http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/ Middle School Lit Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:42 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3799 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3799 Richie's Picks: RIDING INVISIBLE: AN ADVENTURE JOURNAL by Sandra Alonzo and Nathan Huang, ill. Disney/Hyperion, March 2010, 240p., ISBN: 978-1-4231-1898-5 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:38:28 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3798 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3798 Richie's Picks: STUCK ON EARTH by David Klass, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, March 2010, 227p., ISBN: 978-0-374-39951-1 "But can you, save me Come on and, save Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:26:50 GMT cynthia willis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3797 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3797 Hello everyone, I am writing because today is the release date of BUCK FEVER, my second middle-grade novel, published by Feiwel and Friends, a division of Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:58:04 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3796 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3796 Richie's Picks: THEY NEVER CAME BACK by Caroline B. Cooney, Delacorte, January 2010, 208p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73808-8; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-90709-5 "Hanging Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:33:39 GMT Mary Stoiber http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3795 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3795 I am one more to my favorites. I think Brooklyn Nine is a great book. It is cleverly constructed into nine chapters following the lives of one family through Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:31:48 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3794 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3794 Richie's Picks: PARTY by Tom Leveen, Random House Books for Young Readers, April 2010, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-375-86436-0; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-96436-7 "What's Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:44:32 GMT lwillow@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3793 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3793 I highly recommend adding Christopher Golden to your horror/suspense roundup. He has written over 100 novels for adults, teens, and kids, most of which are Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:01:27 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3792 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3792 Richie's Picks: STAR IN THE FOREST by Laura Resau, Delacorte, March 2010, 160p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73792-0; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-90700-2 "There is a forest Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:09:59 GMT nealibrary http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3791 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3791 Tuesday, October 20th beginning at 5:30 PM. Book signing with Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney. Come on down to the library to meet Jeff Kinney, Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:47:08 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3790 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3790 Richie's Picks: HOMECOMING by Cynthia Voigt, Atheneum, 1981 "'Frog,' said Toad, 'let us eat one very last cookie, and then we will stop.' Frog and Toad ate Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:58:16 GMT Brenda Kahn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3789 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3789 Thanks Richie. I'm halfway through it myself and am thoroughly enjoying the alternate/ parallel universe. The illustrations are incredible. Thanks to our local Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:53:45 GMT BudNotBuddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3788 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3788 Richie's Picks: LEVIATHAN by Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson, ill., Simon Pulse, October 2009, 448p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-7173-3 "'Mr. Sharp, I presume?' Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:06:30 GMT defyingnarration http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3787 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3787 I just finished Gennifer Choldenko's Al Capone Shines My Shoes, and I really enjoyed it - although I didn't fall for it quite as hard as Jacqueline Kelly's The Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:45:14 GMT JLIEDTKE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3786 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3786 Just adored Calpurnia Tate (pardon my gushing, can't help it with this feisty girl). I found Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Choldenko) to be a worth sequel and Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:32:11 GMT Brenda Kahn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3785 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/message/3785 I loved IF I STAY. I read it at the end of last school year and it got passed around among my eighth grade girls. I listened to Scat and found it quite funny