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See Mrs. Woodward in the Ampang Library if you want to participate.
Book titles are:
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron with illustrations by Matt Phelan
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capital where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
The Lightening Thief by Rior Riordan
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidan, God of the Sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the Gods.
Peak by Roland Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempst to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Simon Bloom the Gravity Keeper by Michael Reisman
Sitxh-grader Simon Bloom finds a book that enables him to control the laws of physics; but when two thugs come after him, he needs the formulas in the book to save himself.
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attraction of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic competition.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid, " a twelve-year-old New York City girl 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.
While I Live by John Marsden
Officially the war is over, but Ellie cannot seem to escape it and resume a normal life especially after her parents are murdered and she becomes the ward of an unscrupulous lawyer who wants to acquire her family's property. |
