The document provides summaries of 20 books in 3 sentences or less, highlighting their essential plot details or themes. It begins with books about adventure, survival, and magic before transitioning to historical fiction, biographies, and stories tackling challenging topics like war, racism, and loss. The summaries convey a wide range of genres and subjects covered in the selected works.

1. The Book Cheerleader!

3. Good For One Grand Adventure

6. IncarceronIncarceron
Catherine Fisher

7. Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

8. The Books of Elsewhere
Jacqueline West

9. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her
SwordSword
Barry Deutsch

10. PodPod
Stephen Wallenfels

11. As Easy as Falling Off the
Face of the Earth
Lynne Rae Perkins

12. Plain KatePlain Kate
Erin Bow

13. “Now was very much the time to think
of a brilliant, watertight, plan.
…Failing that, I improvised.”
The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud and Andrew DonkinJonathan Stroud and Andrew Donkin

14. The Jaguar Stones:
Book One Middleworld
J&P Voelkel

15. "The granola barsThe granola bars.
It had come to this.
Miserably, he unwrapped a bar.
He brought the compacted brown mass to his lips.
With a heavy heart, he opened his mouth and
prepared his tongue to receive the foul-tasting grunge.
Then, in the nick of time, he recovered his fighting spirit.Then, in the nick of time, he recovered his fighting spirit.
Things were bad, but not that bad.
He still wasn't desperate enough to eat a granola bar.“

16. Inspired by history

17. Borrowed Names:
Poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie
Curie, and Their Daughters, g
Jeannine Atkins

18. One Crazy SummerOne Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia

19. “How do you fly three thousand miles to
meet the mother you hadn’t seem sincey
you needed her milk, needed to be
picked up, or were four going on five, and
not throw your arms around her whethernot throw your arms around her, whether
she wanted you to or not?

20. The War to End All Wars:
World War I
R ll F dRussell Freedman

21. Mighty empires collapsed as a result of the fighting.
New nations came into being. And the war’s aftershocks are still being felt today.g g y
The Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, America’s emergence as a world power,
the Second World War, and continuing turmoil in the Middle East
all have their roots in the First World War.

22. Wicked Girls:
A Novel of the Salem Witch Trial
Stephanie Hemphill

23. RevolutionRevolution
Jennifer Donnelly

24. I wish my cell phone worked. Right
now. I wouldn’t call 911 to come
rescue me from the eighteenth
century. As much as I want to, I’d call
N thNathan.

25. Alchemy and Meggy Swann
Karen Cushman

26. Folly
Marthe JocelynMarthe Jocelyn

27. "I did not know the heart
were like a china teacup hangingp g g
in the cupboard from a single hook,
that it could chip and crack
and finally smash to the ground
under a boot heel.
And I did not know that even
smithereens could reassemble into a heart.smithereens could reassemble into a heart.
I did not know any of this”

28. Storytellers Extraordinairey

29. S k Th Lif d A tSparky: The Life and Art
of Charles Schulz
Beverly Ghermany

30. Trickster: Native American Tales
Matt Dembicki

34. The Odysseyy y
Gareth Hinds

35. “Ah b t t ll d t Th t t b“Ah, but not all dreams are true. There are two gates by
which a dream may enter: one of shining ivory, one of plain
horn.
The dreams from the ivory gate are glimmering illusionsy g g g
that signify nothing. But those from the horn gate can come
true – if only we know which is which!”

38. “There is always a way to do what you truly love.”
The Dreamer
Pam Munoz Ryan & Peter Sis

39. Zora and Me
Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon

40. “Zora Neale Hurston, “Old Lady
Bronson said “please don’t tellBronson said, please don t tell
me what you meant and what you
didn’t’ mean My first two namesdidn t mean. My first two names
ain’t Old Lady for nothing. I been
round here as long as there’s
been a round here.”

41. It’s How You Play the GameIt s How You Play the Game

42. Foiled
Jane Yolen

44. The Cardturner
Louis Sachar

45. “I had told Leslie to stay away until Clifff
arrived, so I could have some time alone with
Toni, but that wasn’t working out exactly as
planned I’m a lot smoother in my daydreamsplanned. I m a lot smoother in my daydreams
than I am in real life.”

