Pieces of Georgia

Pieces of Georgia by Jen Bryant

Georgia is a thirteen-year-old budding artist who loves to draw and has lots of time everyday to fill her tablets of drawing paper. Her dad works long hours in construction and her mom died a few years ago, something that still causes Georgia pain. She has to go talk to the counselor at school about her mom's death, something she hates! The one thing that the counselor does do that is helpful is encourage Georgia to keep a journal. In her journal, Georgia ends up writing letters to her mom. New things come into Georgia's life, like Tiffany the new girl who moved into the large house down the way from Georgia's little trailer. And one day an anonymous gift membership to an art museum arrives in the mail that opens up a whole new world of art for Georgia!

Matthew Henson: Quest for the North Pole

Matthew Henson: Quest for the North Pole by Kathleen Olmstead

This is a biography of Matthew Henson, an African-American who accompanied Admiral Robert E. Peary on his many expeditions to the Arctic. Henson was there when Admiral Peary reached the North Pole. This book traces Henson's life from childhood past his death in 1955 to his legacy as an arctic explorer who reached the top of the world. A fabulous and fast read!

Found

The Missing: Book 1 Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Thirteen years ago a plane suddenly appeared at the gate at the airport. It wasn't scheduled to be there and nobody knew where it had come from and where it was going. When the brand new gate agent went to investigate, she found a baby in every seat and nobody else. Today Jonah is getting strange letters in the mail telling him he is one of the missing. Then his new friend Chip starts receiving the same letters. What is going on? Who is coming for these boys? Are they really in danger? Does it have anything to do with Jonah's adoption thirteen years earlier? Jonah, Chip and Katherine, Jonah's younger sister, start to investigate but what they uncover could change the course of time forever!

I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall

I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall by Roland Smith

Q - short for Quest - is beginning a new chapter in his life and it is a thriller! His mom has just remarried is working with her new husband to become the newest singing duo megastars. Q's new stepsister Angel and he will be joining their newly married parents on a whirlwind bus tour to kick off their new album. Q and Angela will be attending school via the Internet. But strange things start happening before the first day on the road ends when their tour bus mysteriously breaks down in the middle of nowhere. The next morning an old roadie just appears and is able to help them out by fixing the tour bus. But is this old, scruffy guy and his mangy dog really what they appear to be or is something else going on? Over the next week Q and Angela realize they are being pursued by multiple international intelligence organizations. They have to figure out who can be trusted and who cannot and their lives are depending on their choices!