Thursday, May 29, 2014

Fiction for Upper Elementary and Middle Schoolers

My Basmati Bat Mitzvah - Paula J. Freedman
Tara Feinstein, proud of both her East Indian and Jewish heritage, questions what it means to have a bat mitzvah and deals with her own doubts about her faith.

Risked - Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Missing: Book 6. Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths

The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.


Guys Read: Other Worlds - Jon Scieszka
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.


Code of Silence - Tim Shoemaker
When thirteen-year-olds Cooper, Hiro, and Gordy witness a robbery that leaves a man in a coma, they find themselves tangled in a web of mystery and deceit that threatens their lives.

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