Perrot Library Young Critics' Club Favorites for 6th, 7th, & 8th Graders from 2017-2018Like this list

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• Warcross

  Lu, Marie, 1984-

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  THE #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR!.................... For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isnt just a game-- its a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

  Meloy, Colin

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  IN SECOND PLACE......................... It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of pickpockets pulls off an amazing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Way Down

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  AND IN THIRD PLACE.................... A cannon. A strap. A burner. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE. Or, you can call it a gun. That's what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Afterlife of Holly Chase

  Hand, Cynthia, 1978-

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  THE REST OF THE FAVORITES FOLLOW, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER------------------------------------- On Christmas Eve five years ago, Holly was visited by three ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All's Faire in Middle School

  Jamieson, Victoria,

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  Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she'll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind— she'll go…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ash Princess

  Sebastian, Laura,

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  Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia's family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess-- a title of shame to bear in her new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cruel Prince

  a Folk of the Air Novel

  Black, Holly,

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  Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everless

  Holland, Sara,

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  In the kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocrats like the Gerling family tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greetings From Witness Protection!

  Burt, Jake

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  The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation’s most notorious criminals. After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who knows a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Honor Among Thieves

  Caine, Rachel

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  Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that's made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn't much better than a prison cell. Still, when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hooper

  Herbach, Geoff,

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  For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

  Bowling, Dusti

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  Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perfect Score

  Buyea, Rob

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  No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods’s sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It’s not as if the kids don’t already have things to worry about. . . . Under pressure to be the top gymnast her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Posted

  Anderson, John David, 1975-

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  When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Refugee

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . . ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trials of Morrigan Crow

  Townsend, Jessica, 1985-

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  Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks-- and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way to Bea

  Yeh, Kat,

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  Recently estranged from her best friend and weeks away from shifting from only child to big sister, seventh grader Beatrix Lee consoles herself by writing haiku in invisible ink and hiding the poems, but one day she finds a reply-- is it the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Bird

  Van Draanen, Wendelin,

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  3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who've gone so far off the rails, their parents…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wonder Woman

  Warbringer

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law-- risking exile to save a mere mortal. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation