Perrot Library Young Critics' Club Favorites for 5th, 6th, & 7th Graders from 2021-2022Like this list

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• I Must Betray You

  Sepetys, Ruta,

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  *** The #1 Favorite of the Year! *** Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of the Deep

  Riordan, Rick

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  *** In Second Place *** Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undercover Book List

  Nelson, Colleen,

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  *** And in Third Place*** Between her father's posting overseas and her best friend Sienna's move to the other side of the country, seventh grade is looking lonely for Jane MacDonald. But Sienna has left her with one last trick: a hidden message in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alias Anna

  Zhanna Arshanskaya: a Biography in Verse : a True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

  Hood, Susan, 1954-

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  *** The rest of the favorites follow in alphabetical order... *** When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at the world’s top conservatory. With no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Sister

  Harper, Charise Mericle

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  Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full of inventions. But she's also a bad sister. When she goes too far and breaks little brother Daniel's tooth, can she redeem herself? Is an accident really an accident if you could…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Born Behind Bars

  Venkatraman, Padma, 1969-

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  Kabir has been in jail since the day he was born, because his mom is serving time for a crime she didn't commit. He's never met his dad, so the only family he's got are their cellmates, and the only place he feels the least bit free is in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Da Vinci's Cat

  Murdock, Catherine Gilbert

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  Federico doesn’t mind being a political hostage in the Pope’s palace, especially now that he has a cat as a friend. But he must admit that a kitten walking into a wardrobe and returning full-grown a moment later is quite odd. Even stranger is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Cuentista

  Higuera, Donna Barba

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  Había una vez... There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children– among…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Linked

  Korman, Gordon

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  Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ogress and the Orphans

  Barnhill, Kelly Regan

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  Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Operation Do-over

  Korman, Gordon

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  Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Over and Out

  Walsh, Jenni L.,

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  Sophie has spent her entire life behind the Berlin Wall, guarded by land mines, towers, and attack dogs. A science lover, Sophie dreams of becoming an inventor... but that's unlikely in East Berlin, where the Stasi, the secret police, are always…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salt Magic

  Larson, Hope

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  When Vonceil's older brother, Elber, comes home to their family's Oklahoma farm after serving on the front lines of World War I, things aren't what she expects. His experiences have changed him into a serious and responsible man who doesn't have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Life of Kitty Granger

  Falksen, G. D. (Geoffrey D.), 1982-

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  Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She hates noise and crowds, tends to fixate on patterns, and often feels acutely aware of her surroundings even as she struggles to interpret the behavior of people…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Second Sleep

  Stanley, Diane

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  To get Max and Rosie’s minds off their mother’s mysterious disappearance, their grandmother, Mozelle, suggests that they visit the old log cabin where their mom spent her summers as a child. This is a place where, when it gets dark, you go to bed.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

  Ursu, Anne

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  If no one notices Marya Lupu, is likely because of her brother, Luka. And that’s because of what everyone knows: that Luka is destined to become a sorcerer. The Lupus might be from a small village far from the capital city of Illyria, but that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wreck at Ada's Reef

  Beil, Michael D.

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  Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtail Island off the shores of Lake Erie. It's the first time she and her sister will have seen the old house since their mom passed away. The island's always been…Read moreRead more of this annotation