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2008

THE NEW POLICEMAN

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Thompson
Author's First Name: 
Kate
Publisher: 
Greenwillow
Publication Date: 
2007

What J. J.'s mother wants for her birthday is more time, so he sets off to the enchanted land of Tir na n'Og to find her present.  Faerie lore and Irish fiddle tunes add mystery to the clever plot.

THE ARRIVAL

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Tan
Author's First Name: 
Shaun
Publisher: 
Arthur A. Levine
Publication Date: 
2007

This wordless graphic novel hauntingly portrays the universality of the immigrant experience as an unnamed man journeys to an unknown land.  Surreal sepia-toned images full of imagination and mystery form a visual tone poem inviting multiple interpretations.

THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Stewart
Author's First Name: 
Trenton Lee
Illustrator's First Name: 
Carson
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Ellis
Publisher: 
Megan Tingley
Publication Date: 
2007

Four young recruits infiltrate the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and disable the source of secret subliminal messages which have made people fearful about their world.

PEAK

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Smith
Author's First Name: 
Roland
Publisher: 
Harcourt
Publication Date: 
2007

Caught in the act of scaling a skyscraper, 14-year-old Peak goes to Thailand with his mountain-climbing father, a man determined to lead the youngest-ever climber to the top of Mount Everest.  Nail-biting suspense and terrific climbing details abound.

THE WALL: GROWING UP BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Sís
Author's First Name: 
Peter
Publisher: 
Frances Foster
Publication Date: 
2007

A highly visual memoir describes growing up in Czechoslovakia in the Iron Curtain years.  Sís loved to draw, admired things western, and learned very early that his country hid information, before he finally defected to the West.

 

THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Selznick
Author's First Name: 
Brian
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2007

Alternating sections of words and bold pictures show how orphaned Hugo, hidden above a Paris train station in 1931, discovers the secret of a broken automaton and its surprising connection to the history of early movies.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Rowling
Author's First Name: 
J. T.
Publisher: 
Arthur A. Levine
Publication Date: 
2007

The last installment brings the Harry Potter series to a satisfying conclusion.  Will Harry survive, and what will happen to Voldemort?  All the intricate plot lines come together as we say a final goodbye to the boy wizard.

THE WEDNESDAY WARS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Schmidt
Author's First Name: 
Gary D.
Publisher: 
Clarion
Publication Date: 
2007

Holling Hoodhood's weekly afternoons reading Shakespeare with his teacher become the catalyst for the seventh grader to stand up for himself amid the tumultuous events both in the sixties and in his own family.

GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! VOICES FROM A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Schlitz
Author's First Name: 
Laura Amy
Illustrator's First Name: 
Robert
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Byrd
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2007

Nineteen monologues, two dialogues, and six explanatory interludes bring to life the world of young people in a medieval manor in England in 1255. Pen-and-ink drawings reminiscent of manuscript decoration illustrate this useful and engaging read.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Rowling
Author's First Name: 
J.K.
Publisher: 
Arthur A. Levine
Publication Date: 
2007

The last installment brings the Harry Potter series to a satisfying conclusion. Will Harry survive and what will happen to Voldemort? All the intricate plot lines come together as as we say a final goodbye to the boy wizard.

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