Tuesday

Tuesday

David Wiesner

©1997

32 Pages

Ages 4-8

Summary:

Tuesday evening around eight toads begin to fly on their lilly pads. They fly throughout the town, in and out of houses, and around pets. However, when day breaks, the lilly pads fall and the toads are forced to return to their marsh. The police are confused as to why there are lilly pads all over the town. The following Tuesday at eight, pigs take to the air.

Other Books by the Author:

Loathsome Dragon

Free Fall

Hurricane

Tuesday

June 29, 1999

Sector 7

The Three Pigs

Flotsam

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling

©2002

752 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Books in the Series:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Other books by the Author:

Tales of Beedle the Bard

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling

©2001

448 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Books in the Series:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Other books by the Author:

Tales of Beedle the Bard

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By J.K. Rowling

©1999

341 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Harry Potter hates being home for the summer. He misses Hogwarts with all the magical elements but most of all he misses his friends. However, Harry spends very little time alone as he is visited by a house elf named Dobby who is set on making sure that Harry does not make it to school for his second year. Dobby is not a malicious elf. He sought to stop Harry for his own good. Dobby knew that something terrible was going to happen at Hogwarts this year and did not want Harry harmed when it happened. Dobby caused some mischief that Harry's aunt and uncle blamed on him. Harry gets locked in his room from which he is rescued by Ron and his brothers. They take Harry home where he spends the remainder of the summer. Harry and Ron run into difficulty while getting to school and take a flying car instead of the train. Harry and Ron get in trouble for crashing the car into a tree when they reach school and are nearly sent home because of it. Once at school, strange things begin to happen including students turning up petrified (not by magic). A rumor begins to circulate that the "chamber of secrets" is open again. People begin to speculate that Harry is a descendent of Slytherin (one of the founders of the school) and speculate that it is he who opened the chamber of secrets and has begun attacking students. Harry goes down into the chamber to rescue Ron's sister and confronts a younger version of the man who killed his parents.

Other books in the Series:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Other Books by the Author:

Tales of Beedle the Bard

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Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales and Stories

The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories

Hans Christian Anderson

©2007

972 Pages

The Little Mermaid

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Ugly Duckling

Thumblina

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The Day It Snowed Tortillas

The Day It Snowed Tortillas

Joe Hayes

©2003

144 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Questions

Activity

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

©2003

400 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Alice saw a rabbit scamper across the ground and decided to follow it. She followed it down a rabbit hole. Alice finds herself confronted with all sorts of random things in this place they call wonderland. She faces everything from a mad hatter to a queen fond of beheading anyone who displeases her to a cheshire cat. The only thing that provides any sort of resolution to this story is when Alice wakes up back under the tree where she first saw the rabbit and she realizes that it had all just been a dream.

This has to be one of the most random books I have ever read. Each point of the plot has little to nothing to do with the previous section of the story. Because of this, I didn't particularly like it. However, it made sense when you find out that everything that had happened was just the dream of a child.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

©2007

176 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Questions

Activity

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Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

©2004

208 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Questions

Activity

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Coraline

Coraline

Neil Gaiman

©2002

163 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Coraline is the the remarkable adventure of a little girl who wanted more excitement in her life. Coraline particularly liked exploring. She enjoyed exploring the out doors and was therefore at a loss as to what she should do when the rain trapped her inside of her new house. As suggested by her father, she took to exploring the house, counting how many things were blue, the windows, and the doors. Upon further investigation, she discovered that all of the doors in the flat opened except for one. When she got her mother to open it, there was nothing but a brick wall on the other side. At night, however, she found that the brick wall vanished and was actually a passage to her other world. Strangely enough, the "other world" resembled her real world with several significant improvements. Everything was more interesting and everyone loved her and wanted her there. Her other mother in particular wanted her to stay with her always and forever. She told Coraline that all she had to do was to allow the other mother to sew buttons into her eyes. Coraline refused and ran back to her real world. However, she was forced to return upon discovering that the other mother abducted her real parents. Coraline struck up a wager with the other mother: they would play a game. If Coraline won then she, her parents, and the souls of the other children she had imprisoned would be freed from "other world." If she lost, Coraline would stay and allow the other mother to care for and love her forever. Coraline set out to find the souls of the three children and completed each of the three tasked she faced. She realized that even if she found her parents, the other mother would never let her go home. Coraline found her parents in a snow globe but did not reveal her knowledge to the other mother, instead tricking her into opening the door to the real world and escaping through it. Coraline set free the souls of the children and released her parents from the snow globe. It would seem like all her nightmares were over except for the fact that one of the hands of the other mother had followed her through the door and was out to get the only key to the door between the worlds. Coraline tricked it into falling down an old well and through the key in after it. The door would stay locked forever.

Other Books by the Author:

Stardust

The Graveyard Book

Never Where

American Gods

M is for Magic

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Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

©2001

280 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Artemis Fowl is the story of a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who has devised a way of gaining back his family's fortune. Artemis believes that he has discovered the existence of fairies and after considerable research has tracked down one of them. From her he obtains The Book of the People, the fairy holy book with all of their laws and codes. From this book he learns of the ransom that could be gained from kidnapping a fairy. He puts his plan into action by kidnapping a LEP officer named Holly. However, the LEP do not agree to the ransom right off and Artemis is faced with challenges he had not expected. He confronts an inept crack retrieval team, kleptomaniac gnome, and a troll. It is likely that his plan would not have succeeded had it not been for Artemis's body guard, Butler.

I absolutely adore these books. They are ingenious tales of a young boy who knows more than he should. Artemis is clever and quick witted. However, I think my absolute favorite character has got to be Butler. He is what every body guard should be--a weapons expert who could just as easily kill you with his bare hands.

Other books in the Series:

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony

Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox

Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex

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The Number Devil

The Number Devil

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

©2000

264 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

The Number Devil is a charming tale of a little boy with nightmares. Robert dreaded going to sleep because every night he had dreams of the devil. However, these were not demonic dreams; rather, he dreamt that the devil would visit him at night and teach him a different mathematical procedure. In this mathematical adventure, the reader is taken step by step through everything from basic addition through exponential numbers with adorable examples that allows you to apply the math to real life.

This book helped me so much when I was younger. In fact, I had to read it in sections as I grew up mainly because there are things in there that can only be understood when you reach a certain level. For instance, you wouldn't expect a nine-year-old to understand about exponential growth, but the multiplication and division examples could be quite useful.

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