly (2011) Thirteen‐year‐old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother’s cheese shop and dreaming about co‐worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew’s father’s book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.

Soup, Cuthbert. No Other Story (2012) When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor‐free" children journey to the not‐so‐distant past, they meet something utterly surprising‐‐the alternate versions of themselves.

Sylvester, Kevin. Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders (2012) Fourteen‐year‐old chef and budding detective Neil Flambe helps the police in their investigation of the murders of some of the best chefs in town, a puzzle that seems to have something to do with a mysterious smell and Marco Polo. [Series]

Turnage, Sheila. Three Times Lucky (2012) Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co‐parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

Van Allsburg, Chris. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick (2011) Presents fourteen short stories from award‐winning authors based on the illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.

Wolitzer, Meg. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman (2011) Twelve‐year‐olds Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano meet at the Youth Scrabble Tournament where, although each has a different reason for attending and for needing to win, they realize that something more important is at stake than the grand prize.

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Burns, Loree Griffin. Citizen Scientists (2012) Shows young readers how a citizen scientist learns about butterflies, birds, frogs, and ladybugs.

Markle, Sandra. The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery (2012) Looks at the Panamanian golden frog, the national symbol of Panama, which has been vanishing due to a fungus infection, and follows a team of scientists working to save these frogs and protect frog populations worldwide.

Mendelson, Aaron. American R&B: Gospel Grooves, Funky Drummers, and Soul Power (2012) Find out what drove R & B's earliest performers to stand up and sing. Follow the music's path from gospel choirs to wild funk bands. And learn more about legends such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, and Beyoncé.

O’Connell, Caitlin and Jackson, Donna M. The Elephant Scientist (2011) Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest , most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth. [Series]

Ray, Deborah Kogan. Paiute Princess: The Story of Sarah Winnemucca (2012) Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her grandfather's white friends.


Hale, Nathan. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party (2013) Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, tells a hangman and British officer the story of the Donner Party, a doomed wagon train traveling from Illinois to California in 1846. [Series]

Kibuishi, Kazu. Amulet: The Last Council (2011) Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered‐‐a secret that, if left buried, means certain destruction of everything Emily fights for. [Series]

Liu, Na and Andres Martinez. Little White Duck: A Childhood in China (2012) A young girl describes her experiences growing up in China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.

TenNapel, Doug. Cardboard (2012) When cardboard creatures come magically to life, a boy must save his town from disaster.

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Grades 7-8 FICTION

Angus, Sam. Soldier Dog (2013) Follows the World War I experiences of Stanley, who upon joining the war effort to escape his father is assigned to the experimental War Dog School, where he trains a Great Dane with whom he attempts to find his missing soldier brother.

Bauer, Joan. Close to Famous (2011) Twelve‐year‐old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother’s abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.

Bray, Libba. Beauty Queens (2011) When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

Christopher, Lucy. Flyaway (2011) While her father is in the hospital, thirteen‐year‐old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry’s health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry’s window.

Condie, Ally. Reached (2012) One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters most—family, love, choice. Her quiet revolution is about to explode into full‐scale rebellion. With exquisite prose, the emotionally gripping conclusion to the international–bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long, the power to choose. [Series]

Cross, Gillian. Where I Belong (2011) Thirteen‐year‐old Khadija, a Somali refugee, becomes a model for a famous fashion designer to help her family back home, while the designer's daughter Freya and fourteen‐year‐old Abdi, whose family Khadija lives with in London, try to protect her.

Dessen, Sarah. What Happened to Goodbye (2011) Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen‐year‐old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.

Evans, Richard Paul. Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (2011) Michael Vey, a fourteen‐year old who has Tourette's syndrome and special electric powers, finds there are others like him, and must rely on his powers to save himself and the others from a diabolical group seeking to control them. [Series]

Fleming, Candace. On the Day I Died (2012) In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen‐year‐old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.

Haines, Kathryn Miller. The Girl is Murder (2011) In 1942 New York City, fifteen‐year‐old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.

Ivey, Eowyn. The Snow Child (2012) Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart‐‐he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone‐‐but they glimpse a young, blonde‐haired girl running through the trees.

Jackson, Joshilyn. A Grown‐Up Kind of Pretty (2012) A novel that follows a young woman's search for the truth about who her mother really is.

