Buried Alive: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert
Buried Alive: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert By Elaine Scott Clarion Books • 2012 • 80 pages Hardcover ($17.00) ISBN 978-0-547-70778-5 Ages 9-12 Elaine Scott is well known for her scientific books for children. In her latest, she not only explains how thirty-three Chilean miners survived for 69 days [...]
Secret Saturdays
Secret Saturdays By Torrey Maldonado Putnam Juvenile • 2010 • 195 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN 978-0-399-25158-0 Ages 10 and up What does it mean to be a man? Living in the hardscrabble neighborhood of Red Hook, in New York City, sixth-grader Justin believes that his friend, Sean, has it nailed. He is good looking, popular, [...]
How Tía Lola Ended Up Starting Over
How Tía Lola Ended Up Starting Over By Julia Alvarez Random House • 2011 • 145 pages Paperback ($6.99) ISBN: 978-0-375-87320-1 Ages 8-12 In the final entry in the Tía Lola series, families are reconfigured, a mystery is solved, and Tía Lola becomes the proprietor of a bed and breakfast located in the home of [...]
The Trouble with Half a Moon
The Trouble with Half a Moon By Danette Vigilante Putnam • 2011 • 181 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-399-25159-7 Ages 9-12 Like most 13-year-olds, Dellie has a lot on her mind: school, parents, friends, and boys. But Dellie’s life is further burdened by the sometimes-violent nature of life in the housing projects where she lives, [...]
Starfields
Starfields By Carolyn Marsden Candlewick Press • 2011 • 224 pages Hardcover. ($15.99) ISBN 9780763648206 Ages 10 and up At the center of this well-written novel is nine-year old Rosalba, a Mayan girl who lives with her family in a remote Mexican village, keeping the customs of their ancestors—a life respectful of nature and all [...]
A Thunderous Whisper
A Thunderous Whisper By Christina Diaz Gonzalez Knopf • 2012 • 304 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-375-86929-7 Ages 10 and up With this new book, the author of The Red Umbrella (Knopf) continues to chronicle the lives of children removed from their countries of origin for the sake of their own safety. The protagonist of [...]
Wonder
Wonder By R.J. Palacio Knopf • 2012 • 320 pages Hardcover ($15.99) ISBN: 978-0-375-86902-0 Ages 10 and up August Pullman, better known as Auggie, is about to start 5th grade in a new school. Up until now, he had been homeschooled by his loving and over protective mother. Auggie is a completely normal boy—he is [...]
The Revolution Of Evelyn Serrano
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano By Sonia Manzano Scholastic • 2012 • 224 pages ISBN: 978-0545325059 Hardcover ($17.99) Ages 10-14 Like Pam Muñoz Ryan, who so beautifully and eloquently captures the essence of the Mexican-American experience, and Julia Alvarez, who does the same for Dominican-Americans, Sonia Manzano sheds some light on the history of Puerto [...]
Love, Amalia
Love, Amalia By Alma Flor Ada & Gabriel M. Zubizarreta Atheneum • 2012 • 127 pages ISBN: 978-1-4424-2402-9 Hardcover (15.99) Ages 8-12 Love, Amalia is an arrow aimed right at the heart of upper-elementary grade school girls. Sixth-grader Amalia is heartbroken when her BFF Martha unexpectedly shares news of her family’s imminent move from Chicago [...]
The Wild Book
The Wild Book By Margarita Engle Houghton Mifflin • 2012 • 133 pages ISBN: 978-0-547-58131-6 Hardcover ($16.99) Ages 10-14 A good number of us have had some experience with the topic of this book, so I will share mine: One of my cousins struggled all the way through school. She was in remedial classes, and [...]
