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The Gospel According to Larry
Janet Tasjian

The Gospel According to Larry

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

The novel focuses on Josh Swenson, a teenager who preaches his anti-consumerism beliefs under his online pseudonym of “Larry” and must deal with the sudden popularity of his web presence.

The Grand Escape
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Grand Escape

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

The feline adventures begin when Marco and Polo, always indoor cats, taste freedom (and the Burger King dump). The cat brothers meet others memorable mousers along the way in this first of a series of books about the Cat Pack.

Grateful American Book Prize award silver engraving of handing holding a pen

The Grateful American Book Prize

The Grateful American™ Book Prize recognizes excellence in writing, storytelling, and illustration for children’s non-fiction and historical fiction focused on the events and personalities that have shaped the United States since the country’s founding.

Roger Zelazny

The Great Book of Amber

Genre:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Myths, Fantasy
Age Level:
YA

Often considered one of the greatest fantasy series, the ten-book Amber Chronicles are collected here in one volume. The stories tell of first Corwin, then his son Merlin, and their life on both Earth and its parallel city Amber. Amber is a fully realized world, and the books are fantasy, humor and adventure in one long but compelling package.

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Genre:
Classics, Fiction, Romance
Age Level:
YA, Adult

Are the wealthiest people in America the happiest? Nick Carraway seems to think so until he gets involved with his rich neighbors, including the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Through Nick’s love interest Jordan, and his budding friendship with Jay, Nick discovers that Gatsby’s world is filled with love, betrayal and murder. 

the-great-trouble
Deborah Hopkinson

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

Genre:
Historical Fiction, Mystery / Crime

Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He’s being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he’s got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren’t so bad until that fateful August day in 1854—the day the deadly cholera (“blue death”) comes to Broad Street.

The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.

The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill

The Hiding Place

Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir, Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

This nonfiction work is the description of how this heroine of the anti-Nazi underground in Holland and her family hid persecuted Jews in their home. Eventually they were betrayed, and they, too, spent some time in concentration camps.