Krivak, Andrew. The Sojourn (2011) Uprooted from a nineteenth century mining town in Colorado by a shocking family tragedy, young Jozef Vinich returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria‐Hungary. When war comes, Jozef is sent as a sharpshooter to the southern front, where he must survive the killing trenches, a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps, and capture by a victorious enemy.

Lancaster, Mike A. Human. 4 (2011) Twenty‐first century fourteen‐year‐old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape‐recording found by the superhumans of the future.

Levithan, David. Every Day (2012) Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

Lore, Pittacus. The Rise of Nine (2012) John, Six, and Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late. [Series]

Lowry, Lois. Son (2012) Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit. [Series]

Lu, Marie. Legend (2011) In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen‐year‐olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.

Lutz, Lisa. Trail of the Spellmans: Document #5 (2012) For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman, P.I., might be the most normal member of her family. Yet as a number of cases pile, Izzy won't stop hunting for the answers‐‐even when they threaten to shatter both the business and the family. [Series]

Northrop, Michael. Trapped (2011) Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week‐long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.

Oliver, Lauren. Requiem (2013) This exciting finale to Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling Delirium trilogy is a riveting blend of nonstop action and forbidden romance in a dystopian United States. [Series]

Oppel, Kenneth. Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book Two (2012) When does obsession become madness? Tragedy has forced sixteen‐year‐old Victor Frankenstein to swear off alchemy forever. He burns the Dark Library. He vows he will never dabble in the dark sciences again—just as he vows he will no longer covet Elizabeth, his brother’s betrothed. If only these things were not so tempting. [Series]

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Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance: Or the Vault of Souls (2011) The young Dragon Rider Eragon must finally confront the evil king Galbatorix to free Alagaesia from his rule once and for all. [Series]

Resau, Laura and Farinango, María Virginia. The Queen of Water (2011) Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class “mestizo" family.

Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Schmidt, Gary. Okay for Now (2011) While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds and unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.

Sloan, Holly. Counting by 7s (2013) Twelve‐year‐old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

Thompson, Holly. Orchards (2011) Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth‐grade classmate's suicide, half‐Japanese, half‐Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.

Voorhoeve, Anne. My Family for the War (2012) Before the start of World War II, ten‐year‐old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.

Watson, Larry. American Boy (2011) On Thanksgiving Day 1962, the shooting of a young woman sets off a chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota, all revolving around Matthew Garth, who becomes obsessed with the shooting victim and with the lavish lifestyle of a local doctor's family.


Bragg, Georgia. How they Croaked: The awful ends of the awfully famous (2011) A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.

Hoose, Phillip. Moonbird: A year on the wind with the great survivor B95 (2012) Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.

Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s first Black Paratroopers (2013) Examines the role of African‐Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.

Walker, Sally M. Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World (2012) On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?

Willerslev, Rane. On the Run in Siberia (2012) An extraordinary, chilling tale of one year living in exile among Yukaghir hunters in the stark Siberian taiga region. At turns shocking and quietly moving, On the Run in Siberia is a pulse‐pounding tale of idealism, political corruption, starvation, and survival (with a timely assist from Vladimir Putin) as well as a striking portrait of the Yukaghirs’ shamanistic tradition and their threatened way of life, a drama unfolding daily in one of the world’s coldest, most enthralling landscapes.

Grades 7-8 graphic novel

Hicks, Faith Erin. Friends with Boys (2012) After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life.

Keenan, Sheila. Dogs of War (2013) Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.

Shen, Prudence. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (2013) Charlie, the captain of the basketball team, and Nate, the president of the robotics club, are best friends. Their friendship is tested when the robotics club and the cheerleading squad‐‐who use Charlie as their figurehead‐‐compete for student group funding.

Telgemeier, Raina. Drama (2012) Callie loves the theater and singing, but she can't sing very well herself. So when her middle school decides to put on "Moon over Mississippi," Callie decides to be the set designer for the stage crew. Callie is going to put on a Broadway‐worthy show‐‐if only ticket sales were up, and she knew something about carpentry, and if there weren't squabbles among the crew. Maybe, Callie thinks, the two cute twin boys who have just joined the theater can help.

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Grades 9-12 FICTION

Asher, Jay and Mackler, Carolyn. The Future of Us (2011) Emma gets her first computer and an America Online CD‐ROM in 1996, and when her best friend Josh visits and they log on, they discover themselves on Facebook fifteen years in the future.

