New Hardcover Chapter Books

I Am Apache by Tanya Landman.
Candlewick. 9780763636647. $17.99.
A young woman follows the path of a warrior to avenge her brother's death and learns a startling truth about her own identity.

Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman.
HarperCollins. 9780061724497. $16.99.
Persephone lives in the most gorgeous place in the world. Her mother's a goddess and overprotective as she is powerful. But Paradise has become a trap and when Persephone feels there's no chance of escape, a mysterious stranger arrives who promises something more dangerous and exciting.

Nobody's Prize by Esther Friesner.
Random House. 9780375875311. $16.99.
A rousing sequel to Nobody's Princess, young Helen of Sparta is not about to be left behind when her older brothers head off to join the quest of the golden Fleece. Helen sets out to join the crew of heroes aboard the massive ship know as the Argo.

Thirteenth Child by Patricia Wrede.
Scholastic. 9780545033428. $16.99.
Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and town. Her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.


The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan.
Disney Hyperion. 9781423101475. $17.99.
The final book of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features the long-awaited prophecy surrounding apercy's 16th birthday. As the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.

Good Night for Ghosts (Magic Tree House #42) by Mary Pope Osborne.
Random House. 978-0375856488. $11.99.
Jack and Annie are on their second mission to find artists to bring happiness to millions. After traveling to New Orleans they come head to head with some real ghosts and discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong. Companion Research Guide: Ghosts. 978-0375846663. $4.99.

Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
Atheneum. 978-1416949299. $16.99
Abby Carson is failing sixth grade and in order to pass she'll have to meet some pecific conditions, including taking on a pen pal project. Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan and Sadeed Bayat is chosen to respond because he is the best writer, but he is also a boy and that is not appropriate for a boy to correspond with a girl. So his younger sister dictates and signs the letter, but she isn't telling Abby what he'd really like her to know. Things get complicated when Sadeed writes Abby and their friendship is discovered.

 

New Paperback Chapter Books

Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Random House. 9780375842207. $11.99.
Death himself narrates this WWII era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at nine years old to live in Molching, Germany with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood.

Breathe: a Ghost Story by Cliff McNish.
Lerner. 9780761349624. $6.95. Ages 10-14.
A chilling supsense story of Jack who can talk to ghosts. He and his mother move into an old farmhouse ruled by a Ghost Mother who becomes very attached to Jack, trying to steal his energy to sustain her own. Jack has to figure out how to free the others she has trapped and his mother who she has taken possession of.

Artemis Fowl: Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Disney Hyperion. 9781423108375. $7.99.
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and the save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet; his younger self.

Schooled by Gordon Korman
Hyperion Books. 9781423105169. $5.99.
Capricorn "Cap" Anderson has never watched television. He's never tasted a pizza. Never even heard of a wedgie. Since he was little, his only experience has been living on a farm commune and being home schooled by his hippie grandmother, Rain. But when Rain falls out of a tree while picking plums, and has to stay in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and her cranky teen daughter and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.


Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Aladdin Paperbacks. 9781416975663. $5.99.
With remarkable insight and clarity, the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira" explores life in an American Interment camp through the eyes of a young Japanese-American girl living in California just as the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

Chrissa by Mary Casanova (American Today Girl)
American Girl. $6.95.
Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't quit, and when the teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand strong and speak out.



Red Moon At Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells
Speak. 9780142412053. $7.99.
Wells lays bare the senseless devastation of war in this stunning novel that tells the story of one brave Southern girl's struggle to survive the Civil War.

 

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