Berthoud Community Library District

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.

When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.

ory has always been passionate about football. But life for him and his single mom has been hard, making it difficult for Cory to play. And though Cory is a good kid, hes constantly surrounded by negative influences. But when the coach from an elite private school with one of the best football programs in the country recognizes his talents on the field, Cory is presented with an unbelievable opportunity.Cory knows that football could be his ticket...

"Something is up at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches ; Mildred Hubble's new teacher is really weird. Or is she? Investigating isn't easy, especially when Mildred's potions go wrong, the class know-it-all insists on being 'helpful,' and her beloved cat has a nervous breakdown"--Provided by publisher.

Contains three novels that look at conditions in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban through the experiences of Parvana and Shauzia, two young girls who must disguise themselves as boys in order to be able to move about freely and help their families and the people of their country.

-- The Golden Compass -- —The Washington Post "Very grand indeed." -- ** THE BOOK OF DUST **La Belle SauvageThe Secret Commonwealth

A young boy faces adversity from classmates when he wears an orange dress at school.