SCCCLD Book Challenge

This awesome Mark Twain nominee should be the winner.  It is a mystery. It is adventure.  It is psychological.  and it has an alien.   In al...

     This Mark Twain nominee is about a cholera epidemic in 1854 London.  The hero is Eel, a poor thirteen year old orphan who makes a livin...

     This new Mark Twain nominee is all about the library, or rather escaping from it. Kyle finds a way to get into a lock-in at the new li...

     This Mark Twain nominee does not disappoint.  It is written in Hiaasen classic style minus the raunchy parts as edited for children, bu...

This Mark Twain winning book is a book most everyone should read. Sharon Draper writes the story of a girl on the "special bus"...

This Mark Twain nominee is fairly interesting.  Taylor is from the big city of Minneapolis and an only child.  Her parents have moved her ...

This 2013 Mark Twain nominee is a pretty interesting book.  Three brothers who have recently moved from Illinois to Superstition, Arizona ...

2012-2013 Mark Twain Nominee I had high hopes for this book, the description and first few pages made it sound over the top hilarious.  Ho...

Kirkus Reviews called this book "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter," which is of course why I HAD to  read it, although I wasn...

Don't read this on an empty stomach, unless you have a slice of pie nearby! This is a delightful '50s era "mystery" wit...

This story about a student exchange program between an upper middle class student and a student from Appalachia seemed really contrived. I...

This Mark Twain Nominee is a really imaginative book. I didn't think I would like it because it was a "guy" book, but ...

Mark Twain Nominee This story is about a girl struggling to get on with life after her father and sister are killed in a car accident an...

Thanks Laura P. for this month's challenge--I can't remember the last children's book I've read. That being said, I really l...

In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spiri...

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed field mouse, lives with her four children in the Fitzgibbon's vegetable garden. Each year they move to their summ...

Set in Kentucky, this is the story of two girls from different backgrounds coming together to understand each other. Participating in an ...

This book is all about 10 year old Newton and his adventures as Captain Nobody, a superhero he has invented. After dressing up as Captain N...

This is one of the new Mark Twain nominees. It centers around a leaf-collecting project that Gianna, the main character, has to complete i...