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Title of Book:  Stellaluna Author:  Janelle Cannon Publisher and Publication date:  Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993 ISBN number:  0-15-280217-7 Audience:  Ages 4 – 8 Summary:  Stellaluna is a baby bat who is separated from her mother during an owl attack.  She ends up in

Name of Book:  I Am Number Four Author:  Pittacus Lore Publisher: Harper. ISBN: 978-0061969553 Audience: Ages 14 and up Summary:  This is a science-fiction story about an alien race’s struggle for survival from an evil enemy. Literary elements at work in the story: There are

Name of Book:  Up A Road Slowly Author:  Irene Hunt Publisher:  Berkley ISBN: 978-0425202050 Audience:  Ages 10 and up Summary:  After her mother’s death Julie goes to live with her spinster Aunt Cordelia in a big house in the country. As she grows from seven to seventeen she

Name of Book:  Number the Stars Author:  Lois Lowry Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 978-0440227533 Audience: Ages 12 and up Summary:  This is a story about a ten year old Danish girl, Annemarie, trying to help her Jewish friend, Ellen, in the middle of World War II. Annemarie’s

Name of book: Stargirl Author: Jerry Spinelli Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 978-0679886372 Audience: 7th-9th grade Summary: Stargirl is a girl with a “loud” personality. At first she captivates the students of Mica High, but then they turn on her, shunning her now for everything that

Name of Book:  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Author:  Gary D. Schmidt Illustrator:  None Publisher:  Clarion Books ISBN:  978-0618439294 Audience:  Ages 10 and up Summary:  In 1912 thirteen year old Turner Buckminster moves to Phippsburg, Maine with his mother and father.

Name of Book: No Matter What Author: Debi Gliori Illustrator: Debi Gliori Publisher:  Harcourt, Inc ISBN: 0-15-202061-6 Audience: PreK – 2nd Summary: Small is questioning if Large loves him at all.  He is doing this by question after question like a typical child does.  Large

Name of Book:  The Butterfly Author:  Patricia Polacco Illustrator:  Patricia Polacco Publisher:  Philomel Books ISBN:  0399231706 Audience:  Grades 1-5 (although in places the subject matter may be too harsh for the lower end of this age range) Summary:  Late one moonlit evening

Name of Book:  Annie on My Mind Author:  Nancy Garden Publisher:  Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN:  0374303665 Audience:  Age 14 up Summary:  In November of her senior year in high school, 17-year-old Liza meets Annie Kenyon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Though their worlds are

Name of Book:  More More More, Said the Baby Author:  Vera B. Williams Illustrator:  Vera B. Williams Publisher:  Scholastic ISBN:  9780688147365 Audience: Toddlers through age 4 Summary:  This book tells three parallel stories of toddlers Little Guy, Little Pumpkin, and Little