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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)...

Gr 5—8—Sarah Webb is Ireland's Louise Rennison, although her main character, Amy Green, is a bit more serious than Georgia Nicolson: same age and same snogging issues, but faced with divorced parents, step-parents, and infant half-siblings...

Gr 4—7—Fans of Gordon Korman's Swindle (2008) and Zoobreak (2009) will enjoy this third mystery (2010, all Scholastic) which follows the exploits of Griffin Bing and his pals...

Gr 9 Up—Andi Alpers is from Brooklyn Heights, NY, and is trying to come to terms with her scientist father's abandonment, her mother's mental illness, and her bother's tragic death which caused it all...