The War that Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Ada was born with a club foot that her mother believes makes
Ada “less than a person” and has physically and emotionally abused her while
keeping her locked inside their one-room London apartment her entire life. When WWII begins children in London are sent
to live with families in small villages.
Here Ada has to confront her own fears and insecurities and learn to let
others love and care for her and also to learn to accept herself as she is.
Reminded me of Michelle Magorian’s 1981 Goodnight Mr. Tom.
NEED
by Joelle Charbonneau
What do you need?
What are you willing to do to fulfill that need? Especially if you get what you need for
free?
Students at Nottawa High School are asked
to join a social media site, made exclusively for them, called NEED. This completely anonymous site allows
students to ask for a need to be fulfilled, for free…with a few strings
attached. Like, invite 5 friends to join
the site. What an easy way to get a free
brand new cell phone! But as need
requests continue coming in the actions required become more bizarre and
questionable. But if it doesn’t hurt
them it’s no big deal, right? Kaylee,
our main character, tries to unravel the mystery of the NEED website, who’s
behind it and why.
Goodbye Stranger
by Rebecca Stead
Newbery Award winner, Rebecca Stead, writes a realistic
fiction book about middle school student, Bridge, short for Bridget, who
survived a horrific accident and was told by a nurse, “You must be here on
Earth for a reason!” She ponders this as
she and her friends start 7th grade.
This book is about growing up, loyalty, friendship, and family
relationships. She and her friends have
to navigate new terrain when deciding what is and is not appropriate to
text.
This book is told mostly from Bridge’s point of view
starting with the beginning of the school year, with short chapter written by
her new friend, Sherm, in letter format to his grandpa, and chapters written in
2nd person—that take place on Valentine’s Day. The book culminates on Valentine’s Day.
The Big Dark
by Rodman Philbrick
Remember the power outages from November’s wind storms? Now multiple that many times over and you will have the scene of “The Big Dark”. An extremely powerful solar flare disrupts the Earth’s magnetic field and all power shuts down—electricity, batteries, even magnets. Cell phones don’t work, generators won’t start, cars don’t run, and airplanes fell from the sky. The whole modern earth is without any of our modern conveniences. Oh, and it’s WINTER! Charlie and his mom and sister live in a small New Hampshire village and face trials beyond just the dark and cold including extreme neighbors and medical issues
Books my fellow children's librarians shared
Captain America: The First Avenger [and other Marvel superheroes] Novelizations
by Alex Irvine
The Nest
by Kenneth Oppeal
Forbidden
by Eve Bunting
Other Books that were mention
Scorpion Rules
by Erin Bow
The Testing Series
by Joelle Charbonneau
Spying on Miss Muller
by Eve Bunting
Carry On
by Rainbow Rowell
