Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
ISBN 0064409600 EAN 9780064409605 Harper Paperback (9 to 13)
WB Price: $10.95
"Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today. Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. It's easier to remember what's important about love, life, and friendship while Granny Torrelli makes soup. 19.6 cms L x 13.26 cms W (0.11 kgs) 141 pages

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
ISBN 0440228352 EAN 9780440228356 Laurel Paperback (13 to 18) WB Price: $10.95
New to town, Brent Bishop longs to stroll around school with the popular Brianna on his arm. But when Brianna begs him at a party full of schoolmates to stop hounding her, Brent's hopes are shattered. Trying to escape his humiliation, he attempts to destroy himself in a car crash -- and ends up killing Lea, an innocent teen unfortunate enough to cross his path.Lea's mother asks one thing of Brent: that he create four whirligigs from a picture of Lea and set them up at the four corners of the United States. Lea's mother believes that by spreading the joy that whirligigs gave Lea as a child, Brent will keep Lea's spirit alive.And so Brent goes off with an unlimited bus ticket and the tools he needs to memorialize Lea. On his journey, he rediscovers his own love of life, and he begins to realize how -- like the pieces that form the intricate whirligigs -- people come together to affect each other in surprising ways. Acclaimed by the ALA, "School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, " and "The New York Times. Awards: Young Readers Choice Award | Nominee | Grades 9-12 | 2001 ; Young Hoosier Book Award | Nominee | Grades 6-8 | 2001 ;17.3 cms L x 10.77 cms W (0.07 kgs) 144 pages

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
ISBN 0439709105 EAN 9780439709101 Scholastic Paperback (10 to 13) WB Price: $17.95
One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.19 cms L x 13.6 cms W (0.37 kgs) 548 pages

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
ISBN: 0439554012 EAN: 9780439554015 Chicken House Paperback (9 to 12) WB Price: $17.95 
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.19.3 cms L x 13.92 cms W (0.41 kgs) 656 pages.Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award | Winner | Children's Literature | 2006 ; Locus Awards | Nominee | Young Adult | 2006 ; Quill Awards | Nominee | Children's Chapter | 2006; 19 cms L x 13.9 cms W (0.41 kgs) 635 pages

There's A Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar
ISBN 0394805720 EAN 9780394805726 Random Paperback 
(11 to 14) WB Price: $11.95
Bradley Chalkers IS the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls. No one likes him--except Carla, the new school counselor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren't afraid to try. But when you feel like the most-hated kid in the whole school, believing in yourself can be the hardest thing in the world.Winner of 17 children's choice awards, IIRA/CBC Children's Choice; Bluebonnet Awards | Winner | Children's | 1990 ; Georgia Childrens Book Award | Winner | Children's Book | 1990 ; Buckeye Childrens Book Award | Winner | Grades 3-5 | 1991 ; 19 cms L x 13. cms W (0.14 kgs) 208 pages

The Cay by Theodore Taylor
ISBN 0440416639 EAN 9780440416630 Yearling Paperback 
(10 to 13) WB Price: $10.95
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curacao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthand-until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed. When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother's warning about black people: "They are different, and they live differently." But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip's head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy. 19. cms L x 13 cms W (0.10 kgs) 144 pages

My Side of The Mountain by Jean Craighead George  
ISBN 0141312424 EAN 9780141312422 Puffin Paperback (10 to 13)
WB Price: $11.95
Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods-all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever.20 cms L x 12.75 cms W (0.15 kgs) 192 pages

The Light In The Forest by Conrad Richter
ISBN 1400077885 EAN 9781400077885 Vintage Paperback (13 to 18)
WB Price: $11.95
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.17.9 cms L x 11.02 cms W (0.10 kgs) 179 pages

Lizzie Bright and The Buckminister Boy by Gary D Schmidt
ISBN 0618439293 EAN 9780618439294 Clarion Hardcover (12 to 16)
WB Price: $25.95
It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's and the town's-disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie, and it opens up a whole new world to him, filled with the mystery and wonder of Maine's rocky coast. The two soon discover that the town elders, along with Turner's father, want to force the people to leave Lizzie's island so that Phippsburg can start a lucrative tourist trade there. Turner gets caught up in a spiral of disasters that alter his life-but also lead him to new levels of acceptance and maturity. This sensitively written historical novel, based on the true story of a community's destruction, highlights a unique friendship during a time of change. Awards: Newbery Medal | Honor Book | Children's | 2005 ; Michael L. Printz Award | Honor Book | Young Adult | 2005 ; Lupine Award | Honor Book | Children/Young Adult | 2004 ; Dorothy Canfield Fisher Childrens Book Award | Nominee | Children's | 2006 ; 21. cms L x 14.6 cms W (0.43 kgs) 219 pages

Lizzie Bright and The Buckminister Boy by Gary D Schmidt
ISBN 0553494953 EAN 9780553494952 Clarion Paperback (12 to 16) WB Price: $11.95
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new world along the Maine coast from digging clams to rowing a boat next to a whale. When the powerful town elders, including Turner's father, decide to drive the people off the island to set up a tourist business, Turner stands alone against them. He and Lizzie try to save her community, but there's a terrible price to pay for going against the tide. 19. cms L x 13. cms W (0.15 kgs) 219 pages 

Beowulf A New Telling by Robert Nye
ISBN 0440905605 EAN 9780440905608 Laurel Paperback (13 to 18)
WB Price: $10.50
He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch?Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury -- "Beowulf." 18 cms L x 11 cms W (0.06 kgs) 112 pages

Shabanu Daughter of The Wind by Suzanne Staples
ISBN 0440238560 Laurel Paperback (13 to 18) 112 pgs 
WB Price: $11.95
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she's dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family's honor--or listen to the stirrings of her own heart? - Shabanu is a modern-day classic, with over half a million copies in print.- Explores and illuminates a Middle Eastern community with sensitivity and respect. Awards: A Newbery Honor Book.- An ALA Notable Book.- A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.- A Horn Book Fanfare.- An IRA Teachers' Choice and an IRA Young Adults' Choice.  

Be More Chill by Ned Vizinni 
ISBN 0786809965 Miramax Paperback (14 to 18) 304 pgs
WB Price: $12.95
Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from a complete geek into a member of the social elite. Soon he is friends with his former tormentors and has the attention of the hottest girls in school. But even now Christine remains stubbornly out of his reach. Jeremy eventually finds out that there is also a dark side to having a computer inside your brain--and it can lead to disastrous consequences.