boces may 2010
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So Many Books…
Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I don’t)
Barbara Bottner
“Protect your heart”
Foiled
Jane Yolen
Folly
Marthe Jocelyn
"I did not know the heart were like a china teacup hanging in the cupboard from a single hook, that it could chip and crack and finally smash to the ground under a boot heel.
And I did not know that even smithereens could reassemble into a heart. I did not know any of this”
Mercury
Hope Larson
Puzzling Things Out
Meanwhile
Jason Shiga
Pluto
Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka. Takashi Nagasaki;
Jared Cook, Frederik L Schodt
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook
Eleanor Davis
Green Manor: Assassins and Gentlemen
Fabien Vehlmann, Bodart,
Elaine Kemp
The Cardturner
Louis Sachar
“I had told Leslie to stay away until Clifff arrived, so I could have some time alone with Toni, but that wasn’t working out exactly as planned. I’m a lot smoother in my daydreams than I am in real life.”
Food for Thought
A World of Food:
Nigeria
Dereen Taylor
The Omnivore’s Dilemma:The Secrets Behind What You Eat
Michael Pollan
Tyranny
Lesley Fairfield
The Harder They Fall
Shark vs. Train
Chris Barton
The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy
James Cross Giblin
Sir Charlie
Sid Fleischman
Welcome to the Jungle
The Jaguar Stones: Book One
Middleworld
J&P Voelkel
"The granola bars.
It had come to this.
Miserably, he unwrapped a bar.He brought the compacted brown mass to his lips. With a heavy heart, heopened his mouth and prepared his tongue to receive the foul-tasting grunge. Then, in the nick of time, he recovered his fighting spirit.Things were bad, but not that bad. He still wasn't desperate enough toeat a granola bar.“
Jumped
Rita Williams-Garcia
Wolves in the Woods
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
Maryrose Wood
Raised By Wolves
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
"Who knows how many of his attacks we missed? This is Google we're talking about here, not science."
"If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake."
Asian Delights
Tofu Quilt
Ching Yeung Russell
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin
Mixed Vegetables
Ayumi Komura
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei:The Power of Negative Thinking
Koji Kumeta
Itazura Na Kiss
Kaoru Tada
I Need a Hero
Imogene’s Last Stand
Candace Fleming
Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
Tony Lee, Sam Hart & Artur Fujita
Marcello in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork
The Chosen
David Morrell
Zeus: King of the Gods
George O’Connor
All Star! Honus and the Most Famous
Baseball Card Ever
Jane Yolen
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
Jonah Winter
Borrowed Names: Poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and
Their Daughters
Jeannine Atkins
There’s Always a Choice
Truce
Jim Murphy
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Francisco X. Stork
He opened his arms and she came to him. He held her head against his chest and he opened his eyes as wide as they would go in order to keep them dry. She wanted to say something, but he pressed her tight. “Sh h h. Don’t say anything.” He let go of her and started down as quickly as he could.“I want my heart back,” she said between sobs.
Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
"You know, I understand it now. There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.”
It Always Hurts
By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
Julie Anne Peters
A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
Glenda Millard
Smile!
Raina Telgemeier
Pop
Gordon Korman
I Kill Giants
Joe Kelly
To Infinity and Beyond
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon
Jim Ottaviani
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Tanya Lee Stone
Archvillain
Barry Lyga
Pod
Wallenfels
Good For One Grand Adventure
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
Eric Shanower
The Sandman:The Dream Hunters
Neil Gaiman
Incarceron
Catherine Fisher
Fire
Kristin Cashore
A Conspiracy of Kings
Megan Whalen Turner
Eye Spy
For Good Measure: The Ways We Say How Much, How Far, How Heavy, How
Big, How Old
Ken Robbins
Paris in the Spring with Picasso
Joan Yolleck
Can You Find It? America
Linda Falken
Urban Animals
Isabel Hill
Fairie-Ality Style
David Ellwand
Mother Earth, Father Sky
Trickster: Native American Tales
A Graphic Collection
Matt Dembicki
A.D New Orleans After The Deluge
Josh Neufeld
31 Ways to Change the World: We are What We Do, and You!
Tanis Taylor
Here Comes the Garbage Barge!
Jonah Winter
Years of Dust: The Story of The Dust Bowl
Albert Marrin
The Storm in the Barn
Matt Phelan
The Gardener
S.A. Bodeen
The Write Stuff
Time You Let Me In
Naomi Shihab Nye
I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous &
Obscure
Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith
Side by Side:New Poems Inspired by Art
From Around the World
Jan Greenberg
Mirror Mirror
Marilyn Singer
Spilling Ink
Anne Mazer & Ellen Potter
BFF
Snake and Lizard
Joy Cowley
Henry in Love
Peter McCarty
The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and
Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang
Amy Ignatow
The Lion and the Mouse
Jerry Pinkney
Standing Up. Sitting Down.
Back of the Bus
Aaron Reynolds
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children,
and Don’t You Grow Weary
Elizabeth Partridge
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