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Hilton's Monthly Picks
for May 2005
By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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The World According to Humphrey By Betty Birney Things at school look somewhat different through the eyes of Humphrey, the pet hamster in Room 26 at school. During the year he learns to read, write, and play with his classmates in school and when they take turns bringing him on the weekends. Grades 3-5 |
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Heartbeat By Sharon Creech Twelve-year-old Annie writes what she sees, hears, feels, and thinks about her life. She shares her thoughts on some of the many interesting people in her world of family, and friends. How does she fit in this life? Grades 4-6 |
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Troll Fell By Katherine Langrish Enter the underground empire of trolls where myths and beliefs rule in this strange land. Peer and his faithful dog Loki must go live with his mean uncles at their mill. Peer soon discovers an evil plot to sell children for gold to the trolls. He must seek help to stop this plan. Grades 6-8 |
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Here Today By Ann M. Martin It's 1963 and eleven-year-old Ellie is forced to take care of her younger brother and sisters while her mother is away. She is struggling, trying to cope with school and her unfriendly neighbors. Grades 6-8 |
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Hoggee By Anna Myers Fourteen-years-old Howard is a hard worker but he has lost his job and fears he might not survive the winter. He has worked on the canal for three years and knows he needs to find another way to live. Set in the early nineteenth century he follows his heart and dreams to help people and their families. Grades 5-8 |
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Millicent Min Girl Genius By Lisa Yee Millie will be a high school senior next year and this summer she will be attending her very first college class at the ripe age of eleven-years-old. Her high school classmates dislike her because she sets the bar so high. The kids her ages don't care for her because she has left them behind in grade school. All she wants to do is fit in and have some fun. Grades 5-8 |
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KONG: King of Skull
Island by Joe DeVito The story begins in 1957, twenty five years after King Kong's fall from atop New York City's Empire State Building. Vincent Denham - the son of Kong's captor Carl - joins Jack Driscoll, one of Kong's original captors, to piece together a plan to go back to Skull Island in search of Carl Denham, King Kong, and an answer to questions spanning a quarter century. |
