Johnsburg Public Library

 

1/12/2008 @ 4:28pm           HOLES READ-A-LIKE                        

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J CASS SPI                   

           Spinelli, Jerry.  Maniac Magee : [a novel].  New York, NY. :

                Random House/Listening Library, p2001.  Read by S. Epatha

                Merkerson.  After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's

                life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and

                other feats which awe his contemporaries.

 

J FIC BAU                    

           Bauer, Joan, 1951-.  Hope was here.  New York : Putnam, 2000.

                When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her

                move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as

                waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they

                become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to

                oust the town's corrupt mayor.

 

J FIC CLE                    

           Clements, Andrew, 1949-.  Frindle.  1st ed.  New York, N.Y. :

                Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996.  When he

                decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the

                dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new

                word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond

                his control.

 

J FIC CRE                    

           Creech, Sharon.  The Wanderer.  New York :

                HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000.  Thirteen-year-old Sophie and

                her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard

                the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with

                uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their

                grandfather in England.

 

J FIC CREECH                 

           Creech, Sharon.  Walk two moons.  1st HarperTrophy edition.  New

                York : HarperTrophy, 1996, c1994.  After her mother leaves

                home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents

                take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way,

                Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother

                also left.

 

J FIC CUR                    

           Curtis, Christopher Paul.  The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a

                novel.  New York : Delacorte Press, 1995.  The ordinary

                interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an

                African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are

                drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in

                Alabama in the summer of 1963.

 

J FIC DICAMILLO              

           DiCamillo, Kate.  Because of Winn-Dixie.  1st ed.  Cambridge,

                Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2000.  Ten-year-old India Opal

                Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi,

                Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because

                of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

 

J FIC GAN                    

           Gantos, Jack.  Joey Pigza loses control.  New York : Farrar,

                Straus and Giroux, 2000.  Joey, who is still taking

                medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend

                the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known

                and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the

                championship.

 

J FIC JENNINGS               

           Jennings, Richard W. (Richard Walker), 1945-.  The great whale of

                Kansas.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.  While digging a

                hole in his back yard, an eleven-year-old Kansas boy finds

                the fossilized remains of a gigantic prehistoric animal, a

                discovery that brings both fame and controversy.

 

J FIC KON                    

           Konigsburg, E. L.  The view from Saturday.  1st ed.  New York,

                N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1996.  Four

                students, with their own individual stories, develop a

                special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a

                paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade

                class in the Academic Bowl competition.

 

J FIC KORMAN                 

           Korman, Gordon.  No more dead dogs.  1st ed.  New York : Hyperion

                Books for Children, c2000.  Eighth-grade football hero

                Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending

                rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he

                becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest

                changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

 

J FIC LAWRENCE               

           Lawrence, Iain, 1955-.  The smugglers.  New York : Dell Yearling,

                2000, c1999.  In eighteenth-century England, after his

                father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old

                John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes

                involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.

 

J FIC LEV                    

           Levine, Gail Carson.  Ella enchanted.  1st ed.  New York :

                HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997.  In this novel based on the

                story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood

                curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

 

J FIC LOW                    

           Lowry, Lois.  Number the stars.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.,

                1989.  In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark,

                ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous

                when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

 

J FIC PAT                    

           Paterson, Katherine.  Jip : his story.  1st ed.  New York :

                Lodestar Books, 1996.  While living on a Vermont poor farm

                during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of

                his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this

                place.

 

J FIC PAU                    

           Paulsen, Gary.  Harris and me : a summer remembered.  1st ed.

                San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1993.  Sent to live with

                relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an

                eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and

                is given an introduction to a whole new world.

 

J FIC RUBALCABA              

           Rubalcaba, Jill.  A place in the sun.  New York : Puffin, 1998.

                In ancient Egypt, the gifted young son of a sculptor is

                taken into slavery when he attempts to save his father's

                life, and is himself almost killed before his exceptional

                talent leads Pharoah to name him Royal Sculptor.

 

J FIC SPINNELLI              

           Spinelli, Jerry.  Wringer.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins,

                c1997.  As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the

                violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day

                or find the courage to oppose it.

 

YA FIC BLOOR                 

           Bloor, Edward, 1950-.  Tangerine.  1st Scholastic paperback.  New

                York : Scholastic, c1997, 1998.  Twelve-year-old Paul, who

                lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik,

                fights for the right to play soccer despite his near

                blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that

                damaged his eyesight.

 

YA FIC COM                   

           Coman, Carolyn.  What Jamie saw.  1st ed.  Arden, N.C. : Front

                Street, 1995.  Having fled to a family friend's hillside

                trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby

                sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself

                living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.

 

YA FIC CUR                   

           Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bud, not Buddy.  New York : Delacorte

                Press, 1999.  Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in

                Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad

                foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to

                be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of

                Grand Rapids.

 

YA FIC DOWELL                

           Dowell, Frances O'Roark.  Chicken boy.  New York : S&S, c2005.

                Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family and school

                life has been in disarray, but after he starts raising

                chickens with hs seventh-grade classmate, henry, everything

                starts to fall into place.

 

YA FIC GANTOS                

           Gantos, Jack.  Joey Pigza swallowed the key.  1st ed.  New York :

                Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.  To the constant

                disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has

                trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when

                his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked

                up and acting wired.

 

YA FIC HOB                   

           Hobbs, Will.  Far North.  [1st ed.].  New York : Morrow Junior

                Books, 1996.  After the destruction of their floatplane,

                sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle

                to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest

                Territories.

 

YA FIC LOW                   

           Lowry, Lois.  The giver.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.  Given

                his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas

                becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in

                his community and discovers the terrible truth about the

                society in which he lives.

 

YA FIC LOWRY                 

           Lowry, Lois.  Gathering blue.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.

                Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed

                from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council

                Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver

                to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

 

YA FIC PAU                   

           Paulsen, Gary.  The Transall saga.  New York : Bantam Doubleday

                Dell Books for Young Readers, 1999, c1998.  While

                backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into

                a tube of blue light and is transported into a more

                primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills

                to survive.

 

YA FIC PECK                  

           Peck, Richard, 1934-.  A long way from Chicago : a novel in

                stories.  1st ed.  New York : Dial Books for Young Readers,

                c1998.  A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural

                Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to

                visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

 

YA FIC PHI                   

           Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman).  Freak the Mighty.  New York : Blue

                Sky Press, c1993.  At the beginning of eighth grade,

                learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth

                defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind,

                find that when they combine forces they make a powerful

                team.

 

YA FIC TURNER                

           Turner, Megan Whalen.  The thief.  1st ed.  New York :

                Greenwillow Books, c1996.  Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a

                thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote

                temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious

                stone.