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Youth Staff Picks - Summer 2011
Linda's Pick
Cinderella Smith - Stephanie Barden and Diane Goode
Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/26/2011
Share Cinderella Smith ISBN-13: 9780061964237
ISBN-10: 0061964239
Call Number: JF Barden
Cast off by her old friends, Cinderella agrees to help a new student deal with the stepsisters she will soon have, and meantime, a former friend tries to prevent Cinderella from dancing the lead in their tap recital.
Linda's Pick
The big crunch - Pete Hautman
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2011
Share The big crunch ISBN-13: 9780545240758
ISBN-10: 0545240751
Call Number: YA Hautman
Rejecting melodramatic teen notions about romance, friends Jen and Wes wonder about their growing attraction to each other in the face of such challenges as a pity date and views that differ. By the National Book Award-winning author of Godless.
Char's Pick
The adventures of Nanny Piggins - R. A. Spratt and Dan Santat
Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/16/2010
Share The adventures of Nanny Piggins ISBN-13: 9780316068192
ISBN-10: 0316068195
Call Number: JF Spratt
When a fashionable flying pig responds to a "nanny wanted" ad for Mr. Green's three children, the ensuing year is a surprise-filled, adventurous journey marked by an abundance of yummy chocolate.
Char's Pick
An eyeball in my garden : and other spine-tingling poems - Jennifer Cole Judd, Laura Wynkoop and Johan Olander
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Childrens
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2010
Share An eyeball in my garden %3a  and other spine-tingling poems ISBN-13: 9780761456551
ISBN-10: 0761456554
Call Number: J808.81 Eye
From spiders to mummies to the Boogeyman, this wide-ranging collection of poems has a little bit of everything creepy, crawly and just plain scary; with a pinch of terror and a dash of humor, readers will be cast into a shadowy world where creatures lurk and nightmares await….
Deb's Pick
Eggs over Evie - Alison Jackson and Tuesday Mourning
Publisher: Henry Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/09/2010
Share Eggs over Evie ISBN-13: 9780805082944
ISBN-10: 0805082948
Call Number: JF Jackson
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat offer Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.
Deb's Pick
The magic half - Annie Barrows
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/26/2007
Share The magic half ISBN-13: 9781599901329
ISBN-10: 1599901323
Call Number: JF Barrows
Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day.
Kelly's Pick
Justin Fisher declares war! - James Preller
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2010
Share Justin Fisher declares war! ISBN-13: 9780545033015
ISBN-10: 0545033012
Call Number: JF Preller
Ruling the roost of an elementary school dominated by the fifth grade, class clown Justin Fisher influences his peers with lighthearted pranks and silly behavior until he discovers at the start of the new school year that other kids no longer find his antics funny.
Kelly's Pick
Storm runners - Roland Smith
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2011
Share Storm runners ISBN-13: 9780545081757
ISBN-10: 0545081750
Call Number: YA Smith
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
Mary's Pick
How they croaked : the awful ends of the awfully famous - Georgia Bragg and Kevin O'Malley
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/15/2011
Share How they croaked %3a  the awful ends of the awfully famous ISBN-13: 9780802798176
ISBN-10: 0802798179
Call Number: J920 Bra
A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
Mary's Pick
Queen of the Falls - Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/04/2011
Share Queen of the Falls ISBN-13: 9780547315812
ISBN-10: 0547315813
Call Number: E Van Allsburg
Recounts how, at the turn of the nineteenth century, retired charm school teacher Annie Edson Taylor planned and executed her daring feat to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, earning her the name "Queen of the Falls.".

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