Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
By Audrey Vernick Illustrated by Steven Salerno Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 40 Lexile: AD780L Age Range:4 – 8 Years ABOUT The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the 1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had enough to field a baseball team . . . with three on the bench! The Acerras were the longest-playing all-brother team in baseball history. They loved the game, but more important, they cared for and supported each other and stayed together as a team. Nothing life threw their way could stop them. Full of...
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By K.A. Holt Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC Pages: 304 Lexile: 610L Age Range: 10 – 14 Years ABOUT Timothy is a good kid who did a bad thing. Now he’s under house arrest for a whole year. He has to check in weekly with a probation officer and a therapist, keep a journal, and stay out of trouble. But when he must take drastic measures to help his struggling family, staying out of trouble proves more difficult than Timothy ever thought it would be. Touching, funny, and always original, House Arrest is a novel in verse about a good boy’s hard-won path to redemption. ...
Read MoreWhoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
By Chris Barton Illustrated by Don Tate Publisher: Charlesbridge Pages: 32 Lexile: 820L Age Range: 7 – 10 Years ABOUT A cool idea with a big splash! You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson’s life. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence...
Read MoreTiger Boy
By Mitali Perkins Illustrated by Jamie Hogan Publisher: Charlesbridge Pages: 144 Lexile: 770L Age Range: 7 – 10 Years ABOUT “One of the new tiger cubs has escaped from the reserve!” When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel’s island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find her before the cub’s anxious mother follows suit and endangers them all. Mr. Gupta, a rich newcomer to the island, is also searching—he wants to sell the cub’s body parts on the black market. Neel and his sister, Rupa, resolve to find the cub first and bring her back to the reserve where she...
Read MoreNot in the Script: An If Only novel
By Amy Finnegan Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pages: 392 Age Range: 12 – 17 Years ABOUT Enjoy Not in the Script and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury’s contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can’t have! Millions of people witnessed Emma Taylor’s first kiss-a kiss that needed twelve takes and four camera angles to get right. After spending years performing on cue, Emma can’t help but wonder if any part of her life is real anymore . . . particularly her romances. She’s been burned by heartthrobs...
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