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Gr 8—11—Madison Archer and the students of Soundview High are beginning to be afraid...

Gr 5—8—Part American tall tale and part steampunk, John Claude Bemis's sequel (2010) to The Nine-Pound Hammer (2009, both Random; Listening Library, 2009) begins with a party for Nel's birthday...

Gr 7 Up—Edgy teen novels with weighty issues are the order of the day, with far ranging titles like Sarah Littman's Purge (bulimia) and The Knife That Killed Me (school violence) by Anthony McGowan...

Gr 5—7—Princess Patricia Pricilla finds her royal life quite boring in this enjoyable tale (Houghton Mifflin, 2010) by Lois Lowry...

Gr 6—10—In Witch and Wizard (2009), siblings Whit and Wisty discovered their magical powers after being separated from their parents and imprisoned by the totalitarian, creativity-hating New Order...

Gr 9 Up—Beatrice Szabo is having a tough year in this novel (Scholastic, 2009) by Natalie Standiford...

Gr 5—8—The nine short stories in this collection (Harcourt, 1994) by Bruce Coville involve a box given to a boy by an angel, a boy who may be a unicorn, an unseen monster stalking some children, a vampire telling a tale of the blood-drinking tradition, men who are werewolves, an obsessively neat family brownie and a not so neat girl, a headless ghost with a message, the American flag and standing up for one's beliefs, and the company of elves...

Gr 7 Up—Originally published in 1972, Richard Peck's classic about hardscrabble farm life in Vermont and the too early entrance into adulthood for nearly 13-year-old Rob is still relevant today...

Gr 4—7—Ethan and Olivia Cheeseman are brilliant scientists who have created a time machine known as the Luminal Velocity Regulator (LVR)...