Gr 5—8—In this complex story (Hyperion, 2008) by Eoin Colfer, teenager Artemis Fowl meets his 10-year-old self, doesn't like him very much, and makes him an enemy (at least for a while)...
Gr 9 Up—Ancient Maori myth and tradition meet contemporary teens and teen problems in this engaging debut novel (Little, Brown, 2010) by Karen Healey...
Gr 4—9—Pam Munoz Ryan's fictionalized biography (Scholastic, 2010) of Chilean Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda is lovingly read by Tony Chiroldes...
Gr 7—9—In Diana Wynne Jones's labyrinthine tale (Greenwillow, 2010), Andrew Hope has recently been informed of his grandfather's death and subsequent inheritance of his estate in Melstone...
PreS-Gr 3—Each title in this inspirational and motivational series, written by Bunny Hull and illustrated by Kye Flemming, deals with the development of a specific character trait...

Gr 6—10—This gripping story (Farrar, Straus, 2009) by Helen Frost about two neighboring families during the Great War relates personal perspectives on the war, the struggle for women's suffrage in the U...
Gr 7—10—The final volume (Scholastic, 2010) in Meg Cabot's Airhead trilogy wraps up the story of Em Watts, whose brain has been transplanted into America's top model and who, at the opening of the book, finds herself the prisoner of Brandon Stark, son of one of the world's wealthiest and most evil men...
Gr 7—10—Picking up two months after Cammie's attempted kidnapping in Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Hyperion, 2009; Brilliance 2009), Ally Carter's next installment (Hyperion, 2010) brings on more danger, betrayals, secrets, and potential romance...
K-Gr 3—Thomas Lewis's beginning reader (HarperCollins, 1971) is based on actual accounts of the 1943 eruption of the Paricutin volcano in Mexico...