46. Puzzling Things Out

47. Meanwhile
Jason Shigag

48. The Secret Science
Alliance and the Copycat
Crook
Eleanor Davis

49. Food for Thought

50. A World of Food:A World of Food:
Nigeria
Dereen Taylor

51. TyrannyTyranny
Lesley Fairfield

54. The Harder They Fall

55. Th C ll d Th l thThey Called Themselves the
K.K.K: The Birth of an
American Terrorist Group
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

56. YYou
Charles Benoit

57. The Rise and Fall of Senator
Joe McCarthy
James Cross Giblin

58. Yummy:
The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
G N iG. Neri

60. Sir Charlie
Sid Fleischman

61. His rags to riches story was in two words, tragic and wonderful.

62. I N d HI Need a Hero

63. Heart of a Samurai
Margi Preus

64. Silverfin:
A James Bond AdventureA James Bond Adventure
Charlie Higson

65. Lafayette and the American Revolution
R ll F dRussell Freedman

66. Zeus: King of the Gods
George O’ConnorGeorge O Connor

67. All Star!
Hon s and the MostHonus and the Most
Famous Baseball Card
Ever
Jane Yolen

68. There’s Always a Choice

69. The Last SummerThe Last Summer
of the Death Warriors
Francisco X. Stork

70. He opened his arms and she came to him. He held her head
against his chest and he opened his eyes as wide as they would
go in order to keep them dry. She wanted to say something, but
he pressed her tight. “Sh h h. Don’t say anything.” He let go of herhe pressed her tight. Sh h h. Don t say anything. He let go of her
and started down as quickly as he could.
“I want my heart back,” she said between sobs.

71. Will G Will GWill Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green & David Levithan

72. Revolver
Marcus Sedgwickg

73. "You know, I understand it now. There's always a, y
third choice in life.
Even if you think you're stuck between two
impossible choices, there's always a third way.
You just have to look for it.”

74. To Infinity and Beyond

75. Zita the SpacegirlZita the Spacegirl
Ben Hatke

76. Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
Sarah Stewart Taylor

77. Amelia Lost: The Life and
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Candace Fleming

78. ArchvillainArchvillain
Barry Lyga

79. Eye Spy

80. For Good Measure: The Ways We Say How Much, How Far,
H H H Bi H OldHow Heavy, How Big, How Old
Ken Robbins

82. Can You Find It? America
Linda Falken

83. Fairie-Ality Style
David Ellwand

85. Mirror
Jeannie Baker

88. Mother Earth, Father Sky

89. Ubiquitous
Joyce Sidman

92. A DA.D.
New Orleans After The
DelugeDeluge
Josh Neufeld

93. Ninth Wardt a d
Jewell Parker Rhodes

94. Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot
Sy MontgomerySy Montgomery

95. Found only in New Zealand, the kakapo is the rarest and heaviest
Parrot the only flightless and night-active parrot and undoubtedlyParrot, the only flightless and night active parrot, and undoubtedly
the strangest parrot in the world:
•Weigh up to nine pounds
O l lik f ith hi k•Owl-like face with whiskers
•Don’t talk but can growl like a dog & boom like a bullfrog
•Don’t fly but can climb trees using feet and beak
•Can live to be at least 70 years old and likely to 100 years.y y y
•Feathers smell strongly of honey

96. The Frog Scientist
Pamela S TurnerPamela S. Turner

97. Here Comes theHere Comes the
Garbage Barge!
Jonah Winter

98. The Gardener
S.A. Bodeen

99. The Write Stuff

100. Ti Y L M ITime You Let Me In
Naomi Shihab Nye

101. Dave the PotterDave the Potter
Laban Carrick Hill

102. Mirror Mirror
Marilyn Singery g

104. S illi I kSpilling Ink
Anne Mazer & Ellen Potter

105. Middle School:Middle School:
Not for WimpsNot for Wimps

106. SmileSmile
Raina Telgemeier

108. Falling In
Frances O’Roark Dowell

109. The Popularity Papers: Research
f th S i l I t dfor the Social Improvement and
Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt &
Julie Graham-Chang
Amy Ignatow

110. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger

111. The big question: Is Origami Yoda real?
Well of course he’s real I mean he’s a piece of paperWell, of course he s real. I mean, he s a piece of paper.
But I mean: Is he REAL? Does he really know things?
Can he see the future? Does he use the Force?

112. It Always Hurts

113. Popp
Gordon Korman

114. By The Time You Read ThisBy The Time You Read This,
I’ll Be Dead
Julie Anne PetersJulie Anne Peters

115. I Kill GiantsI Kill Giants
Joe Kelly

116. Wolves in the WoodsWolves in the Woods

117. Raised By WolvesRaised By Wolves
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

118. "Who knows how many of his
attacks e missed?attacks we missed?
This is Google we're talking about
here not science "here, not science."

119. The Incorrigible Children of
A ht PlAshton Place:
The Mysterious Howling
Maryrose WoodMaryrose Wood

120. "If it were easy to resist,If it were easy to resist,
it would not be called chocolate cake."