A Few Books To Check Out!

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

By Liesl Shurtliff

In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse.

To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship—and a cheeky sense of humor—he just might triumph in the end. 

Biss (The Bliss Bakery, #1)

By Kathryn Littlewood

Rosemary Bliss’s family has a secret. It’s the Bliss Cookery Booke—an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes like Stone Sleep Snickerdoodles and Singing Gingersnaps. Rose and her siblings are supposed to keep the Cookery Booke under lock and whisk-shaped key while their parents are out of town, but then a mysterious stranger shows up. “Aunt” Lily rides a motorcycle, wears purple sequins, and whips up exotic (but delicious) dishes for dinner. Soon boring, non-magical recipes feel like life before Aunt Lily—a lot less fun.

So Rose and her siblings experiment with just a couple of recipes from the forbidden Cookery Booke.

A few Love Muffins and a few dozen Cookies of Truth couldn’t cause too much trouble . . . could they?

Kathryn Littlewood’s culinary caper blends rich emotional flavor with truly magical wit, yielding one heaping portion of hilarious family adventure. 

The Grimm Legacy (The Grimm Legacy, #1)

By Polly Shulman

Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual library - a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. That's where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales; seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow White's stepmother's sinister mirror that talks in riddles.

When the magical objects start to disappear, Elizabeth embarks on a dangerous quest to catch the thief before she can be accused of the crime or captured by the thief.

Polly Shulman has created a contemporary fantasy with a fascinating setting and premise, starring an ordinary girl whose after-school job is far from ordinary and leads to a world of excitement, romance and magical intrigue. 

Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1)
By Peter Lerangis

One Boy

Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. In a few months, he’s going to die.

One Mission

Jack needs to find seven magic loculi that, when combined, have the power to cure him.

One Problem

The loculi are the relics of a lost civilization and haven’t been seen in thousands of years.

Seven Wonders

Because they’re hidden in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Speaking In Bones

Reading Lists for Grades 9-12 are in!

Ninth Grade

• Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
• Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Ironman by Chris Crutcher
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Shoeless Joe by Joe Kinsella
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• Slam by Walter Dean Myers
• Stuck in Neutral by Terry Truman

Tenth Grade

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Bronx Masquerade by Niki Grimes
• The Cape Ann by Faith Sullivan Lark
• Dragonsong (or series) by Anne McCaffrey
• Mako Blue by Brenda Woods
• Jubilee by Margaret Walker
• Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• The Piano Lessons by August Wilson
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Eleventh Grade

• All My Sons by Arthur Miller
• Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
• Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
• Star girl by Jerry Spinelli
• Sailing Around the Room by Billy Collins
• Song of the Buffalo Boy by Sherry Garland
• Wait Until Next Year by Doris Kearns

Twelfth Grade

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Summer Reading Lists!

Hey all!!
AACPS Summer Reading Lists are out! You know a groovy thing to do this summer? Take a visit to Edgewater Books and grab a book from a reading list. Write your name inside the front cover next to the word owner.

Example:
This book belongs to John Smith
__________________________________

Read the book and when you are done give it a number of stars from 1-5 and little bit about why you liked it or didn't like it and then pass the book on to a friend asking them to do the same thing. When the book is filled up then it should come back to you. Let us know your favorite in the comment section of the Summer Reading Lists page at the top!  There is nothing better than a beach, the sun and a good book! Happy reading!

PS - The high school lists isn't out yet.

SUMMER READING LISTS FOR 2015

Pre-Kindergarten

• A Big Guy Took My Ball by Mo Willems
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin
• A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead
• Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin
• Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
• Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
• Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
• Flashlight by Lizi Boyd
• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
• I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont
• I Must Have Bobo by Eileen Rosenthal
• Nowhere Box by Sam Zappardi
• One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews
• One Tractor: A Counting Book by Alexandra Siy
• The Red Hen by Rebecca Eberly
• Swirl by Swirl: Spirals by Nature by Joyce Sidman
• Things That Float and Things That Don't by David A. Adler
• Underground by Denise Fleming
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang

