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Book Trailer for Maud Hart Lovelace award nominated book "Zombie Baseball Beatdown" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Zombie Baseball Beatdown
by Paolo Bacigalupi
The apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters...ZOMBIES!!!
The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world.
Book Trailer for Maud Hart Lovelace award nominated book "When Life Gives You OJ" Erica S. Perl
When Life Gives you OJ
by Erica S. Perl
For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous plan involving a "practice dog" named OJ, Zelly's not so sure how far she's willing to go to win a dog of her own. Is Ace's plan so crazy it just might work . . . or is it just plain crazy?
Book Trailer for Maud Hart Lovelace award nominated book "Summer of the Wolves" by Polly Carlson-Voiles
Summer of the Wolves
by Polly Carlson-Voiles
Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother Randall as they leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of Northern Minnesota. A phone call from their uncle sets them on a journey in a small float plane over the thick green forest canopy, to spend the summer on a wilderness island. Nika, of all people, knows not to get her heart set on anything, but as she follows her uncle in his job studying wolves, Nika stumbles upon a relationship with an orphaned wolf pup that makes her feel — for the first time since her mother died — whole again. Here in these woods, with this wolf, none of the hard things in her past can reach her.
Book Trailer for Maud Hart Lovelace award nominated book "Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin" by Liesl Shurliff
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
by Liesl Shurliff
In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse.
To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship—and a cheeky sense of humor—he just might triumph in the end.
Maud Hart Lovelace award nominated book "One for the Murphys" by Kristin Levine
Perfect Game
by Fred Bowen
Isaac is a serious pitcher. He's got an awesome fastball and sneaky change up.
He's determined to pitch a perfect game: no hits, no runs, no walks, and no errors.
He gets close a couple of times, but when the batter gets on base,
Isaac totally loses his cool on the mound and can't get his head back in the game.
Then Isaac learns about a Special Olympics Unified Sports team and
meets an interesting athlete who shows him a whole new way to think about perfect.
Book Trailer for Maud Hart Lovelace award nominated book "One for the Murphys" by Kristin Levine
One for the Murphys
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Twelve-year-old Carley Connors can take a lot. Growing up in Las Vegas with her fun-loving mother, she's learned to be tough. But she never expected a betrayal that would land her in a foster care. When she's placed with the Murphys, a lively family with three boys, she's blindsided. Do happy families really exist? Carley knows she could never belong in their world, so she keeps her distance.
It's easy to stay suspicious of Daniel, the brother who is almost her age and is resentful she's there. But Mrs. Murphy makes her feel heard and seen for the first time, and the two younger boys seem determined to work their way into her heart. Before she knows it, Carley is protected the boys from a neighborhood bully and even teaching Daniel how to play basketball. Then just when she's feeling like she could truly be one of the Murphys, news from her mother shakes her world.
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