Interested in one more list touting the “Best of 2011”?
The School Library Journal (SLJ) published its list titled “Best Books 2011”. One of these many great titles could inspire the next book you read.
All the books listed below are already in the Middle School library. The recommended age ranges (from SLJ) and synopses (from DSMS catalog) are included here, too. Look at the DSMS catalog to learn if the book is on the shelf.
More books from SLJ’s list will be added to the DSMS collection soon.
To see SLJ’s complete list, stop by the library and just ask! And if you’d like to request one of those specific titles, talk to Elaine.
FICTION
Inside Out & Back Again. Lai, Thanhha. (JF F THA). Grades 4-6
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Wonderstruck. Selznick, Brian. (JF F SEL). Grades 4-8
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Breadcrumbs. Ursu, Anne. (JF F URS). Grades 5-8
Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life.
Chime. Billingsley, Franny. (JF BIL). Grades 7 & UP
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
The Scorpio Races. Stiefvater, Magge. (JF STI). Grades 8 & UP
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
NON-FICTION
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. (363.4 BLU). Grades 7-10
Chronicles the history of Prohibition in the United States, a period from 1920 to 1933 during which it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, discussing how what began as a movement to heal social ills, became a burden to ordinary citizens and a boon to criminals.
The School Library Journal (SLJ) published its list titled “Best Books 2011”. One of these many great titles could inspire the next book you read.
All the books listed below are already in the Middle School library. The recommended age ranges (from SLJ) and synopses (from DSMS catalog) are included here, too. Look at the DSMS catalog to learn if the book is on the shelf.
More books from SLJ’s list will be added to the DSMS collection soon.
To see SLJ’s complete list, stop by the library and just ask! And if you’d like to request one of those specific titles, talk to Elaine.
FICTION
Inside Out & Back Again. Lai, Thanhha. (JF F THA). Grades 4-6
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Wonderstruck. Selznick, Brian. (JF F SEL). Grades 4-8
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Breadcrumbs. Ursu, Anne. (JF F URS). Grades 5-8
Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life.
Chime. Billingsley, Franny. (JF BIL). Grades 7 & UP
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
The Scorpio Races. Stiefvater, Magge. (JF STI). Grades 8 & UP
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
NON-FICTION
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. (363.4 BLU). Grades 7-10
Chronicles the history of Prohibition in the United States, a period from 1920 to 1933 during which it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, discussing how what began as a movement to heal social ills, became a burden to ordinary citizens and a boon to criminals.
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