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| Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Elementary Booklist 2012-2013 |
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Elementary Level
The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl uses the suggested GBA list of 16 titles(2012-2013) for elementary schools. All 20 titles will be used for the middle school list. The following list is for elementary schools.
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Ashes. (2011)Kathryn Lasky.Puffin Books
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.at the start of each chapter, there is a quote from authors such as Hemingway, Heine, London, Remarque, and Twain, whose books are among those publicly destroyed in the wild, historic book burning that is the climax of this story
http://www.kathrynlasky.com/KK/Ashes.html/ |
Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to not reading. (2011)Tom Greenwald, Square Fish. Yearling.
. With his deep-seated love of not reading, this title�s young narrator, Charlie Joe, speaks straight to other book-averse middle-schoolers The elaborate plot revolves around Charlie Joe�s complicated tactics to avoid reading.
http://tommygreenwald.com/charlie-joe-jackson/ |
Close to famous. (2010) Joan Bauer. Puffin Books
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother leave Memphis in the middle of the night, fleeing the mother�s abusive boyfriend. Foster has a severe learning disability, a pillowcase full of mementos of her dead father, and a real gift for baking. When she and her singer mother relocate to a tiny, rural West Virginia town, they discover a friendly and welcoming population of delightfully quirky characters. Foster finally learns to read from a reclusive,retired movie star; Booklist.
http://www.joanbauer.com/ |
Crunch, (2010). Leslie Connor,Katherine Tegen Books
Dewey Marriss is stuck in the middle of a crunch. He never guessed that the gas pumps would run dry the same week he promised to manage the family's bicycle-repair business. Suddenly everyone needs a bike. And nobody wants to wait. Meanwhile, the crunch has stranded Dewey's parents far up north with an empty fuel tank and no way home. It's up to Dewey and his older sister, Lil, to look after their younger siblings and run the bike shop all on their own.
http://www.leslieconnor.com/
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Dark life..(2010) Kat Falls. Scholastic Press
A futuristic adventure set deep undersea, Dark Life follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws
http://katfalls.com/
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Fish(2010) .Gregory Mone. Scholastic Press .
Eleven-year-old Fish, seeking a way to help his family financially, becomes a reluctant cabin boy on a pirate ship, where he soon makes friends--and enemies--and is asked to help decipher clues that might lead to a legendary treasure.
http://fishthepirate.com/about_author.html/ |
The great wall of Lucy Wu .(2011).Wendy Wan Long Shang .Scholastic Press,
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
http://wendyshang.com/ |
Hero . (2010).Mike Lupica.Philomel Books
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the president's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
http://www.mikelupicabooks.com/ |
T he limit (2010) Kristen Landon. Aladdin
In a world eerily similar to our own, the government imposes debt limits on families. Exceed the limit,and the family's oldest child will be taken away to a special workhouse.
http://www.kristinlandon.com/
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The luck of the Buttons.(2011).Anne Ylvisaker. Candlewick Press
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.
http://www.anneylvisaker.com/
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Milo : sticky notes and brain freeze (2011).Alan Silberberg . Aladdin.
In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.
http://www.silberbooks.com/
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My life in pink & green . (2010) Lisa Greenwald .Amulet Books,
When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem-solving talents to come up with a solution that might resuscitate the business and help the environment.
http://www.lisagreenwald.com/
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Nnth Ward(2009) Jeiwell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown,
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
http://jewellparkerrhodes.com/
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The Secret Science Alliance and the copycat crook (2010) Eleanor Davis .Bloomsbury,
Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/981303.Eleanor_Davis/
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Turtle in paradise (2010)Jennifer L. Holm: Yearling,. Scholastic,
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
http://www.jenniferholm.com/
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Wild things (2010) Clay Carmichael. Front Street Books.
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
http://claycarmichael.com/ |
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