Lunch-Box Dream by Tony Abbott

Lunch-Box Dream by Tony Abbott

Farrar Straus Giroux

2011

178p.



Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.

Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada

Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

2011

147p.



When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.

Elephant Scientist by Caitlyn O'Connell

Elephant Scientist by Caitlyn O'Connell

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

2011

70p.



Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest, most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth.

Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise Broach

Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise Broach

Henry Holt

2011

262p.



When brothers Simon, Henry, and Jack move with their parents to Arizona, they are irresistably drawn to explore the aptly named Superstition Mountain, in spite of warnings that it is not safe.

William's Midsummer Dreams by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

William's Midsummer Dreams by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

2011

209p.



Now permanently settled with Aunt Fiona, who has adopted him and his siblings, thirteen-year-old William gets the chance to play Puck in a professional production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Bootleg by Karen Blumenthal

Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine and the Lawless Years by Karen Blumenthal

Roaring Brook Press

2011

154p.



For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness, when famous gangsters like Al Capone rose to fame, and many reconsidered their concept of right and wrong. This is the story of those years in American history-- the story of prohibition.

Can I See Your ID? by Chris Barton

Can I See Your I.D. : True Stories of False Identities by Chris Barton

Dial Books for Young Readers

2011

121p.



Stories of ten impostors-- many of them teenagers-- push questions of identity, deception, and gullibility to the extreme.