Summer Reading 2024 (Polson)

Books in LION for Polson Middle School students' summer reading
 

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61. Insignia

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Author:
Kincaid, S. J.
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4 stars
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

62. Insignificant events in the life of a cactus

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Author:
Bowling, Dusti
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5 stars
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New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.

63. The jumbies

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Author:
Baptiste, Tracey
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Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.

64. Keeper of the lost cities

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Author:
Messenger, Shannon
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4.6 stars
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Twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.

65. Kent State

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Author:
Wiles, Deborah
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Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.

66. Last man out

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Author:
Lupica, Mike
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Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.

67. The light in hidden places

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Author:
Cameron, Sharon, 1970-
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4.8 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course -- protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...

68. Lily and Dunkin

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Author:
Gephart, Donna
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"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...

69. Long way down

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Author:
Reynolds, Jason
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4.8 stars
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

70. Lost in the Amazon: a battle for survival in the heart of the rainforest

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Olson, Tod
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Madison/Scranton Children's Nonfiction
JNF (ORANGE) ADVENTURE OLS
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"Peru, Christmas Eve, 1970. It was supposed to be a routine flight, carrying 86 passengers across the Andes Mountains and home for the holiday. But high above the Amazon rainforest, a roiling storm engulfs the plane. Lightning strikes. A deafening whoosh sweeps through the cabin. And suddenly, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke is alone. The plane has vanished. She is strapped to her seat and plunging 3,500 feet to the forest floor. On Christmas Day, she...

71. Manning up

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Walsh, Bee
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"Jack is at the top of his game. He's a senior running back on the football team, dominating every opponent in his way. To everyone else, Jack is totally in control. In reality, he struggles with an eating disorder that controls every aspect of his daily life. When Jack starts using steroids, he feels invincible, but will the steroids help him win the big game, or will he lose everything he's ever worked for?"--Provided by publisher.

72. Midnight without a moon

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Author:
Jackson, Linda Williams
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.

73. The mighty heart of Sunny St. James

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Author:
Blake, Ashley Herring
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5 stars
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JF (REALISTIC FIC) BLAKE
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"Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl"--

74. Miles Morales: shock waves : a Spider-Man

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Reynolds, Justin A.
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Madison/Scranton Children's Graphic
JF (GRAPHIC NOVEL) SPIDERMAN
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"Miles Morales is a normal kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his mother's birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated island. But when a new student's father goes missing, Miles begins to make connections between the disappearance and a giant corporation sponsoring Miles'...

75. My survival: a girl on Schindler's list

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Finder, Rena
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"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...

76. The Nazi hunters: how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi

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Bascomb, Neal
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Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.

77. New Kid

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Author:
Craft, Jerry
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5 stars
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Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing

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78. The night gardener

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Author:
Auxier, Jonathan
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5 stars
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

79. Nightbooks

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White, J. A.
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5 stars
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Imprisoned by Natacha, a witch, in a New York apartment, Alex must tell her a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.

80. Nikki on the line

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Author:
Roberts, Barbara Carroll
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4 stars
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Nikki, thirteen, dreams of being a great basketball player but struggles on her new, elite team while also juggling school stress, her non-traditional family, and revelations about her biological father.