Gr 7 Up—Seth Baumgartner thinks that summer break will be a time of worry-free fun, but then his girlfriend dumps him while having lunch at Applebees...
Gr 5—7—Alex Rex's novel (Hyperion, 2007) about the months that follow an alien invasion of Earth is both humorous and politically relevant, with themes of broken treaties, false promises, and the rights of "discoverers" to replace the current "backward" culture with their own, even changing the names of holidays...
Gr 4—7—The tumultuous summer of 1968 is the setting for this splendid story (Amistad, 2010) by Rita Williams-Garcia...
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