Aye, mateys! Are you ready for some swashbuckling pirate adventures? Don’t be a scallywag, me bucko. Arr! Pete, Inna, Gary, and Vicky and Aaron (the twins) are training to be pirates abroad the ship Sea Rat. No matter what comes their way, they prove that they have the mettle to handle it. Book 1: The…
On the playground, Lerner Chanse listens with dread as Reba Silo, queen of MPOOE (Most Powerful One On Earth) gives Lerner the dare that will raise her from SLUG (Sorry Loser Under Ground) status to MPOOE. Lerner has to steal Mr. Droan’s grade book and change Bobby Nitz’s grade from a “D” to an “A.” …
In Tom Angleberger’s series, Origami Yoda, the force arrives at McQuarrie Middle School and begins the battle against the dark side of social ineptitude and mandated state testing. If you can’t believe that paper folded into famous Star Wars characters can start a resistance movement against middle school injustices, think again. Read the series and…
Through poetry and letters, Mina Tagawa tells her family’s story. Soon after Pearl Harbor, her father, a newspaper reporter, is arrested under suspicion of sedition. Every day, Mina and her brother endure verbal and physical attacks at school. Mina wants to scream every time she hears, “Jap.” She doesn’t feel Japanese. She’s an American! In…
As the twister’s black funnel approaches the farm, Pete, the farmhand, rushes the family into the storm cellar. Mother worries about Father working in the corn field some distance from the house. Just before she climbs into the cellar, Mother sees the dark funnel headed toward the field where Father works. Pete assures her that…
Did either of William Meriwether Miller’s parents ask him if he wanted to travel across the United States with his somewhat estranged father instead of playing in the All-Star baseball game? Of course not. They just assumed that he would jump at the chance to travel in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of…
