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NCRMS Summer Reading List Summer 2018
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
by Phillip Hoose
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, here is Phil Hoose's inspiring story of these young war heroes.
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Counting by 7s
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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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The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.Book Annotation
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El Deafo
by Cece Bell
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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Elizabeth and Zenobia
by Jessica Miller
A shy and neglected girl moves to her father's family home in the aftermath of her mother's abandonment and struggles to be patient with her fearless friend, Zenobia, who becomes increasingly obsessed with solving the mystery of a family member's disappearance. A first novel.
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The fourteenth goldfish
by Jennifer L Holm
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter
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The girl who drank the moon
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
About a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her.
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The librarian of Auschwitz
by Antonio Iturbe
A tale based on true events follows the experiences of a teen prisoner in Auschwitz who risks her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
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Mars evacuees
by Sophia McDougall
When Earth comes under attack by aliens, a select group of kids are evacuated to Mars, but when they learn that they are safer on Mars, a place where they can only "sort of breathe the air, and sort of not get sunburned to death," they get the idea that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well. Simultaneous eBook. 30,000 first printing
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My life with the liars
by Caela Carter
A first middle-grade story by the author of My Best Friend, Maybe follows the experiences of young Zylynn, who is excited to be turning 13 so she can join in her cult's efforts to recruit new members to “Live in the Light,” but when she is taken away by a man who claims to be her father, she learns that life in the outside world is not exactly what she had expected. Simultaneous eBook. 30,000 first printing.
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The name of this book is secret
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality
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Orphan train girl : the young readers' edition of Orphan train
by Christina Baker Kline
Ordered to perform community service helping an elderly woman, an embittered foster child is welcomed by her nonagenarian host, who reveals her own past as an orphan while organizing personal mementos. Simultaneous eBook. 100,000 first printing.
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Paper hearts
by Ali Novak
Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared but when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy
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Posted
by John David Anderson
When cell phones are banned at their school, Frost and his friends start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school before other kids start following their example, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
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Prisoner B-3087
by Alan Gratz
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
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The raft
by S. A. Bodeen
When her last-minute cargo flight to the Pacific Islands Midway Atoll is brought down by a catastrophic storm, lone passenger Robie finds herself drifting in the middle of the ocean on a raft with the co-pilot, Max, with whom she struggles to survive without supplies. By the author of The Compound.
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Spirit hunters
by Ellen Oh
Feeling uncomfortable from the moment she arrives in her new home, Harper is dismayed by local rumors that her house is haunted and that every family that has ever lived there has suffered terrible tragedies, a situation that turns sinister when her cheerful little brother begins acting in alarming ways. Simultaneous eBook.
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Stella by starlight
by Sharon M. Draper
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town
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Sticks & stones
by Abby Cooper
Twelve-year-old Elyse has a rare genetic disorder that makes the words other people say about her appear on her body
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Tesla's attic
by Neal Shusterman
Moving into a ramshackle Victorian house after his home burns down, Nick discovers a cache of odd antiques in the attic, where his new friends and he become unwitting subjects in a perilous scientific plan by a devious inventor
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The thing about jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
A teen determinedly investigates the drowning death of her best friend to prove that the tragedy occurred because of a rare jellyfish sting. A first solo novel by the co-author of The Keeper. Simultaneous eBook. 35,000 first printing.
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When friendship followed me home
by Paul Griffin
Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in
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