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Joe
Hilton's Monthly Picks
for January 2008
By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Easy As Apple Pie: A Harry And Emily Adventure By Karen Gray Ruelle (Easy Reader) Emily the kitten and her big brother Harry go visit their grandparents' home and apple orchard by themselves. They pick apples with their grandparents, sort the apples by size, and plan for baking them into delicious apple pies. Grades K-2 |
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Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail
By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Easy Reader) Rosamond has lost her birthday gift for Nate. It was on her sled and has now disappeared. She won't tell him what it is because it is a surprise. Nate has to put all the clues together and search for his mystery gift. Grades 1-3 |
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The Secret of the Painted House
By Marion Dane Bauer This supernatural tale is about nine-year-old Emily, who, with her little brother Logan, discovers a playhouse in the woods behind their new house. The walls inside this house are painted to look like the forest that you can enter. Grades 2-4 |
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My Last Best Friend By Julie Bowe Entering the fourth grade can be hard when your best friend has moved away. Ida May is left to deal with her mean classmate Jenna. She also has to decide if she want to stay lonely or find a new best friend in Stacey Merriweather, a girl who has just moved to town. Grades 3-4 |
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The Lacemaker and the Princess
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley This historical novel is about Isabelle, an eleven-year-old third-generation lace maker, who lives with her family in poverty. By chance when she becomes the playmate to Queen Marie Antoinette's daughter she moves between two separate worlds. Grades 5-7 |
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Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society
By Betsy Byars Find out what happens at the first meeting of the WOOF Society when they open up the secret diaries of dogs from different times and places from around the world. Who are they? Where did they come from? What did they see and do? Grades 4-5 |
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The Wind in the Willows
By Kenneth Grahame; illustrated by Michael Hague (Classic) Follow the exciting adventures of four animal friends, Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger, who live along a river in the English countryside. This classic story is illustrated with a dozen full-sized paintings. Grades 3 & up |
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Kimchi & Calamari By Rose Kent Joseph Calderaro is a fourteen-year-old Korean adoptee who knows very little about his past. When he is given a social studies assignment in school on tracing your past, this starts to make him think about his birth family. Grades 4-7 |
