Book List 2018-2019
BOB LIST 2018-2019
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TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY
Adam Rex
B.L. 4.5 Fiction
Quiz #117805
Twelve-year-old Gratuity Tucci is assigned to write a paper for the National Time Capule contest, and her story involves her friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic, her journey to find her mother, and a plan to save Earth from an alien invasion.
THE BOY WHO BIKED THE WORLD: ON THE ROAD TO AFRICA
Alastair Humphrey
NO AR TEST Fiction
Discover Africa by bicycle in book one of a delightful children's adaptation of Alastair Humphrey's journey around the world.
THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON
Kelly Barnhill
B.L. 4.8 Fiction
Quiz #183878
A witch, a swamp monster and a perfectly tiny dragon raise a young girl named Luna who must unlock a powerful magic buried deep inside her to help save the people of the Protectorate.
BEHIND REBEL LINES
Seymour Reit
B.L. 5.7 Nonfiction
Quiz # 6303
In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman, and fop, Emma became a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death at every turn behind Confederate lines.
Crossover
Kwame Alexander
B.L. 4.3 Fiction
Quiz# 164734
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
DRAGON SLIPPERS
Jessica Day George
B.L. 5.7 Fiction
QUIZ #118865
Orphaned as a young child Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that could either save or destroy her kingdom.
THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER (Young readers version)
Lawrence Anthony
B.L. 6.1 Nonfiction
B.L. 6.1 Nonfiction
Quiz #192023
When Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a rogue herd of elephants in his reserve in South Africa, it was the last chance for these elephants. If Anthony didn’t take them, they would be shot. But he had no experience with elephants at all. What was he to do?
Take them on, of course!
Take them on, of course!
CRENSHAW
Katherine Applegate
B.L. 3.8 Fiction
Quiz #176582
Fearing his family will have to move back into their minivan after another financial setback, Jackson finds support and comfort through his
friendship with an imaginary giant cat.
ROOFTOPPERS
Katherine Rundell
B.L. 3.5 Fiction
Quiz #161195
Sophie may have survived a shipwreck as a baby, but her life began when an eccentric but loving bachelor brought her home. When a child services organization threatens to remove Sophie, she and Charles flee to Paris in search of her long-lost mother.
RESTART
Gordon Korman
B.L. 5.1 Fiction
Quiz #188396
Chase Ambrose forgets everything after falling off a roof and losing consciousness. He forgets his name. He forgets his parents. He forgets what he was doing up there on that roof. And he forgets that he's the biggest bully at Hiawassee Middle School.
MUSIC OF THE DOLPHINS
Karen Hesse
B.L. 3.4 Fiction
Quiz #17783
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.
"WHO COULD THAT BE AT THIS HOUR?"
Lemony Snicket
B.L. 5.5 Fiction
Quiz #154479
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd-by-the-Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue. Book #1
KID OWNER
Tim Green
B.L. 5.0 Fiction
Quiz #176657
When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away.
OUT OF MY MIND
Sharon M. Draper
B.L. 4.3 Fiction
Quiz #136421
Considered my many to be mentally handicapped, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
ABSOLUTELY ALMOST
Lisa Graff
B.L. 4.7 Fiction
Quiz #168459
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista help him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
WHEN THE SEA TURNS TO SILVER
Grace Lin
B.L. 5.3 Fiction
Quiz #184123
MY LIFE WITH CHIMPANZEES
Jane Goodall
B.L. 6.1 Nonfiction
Quiz #32325
This book describes the adventures Jane Goodall has in the African jungles experimenting with Chimpanzees.
UNUSUAL CHICKENS FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL POULTRY FARMER
Kelly Jones
B.L. 5.2 Fiction
Quiz #174131
Through a series of letters, twelve-year-old Sophie Brown tells of her family's move to Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends,
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING
Astrid Lindgren
B.L. 5.2 Fiction
Quiz #69
A lucky girl who lives with a horse and a monkey, but without any parents, at the edge of a Swedish village is involved in many escapades.
URBAN OUTLAWS
Peter Jay Black
B.L. 4.8 Fiction
Quiz #170208
Deep beneath London, five extraordinary orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s)