Lone Star 2022
Wendy Howk
Created on June 14, 2022
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Mysterious disappearance
Mysterious deaths
Anxious & quiet main character
Different points of view
Realistic Fiction
Fantasy
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Thanks a Lot, Universe
- Realistic Fiction
- Mysterious disappearance
- Different points of view
- Anxious & quiet main character
- Fantasy
- Mysterious deaths
- Anxious & quiet main character
Alternating chapters from Brian’s and Ezra’s points of view follow their stories as they intertwine. Brian’s life feels like it’s unraveling after his dad, in legal trouble, disappears, and his mentally ill mom overdoses on prescription pills. While his mom is hospitalized, Brian and his younger brother end up in foster care and run away. Meanwhile, Ezra is trying to navigate a changing friendship with Colby, one of his close friends, who is not only becoming girl-obsessed but has started making occasional racist comments.
Cooper is angry. His dad left the family three years ago; since then, he has emotionally isolated himself from his mom and younger sister, Jess, who holds out hope that their dad will contact them. But one day Jess comes to him with a mystery: She’s found an article about the 1928 Charfield railway disaster that left an unidentified victim, a young boy. On his jacket was a crest—the same one that’s on the jacket of Elena, the new girl next door who has a habit of silently watching Cooper from her front yard.
Differing points of view
Friends driven apart
Based on true story
Friends brought together
2001
1936
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Ground Zero
- 2001
- Differing points of view
- Friend brought together
- 1936
- Differing points of view
- Friends driven apart
- Based on true story
Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe—to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland—will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to?Inspired by a true story
September 11, 2001, New York City: Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape? September 11, 2019, Afghanistan: Reshmina has grown up in the shadow of war, but she dreams of peace and progress. When a battle erupts in her village, Reshmina stumbles upon a wounded American soldier named Taz. Should she help Taz -- and put herself and her family in mortal danger? Two kids. One devastating day. Nothing will ever be the same.
hides from others, even friends
positive self image
narrative (reg. story format)
friends support
verse novel
teased because of face difference
teased because of body size
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Starfish
- teased because of her body size
- has a positive self image
- verse novel
- friends support
- Teased because of a facial deformity
- Hides from others, even friends
- Narrative
- friends support
Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules—like “no making waves,” “avoid eating in public,” and “don’t move so fast that your body jiggles.” And she’s found her safe space—her swimming pool—where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants
Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-looking chin. And for his bar mitzvah community service project, he's forced to go to the hospital to visit RJ, an older boy struggling with an incurable disease.At first, the boys don't get along, but then RJ shares his bucket list with Will. Among the things he wants to do: ride a roller coaster; go to a school dance; swim in the ocean. To Will, happiness is hanging out in his room, alone, preferably with the turtles he collects. But as RJ's disease worsens, Will realizes he needs to tackle the bucket list on his new friend's behalf before it's too late.
told in different points of view
secrets
making new friends
enemies become friends
told in letters written by main character
1940's
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Letters from Cuba
- 1940's
- Told in letters from main character
- secrets
- making new friends
- Different points of view
- secrets
- enemies become friends
The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Based on Ruth Behar's family history
On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person.
Do not change history!
Villains mess with history
meet real historical characters
special powers
magical objects
travel to other times and places
a magic table brings back the past
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Glitch
- travel to other times and places
- Do not change history!
- Villains mess with history
- special powers
- a magic table brings back the past
- magical objects
- meet real historical characters
Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers—people who travel through time to preserve important historical events. But everything changes when they find a letter from Regan’s future self, warning them about an impending disaster that threatens them and everyone they know. Will they be able to set aside their past in order to save the future?
Javi Santiago is trying his best not to fail sixth grade. So, when the annual "invite any three people to dinner" homework assignment rolls around, Javi enlists his best friend, Wiki, and his sister, Brady, to help him knock it out of the park. But the dinner party is a lot more than they bargained for. The family's mysterious antique table actually brings the historical guests to the meal...and Blackbeard the Pirate is turning out to be the worst guest of all time.
Kidnapping
Brujas = witches
Saram = a person without magic
Healing Witches
Godrealm
Mexican-American Folktales and Myths
Korean mythology
Devil's Alley
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Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
- Mexican-American Legends and Myths
- Brujas = witches
- kidnapping
- Devil's alley
- Korean mythology
- healing witches
- Saram = a person without magic
- Godrealm
Living in the remote town of Tierra del Sol is dangerous, especially in the criatura months, when powerful spirits roam the desert and threaten humankind. But Cecelia Rios has always believed there was more to the criaturas, much to her family’s disapproval. After all, only brujas—humans who capture and control criaturas—consort with the spirits, and brujeria is a terrible crime. When her older sister, Juana, is kidnapped by El Sombrerón, a powerful dark criatura, Cece is determined to bring Juana back. To get into Devil’s Alley, though, she’ll have to become a bruja herself—while hiding her quest from her parents, her town, and the other brujas. Thankfully, the legendary criatura Coyote has a soft spot for humans and agrees to help her on her journey.
Riley Oh can't wait to see her sister get initiated into the Gom clan, a powerful lineage of Korean healing witches their family has belonged to for generations. Her sister, Hattie, will earn her Gi bracelet and finally be able to cast spells without adult supervision. Although Riley is desperate to follow in her sister's footsteps when she herself turns thirteen, she's a saram--a person without magic. Riley was adopted, and despite having memorized every healing spell she's ever heard, she often feels like the odd one out in her family and the gifted community.Then Hattie gets an idea: what if the two of them could cast a spell that would allow Riley to share Hattie's magic?
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