11 birthdays Mass, W. Among the hidden Haddix, M. A blind guide to Stinkville Vrabel, B. Book Scavenger Chambliss Bertman Crenshaw Applegate, K. Crossing Niagara Tavares, M. Dash Larson, K. Fuzzy mud Sachar, L. Hilo. Book 1, Winick, J. The house that Jane built Stone, T. The most amazing creature Guiberson, B. Roller girl Jamieson, V. Save me a seat Weeks, S. Separate is never equal Tonatiuh, D. Soar Bauer, J. Stick dog Watson, T. The terrible two Barnett, M. Where the mountain meets Lin, G. Who was Louis Braille? Frith, M. The wild robot Brown, P.

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2018 BLUESTEM BOOKS

11 birthdays By Mass, Wendy After celebrating their first nine same-day birth-days together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again. 2009 RL:4.1

A blind guide to Stinkville By Vrabel, Beth Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the addi-tional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.2016 IL:3-6 RL:4.9

Among the hidden By Haddix, Margaret Peterson In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. 1998 IL:3-6 RL:4.7

Book Scavenger By Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer Just after twelve-year-old Emily an her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garri-son Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends. 2016 IL:5-8 RL:5.5

Crenshaw By Applegate, Katherine "A story about a homeless boy and his Imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"- 2015 IL:3-6 RL:3.7

Crossing Niagara : the death-defying tightrope adven-tures of the Great Blondin By Tavares, Matt An illustrated account of the daredevil of Niagara Falls, the Great Blondin, who walked from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope. 2016 IL:K -3 RL:2.9

Dash By Larson, Kirby When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her class-mates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash. 2016 IL:3-6 RL:3.9

Fuzzy mud By Sachar, Louis "Two kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--P 2015 IL:5-8 RL:5

Hilo. Book 1, The boy who crashed to Earth By Winick, Judd "When a mysterious boy falls from the sky, friends D.J. and Gina must discover the secrets of his identity and help him save the world"-- 2015 IL:3-6 RL:1.9

The house that Jane built : a story about Jane Addams By Stone, Tanya Lee Looks at the life of Jane Addams and her founding of the settlement home Hull House.IL:K-3 RL:4.3

The most amazing creature in the sea By Guiberson, Brenda Z Text and illustrations provide information to inspire young readers to choose their own favorite sea creature. 2015 IL:K-3 RL:5.1

Roller girl By Jamieson, Victoria "A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"-2015 IL:5-8 RL:3.1

Save me a seat By Weeks, Sarah Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learn-ing problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives. 2016 IL:3-6 RL:4.8

The wild robot By Brown, Peter - Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environ-ment from the island's hostile inhabitants. 2016 IL:3-6 RL:5.8

Who was Louis Braille? By Frith, Margaret Tells the life story of Louis Braille, the nineteenth-century man who lost his sight at the age of three and developed an alphabet for blind peo-ple when he was fifteen. 2014 IL:3-6 RL:5

Where the mountain meets the moon By Lin, Grace

Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Moun-tain and freshness to Jade River.2011 IL:3-6 RL:5.

The terrible two By Barnett, Mac When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen. 2015 IL:3-6 RL:4.9

Stick dog By Watson, Tom "Stick Dog and his four friends - Stripes, Mutt, Poo-Poo and Karen - will do anything to steal some sweet-smelling hamburgers from a family at Picasso Park!"--2013 IL:3-6 RL:4.5

Soar By Bauer, Joan Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach. 2017 IL:5-8 RL:4

Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation By Tonatiuh, Duncan "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"2014 IL:K-3 RL:4.7