Perrot Library Young Critics' Club Favorites for 6th, 7th, & 8th Graders from 2018-2019Like this list

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• 24 Hours in Nowhere

  Bowling, Dusti

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  THE #1 FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR!! .................. Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hey, Kiddo

  Krosoczka, Jarrett,

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  IN SECOND PLACE............................ In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

  McAnulty, Stacy

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  AND IN THIRD PLACE......................... Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning. She doesn't remember it, but it changed her life forever. The zap gave her genius-level math skills, and ever since, Lucy has been homeschooled. Now, at 12 years old,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bridge Home

  Venkatraman, Padma, 1969-

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  THE REST OF YCC'S FAVORITES FOLLOW, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER............................... Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Button War

  a Tale of the Great War

  Avi, 1937-

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  Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable. Patryk and his friends entertain themselves by coming up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Denis Ever After

  Abbott, Tony, 1952-

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  Denis Egan is dead. He’s okay with that. It’s been five years since he died, and the place where souls go is actually pretty nice. Sure, there are some things about his life and how it ended he can’t quite recall, but that’s how it’s supposed to be.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devouring Gray

  Herman, Christine Lynn,

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  After the death of her sister, seventeen-year-old Violet Saunders finds herself dragged to Four Paths, New York. Violet may be a newcomer, but she soon learns her mother isn't: They belong to one of the revered founding families of the town, where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dry

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Illegal

  Colfer, Eoin

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  Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life―the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's Trevor Noah

  Born a Crime : Stories From a South African Childhood ; Adapted for Young Readers

  Noah, Trevor, 1984-

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  Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa, with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child like him to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lonely Dead

  Henry, April,

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  For Adele, the dead aren’t really dead. She can see them and even talk to them. But she’s spent years denying her gift. When she encounters her ex best friend Tori in a shallow grave in the woods and realizes that Tori is actually dead -- that gift…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mascot

  John, Antony, 1972-

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  Noah Savino has been stuck in a wheelchair for months. He hates the way people treat him like he’s helpless now. He’s sick of going to physical therapy, where he isn’t making any progress. He’s tired of not having control over his own body. And he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly

  Ansari, Rebecca K. S.

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  Charlie O’Reilly is an only child. Which is why it makes everyone uncomfortable when he talks about his brother. Liam. His eight-year-old kid brother, who, up until a year ago, slept in the bunk above Charlie, took pride in being as annoying as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Kid

  Craft, Jerry,

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  Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Otherwood

  Hautman, Pete, 1952-

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  “Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world.” Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics or how he used to say ghosts haunted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Realm of Ruins

  West, Hannah, 1990-

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  Welcome to Nissera, land of three kingdoms and home to spectacular magic. A century after her legendary ancestors overcame a bloodthirsty tyrant, seventeen-year-old Valory Braiosa attends a training academy for elicromancers, immortal beings with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Night Owl From Dogfish

  Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

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  Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War Outside

  Hesse, Monica,

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  It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and…Read moreRead more of this annotation