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Battle of the Books. Grade 6 2013-2014. Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead . Their new town is populated with characters from fairytales. Seven students recount the effect a new teacher has on their class.
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Battle of the Books Grade 6 2013-2014
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead. Their new town is populated with characters from fairytales.
Seven students recount the effect a new teacher has on their class. Told from multiple points of view. Realistic.
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. Rollicking fantasy .
This comic tale, narrated by a 10-year-old boy, describes an eccentric family's unwitting trip South to visit Grandma--during one of the stormiest times of the Civil Rights movement. Historical fiction.
Kid snatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. Humorous fantasy.
Nobody write autobiographies better than an accomplished author and Roald Dahl, the author of The BFG, does not disappoint. His stories of growing up in England are hilarious.
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue, their adventure continues in America. Classic Realistic fiction
JoeStoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets ShoelessJoe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated. Baseball Card Adventure series Sports & fantasy
Narrating in sparse free-verse poems, 10-year-old Hà brings a strong, memorable voice to the immigrant experience as her family moves from war-torn South Vietnam to Alabama in 1975.
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. Realistic fiction
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen. The day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again. Like Groundhog Day movie
Dramatic story, the fictionalized version of an actual incident in 1940 when a group of Norwegian children carried $9,000,000 in gold bullion on their sleds, right past the Nazi sentries, to a secret cache where it could be held for shipment to the U.S. Historical fiction at its best!
When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone. This poignant adventure story begins in England in 1988 and ends halfway around the globe. Adventure, realistic.
Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life. First person narrative Short chapters Character driven.
Seventh grader Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother. a live-wire young sleuth in this nonstop whodunit Mystery