Baggott, Julianna. Pure (2012) In a post‐apocalyptic world where those undamaged by the cataclysmic events are kept safely inside the Dome, a young girl on the outside teams up with a boy on the inside to search for his missing mother. [Series]

Bender, Aimee. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2011) On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon‐chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers that her mother tastes of despair, as she uncovers family secrets.

Brooks, Geraldine. Caleb’s Crossing (2011) Tells the story of the first Native American graduate of Harvard College, related by a young woman who is also fighting for a voice in a society that demands her silence.

Brunt, Carol Rifka. Tell the Wolves I’m Home (2012) It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen‐year‐old June Elbus ‐‐ her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life ‐‐ someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.

Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork Princess (2013) Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy. [Series]

Dermont, Amber. The Starboard Sea (2012) Devastated by the suicide of his prep‐school roommate and disdaining the trappings of his affluent Manhattan life, Jason transfers to another school and bonds with a troubled classmate whose subsequent death compels Jason to uncover the truth, in a tale set against a backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse.

Ferraris, Zoe. Kingdom of Strangers (2012) A secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a serial killer has been operating undetected in Jeddah for more than a decade.Portraying the lives of women in one of the most closed cultures in the world, award‐winning author Zoë Ferraris weaves a tale of psychological suspense around an elusive serial killer and the sinister forces trafficking in human lives in Saudi Arabia. [Series]

Fisher, Catherine. Sapphique (2011) After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature. [Series]

Flower, Amanda. A Plain Death: an Appleseed Creek Mystery (2012) While her Cleveland friends relocated to Southern California and Italy, 24‐year‐old computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek to direct technology services at a nearby college. Her first acquaintance is Becky, an ex‐Amish teenager looking for a new home. While driving Chloe's car, Becky collides with a buggy, killing an Amish bishop. But what looks like an accident is soon labeled murder when police discover the car's cut brake line. Now, Chloe must take on the role of amateur sleuth to discover who the real intended victim was before the murderer makes a second attempt. [Series]

Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars (2012) Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids‐with‐cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

Handler, Daniel. Why We Broke Up (2011) Sixteen‐year‐old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed (2013) The best‐selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.

LaBan, Elizabeth. The Tragedy Paper (2012) While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill‐fated romance with Daisy.

Lewis, Stewart. You Have Seven Messages (2011) Teenaged Luna, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her movie director father, tries to piece together the death of her mother with the seven unheard messages left on her forgotten cell phone.

Maxwell, Robin. Jane: The Woman who Loved Tarzan (2012) Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.

McCall Smith, Alexander. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013) Precious Ramotswe is asked to discover who is spreading vicious rumors about a new beauty salon. Meanwhile, her assistant, Grace Makutsi, is adjusting to the news that she is expecting her first child. [Series]

Merullo, Roland. The Talk‐Funny Girl (2011) Raised by parents so intentionally isolated that they speak their own hybrid dialect, abused youth Marjorie witnesses her parents' submission to a sadistic cult leader before she is rescued by another abuse survivor who teaches her stoneworking skills.

Revoyr, Nina. Wingshooters (2011) Michelle LeBeau, the daughter of an American man and a Japanese woman, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin, and their lives are forever changed when an African American family moves into their all‐white town in 1974.

Rogan, Charlotte. The Lifeboat (2012) In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize has exceeded capacity. For any to live, some must die.

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Roth, Veronica. Allegient (2013) The conclusion to the trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world and the consequences of a fateful decision. [Series]

Saenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) Fifteen‐year‐old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

Sanchez, Alex. Boyfriends with Girlfriends (2011) When Lance begins to date Sergio, who is bisexual, he is not sure that it will work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand.

Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray (2011) In 1941, fifteen‐year‐old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

Silvey, Craig. Jasper Jones (2011) In small‐town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

Thomas, Samuel. The Midwife’s Tale (2013) A tale set against a backdrop of the 1644 Siege of York finds midwife Bridget Hodgson joining forces with resourceful servant Martha Hawkins to prove the innocence of a woman who has been sentenced to burn at the stake for murdering her husband.

Walker, Karen Thompson. The Age of Miracles (2012) The rotation of the earth has begun to slow and the environment is thrown into disarray. Julia is also coping with the fissures in her family, the loss of friends, the hopeful anguish of love and other normal disasters of everyday life.

Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones: A Novel (2011) Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity (2012) In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi‐occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Whaley, John Corey. Where Things Come Back (2011) Seventeen‐year‐old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

Zarr, Sara. How to Save a Life (2011) Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen‐year‐old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.

GRADES 9-12 NON-FICTION

Alexander, Eben. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (2012) Shares the author's minute‐by‐minute account of his religiously transformative near‐death experience and revealing week‐long coma, describing his scientific study of near‐death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.

Bar‐Zohar, Michael and Mishal, Nissim. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (2012) The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. This book unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency's more than sixty‐year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear facility, and the elimination of key Iranian nuclear scientists.

Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012) The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty‐first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast‐paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Brimner, Larry Dane. Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor (2011) Examines the history of the civil rights battle fought between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor in the 1950s and 1960s. Explores the lives of both men, Fred a young black preacher and Bull an old white commissioner, utilizing dozens of photographs from the era, FBI files, and archived newspapers detailing the events of the riots that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, incited by these two men.

Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (2012) Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts–from a witty, high‐octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record‐breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Foer, Joshua. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (2011) Having achieved the seemingly unachievable‐‐ becoming a U.S. Memory Champion‐‐ Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.

Harden, Blaine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (2012) Twenty‐six years ago, Shin Dong‐hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no‐exit prison‐‐ to freedom in South Korea.

Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011) In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, this work portrays Brown's uprising revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict.

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Hunter‐Gault, Charlayne. To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement (2012) This compelling personal history from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter‐Gault, uses the inauguration of President Obama to look back on her own involvement in the civil rights movement, as one of two black students who forced the University of Georgia to integrate, and to relate the pivotal events that swept the South as the movement gathered momentum through the early 1960s.

Kargar, Zarghuna. Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of Women in Afghanistan (2012) Collects thirteen real‐life stories of Afghani women who speak out about their hidden lives, from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud to a widow shunned by society, revealing their suffering and strength.

Kilmeade, Brian. George Washington’s Secret Six: the Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution (2013) Shares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes.

Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (2011) Candice Millard chronicles the life of President James A. Garfield, from his upbringing to his untimely death.

Murray, Liz. Breaking Night : A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard (2011) The memoir of a young woman who at age 15 was living on the streets but survived to make it to Harvard. Murray's story was featured in the Lifetime Original Movie "Homeless to Harvard."

O'Reilly, Bill and Martin Dugard. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (2011) A riveting historical narrative of the heart‐stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Owen, Mark and Kevin Maurer. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (2012) A memoir of a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 about his career in the military, including his firsthand account of the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013) The humor scientist behind Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife takes a tour of the human digestive system, explaining why the stomach doesn't digest itself and whether constipation can kill you.

Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (2011) The remarkable story of a woman who set up a flourishing business under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

Wasik, Bill and Murphy, Monica. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus (2012) Charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies, documenting how before its vaccine the disease caused fatal brain infections and sparked the creations of monsters, including werewolves, vampires and zombies.

Zuckoff, Mitchell. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (2013) Drawing on intensive research and a firsthand account of the dangerous 2012 expedition, this thrilling true story of survival, which moves between World War II and today, follows the survivors of a U.S. cargo plane crash in 1942 and their 148 days spent fighting for their lives during a brutal Arctic winter.

Grades 9-12 graphic novel

Fetter‐Vorm, Jonathan. Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012) Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter‐Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth‐century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project. Along the way, Fetter‐Vorm takes special care to explain the fundamental science of nuclear reactions. With the clarity and accessibility that only a graphic book can provide, Trinity transports the reader into the core of a nuclear reaction—into the splitting atoms themselves.

Knisley, Lucy. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (2013) Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe‐‐ many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions.

Lewis, John. March. Book 1 (2013) A first‐hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life‐changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. [Series]

Long, Mark, et al. The Silence of Our Friends (2012) As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families‐‐one white, one black‐‐find common ground. This semi‐autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights.

Redniss, Lauren. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love & Fallout (2011) Presents the professional and private lives of Marie and Pierre Curie, examining their personal struggles, the advancements they made in the world of science, and the issue of radiation in the modern world.

Van Sciver, Noah. The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln (2012) This graphic novel follows the twenty‐something Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president.

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