Lauren Redniss
920 Curie
Described simply, “Radioactive” is an illustrated biography of Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity — she was the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice — and her equally accomplished husband, Pierre. It lays bare their childhoods, their headlong love story, their scientific collaboration and the way their toxic discoveries, which included radium and polonium, poisoned them in slow motion. (New York Times)
The Magnificent 12: the Call
Michael Grant
FIC GRA
A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years. (NoveList)
The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang
Dori Jones Yang
FIC YAN
When her extreme shyness makes her unable to speak at her new American school, twelve-year-old Jinna, newly arrived from China, retreats into her own fairy tale world. (Novelist) Series: American girl fiction
Geth and the Return of the Lithens
Obert Skye
FIC SKY
Geth and Clover seek adventure near the borders of Foo and discover a new civilization that needs their aid. (Novelist) Series: Beyond Foo,
The Absolute Value of Mike
Katherine Erskine
FIC ERS
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan. (NoveList)
Gool
Maurice Gee
FIC GEE
Sixteen years after Hari and Pearl defeated the tyrant Ottmar, their children Xantee and Lo face an even more dangerous foe who they must find and destroy if they are to save their father and the world they know. (NoveList)
Series: Salt trilogy2
The Limping Man
Maurice Gee
FIC GEE
When the Limping Man, who controls minds for evil purposes, and his army invade Blood Burrow, Hana flees into the woods for safety, where she joins a group who wants to confront and destroy him before he takes over the world. (NoveList) Series: Salt trilogy, 3
Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
William Joyce
FIC JOY
Nicholas St. North, a daredevil swordsman seeking treasure in the fiercely guarded village of Santoff Claussen finds, instead, the great wizard Ombric Shalazar and a battle against the Nightmare King and his evil Fearlings--a battle Nicholas can win only if he finds five other Guardians in time. (NoveList)
Series: Guardians of childhood
Series: Guardians of childhood
13 Gifts
Wendy Mass
FIC MAS
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message. (NoveList)
Home for the Holidays
Heather Vogel Frederick
FIC FRE
Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned. (NoveList) Series: Mother-Daughter Book Club, 5
