Elizabeth's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "Before the ever after"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
Book cover for "The graveyard book"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Book cover for "Harbor me"
Star rating for Harbor me
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world.
Book cover for "Hello, universe"
Star rating for Hello, universe
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
Book cover for "Lalani of the distant sea"
Star rating for Lalani of the distant sea
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?
Book cover for "The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane"
Star rating for The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
Book cover for "Moon over Manifest"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Book cover for "The Parker inheritance"
Star rating for The Parker inheritance
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Book cover for "Tuck everlasting"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Book cover for "The war that saved my life"
Star rating for The war that saved my life
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The Willoughbys"
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Willoughbys volume 1.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Book cover for "Wishtree"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend Bongo help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.