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FEBRUARY 2013: The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine - A great Black History Month read for middle school children.

"I guess I've learned it's not enough to just think things. You have to say them too. Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head." Marlee Nisbett pg. 1 The Lions of Little Rock
 

APRIL 2013: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson - An exciting read for middle school kids who always knew there was something fishy about us librarians!

"I'd like to take this opportunity to point out something important. Should a strange old man of questionable sanity show up at your door - suggesting that he is your grandfather and that you should accompany him upon some quest of mystical import - you should flatly refuse him." Alcatraz Smedry pg.

JUNE 2013: The Underland Chronicles series by Suzanne Collins - A popular adventure series for older elementary & middle school kids by the author of The Hunger Games trilogy.

It’s been 2 years, 7 months & 9 days since Gregor’s father disappeared without a trace, and now his little sister Boots has fallen down a vent in the laundry room which has a mysterious fog swirling out of it. Gregor quickly deciding he has to go after her, falls into the vent … they fall for what seems like forever and when they land the world they find deep down below New York City is like nothing else they have ever seen. Boots is worshipped by giant talking cockroaches, giant talking bats are man’s best friend, and their means of transportation and it

AUGUST 2013: P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia - A great read for middle school girls!

"'Look-look!" she cried out. And then I saw it. We all saw what Vonetta could see from hundreds of feet away. A billboard of Jackie, Jermaine, Tito, Marlon, and Michael sporting big applejack caps over their even bigger Afros. We screamed. The letters on the billboard shouted at us: THE JACKSON FIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. And underneath those words: DECEMBER. The inside of the Wildcat became a cage of screaming and seat-jumping until we finally heard Pa shouting, "All right! All right back there!'" … "I screamed for Jackie, who

SEPTEMBER 2013: Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt - A great read for middle schooler's, but an even better audio book to listen to!

“There aren’t too many things around that are whole, you know. You look hard at most anything, and it’s probably beat up somewhere or other. Beat up, or dinged up, or missing a piece, or tattooed. Or maybe something starts out whole and then it turns into junk, …” Doug Swieteck pg. 175-176 Okay for Now
 

OCTOBER 2013: A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz - A great read for older Elementary and Middle Schooler's who like things scary!!!

"Once upon a time, fairy tales were awesome.
           
            I know, I know.  You don't believe me.  I don't blame you.  A little while ago, I wouldn't have believed it myself.  Little girls in red caps skipping around the forest?  Awesome?  I don't think so.