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Liam wants to go out running with his friends, training for Junior Great North Run, but his mother asks him to help old Harry clean out his house instead. This graphic novel, first in the Bad Machinery series, is fast-paced and darkly funny. Luckily there is enough investigating to go around as a Russian owner of a UK football (soccer) team tries to bully an elderly woman into selling her house. Griswalds Grammar School, a high school in a British working class community, has two competing teams of detectives: Shauna, Charlotte, and Mildred vs. But when Xavier forgets to take hisĪnger control medicine and beats up Lamar, he retaliatesīy pulling the fire alarm in the middle of Xavier’sīig game. Some money to attract a girl and buy a new bowlingīall before his hero, bowling champ Bubba Sanders,Ĭomes to town. Lamar is busy hustling bowling games to earn Nearly as much as his older brother Xavier’s basketball And Lamar’s father doesn’t admire bowling talent Spectacular bowler, a sport he enjoyed with his motherīefore she died of cancer. Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Rumi, and Williams Carlos Williams. Three poets and one artists collaborate to present poems honoring twenty different poets including Gwendolyn Brooks, E.E. Josh has to deal with his brother’s attraction to a new girl at school and his father’s failing health and must face the consequences of breaking the rules.īy Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth, Ekua Holmes Josh is also talented with words, and narrates this story of family and brotherhood in rapping verse. Josh Bell (12) and his twin brother JB are talented basketball players. Text and rich paintings tell the story of the queen Others to support the civil rights movement. Blessed withĪ magnificent voice, Odetta uses her talents to inspire Young readers to the influential folk singer who began

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Jules’s funny narration will keep young readers enthralled by this series opener. And Charlotte keeps interfering with Jules’s plans to befriend the new girl from London. Invited to audition for a mouthwash commercial, Jules prepares to give the perfect audition, but she hates the orange flavor. Jules (7) has big plans to accomplish before she turns eight, including finding a new best friend since she and Charlotte aren’t getting along. Themselves surrounded by pirates and involved in oneĮxciting adventure after another in this high-energy Maya, her brother Peter, and baby sister Penny, find Maya (13) sails the boat to Tamarind, the island settingįor her father’s fantastic tales. Nelson’s research boat, the parents are swept overboard.

Themselves and each other in this funny fairy tale Accompanying ClaudetteĪre her brother Gaston (who longs to be a pastry chef)Īnd her best friend Marie (who dreams of becoming a On a secret quest to find and slay the giant before Hears there is a giant on the loose, Claudette embarks Work together to portray the pain and misery and memoriesĪnd hope that was transformed by rhythm and harmony intoĪ giant slayer like her father before her. Ships, to plantation fields, to chain gang labor, to

Paintings honor the legacy of blues music, from the slave Subjects of racial conflict, sibling rivalry, and marital Thisīeautifully written books deals with the uncomfortable Told from a variety of first-person viewpoints. Narration is the story of a black family in Georgia, Bobby is not comfortable around “chocolateĬolored” people or death, so the trip from Ohio With his mother, older brother, and recently widowed

Bobby is on a trip to visit Civil War battlefields

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