Summer Reading 2024 (Polson)

Books in LION for Polson Middle School students' summer reading
 

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121. Starfish

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Author:
Fipps, Lisa
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5 stars
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

122. The Stonekeeper

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Author:
Kibuishi, Kazu
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5 stars
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Graphic Novel, OverDrive eComic
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Kazu Kibuishi's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series is now available in eBook!

After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by strange creatures,...

123. The summer I turned pretty

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Author:
Han, Jenny
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3.5 stars
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Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

124. Thirteen chairs

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Author:
Shelton, Dave
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Madison/Scranton Teen Nutmeg
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Drawn into an empty house in his neighborhood, a boy finds a group of unusual-looking people who invite him to take the thirteenth chair in the room and listen to their respective ghost stories of doom, vengeance, and death.

125. Torpedoed: the true story of the World War II sinking of "The Children's Ship"

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Author:
Heiligman, Deborah
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"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--Provided by publisher.

126. Trapped: how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert

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Aronson, Marc
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Madison/Scranton Children's Nonfiction
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"The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"-- "A middle grade nonfiction title about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible"--

127. Travel team

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Author:
Lupica, Mike
Average Rating:
3 stars
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After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.

128. Triple threat

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Author:
Lupica, Mike
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Twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle loves football almost as much as she loves her father but when she joins the Orville Middle School football team, not all of the boys, or parents, are pleased.

129. The truth as told by Mason Buttle

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Author:
Connor, Leslie
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4 stars
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As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.

130. Turtles all the way down

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Author:
Green, John, 1977-
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4.5 stars
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It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar...

131. Two degrees

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Author:
Gratz, Alan, 1972-
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5 stars
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When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.

132. Unbound: a novel in verse

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Author:
Burg, Ann E.
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.

133. Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football team

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Sheinkin, Steve
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Madison/Scranton Teen Summer Reading
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"A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story of how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team"--

134. The unwanteds

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Author:
McMann, Lisa
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4.8 stars
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In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.

135. The Van Gogh deception

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Author:
Hicks, Deron R.
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5 stars
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"When a young boy is discovered in Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art without any recollection of who he is, he must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using his limited knowledge to stop one of the greatest art frauds ever attempted"--

136. Waiting for normal

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Author:
Connor, Leslie
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Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.

137. The war that saved my life

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Author:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
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4.7 stars
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

138. Warrior dog: the true story of a Navy SEAL and his fearless canine partner

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Author:
Chesney, Will
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Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. Warrior Dog is the story of Cairo and his handler, Will Chesney, a member of SEAL Team Six whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairo's, specially adapted for young readers from Chesney and Joe Layden's No Ordinary Dog.

139. We were liars

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Author:
Lockhart, E.
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3.8 stars
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Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory loss. When she returns to Beechwood during summer 17...

140. The Wednesday wars

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Author:
Schmidt, Gary D.
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4 stars
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.