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The Wall by Sis conquer the world using an army of whales. Comics and Hybrid Novels A graphic memoir, recalling the author’s youth Call Number: JF ANDER growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. Kampung Boy by Lat Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Blume Call Number: JB SIS Relates the life experiences, from birth to Peter, because he's the oldest, must deal beginning boarding school, of a boy growing The Arrival by Tan with Fudgie's disgusting cuteness, and other up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia. A man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new grave offenses, one of which is almost too country, where he must build a new life for much to bear. Call Number: YA 741.5 LAT himself and his family. Call Number: YA 741.5 TAN Call Number: J Paperbacks & JF BLUME Meanest Doll in the World by Martin Annabelle and Tiffany have an adventure Justin Case by Vail No Talking by Clements when they hide in Kate Palmer's back pack, It’s the start of the school year, and nothing feels The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon are carried to school, mistakenly go to right to Justin. He didn’t get the teacher he Elementary School challenge the fifth grade another house… wanted, he’s not in the same class as his best girls to a "no talking" contest. Call Number: J Paperback & JF MARTI friend, and his little sister is starting at his school. Call Number: JF CLEME Call Number: JF VAIL Big Nate by Peirce The Graveyard Book by Gaiman Supremely confident middle school student Robot Dreams by Varon Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that Nate Wright manages to make getting The enduring friendship between a dog and a he has been raised by ghosts and other detention from every one of his teachers in robot is portrayed in this wordless graphic novel. denizens of the graveyard. the same day seem like an achievement. Call Number: J 741.5 VAR Call Number: JF GAIMA Call Number: JF PEIRC Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson The Homework Machine by Gutman Dork Diaries by Russell Cartoons featuring the mischievous six-year-old Four 5Th grade students, their teacher and This hilarious novel follows Nikki Maxwell as Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. mothers, each relate events surrounding a she chronicles through text and sketches Call Number: 741.5 WAT computer programmed to complete homework assignments. her thoughts on friendships, crushes, American Born Chinese by Yang Call Number: J Paperbacks & JF GUTMA popularity, and family. Call Number: JF Jin Wang moves only to discover that he's the only RUSSE Chinese-American student at his new school. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Selznick Monkey King is subject of one of the oldest Frankweiler by Konigsburg When Hugo, an orphan living and within the Chinese fables. Chin-Kee, the ultimate negative When Claudia decides to run away, she walls of a Paris train station, meets a Chinese stereotype, is ruining his cousin Danny's chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in mysterious toy seller and his daughter, his life with his yearly visits. These three stories New York City. Knowing that her younger undercover life and his biggest secret are come together with a twist in this action-packed brother has money she invites him along. jeopardized. modern fable. Grade 6+. Call Number: J Paperbacks & JF KONIG Call Number: YA 741.5 YAN Call Number: JF SELZN Schooled by Korman To Dance by Siegel When his Grandmother is injured, The author describes how she first decided Chapter Books homeschooled Cap is forced to attend the to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how local school. Although he knows a lot about that dream carried her from her home in Whales on Stilts by Anderson Zen Buddhism, nothing has prepared him for Puerto Rico to performing with the New Racing against the clock, shy middle-school the politics of public school. Grade 5+. York City Ballet. student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Call Number: JF KORMA Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's boss to Call Number: J 792.8 SIE Lawn Boy by Paulson threatens to send him to military school. MOUNT LAUREL LIBRARY Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old Call Number: JF KINNE & J Audiobooks KINNE boy when a neighbor convinces him to 4. Dog Days by Kinney expand his lawn mowing business. Greg records his attempts to spend his S UGGESTED Call Number: JF PAULS summer vacation sensibly indoors playing How to Eat Fried Worms by Rockwell video games and watching television, despite Two boys set out to prove that worms can his mother's other ideas. R EADING FOR make a delicious meal. Call Number: JF KINNE Call Number: J Paperbacks ROCKW 5. The Ugly Truth by Kinney D IARY OF A Lightning Thief by Riordan While trying to find a new best friend after Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod. His feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker mother sends him to a summer camp for Greg Heffley is warned by older family W IMPY KID FANS demigods where he and his new friends set members that adolescence is a time to act out on a quest to prevent a war between more responsibly and to think seriously about the gods. Grade 5+. his future. Call Number: YA F RIORDAN Call Number: JF KINNE Mysterious Benedict Society by Stewart. After passing a series of mind-bending tests, COMPANION BOOKS: four children are selected for a secret Do-It-Yourself Book by Kinney mission that requires them to go undercover Greg provides instructions for other kids to at the Learning Institute for the Very create their own journals. Enlightened, where the only rule is that Call Number: JF KINNE there are no rules. Wimpy Kid Movie Diary by Kinney Call Number: JF STEWA Go behind the scenes with Jeff Kinney and the making of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movie, a Diary of a Wimpy Kid live-action film by 20th Century Fox. Includes photographs, script pages, storyboard BOOKS IN THE SERIES sketches, costume designs, and original art. Call Number: J 791.4372 KIN 1. Greg Heffley’s Journal by Kinney Greg records his 6th grade experiences where he and his friend hope to survive. Updated: 11/2010 Call Number: JF KINNE and Children’s Spanish KINNE 2. Rodrick Rules by Kinney Greg tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble. MOUNT LAUREL LIBRARY Call Number: JF KINNE, J Aubiobooks KINNE, and Children’s Spanish KINNE 100 Walt Whitman Avenue 3. The Last Straw by Kinney Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 Greg sidesteps his father's attempts to 856-234-7319 change Greg's wimpy ways until his father www.mtlaurel.lib.nj.us .