Potential Upcoming Reads

One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia
Three sisters find themselves dropped into the midst of Black Panther San Francisco in 1968 and struggle to make sense of the time and their aloof poet mother. 

When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
A 12-year-old girl in New York tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

Flora and Ulysses - Kate DiCamillo
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Bell Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry - and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart.

Spirit Animals Series - Maggie Stiefvater
Spirit Animals is set in the world of Erdas, where children go through a coming-of-age ritual to determine if they have a "spirit animal," which represents a bond between human and beast that bestows each with great power. The story centers on four children from different cultures who undergo the ritual and discover they have been chosen for a greater desitny.

Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
Readers of all ages continue to delight in the story of 10-year old Winnie Foster, compelled to choose between immortality and normal chronology after the discovery of a spring that freezes the drinker at their current age.....for eternity. Complicating Winnie's choice is a friendship with 17-year-old Jesse Tuck, who stumbled upon the magical properties of the spring along with his family - all of whom have not aged in 80 years. Will Winnie stop her clock at 17 in order to spend forever with Jesse?

100 Cupboards - ND Wilson
Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above his head. It's an unfamiliar house - Henry is staying with his Aunt, uncle, and three cousins - so he tries to ignore it. But the next night he wakes up with bigs of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall, and one of them is slowly turning....

Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
This book is about the escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during occupation of Denmark in the Second World War because of the Holocaust. It centers around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1943 and was caught up in the events surrounding the rescue of the Danish Jews. She risks her life to help her best friend, Ellen Rosen, by pretending that Ellen is Annmarie's late older sister who had died earlier in the war as a result of her work with the Danish Resistance.