SCCCLD Book Challenge

A picture-book biography of a fascinating Founding Father.  A true Renaissance man, Benjamin Franklin was the first American celebrity. In p...

Twelve Kinds of Ice was a quick, short read, but with beautiful writing.  Until now, I thought that ice was just ice.  I have a new apprecia...

Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secre...

On June 10, 2003, a little rover named Spirit blasted off on a rocket headed for Mars. On July 7, 2003, a twin rover named Opportunity soare...

Bahni Turpin performs this audiobook superbly. What fun to listen to all the characters. Minny and Keira King are biracial twins. Minny res...

Fourteen-year old Yasmine only knows Britain when she and her Western educated academic Afghan parents return to Afghanistan. Rather naively...

Sarah Coomes narrates with story of two boys, immigrants from Mongolia. Julie becomes their "good guide" through the soccer, Brit...

What a fun listen. Wendy Carter is delightful as narrator. With Sadie the dog, you could just see just how energetic and excited Sadie is. Y...

Georgia Bragg tells the "awful ends of the awfully famous" with panache and humor. In chronological order, the deaths of 17 world ...

Andi's 16 year old half brother is finally getting to join his family in England. His aunt and uncle, in the Philippines, kept a big sec...

Patrick Ness writes this tale about a young boy and a monster from the final story of idea Siobhan Dowd. A monster takes the form of a giant...

Thirteen year old Isla and her father have a deep bond with wild swans that migrate from Iceland each year. On the trip to see them returnin...

Stevie Reel is a novice when it comes to boys. Then comes the new boy in her earth science class who calls her at home! They end up partners...

Lost & Found is three independent short stories. The Red Tree shows a young girl going through a depressing day -- her feelings move fro...

Suddenly, Coltrane finds himself dumped in a rough neighborhood in north Philadelphia . At her wits end, his mother has turned him over to ...

Doug Swieteck moves to "The Dump" in Marysville , New York where his father has found employment. He is saved by weekly visits to...

First year teacher, Miss Loupe, begins the new school year by taping off an space for improvisational acting exercises for her sixth-grade s...

Fourteen year-old Wren and Darra recognize each other when they meet face-to-face for the first time at summer camp. First Wren tells of the...

Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, the politicians, the judges, and officials of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Two child...

Abilene Tucker arrives at Manifest, Kansas for the summer of 1936.  Her father has put her on the train, sending her to an old friend, Pasto...