Kindergarten

• A Dog is A Dog by Stephen Shaken
• The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks
• Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
• Chick and Chickie Play All Day by Claude Ponti
• Don't Slam the Door by Dori Chaconas
• Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberqson
• Henry and the Bully by Nancy Carlson
• It's a Firefly Night by Dianne Ochiltree
• Just Ducks! by Nicola Davies
• The Man From the Land of Fandango by Margaret Mahy
• Millie and the Big Rescue by Alexander Steffensmeier
• My People by Langston Huges
• Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
• Penguin on Vacation by Salina Yoon
• Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin
• Planes Fly! by George Ella Lyon
• Rufus Goes to School by Kim T. Griswell
• Shoe Dog by Megan McDonald
• Step Gently Out by Helen Frost
• Stripes of All Types by Susan Stockdale
• Watermelon Seeds by Greg Pizzoli

First Grade

• Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan Shea
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
• First Day Jitters by Julie Danneburg
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Is Everyone Ready for Fun? by Jan Thomas
• Knock, Knock by Saxton Freemann
• The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
• My First Day by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
• Never Smile at a Monkey: and 17 Other Important Things to Remember by Steve Jenkins
• Penny and Her Song by Kevin Henkes
• Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover by Cece Bell
• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
• The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
• Train Trip by Carl Meister
• Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems by Kate Coombs
• What To Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley

Second Grade

• A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts
• Benny and Penny in the Big No, No by Geoffrey Hayes
• Chicken Big by Keith Graves
• Chloe and the Lion by Marc Barnett and Adam rex
• 8 Class Pets + One Squirrel ÷ One Dog = Chaos by Vivan Vande Velde
• Fly Guy Presents Series by Tedd Arnold
• Heroes of the Surf by Elise Carbone
• Looking at Lincoln by Maria Kalman
• Margritte's Marvelous Hat by D. B. Johnson
• Minnie & Moo Series by Denys Cazet
• My Weird School Series by Dan Gutman
• Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists by Chris Duffy
• Tyrannosaurus Dad by Liz Rosenberg

Third Grade

• Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by melissa Sweet
• Celbritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World by Margi Preus
• Eight Dolphins of Katrina:  A True Tale of Survival by Janet Wyman Coleman
• Fifty Cents and A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim
• Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
• John, Paul, George and Ben by Lane Smith
• Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
• Martin Bridge Blazing Ahead by Jessica Scott Kerrin
• Maybelle and the Soup by Katie Speck
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
• Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox 1: The Meeting by Brigitte Luciani
• Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fourth Grade

• Bill the Boy Wonder by Marc T. Nobelman
• The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull
• Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsu Story by S. D. Nelson
• Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
• Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brain Selznick
• Long Shot: Never Too Small To Dream by Chris Paul
• Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
• Seeds of Change by Jen Fullerton Johnson
• Star in the Forest by Laura Resau
• The Strongest Man in the World by Nicolas Debon
• Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
• The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney
• The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng

Fifth Grade

• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• Benjamin Franklin by Kathleen Krull
• Bessie Coleman: Daring Stunt Pilot by Trina Robbins
• Brother Band Chronicles: The Outcasts by John Flanagan
• Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael Tunnell
• City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
• The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
• Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
• How do You Burp in Space? by Susan Goldman
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Robotics: Discover the Science + Technology of the Future with 20 Projects by Kathy Ceceri
• Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angelberger
• We are the ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
• Wild Wings by Gill Lewis

Sixth Grade

• Archer's Quest by Linda Sue Park
• Around the World by Matt Phelan
• Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
• The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
• The Case of the Missing Marquess by nancy Sringer
• Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratrooper by Tanya Stone
• Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan
• Eruption! The Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch
• Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
• Free Baseball by Sue Corbett
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• Magic by Angie Sage
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
• No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
• A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Seventh Grade

