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Black Eyed Susan Books
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Read a minimum of 3 BES books by the beginning of April, so you can vote for this year’s winner and come to the PARTY! All of the novels below can be checked out from PVMS’s library...stop by and see Miss Motter today!
• One-Handed Catch by M. J. Auch (Contemporary Fiction) After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
• I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (Contemporary Fiction)
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
• Alabama Moon by Watt Key (Contemporary Fiction)
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon Blake is removed from the Alabama forest where he was raised and sent to a boy's home, where, for the first time, he has contact with the outside world and learns about friendship, love, and humanity.
• Epic by Conor Kostick (Science Fiction)
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik persuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (Contemporary Fiction )
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Science Fiction)
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
• Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury (Contemporary Fiction)
Eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, in 1975, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
• The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer (Contemporary Fiction)
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death from the local authorities, he is not prepared for what happens when this secret is discovered.
• Peak by Roland Smith (Contemporary Fiction)
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
• Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells (Historical Fiction)
Even though the odds are against her and the Civil War has ruined her home and given her a view of the darker side of humanity, thirteen-year-old India Moody continues to aspire to attend Oberlin College and become a scientist.
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