Y/MYSTERY/ABRAHAMS,P
Welcome to Echo Falls. Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next. Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. Getting them back means getting involved in a murder investigation rivaling those solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes, and Ingrid has enough on her plate with club soccer, school, and the plum role of Alice in the Echo Falls production of Alice in Wonderland. But much as in Alice's adventures down the rabbit hole, things in Ingrid's small town keep getting more curious. Her favorite director has a serious accident onstage (but is it an accident?), and the police chief is on Ingrid's tail, grilling her about everything from bike-helmet law to the color of her cleats.

J/FICTION/ARMSTRONG,A
Whittington is a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals-- as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing-- a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. This is an unforgettable tale about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling, and how learning to read saves one little boy.

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2007 Colorado Children's Book Award Junior Novel Winner
2006-2007 Sunshine State Young Reader's Book
2006 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Intermediate

Y/FICTION/BARRY,D
Follow the young orphan Peter and his mates as they are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff in this fast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure.

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Y/BIOGRAPHY/823.914/DAHL,R
Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England--from his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's. Illustrations.

Y/FICTION/DOWELL,F
The bestselling author of "Dovey Coe" introduces an unforgettable new character--seventh-grader Tobin McCauley, whose life in a very dysfunctional household is compounded by his only friend's belief that the study of chickens will reveal the meaning of life.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/HOWE,J
When four student misfits team up to form a new political party in their seventh-grade elections, they face more than one obstacle from their teacher and the other students.

Y/FICTION/IBBOTSON,E
Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, this novel tells the story of a young servant girl who learns she is, in fact, an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at the crumbling castle, young Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. Illustrations.

Y/BIOGRAPHY/940.5318/BRADY,H/LEV
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. Hana Brady was written on the outside. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions and the director decided to find the answers.

Y/FOLKTALES/N.AMER/MAG
Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairy tales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliant, funny, and nationally best-selling author of the adult novel "Wicked" as well as the hilarious middle-grade series the "Hamlet Chronicles." Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career? Get ready to meet a gorilla queen and a psycho chimp, seven giant giraffes, and one very bad walrus. Accompanying these hilarious stories are delightfully witty pictures by Chris L. Demarest, master of black line and droll humor.

J/FICTION/MORPURGO,M
This spellbinding tale of self-discovery begins as Michael and his parents sail around the world. When Michael is swept overboard and washes up on an island, he realizes he's not alone. Kensuke, an old Japanese man, keeps his distance at first, but when Michael's life is threatened, he slowly lets the boy into his world.

Y/FICTION/OPPEL,K
Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/PAULSEN,G
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Y/BIOGRAPHY/813.54/PAULSEN,G
Tales of high jinx, high spirits, and high fun from the author's own boyhood are presented by the three-time Newbery Honor winner as he shares stories of how boys growing up in a small town in the north woods make their own excitement.

E/PICTURE/POLACCO,P
How much TV is too much TV? The author tackles this timely question with her trademark humor and folksy charm in this fresh and funny parable. When Eli's eccentric Aunt Chip, who refuses to own a TV, discovers that her nephew and her neighbors don't remember how to read, she pulls the plug on the whole town--using the books that have been piled high to build a dam to spread the magic of reading. Full color.

J/782.1/VERDI,G/PRI
With profound depth, diva Leontyne Price retells Verdi's famous opera about the beautiful princess of Ethiopia who is captured by Egyptian soldiers and forced into slavery. Full color.

2008 California Young Readers Medal- Middle School Winner
2005 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/SHUSTERMAN,N
From the award-winning author of "Full Tilt" and The Shadow Club novels comes this tongue-in-cheek tale of a boy so unremarkable, he just might disappear completely.

E/PICTURE/VAN ALLSBURG,C
We learn from the log of the Rita Anne that her voyage is going remarkably well. A clever and happy crew makes the days pass quickly. Then, on an uncharted island, the sailors discover an odd, glowing rock. Bringing it aboard, the captain notices the frightening and disastrous effect it has on his crew. But luck and courage restores the crew and finds a proper home for "the wretched stone". Full color throughout.