Liar & Spy

 Liar & Spy

by Rebecca Stead

Random House, 2012

When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend?

May B.

May B. 

by Caroline Starr Rose

Schwartz & Wade, 2012

When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

by Deborah Hopkinson

Scholastic, 2012

Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.

A Diamond in the Desert

A Diamond in the Desert

by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Viking 2012

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

Book Trailer

The False Prince

The False Prince

by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Scholastic, 2012

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war. 

Book Trailer

Glory Be

Glory Be

by Augusta Scattergood

Scholastic, 2012

In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it. 

 Book Trailer for Glory Be.

Wonder

e

Wonder

by R.J. Palacio

Random House 2012

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. 

Pledge to Choose Kind.

Book Trailer for Wonder

Book Trailer created by Mrs. Hembree from Lake Washington School District