NYT - Children’s Middle Grade | Pueblo City-County Library

1) Wonder

Author

Palacio, R. J

Notes

#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 141 week(s).

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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

2) A long walk to water: based on a true story

Author

Park, Linda Sue

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 61 week(s).

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

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4) The Princess in Black

Author

Hale, Shannon

Notes

#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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Princess Magnolia and Duchess Wigtower are having hot chocolate when the monster alarm goes off. A big blue monster is threatening goats. Princess Magnolia has a secret, she is the Princess in Black. She needs to sneak away to defeat the monster before the nosy duchess discovers her secret.

5) Counting by 7s

Author

Sloan, Holly Goldberg

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

6) Hitler's last days: the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

Notes

#11 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history....

7) The one and only Ivan

Author

Applegate, Katherine

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#13 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

8) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Notes

#14 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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Local Collection Book, Local Media

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A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

9) Goodbye stranger

Author

Stead, Rebecca

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#15 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: What is my purpose?