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Joe
Hilton's Monthly Picks
for July 2007
By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission By Christopher Paul Curtis The Flint Future Detectives return to solve new mystery. Members Steven, Russell and know-it-all Richelle Cyrus-Herndon, the smartest girl at Clark Elementary find themselves in an alternative universe called Ourside when Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent chases a weird-looking elf into a painting and they follow. Grades 4-7 |
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Thimble Summer By Elizabeth Enright (Classic) Nine-year-old farm girl Garnet Linden in Wisconsin tells what happen to her and her family on the farm after she finds a silver thimble during the summer. Follow the family and their friends on many adventures as they built a barn and Garnet enters her pig in the annual county fair. Grades 4-6 |
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Danger in the Dark: A Houdini & Nate Mystery By Tom Lalicki In the summer of 1911 in New York City, 13-year-old Nathaniel G. Makeworthy Fuller is working in a hat store where he meets the famous magician Harry Houdini. They become friends, and now plan to investigate together the suspicious gentleman caller who claims to be spirit advisor for Nate's very rich great-aunt. Grades 5-7 |
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Semiprecious By D. Anne Love Thirteen-year-old Garnet her and older sister Opal leave their small-town Texas home to move to an even smaller town in Oklahoma to live with family they have never met. As her father returns to his job, drilling oil in the Gulf of Mexico, their mom heads for Nashville with dreams of becoming a country-and-western singer leaving Garnet and Opal with Aunt Julia. Grades 5-7 |
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A Dog For Life By L.S. Matthews John Hawkins and his older brother Tom have the special ability to communicate with their dog, Mouse. When Tom becomes ill the doctor says that the dog must go because she may cause an infection. When Mouse is scheduled to go to the pound, John and Tom together try to come up with a plan to save her. Grades 4-6 |
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Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping By Peggy Parish You can count on Amelia Bedelia to follow your instructions exactly when she on a camping trip, and helping out setting up the camp site. When Amelia is told that it's time to hit the road, she does just that with a stick. Grades 1-3 |
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Hippo Lemonade By Mike Thaler Stories about Hippo and his animal friends having different adventures as they make wishes, have a lemonade sale, tell a campfire story and look at clouds. Grades 1-3 |
