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Joe
Hilton's Monthly Picks
for September 2004
By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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The
World According to Humphrey By Betty G. Birney Humphrey, a pet hamster at Longfellow School learns to read, write and much more. He has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher this school year. |
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The
Report Card By Andrew Clements Fifth grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because she wants to be normal. So she gets average grades to stay out of the gifted student program. |
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A Midsummer
Night's Dork By Carol Gorman Jerry Flack recently elected sixth-grade president, and his friends host a Shakespeare festival at school. Along the way Jerry has to deal boy who will do anything to make him look like a dork. (Series) |
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Race
for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny
Moore By Dan Gutman Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank notebook his mother gave him fourteen-year-old Johnny cannot think of anything important to write until two crazy people from Ohio arrive in 1900 to build a flying machine. |
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Eleven
By Lauren Myracle The year between turning eleven and turning twelve brings many changes for Winnie and her friends. Every month brings a lot of ups and downs for this special year in her life. |
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Wizard
at Work By Vivian Vande Velde A young wizard who runs a school to teach wizards looks forward to a quiet summer off doing gardening, fishing and taking naps. But he is drawn into adventures with princesses, unicorns and ghosts. |
