The Great Good Summer
By Liz Garton Scanlon Publisher: Beach Lane Books Pages: 240 Lexile: 870L Age Range: 8 – 12 Years ABOUT Ivy and Paul hatch a secret plan to find Ivy’s missing mom and say good-bye to the space shuttle in this heartfelt and “engaging debut novel” (School Library Journal, starred review) reminiscent of Each Little Bird that Sings and Because of Winn-Dixie. Ivy Green’s mama has gone off with a charismatic preacher called Hallelujah Dave to The Great Good Bible Church of Panhandle Florida. At least that’s where Ivy and her dad think Mama is. But since the church has no website or phone...
Read MoreA Nearer Moon
By Melanie Crowder Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Pages: 160 Lexile: 960L Age Range: 8 – 12 Years ABOUT In a small river village where the water is cursed, a girl’s bravery could mean the difference between life and death in this magical story of “perseverance and hope” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from the author of Parched and Audacity. Along a lively river, in a village raised on stilts, lives a girl named Luna. All her life she has heard tales of the time before the dam appeared, when sprites danced in the currents and no one got the mysterious wasting illness from...
Read MoreUnidentified Suburban Object
By Mike Jung Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Pages: 272 Lexile: 830L Age Range: 8 – 12 Years ABOUT The next person who compares Chloe Cho with famous violinist Abigail Yang is going to HEAR it. Chloe has just about had it with people not knowing the difference between someone who’s Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. She’s had it with people thinking that everything she does well — getting good grades, winning first chair in the orchestra, et CETera — are because she’s ASIAN. Of course, her own parents don’t want to have anything to DO with their Korean...
Read MoreEighth-Grade Superzero
By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Pages: 352 Age Range: 10 – 14 Years ABOUT After the worst first day back *ever*, Reggie’s been nicknamed “Pukey” McKnight at his Brooklyn school. He wants to turn his image around, but he has other things on his mind as well: his father, who’s out of a job; his best friends, Joe C. (who’s a little too White) and Ruthie (who’s a little too intense); his ex-best friend Donovan, who’s now a jerk; and of course, the beautiful Mialonie. The elections for school president are coming...
Read MoreThe Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB
By Adam Shaughnessy Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers Pages: 272 Lexile: 720L Age Range: 8 – 12 Years ABOUT “What is the Unbelievable FIB?” That’s the question eleven-year-old Prudence Potts discovers on a baffling card no one else in Middleton—except ABE, a new kid at school with a knack for solving riddles—seems to see. Then a mysterious man asks for ABE and Pru’s help investigating mythical beings infiltrating the town, and that’s just the first of many things Pru finds hard to believe. REVIEW “In a vein similar to Percy Jackson, the Imaginary Veterinary books, and even Men in...
Read MoreBunk Reads Books Arriving at HQ
The books in the 2016 BUNK READS Library have been arriving at HQ all this week! Our sincere thanks goes out to all the publishers and imprints who have contributed books to this pilot program. Also on our doorstep today was a roll of the BUNK READS stickers designed by illustrator wunderkind, Marty Braun. We had better get to work. 3 books stickered, 600 to go…
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