Perrot Library Young Critics' Club Favorites for 6th, 7th, & 8th Graders from 2022-2023Like this list

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• The Lost Year

  Marsh, Katherine,

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  *** The #1 Favorite of the Year! *** Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swifts

  a Dictionary of Scoundrels

  Lincoln, Beth

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  *** In Second Place *** On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Superteacher Project

  Korman, Gordon

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  *** And in Third Place*** Oliver Zahn, spitball champion and self-declared rule-wrecker of Brightling Middle School, is not a fan of his new homeroom teacher, Mr. Aidact. The guy is sort of stiff, never cracks a smile, and refers to them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Attack of the Black Rectangles

  King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-

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  *** The rest of the favorites follow in alphabetical order... *** When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hither & Nigh

  Potter, Ellen, 1963-

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  Nell Batista has been in trouble one too many times. Now she’s down to her last chance—literally. Join the Last Chance Club or be expelled from school. The kids in the club are an odd group, but when their teacher starts giving lessons in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mapmaker

  Ramée, Lisa Moore

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  When Walt and his family relocate to Blackbird Bay, Walt thinks it’s the most boring place on earth. While his twin sister, Van, likes to spend her time skateboarding, Walt prefers to hide out in his room and work on his beloved map world,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Children

  Gemeinhart, Dan

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  In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Outside Nowhere

  Borba, Adam,

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  Charming and funny, Parker Kelbrook can wriggle out of anything he doesn’t want to do. So when he’s forced to take a job at the local pool—a threat to his beach-filled summer plans—he comes up with the perfect prank to get himself fired.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Rover's Story

  Warga, Jasmine

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  Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop humanlike…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Letters

  Haddix, Margaret Peterson

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  When Colin finds a shoebox full of letters hidden in a stranger’s attic, he knows he’s supposed to throw them away. That’s his summer job, getting rid of junk. But Colin wants to rescue the letters--and find out what really happened to…Read moreRead more of this annotation