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Joe
Hilton's Monthly Picks
for May 2007
By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Framed
By Frank Cottrell Boyce Dylan Hughes and his two sisters live with their parents in Manod, Wales. They own an auto repair garage in the rainiest place in Britain with the lowest crime rate. When strangers arrive in vans and set up camp in old quarry the family thinks of ways to make money off their new visitors. Grades 5-8 |
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Witch
Catcher By Mary Downing Hahn 12-year-old Jen and her father just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from Uncle Thaddeus. When her cat, Tink breaks a beautiful glass globe releasing a fairy, Jen gets drawn into the middle of an age-old battle between fairies and witches. Grades 4-7 |
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Trapped By Peg Kehret and Pete the Cat Alex and Rocky are walking around in the woods when they accidentally discover an unlawful animal trap. When Alex and his friends attempt to find out who placed this trap they need the help of Pete the cat who tries to solve this dangerous mystery. Grades 5-7 |
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Jeremy
Fink and the Meaning of Life By Wendy Mass Just one month before Jeremy's thirteenth birthday, he receives a mysterious locked antique box with the engraved words the meaning of life from his father who passed away years earlier. It has four locks, but Jeremy finds the keys have gone missing. Jeremy and his best friend, Lizzy, go on a quest to find the keys. Grades 5-7 |
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The
Railway Children By E. Nesbit (Classic) When their father disappears a family of three children and their mother are forced to move from their home with servants to a simple life in the country where they have to "make due." Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis now live along the exciting railway hoping for their father's return. Grades 3-7 |
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Tanglewreck
By Jeanette Winterson A prophecy states that the Timekeeper a clock that controls all time will be found by the Child with the Golden Face. Eleven-year-old Silver discovers she is that person. With the help of the secretive people called "Throwbacks," she must travel across the universe and back to find and protect the clock. Grades 6-10 |
