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Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for February 2005

By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia

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The Double Life of Zoe Flynn

The Double Life of Zoe Flynn
By Janet Lee Carey
Zoe's family has to live in their van for months after moving from California to Oregon in search of work. Zoe tries to keep her sixth-grade classmates from discovering that she has no home.
Grades 6-8

 
Thunder from the Sea

Thunder from the Sea
By Joan Hiatt Harlow
Thirteen-year old Tom has always wanted a real family, in a real house and a dog of his own since he was three years old. It is now 1929 and just when his dreams seem to be coming true will everything change?
Grades 4-6

 
Zoo School

Zoo School
By Laurie Muller Hornik
The students at the strange new zoo school have never seen a school like it before. Now the inspectors are conducting a careful investigation and may close down the school. Is the school worth saving?
Grades 4-5

 
Tripping Over the Lunch Lady: And other School Stories

Tripping Over the Lunch Lady: And other School Stories
Edited By Nancy E. Mercado
A collection of ten funny stories about life in school by well know storytellers and authors. These great stories will make you laugh out loud and remind you of what school is truly like.
Grades 4-6

 
Sarny, A Life Remembered

Sarny, A Life Remembered
By Gary Paulsen
Follow the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl who escaped from the plantation at the end of the Civil War as a free woman with a special skill in search of her children.
Grades 5-8

 
Nobody Was Here: 7th Grade In The Life Of Me, Penelope

Nobody Was Here: 7th Grade In The Life Of Me, Penelope
By Alison Pollet
Penelope is in the 7th grade and everything feels unfamiliar at the school she has been attending since kindergarten. Her life in New York in the 1980s in made more difficult by problems at home and at school.
Grades 6-8

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