NYT - Children’s Middle Grade | Fredonia Public Library

1) jurassic world

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2) The one and only Ivan

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Notes

#13 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead,...

3) Out of my mind

Author

Draper, Sharon M

Series

Out of my mind volume 1

Notes

#14 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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Book on CD, eAudiobook

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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

4) Goodbye stranger

Author

Stead, Rebecca

Notes

#15 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23.

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As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"

5) Wonder

Author

Palacio, R. J

Series

Wonder

Notes

#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 141 week(s).

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eBook, Kindle

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August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...

6) A long walk to water: based on a true story

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Notes

#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 61 week(s).

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

7) The princess in black

Author

Hale, Shannon

Series

The Princess in Black volume 1

Notes

#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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eBook, Kindle

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Hiding her secret identity as a monster-fighting superhero, Princess Magnolia interrupts her fancy tea with the unsuspecting Duchess Wigtower to stop a big blue monster from endangering her kingdom's goats.

8) Counting by 7s

Author

Sloan, Holly Goldberg

Notes

#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade list for 2015-08-23. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.