Find yourself. Find your place. Find your brave.
This uplifting tale, which award-winning author Leslie Connor dubbed “a perfectly paced journey of the heart” is perfect for fans of Lisa Graff and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. 
Cyrus Olson’s dad is a hero—Northfield’s former football star and now one of their …

Standalone. Yearling Books (May 2000) Own Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where …

Standalone. Sourcebooks Fire (February 2012) Won Blaze is tired of spending her life on the sidelines, drawing comics and feeling invisible. She's desperate for soccer star Mark to notice her. And when her BFF texts Mark a photo of Blaze in sexy lingerie, it definitely gets his attention. After …

Title: Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitue
Author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Series: Lunch Lady #1
Format- Paperback
Published- July 28th 2009
Publisher- Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages- 96
Source- Library

Overview:
An ordinary Lunch Lady leading a double life. A life of crime fighting justice! With…

Title: Crash
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Stand Alone
Format- Paperback
Published- 1996
Publisher- Yearling
Pages- 176
Source- Library

Overview:
"Crash" Coogan got his nickname when after receiving a football helmet as a present for Christmas he crashed into, deliberately I might add, his cousi…

Calla, Violet, and Daisy are sisters. Sisters who are spending three weeks at Camp Callanwolde. Calla is the mother type, always worried about her sisters and how others will perceive her. This is her last summer at camp and at home because after this she is going off on her own to college. She de…

Donald Zinkoff has always been messy, an atrocious writer, clumsy, and has never really one anything. One day someone finally takes notice and he is dubbed a Loser. He's made fun of and doesn't know it and he just takes everything because life is just one big laugh to Zinkoff. Then he does…

Daelyn Rice is going to die in 23 days. That's the plan according to the website www.through-the-light.com. She would do it sooner she really wants to do it sooner but she can also wait. During the time between she goes on forums and sees other people's problems laid out. Some days she get…

Ah. Nostalgia. I always thought I read this book in 5th grade but according to me (writing in the book) it was 4th grade. In that case Ms.Drummond (or was it Mrs? I know she changed it later)  did a bang up job giving this book and Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing for the class to read. Now I'm …

This was on one of my Library Saturday's list. It has a different cover. I grew to like the library cover. The other one doesn't have Harry who is also a main character. So this one suits it better even if it isn't the greatest cover ever.

Harry and Alison are NOT friends. Harry is con…

Being a children's classic this book has been loved by generations for more than sixty years. I never really had much interest to read it but I said I would for a challenge on Goodreads. Completely not what I expected. I thought it would have been more of a fantasy genre or like a Dr.Seuss book…