Standalone. GRAPHIX (Sept. 2012) Library
PLACES, EVERYONE!

Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department stage crew, and this year she&#…

Standalone. Feiwel & Friends (Sept. 2010) Library
Life in a small town can be pretty boring when everyone avoids you like the plague. But after their father unwittingly sends them to stay with an aunt who’s away on holiday, the Hardscrabble children take off on an adventure that begins in the se…

Today I have a special treat. Author Holly Schindler is guest posting for her blog tour on her debut MG book The Junction of Sunshine and Lucky!

I’m not sure that Auggie ever really thinks she’s breaking the rules, in regard to the House Beautification Committee. Technically, she is, once the warnin…

Inkworld #1. Chicken House (June 2004) Library Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Characters from books literally leap…

Standalone. Scholastic (September 2013) NetGalley Failing math but great at writing, Gregory finds the poetry (and humor) in what's hard. Gregory K is the middle child in a family of mathematical geniuses. But if he claimed to love math? Well, he'd be fibbing. What he really wants most is to …

Young and Yang Mysteries #1. HarperCollins (June 2013) Library Best friends and seventh graders Sophie Young and Grace Yang have made a game out of spying on their neighbors. On one of their midnight stakeouts, they witness a terrifying, bloody scene at the home of their bizarre middle-school counse…

Standalone. Nancy Paulsen Books - Penguin (May 2012) Library Twelve-year-old Carley Connors can take a lot. Growing up in Las Vegas with her fun-loving mother, she's learned to be tough. But she never expected a betrayal that would land her in a foster care. When she's placed with the Murphy…

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 …

Stargirl #1. Alfred A. Knopf (August 2000) Own Stargirl. She's as magical as the desert sky. As strange as her pet rat. As mysterious as her own name. And she captures Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile.
But when the students of Mica High turn on Stargirl for everything that makes her di…

Title: Dead Man's Hand
Author: Eddie Jones
Series: (The Caden Chronicles) Book #1
Format- ebook
Publisher- Zondervan
Published- November 1st, 2012
Pages- 214
Source- NetGalley

It's All Just a Show...Right? 'This is an authentic old west ghost town, son. Around these parts the dead don&#…

Title: Shadow Breakers
Author: Daniel Blythe
Series: Shadow Runners #1
Format- ebook
Publisher- Chicken House (Imprint of Scholastic Inc.)
Published- January 1st, 2013
Pages- 256
Source- NetGalley

Can she escape the shadows and face the truth before the darkness destroys her?

"If the enemy is a…

Title: The 10 p.m. Question
Author: Kate De Goldi
Stand Alone
Format- Paperback
Publisher- Candlewick
Published- May 8th, 2012
Pages- 256
Source- Library

Worry-prone Frankie keeps his family secret under control — until a bold, inquisitive girl enters his life — in this warm, witty, and captivating YA nove…