Best Book Club 2014Edmonds School District

2013 Sasquatch

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2013 Young Reader’s Choice Award

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Royce Buckingham website

When Teddy Mathews moves to Richland, his main concern is making new friends. But some-thing is not right about this quiet desert town. All the boys he meets seem to vanish before his eyes! With a giant tree scratching at his window Teddy’s life becomes a waking nightmare that no one else believes. Can Teddy escape the tree’s terrifying grasp and solve the mystery of the missing boys before Teddy becomes the next boy to disappear?

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Kathryn Erskine’s Website

In Caitlins’ world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of ‘closure’, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white. The world is full of colors - messy and beautiful!

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Angie Frazier’s website

A girl’s gone missing. It’s 1905 and young Suzanna works at her family’s Inn in Loch Harbor, New Brunswick, where she is trained to be a well-mannered hostess and a charming lady. Suzanna has other ideas for her future. She wants to be a detective! When a young guest goes missing on a stormy summer night, Suzanna’s famous uncle, Detective Bruce Snow, comes to solve the case. But Suzanna learns that not everything is as it seems. Can Suzanna solve the case before it’s too late?

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Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born! And so far, he’s managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he’s in middle school, avoiding reading isn’t as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy decides that he’s tired of covering for him, Charlie Joe finds himself resorting to desperate measures to keep his perfect record intact.

Tommy Greenwald’s website

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When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new experiences go, but Zita is even more surprised to find herself taking on the role of intergalactic hero. Zita the Spacegirl is a fun captivating tale of friend-ship and redemption. It also has more whimsical, eye-catching monsters than you can shake a stick at!

Ben Hatke’s blog

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Rufus has been dreaming of getting a dog. His best friend has one. His worst friend has one. But his dad has a few objections: They whine. They gnaw. They bark. They scratch. They beg. They drool. Rufus pays no attention when his mom offers her think-outside-the-box suggestion, because she can’t be serious. She can’t be. She actually comes home with a guinea pig. And if Rufus’s day thinks dogs are a problem, he won’t know what hit him when he meets the Guinea Pig that thinks she’s a Dog. She barks. She bites. She’ll eat your homework!

Patrick Jennings website

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Thanhha Lai Info

“No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peace time in Alabama.” For all the ten years of her life, Ha as only known Siagon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by…But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Ha and her family are forced to flee and board a ship headed toward hope. In America Ha discovers the foreign world of Alabama. This is a moving story of one girl’s journey of change, dreams, grief, and healing.

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Lauren Oliver’s website

Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice, until one night a ghost appears from the darkness. It is Po, who comes from the Other Side. Both Liesl and Po are lonely, but together they are less alone. That same night, an alchemist’s apprentice, Will, makes a big mistake with an important delivery. He accidentally switches a box containing the most powerful magic in the world, with a box containing something less remarkable. Will’s mistake has tremendous consequences for Liesl and Po, and it brings the 3 of them together on an extraordinary journey.

In this humorous and heartfelt story, nothing goes

according to plan for 6th grader Lucy Wu. Lucy Wu,

aspiring basketball star and interior designer, is on the

verge of having the best year of her life. She’s ready to

rule the school as a 6th grader and take over the

bedroom she’s always shared with her sister. In an

instant, her plans are shattered when she finds out that Yi Po, her beloved great-aunt, is coming to visit and is

staying in Lucy’s room. Lucy’s vision of a perfect year begins to crumble!

Wendy Wan-Lang Shang’s Website

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For 11 year old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over. “We stay, we starve.” his Baba has warned. So they must flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his family so when a stranger promises him a factory job, he jumps at the offer. But Gopal has been deceived. There is no factory, but instead, a small stuffy sweatshop, where he and 5 other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. The boys are forbidden to talk or even call one another by their real names. Locked up in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs. Will he ever see his family again?

Kashmira Sheth’s website

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David, otherwise known as Scrub, isn’t happy about leaving Florida and his friends to summer with his grandmother in “Middle of Nowhere” Washington. When he arrives at her intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, he’s surprised by the weird looking guests. It turns out that each room in the B & B is a portal, allowing aliens to vacation on Earth. Grandma desperately needs Scrub’s help with welcoming (and disguising) the tourists. The problem is, the town sheriff is already suspicious about Granny and her guests. Will Scrub blow Granny’s cover, forcing the B & B to shut down forever?

Clete Barrett Smith’s website

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Fisher is the last boy on earth, and things are not looking good for the human race. Only Fisher made it out alive, after the survival bunker where he and dozens of other humans had been sleeping, was destroyed. Luckily Fisher is not totally alone. He meets a broken robot he names Click, and together they uncover evidence of a second survival bunker far to the west. Filled with new hope they journey to find it, but will they survive along the way?

Greg van Eekhout’s website

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Jeff Kinney’s website

Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he’s innocent. Or at least sort of. A surprise blizzard hits, and the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he’s going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays? His latest in the

series…just out!

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Brian Selznick’s website

Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she follows in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother’s room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Set 50 years apart, these 2 independent stories—Ben’s told in words, Rose’s in pictures– weave back and forth. How they ultimately intertwine will surprise you, challenge you, and leave you breathless with wonder!

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Wendy Mass’s Website

When middle schooler Tara steals the school mascot, a goat, in order to make some friends with the popular crowd and gets caught, she’s in a heap of trouble!In addition, her parents decide that instead of taking her on their summer trip to Madagascar, she must go stay with her aunt, uncle and bratty cousin Emily St. Claire in Willow Falls. Tara thinks it’s a good time to start over, she’ll be turning 13 after all, so she might as well make the best of it. What Tara doesn’t know is that this charmed town has something big in store for her on her 13th birthday. It’s not a typical birthday. But then again, nothing in Willow Falls is exactly typical!

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James Patterson’s website

Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he’s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school’s Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class = 5,000 points! Running in the hallway = 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm = 50,000 points! But when Rafe’s game starts to catch up with him, he’ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he’s finally ready to face the rules, bullies and truths. Book Trailer

Tom Angleberger’s website

Not such a long time ago, in a middle school not so far away…..something amazing happened! A weird kid named Dwight made an origami finger puppet of Yoda. And the amazing thing was that Origami Yoda gave great advice! He could predict the date of a pop quiz, tell a guy if a girl likes him or not, etc. Most 6th graders were convinced he was using the Force. But now, a year later, it’s a dark time at McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight has been suspended and may be expelled, which means no more Origami Yoda. Even worse Darth Paper, another puppet, may be responsible for getting Dwight kicked out in the first place. Now the kids of McQuarrie are trying to build a case to save Dwight. Will they succeed?)

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Kazu Kibuishi’s thrilling New York Times bestselling series continues! Emily and her friends think they’ll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn’t right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she’s expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers. But a terrible secret is slowly uncovered, and could mean certain destruction of everything Emily fights for.

Kazu Kibuishi’s info

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Lincoln Peirce’s Website

Eleven year old Nate Wright is living OUT LOUD and he wouldn’t have it any other way! Even though his friends won’t let him be the lead singer in their band, Nate continues to rock. He’s a superstar of the comics pages and of the best-selling series of Big Nate books. He’s a big hit with kids everywhere!

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Are you ready to save the world? The bestselling series, the 39 Clues, returns with another great adventure! 13 year old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought they belonged to the world’s most powerful family. They thought the hunt for the 39 Clues was over and that they’d won. But Amy and Dan were wrong. Cahills around the globe are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known as the Vespers. Amy and Dan have only a few days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their friends will start dying. And if the Vespers get their hands on the Clues, the world will be their next hostage. Will Amy and Dan be able to stop them?

Gordon Korman’s website

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