Waiting for the Queen 

by Joanna Higgins

call number: JF HIGGINS J.

A surprising friendship develops between Eugenie, an escapee from the French Revolution, and Hannah, a Quaker girl, when they unite in the cause against slavery in this adventuresome tale of true nobility set amidst the rugged, eighteenth-century, Pennsylvania wilderness.  Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family barely escape the French Revolution with their lives. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where French Azilium, as the area came to be known, is being carved out of the rugged wilderness of Pennsylvania. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Quaker who has been chosen to help prepare French Azilum for the arrival of the aristocrats. In this wild place away from home and the memories they hold dear, Eugenie and Hannah find more in common than they first realize. With much to learn from each other, the girls unite to help free several slaves from their tyrannical French owner, a dangerous scheme that requires personal sacrifice in exchange for the slaves' freedom.A story of friendship against all odds, 'Waiting for the Queen' is a loving portrait of the values of a young America, and a reminder that true nobility is more than a royal title.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Series)
by Jeff Kinney

call number:  JF KINNEY J.

Boys don't keep diaries-or do they? It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary. In book one of this debut series, Greg is happy to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's new found popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion. Author/illustrator Jeff Kinney recalls the growing pains of school life and introduces a new kind of hero who epitomizes the challenges of being a kid. As Greg says in his diary, "Just don't expect me to be all 'Dear Diary' this and 'Dear Diary' that." Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won't do and what he actually does are two very different things. 

Books in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series:

1.  Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2.  Rodrick Rules
3.  The Last Straw
4.  Dog Days
5.  The Ugly Truth
6.  Cabin Fever
7.  The Third Wheel
8.  Hard Luck

-  The Wimpy Kid Do-It Yourself Book
-  The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

Words in the Dust 
by Trent Reedy
 call number JF Reedy T.

 Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.

The Vampire's Curse (Secrets of Dripping Fang)
by Dan Greenburg

call number:  JF GREENBURG D.

The Shluffmuffin twins' long-lost father has reappeared! But, he looks an awful lot like . . . Well, a zombie. Profesor Spydelle has developed a special life-restoring elixir, which turns him into - a vampire! Things couldn't get much worse, until the Onts show up in the twins' bedroom window!

Other books in the Secrets of Dripping Fang Series

•  The Onts (#1)
• Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days (#2)
• The Vampire's Curse (#3)
• Fall of the House of Mandible (#4)
• The Shluffmuffin Boy is History (#5)
• Attack of the Giant Octopus (#6)
• Please Don't Eat the Children (#7)
• When Bad Snakes Attack Good Children (#8)

King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper

call number: JF COOPER S.

 Nat Field's short life has been shadowed by loss and horror. His one escape is his talent for acting, and he has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. Brought from all over the U.S., the members of the American Company of Boys begin to rehearse at the Globe. But strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick -- is it the dreadful bubonic plague of the sixteenth century? He wakes up healthy, but he's no longer in the present, he's in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare: no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writer/actor whose friendship changes Nat forever. Nat has a new life, blazing with excitement, edged with danger, butwhy is he here?Is he trapped in Elizabethan London? Will he ever go home? Playing deftly with Time and Destiny as she did in her classic fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper tells a vivid, fascinating and ultimately very moving story of the painful business of growing up, against a background of the timeless, glowing magic of the theater.

American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang

call number: JF YANG G.

American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax.

Matilda

by Roald Dahl

call number:  JF DAHL R.

 Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.

The Princess School Series 
by Jane B. Mason

call number: JF MASON J.

Summary of book 1: If the Shoe Fits

Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rapunzel face friendship struggles, wacky families, their first ball, and Frog Identification class during their first year of Princess School. With her feet bare (those glass slippers don't fit) and her second-hand gown splattered with mud (thanks, evil stepsisters), Ella's first day of Princess School is off to a lousy start. If she can only find her fairy godmother before the first class begins, Ella is sure she'll put things right. But her FG is off at a convention and Ella is on her own--she'll have to get through the first weeks of Princess School without any bobbity-boo. Ella is terrified--until she meets silly Snow, spunky Rapunzel, and beautiful, sheltered Rose.

Books in the Princess School Series
#1 If the Shoe Fits
#2 Who's the Fairest
#3 Let Your Hair Down
#4 Beauty is a Beast
#5 Princess Charming
#6 Apple-y Ever After
#7 Thorn in Her Side
#8 Slippery Steps

Monster Manor - Runaway Zombie 
by Paul Martin

call number JF MARTIN P.

In book 8 in the Monster Manor series, Eye-Gore and Steve are one rowdy pair of zombies who listen to weird music and are super dirty, so when Steve goes missing nobody in the Manor is that worried except for Eye-Gore who thinks Steve has been zombie-napped.

Other Books in the Monster Manor Series:
#1 Von Skalpel's Experiment
#2 Frankie Rocks the House
#3 Beatrice Spells
#4 Wolfman Stu Bites Back
#5 Horror Gets Slimed
#6 Count Snobula Vamps it Up
#7 Sally Gets Silly
#8 Runaway Zombie

Secrets of Droon - Magic Escapes

by Tony Abbott

call number:  JF ABBOTT T.

Magic is on the move... into the real world. As Eric and his friends venture beyond the jeweled door and down the dark stairway, they enter a whole new chapter in their Droon adventures. They enter the "Upper World" -- our world.  For the first time ever, the magical world of Droon is expanding into the real world. Wizards, goblins, and all kinds of magical mischief are in store -- and this time, it's not just a wonder of Droon. It's a reality.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C.S. Lewis

call number:  JF Lewis C.

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.


Other books in the Chronicles of Narnia Series:

Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle