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Joe Hilton's Monthly Picks
for September 2008

By Joe Hilton of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Biscuit Goes to School
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli  (Easy Reader)

Biscuit a little dog decides to follow his young owner to school for the day where he joins the students and their teacher for snacks and stories. Grades K-1

 

Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown
by
Paula Danziger (Easy Reader)
Amber Brown wants to win the Clean Desk Award but her desk is always a real mess. Will she ever get a treat from the clean desk fairy Deskarina? Grades 1-3

 

Frindle
by Andrew Clements

When fifth grader Nick the troublemaker learns how words are picked for the dictionary he decides to make up a new word. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? When Nick gets his friends to use the new word trouble starts. Grades 4-6

 

Sahara Special
by Esme Raji Codell

Sahara Jones has been writing letters to her absent father instead of doing her schoolwork forcing her to repeat fifth grade.  Her new teacher Madame Poitier tries to encourage her to write and do her class work.  Grades 4-6.

 

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
by Barthe DeClements  (Classic)

Elsie Edwards is fat and trying to lose weight when she enters her new fifth grade class. Some of her classmates make fun of her size and she wonders who will be her friend.  Grades 4-6

 

United Tates of America
by
Paula Danziger, Audio Book
 Eleven-year-old Sarah Kate “Skate” Tate is having mixed feelings about entering the sixth grade at her new school in New Jersey. She feels like she is losing her best friend but may make new friends with some of the kids who ride on her bus. Grades 4-6

 

Thirteen Ways To Sink a Sub
by Jamie Gilson

When the boys and girls in Hobie Hason’s fourth grade class hear the word “sub” they set up a competition to use all of their tricks and try to sink theirsubstitute teacher by making her weep. Grades 4-6

 

The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan (Series)

Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old New Yorker has been sent to a boarding school for troubled youth after being kicked out of six schools in six years. His lack of self-control always gets him in trouble. When he finds out that he is the son of a Greek god he must go on a dangerous adventure to save mankind. Grades 5-8

   

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