Among the Barons  #4 Shadow Children Series  

By Margaret Peterson Haddix

   Luke is an illegal “third child” in a society that only allows two children per family.  In this book, he gets a fake ID and can now attend the Hendricks School for Boys.  His fake name is Lee Grant.  The real Lee Grant died and Luke is secretly  taking his place.  Although he has never met Lee Grant’s parents and siblings, he knows that they are Barons (rich people).  So, there is good news and bad news.  The good news is that Luke (Lee) finally gets to walk outside, breathe fresh air, talk to regular people, and go to school.  Unfortunately, Lee Grant’s little brother Smits is coming to Hendricks School for Boys too!  Will he be able to act like Smits older brother?     ~ Morgan, age 11

by Rachel Roberts

Tale of Despereaux

By Kate DiCamillo

2003 Newberry Award

 Despereaux Tilling is an innocent mouse, he was just curious!  Now he is on his way to the dungeon just because he was in love with the princess.  Although he is small in size, he believes he can make a difference.  Miggery Sow is a peasant girl but she believes she can be a princess too.  Unfortunately she makes friends with the wrong type…a rat!!!  Together they come up with an evil plan to capture the princess and take her to the dungeon and Miggery Sow will be the new princess.  Can Despereaux save the princess before it’s too late?  Will true love prevail?

                                                                                                             Morgan - age 11

The Moorchild

By Eloise McGraw

Newberry Honor Book

 Saaski knew she was different; she never could do the basics as well as the other folk.  The villagers treat her like an outcast with threats, torments, and not-stopping mobs that seriously hurt her mentally and physically.  But Saaski meets an orphaned boy named Tam who knows what she’s going through and helps her discover her past.  When a little elf-like creature tries to steal her bagpipes one day, Saaski learns that she has been playing Moorfolk songs.  “Don’t you remember when you were one of us?” he said.  Saaski was a “changling” – a Moorfolk child that was exchanged for a human child.  She must return to the Mound where the Moorfolk live to get her mother’s real child.  But will she be able to get back in the real work before the Mound is locked up or will she be stuck there forever? 

12 Again

By Sue Corbett

 We think our moms are so old fashioned but what does Patrick think of his mom when she turns 12 again?  Well actually all Patrick knows that his mom went missing on the eve of her 40^th birthday.  Now Bernadette (his mom) gets to experience what Patrick’s life is like being 12.  Bernadette had recently gone through the loss of her mother without a goodbye kiss.  But now she gets to live with her mother just like it when she was 12.  Bernadette knows that the only way to turn back is to use one of her mom’s potions and she needs some help getting some supplies.  But if she tells Patrick in person, he won’t believe that she is his mom.  She has to talk to him by e-mail.  Will it work?  Will she go back to normal?