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Hilton's Monthly Picks
for January 2004
By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Stand Tall
By Joan Bauer
Tree is a 6'3" twelve year-old and the tallest
seventh grader in the history of his middle school.
He has to deal with family changes, school, sports,
and a natural disaster.
Grades 7-9
Wild Boy
By James Lincoln Collier
Jessie, who lives on the American frontier, has run
away from Ma and Pa. He now has to learn how to hunt
and build a cabin if he is to survive in the wilderness.
Grades 5-8
Up On Cloud Nine
By Anne Fine
Ian thinks a lot about his friendship with his best
buddy, Stolly, who is hurt due to a very serious accident.
A humorous story about family and friends during good
and bad times.
Grades 5-7
Pictures of Hollis Woods
By Patricia Reilly Giff
12 year-old Hollis lives in foster care and searches
for a caring family. She tells her life story through
pictures kept in her sketchbook, filled with images
from her past.
Grades 5-8
Running Out of Time
By Margaret Peterson Haddix
When a serious epidemic hits her 1840s village, Jessie
discovers it is actually 1995 and she in trapped in
a secret science experiment. She must try escape to
the outside world.
Grades 5-8
Journey to the River Sea
By Eva Ibbotson
Maia travels to Brazil in 1910 to meet and live with
strange relatives who live on a plantation. Follow
her adventures exploring the mysterious Amazon River.
Grades 6-8
Joe's Classic Choice
Julie of the Wolves
By Jean George
13-year-old Julie must leave her small Eskimo village.
She finds herself lost and now must survive in the
harsh Alaskan tundra with the nearby Arctic wolf pack
her only hope.
Grades 5-8
