The Books that came in the box.

Each month I receive a box of books from Junior Library Guild.
I chose the level of books I want to receive.
They choose the books.

Here is this month's selection:
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman & Rick Allen
Ellroy Jakes Rocks the Holidays by Sally Warner
Hansel & Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti
Bow-Wow' s Nightmare Neighbors by Mark Newgarden & Megan Montague Cash
Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Gabriels' Clock by Hilton Pashley
The Last DragonSlayer by Jasper Fforde
Vango - Between Earth and Sky by Timothee de Fombelle
Stealing the Game by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle
Endgame- The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.  So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini.  In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails.  As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile.  But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater.  Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.

398 pages
Lexile 1010

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Deadline by Chris Crutcher

How can a pint-sized, smart-ass eighteen-year-old make his mark on the world from Nowheresville, Idaho—especially when he only has one year left to do it? When Ben Wolf learns his senior year of high school will be his last year, period, he is determined to go out in a blaze of glory.

That means not letting anyone know about his diagnosis. It means trying out for the football team. It means giving his close-minded civics teacher a daily migraine. It means going for the amazingly perfect, fascinating Dallas Suzuki.

But living with a secret isn't easy . . . What will Ben do when he realizes he isn't the only person who's keeping one?

Lexile 880
316 pages

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