When Friendship Followed Me Home
Paul Griffin
Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.
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Summerlost
Ally Condie
Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief
Will Wilder: The Relic of Perilous Falls
Raymond Arroyo
A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power–and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them
A Dragon’s Guide to Making your Human Smarter
Laurence Yep & Joanne Ryder
Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclecticstudent body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie’sgrandfather […]
The War That Saved That My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.