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Title:  The Giver Author:  Lois Lowry Illustrator:  None Publisher:   Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Publication Date:  Reissue September 2012 ISBN:  978-0547995663 Audience:  Ages 10 and up The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Award winner, has sold over eight million copies

Title:  Inside Out and Back Again Author: Thanhha Lai Publisher:  HarperCollins, 2011 ISBN:  9780061962783 Audience:  Ages 8 and up Summary: Ten-year-old Ha, her mother and three older brothers flee Saigon as it is falling to the Communists in 1975.  Ha leaves behind her papaya

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:  Invincible Louisa Author:  Cornelia Meigs Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company ISBN:  978-0316565943 Audience:  An Amazon reviewer self-identified as “10-year old reader states “It is a wonderful book for 11, 12, and 13 year olds, or 10 year olds who are advanced

Name of Book:  Naamah and the Ark at Night Author:  Susan Campbell Bartoletti Illustrator: Holly Meade Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 978-0-7636-4242-6 Audience: 4 and up, intergenerational, women, new parents or mixed age choirs Summary:  Noah’s wife, Naamah, sings all

Name of Book:  A Year Down Yonder Author: Richard Peck Illustrator: None Publisher: Puffin Books Audience: Ages 10+ (all the way up to senior citizens!) Summary:  A Year Down Yonder, winner of the 2001 Newberry Medal, is the sequel to A Long Way from Chicago.  The first book was