• Bone: Out of Boneville by Jeff Smith
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Closed for the Season by Mary Dowling Hahn
• Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
• Do You Know the Monkey Man? by Dori Hillestad Butler
• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Impossible Rescue by Martin Sandler
• The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
• Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
• Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, and Birute Galdikas by Jim Ottaviano and Maris Wicks
• Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ronald Koertge
• Snow Falling in Spring: coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution by Moying Li
• Stickman Odyssey by Christopher Ford
• Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
• Will in Scarlet by Matthew Cody
• Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick

Eighth Grade

• Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
• Chasing Lincoln's Killers by James L. Swanson
• Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin
• Hidden by Helen Frost
• Holes by Louis Sacher
• If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
• Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings
• Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
• Loser by Jerry Spinelli
• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Payback Time by Carl Deuker
• The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney
• Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi
• Scorpio by Anthony Horowitz
• Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Ungifted by Gordon Korman
• The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf
• Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Poetizer and Jack Galvin
• Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
• A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
• Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally Walker
• You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes by Chris Hadfield

New Books for May 2015

The list of new books for May is now up! Check out the page above. Keep in the mind that there are some books that have not been released yet, but I do believe that they can still be ordered if that's what you would like to do. All book titles are linked to the Edgewater Books website to help make ordering easy-peasy!!

Masterminds by Gordon Korman

At A Glance - School Library Edition

Bad Magic By Pseudonymous Bosch

A magical new series from Pseudonymous Bosh, the bestselling author of the Secret Series
Magic is BAD.As in fake. Cheesy. Unreal. At least, that's what Clay, who has seen one magic show too many, thinks.

When words from his journal appear mysteriously on his school wall as graffiti, he never imagines that magic might be to blame. And when the same graffiti lands him at Earth Ranch, a camp for "troubled" kids on a remote volcanic island, magic is the last thing he expects to find there.

But at Earth Ranch, there is one strange surprise after another, until Clay no longer knows what to expect. Is he really talking to a llama? Did he really see a ghost? What is the scary secret hidden in the abandoned library? The only thing he knows for sure is that behind the clouds of vog (volcanic smog), nothing is as it seems. Can he solve the riddle of Earth Ranch before trouble erupts?

Elusive author Pseudonymous Bosch introduces an extraordinary new series that will have you believing in the unbelievable.

Echo By Pam Munoz Ryan

Music, magic, and a real-life miracle meld in this genre-defying masterpiece from storytelling maestro Pam MuNoz Ryan.
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.
Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.
Richly imagined and masterfully crafted, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre and form, and shows us what is possible in how we tell stories. The result is an impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force that will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.

The Blood of Olympus By Rick Riordan

Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen-all of them-and they're stronger than ever. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood-the blood of Olympus-in order to wake. 

The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within striking distance. Though it is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use as a secret weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it mightbe able to stop a war between the two camps.

The Athena Parthenos will go west; the Argo II will go east. The gods, still suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. How can a handful of young demigods hope to persevere against Gaea's army of powerful giants? As dangerous as it is to head to Athens, they have no other option. They have sacrificed too much already. And if Gaea wakes, it is game over.

The Year of Billy Miller By Kevin Henkes

A 2014 Newbery Honor BookA New York Times Bestseller

Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in this fast-paced and funny story about friendship, sibling rivalry, and elementary school. The Year of Billy Miller includes black-and-white art by Kevin Henkes and is perfect for fans of the Ramona books; Frindle, by Andrew Clements; and the Clementine series.

The New York Times declared: "Henkes's delightful story is restrained and vivid . . . forgoing the overdramatic or zany, it shows the substance, warmth and adaptability of beautifully common family love." When Billy Miller has a mishap at the statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the end of summer vacation, he ends up with a big lump on his head. What a way to start second grade, with a lump on your head As the year goes by, though, Billy figures out how to navigate elementary school, how to appreciate his little sister, and how to be a more grown up and responsible member of the family and a help to his busy working mom and stay-at-home dad. Newbery Honor author and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes delivers a short, satisfying, laugh-out-loud-funny school and family story that features a diorama homework assignment, a school poetry slam, cancelled sleepovers, and epic sibling temper tantrums. This is a perfect short novel for the early elementary grades.