I Funny (A Middle School Story) by James Patterson

Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him from messing with Jamie as much as possible. But Jamie doesn't let his situation get him down. He practices the craft of stand-up every day on friends, family, and the willing customers at his Uncle Frankie's diner. When Uncle Frankie mentions a contest called The Planet's Funniest Kid Comic, Jamie knows he has to enter. But are the judges only rewarding him out of pity because of his wheelchair, like Stevie suggests? Will Jamie ever share the secret of his troubled past instead of hiding behind his comedy act?

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Lexile: 610L

Nightmare at the Book Fair by Dan Gutman

Trip Dinkleman is no fan of reading. He would much rather play sports than look at words on a page. But on his way to lacrosse tryouts, the president of the PTA asks for his help in setting up for the upcoming book fair and he reluctantly agrees. After a crate of books knocks him out cold, Trip finds himself in another world, pulled from one bizarre story to the next. As he tries to find his way home, he starts to realize that he's actually inside the books and that reading words on a page is more exciting than he thought.

Trip will take you through many of the genres of literature.

You get to try out:

Horror

Sports Fiction

Adventure

Science Fiction

Humor

Mystery

Reference
Historical Fiction
Easy Reader
Animal Fiction
Fantasy
Fiction for Girls

All in one book. Amazing!

2013 Golden Archer Nominees- Middle/High School

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Bystander by James Preller

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Scat by Carl Hiaasen

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13 Gifts by Wendy Mass

Big Nate in a Class by Himself by Lincoln Peirce

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

If You're Reading This, It's Too Late by Pseudonymous Bosch

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The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

The Scrapbook Frankie Pratte is a very unique book. You really feel like you are looking through and reading someone's scapbook. It is a quick read and a very interesting look at the 1920's.

For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a scholarship to a prestigious women’s college to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau.

Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalogue pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. Once at Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them “Vincent,” (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a “spinster adventuress.” In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare & Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne’er-do-well captain from past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along.

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The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks

When Wendy Geller's body is found in Central Park after the night of a rager, newspaper headlines scream,"Death in the Park: Party Girl Found Strangled." But shy Rain, once Wendy's best friend, knows there was more to Wendy than just "party girl." As she struggles to separate the friend she knew from the tangle of gossip and headlines, Rain becomes determined to discover the truth about the murder.

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Lexile: HL510L

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




Just as the Nazis are rising to power, Helmut Hubener, a German schoolboy, is caught up in all the swachbuckling bravado of his time.

The handsome storm trooper uniforms, the shiny jackboots and armbands, the rousing patriotism - all serve to draw him into this bright new world full of promise and hope.

In the beginning, Helmuth's patriotism is unwavering. But every day the rights of people all over Germany are diminishing. Jews are threatened and their businesses are being destroyed, the truth has been censored, and danger lurks everywhere. Anybody can turn on you. The world has turned upside down: Patriotism means denouncing others, love means to hate, and speaking out means treason. Silence becomes everyone's guilty secret. How much longer can Helmuth keep silent?

Death Row
Plotzensee Prison
Berlin, Germany
October 27, 1942
It is Day 264

Now Helmuth sits in a German prison, awaiting his precarious fate. Told in flashback with breathtaking suspense, this homage to an extraordinary real life hero magnificently explores one person's responsibility to humanity, freedom, and truth.

" Helmuth Hubener was a real person and his character
is based on extensive research-all filtered through my imagination
in order to create a dramatic meditation on what Helmuth, his family,
and friend lived through." - Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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Lexile Measure®: 760L
DRA: 60
Guided Reading: Y