New Fiction Books for October – Part 2
All summaries are from Titlewave in the Destiny Catalog
Where Are You, Baby Lincoln?
By Kate DiCamillo
AR Level – 3.7
1 Point
Tiring of doing everything that bossy Eugenia tells her to do, Baby Lincoln embarks on a Necessary Journey of imagination and self-discovery.
Summer According to Humprey
AR Level 4.3
5 Points
By Betty G. Birney
When summer arrives, Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, is surprised and pleased to learn that he will be going to Camp Happy Hollow.
Basketball Breakdown
By Jake Maddox
AR Level – 4.3
1 Point
When eighth grade basketball player Shaena suffers a concussion in a game, she finds herself sidelined two weeks before the big game--and as she watches her team practice with the new freshman player, Shaena, who is used to being the star, starts to worry that by the time she recovers she will no longer be needed.
Funny Girl
Edited By Betsy Bird
AR Level – 4.5
4 Points
Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
Oona Finds an Egg
By Adele Griffin
AR Level – 3.4
2 Points
(#1 in the Oodelthunks Series)
Oona brings a giant egg back to West Wog to care for it, but others in the cave want to claim her egg, particularly the nasty kid Bruce Brute, and when the baby stegosaurus hatches it will have to choose who it wants to live with.
Year of the Fortune Cookie
By Andrea Cheng
AR Level – 4.5
3 Points
(#3 in the Anna Wong Series)
Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.
Makoons
By Louise Erdrich
AR Level – 4.2
3 Points
(#2 in the Wonder Series)
"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie’s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie’s new friend at school"-
Mary Annings Curiosity
By Monica Kulling
AR Level – 5.2
2 Points
A fictionalized retelling of the childhood of Mary Anning, one of the world's greatest fossilists.
Douglas You Need Glasses
By Ged Adamson
AR Level – 1.5
½ Point
A dog who needs glasses but doesn't know it lands in hairy situations because of his poor eyesight, from eating out of the wrong bowl to walking through wet cement, until his owner takes him to an eye doctor and has him fitted with a perfect pair of glasses.
Splashdance
By Liz Starin
AR Level – 2.4
½ Point
When a new regulation bans bears from the community pool, Ursula joins a group of intrepid animal swimmers who work together to ensure that everyone is welcome.
Wolves of Currumpaw
By William Grill
AR Level – 5.9
½ Point
The Wolves of Currumpawis a beautifully illustrated modern re-telling of Ernest Thompson Seton's epic wilderness drama Lobo, the King of Currumpaw, 1898. Set in the dying days of the old west, Seton's drama unfolds in the vast plains of New Mexico, at a time when man's relationship with nature was very much exploited and often misunderstood. This is the first graphic adaptation of a massively influential piece of writing by one of the men who went on to form the Boy Scouts of America.
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Turkey
By Lucille Colandro
AR Level –2.6
½ Point
Another installment in the hilarious series finds the old lady up to her silly antics again, but this time she's swallowing a Thanksgiving turkey!
Buddy and Earl the Great Big Baby
By Maureen Fergus
AR Level – 3.4
½ Point
Mom's friend Mrs. Cunningham is coming for a visit, and she's bringing her baby! While Buddy tries to explain the ins and outs of babydom to Earl, neither of them is prepared for the chaos the small and adorable creature brings with it.
When the baby manages to escape from its cage which Buddy gently suggests is really just a playpen it's up to our favorite odd couple to save the day.
The Storyteller
By Evan Turk
AR Level4.9
½ Point
In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
Going to Sleep on the Farm
By Wendy Lewison
AR Level - 2.1
½ Point
A father describes for his son how each animal on the farm goes to sleep.