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Michael Chabon

Summerland

Genre:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Myths, Fantasy
Age Level:
Middle Grade

In a story that combines baseball and folklore, 11-year-old Ethan, an aspiring baseball player, is recruited by a mysterious elderly scout to help preserve a fairy population from destruction by all manner of predators. Ethan and his friends battle goblins, shape-shifters and sea monsters in a series of high-stakes challenges.

sunny
Jennifer Holm, Matthew Holm

Sunny Side Up

Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. Sunny meets Buzz, a boy who is completely obsessed with comic books, and soon they’re having adventures of their own: facing off against golfball-eating alligators, runaway cats, and mysteriously disappearing neighbors. But the question remains — why is Sunny down in Florida in the first place? The answer lies in a family secret that won’t be secret to Sunny much longer.

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014)

Sunrise Over Fallujah

Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Robin believes in his country and volunteers to fight in Iraq, but when he arrives in the war zone he realizes that fighting for freedom is not always black and white.

Ian Ayers

Super Crunchers

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
YA

With real-life examples from sports, medicine, online dating, and airline pricing, Ayres describes how data about all of us is collected and “crunched” by statisticians and computers to profile consumers benefitting both the consumer and the companies interested in selling to them.

Superfudge
Judy Blume

Superfudge

Age Level:
Middle Grade

Peter is now 12 and still tormented by younger brother, Fudge. And then he learns that his parents want to leave New York City for some time in the country — and a new baby in the family. One Fudge is bad enough, but how will Peter cope with yet another? Humor abounds in this recognizable tale.

Superstar
Mandy Davis

Superstar

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

This story follows space-obsessed Lester Musselbaum as he experiences the challenges of his first days of public school: making friends, facing bullies, finding his “thing,” and accidentally learning of his autism-spectrum diagnosis. A touching peek into the life of a sensitive autism-spectrum boy facing the everydayness of elementary school.

Students Debating
Blog: Reading Ways

Supporting Argumentative Writing and Classroom Debate

Although arguing might seem like a natural talent for many adolescents, argumentative writing and classroom debates are often tough skills for students to master and challenging to teach. Read to find out where recent research is leading us.