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The Legend of Zoey
by Terry Pratchett
MM-CPSD Fiction J FIC PRATCHET
Zoey's
family has a strange feeling about the
two-tailed comet in the sky. But that
doesn't mean Zoey will let them
chaperone her class field trip to Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee--especially
since Grandma Cope grew up near there.
What if Grandma tells everyone about
being a Native American? Zoey has no
interest in her family's past. All she
wants is for her parents to get back
together, and for herself to fit in at
school. She doesn't know what's hit her
when, during the bus ride to Reelfoot,
she's propelled back in time to 1811,
when the lake was formed!
Now Zoey's cell phone doesn't work, there's no fast food in sight,
and massive earthquakes keep rattling
the land. Prim, proper Prudence Charity
and her way-too-pregnant mother are the
first people Zoey sees, but they don't
believe her story--until they meet up
with Chickasaw Chief Kalopin and his
beautiful Choctaw bride. Kalopin is
convinced that the Great Spirit has
cursed him for stealing Laughing Eyes
from Chief Copiah, and that soon, the
river will swallow up his village and
everyone in it. Zoey knows they're
headed for disaster, but can she find
the courage to save them?
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Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan
MM-CPSD Fiction J
FIC FAN
The blue jays and
cardinals of
Stone-Run
Forest have turned against
each other. According to legend, only
Swordbird, son of the Great Spirit, has
the power to conquer evil and restore
peace to the land. But is he real or
just a myth? Can Swordbird arrive in
time to save the forest . . . or will it
be too late?
Twelve-year-old author Nancy Yi Fan has
woven a captivating tale about the birds
of
Stone-Run
Forest and the heroism,
courage, and resourcefulness in their
quest for peace.
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The Secret History of Tom Trueheart
by Ian Beck
MM-CPSD Fiction J
FIC BECK
Tom's six older
brothers take after their father. Tom
does not.
The brothers are adventurers who go on
dangerous quests in the Land of Stories. Tom stays home with his mother.
Tom's brothers are famous for the
exciting endings they discover for the
tales the Story Bureau assigns to them.
Tom worries he will never have a
story of his own. But when his brothers
fail to return from their adventures in
time to celebrate Tom's twelfth
birthday, a letter from the Story Bureau
arrives . . . addressed to Tom. It is up
to him to find out why his
brothers haven't completed their
missions.
Tom packs his bags and kisses his mother
good-bye. It turns out that he has his
own story after all-and you are about to
read it.
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Glint by
Ann Coburn
MM-CPSD
Fiction J FIC COBURN
Ellie and
her little brother Danny spend
their lonely days making up
stories about a young girl in a
world of dragons and
shape-shifters, a girl as brave
and cunning as they would like
to be.
Five
years later Danny disappears.
The police have no clues. They
fear he is dead, but Ellie knows
better. She also knows that she
is the only one who can find
him.
At the same
time, in the world Danny and
Ellie imagined, a young girl
named Argent sets off on a quest
of her own to reclaim a stolen
dragon hatchling.
As each girl
makes her way closer to her
goal, the boundaries between the
worlds of fantasy and reality
begin to blur until it's unclear
where one world ends and the
other begins. Gripping,
compelling, and utterly
absorbing, Glint is the
story of two worlds--and two
heroines--that readers will
never forget.
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Holbrook: A
Lizard’s Tale by Bonny
Becker
MM-CPSD
Fiction J FIC BECKER
Holbrook
loves to paint. He HAS to paint.
But no one in the dusty town of
Rattler's
Bend
understands how important art
is. Hoping to find someone who
will appreciate his artistic
efforts, the young lizard sets
off for Golden City,
where he encounters a colorful
cast of characters, from singing
snails to scruffy pigeons. The
elegant mink and renowned art
patron Count Rainier Rumolde
takes Holbrook under his paw and
introduces him to the great
artists of the day, among them
the prima ballerina Margot
Frogtayne and the amazing tenor
Enrico Escargot.
But not all that glitters is
gold, and Holbrook soon finds
himself trapped in a frightening
world he didn't know existed.
His only chance at escape is to
rely on the few tools at his
disposal-imagination, courage,
and newfound friends.
Hilarious black-and-white
drawings illustrate the zany
cast of characters in this
charming story about a lizard's
desire to show his true colors.
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The
Thing About Georgie
by Lisa Graff
MM-CPSD
Fiction J FIC GRAFF
Georgie's
dwarfism causes problems, but he
could always rely on his
parents, his best friend, and
classmate Jeanie the Meanie's
teasing, until a surprising
announcement, a new boy in
school, and a class project
shake things up.
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