Recently Purchased - Children's Fiction at Howard County Library

P.S. be eleven /

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita.
ISBN: 9780061938627;0061938629
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/23/2013
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland, California, for advice. But why does her mother tell her to 'be eleven' when Delphine is now twelve?" -- from publisher's web site.
Subjects: Sisters - Fiction. - African Americans - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Call number: JF WIL

P.K. Pinkerton and the petrified man /

Author: Lawrence, Caroline.
ISBN: 9780399256349
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/23/2013
Summary: "After escaping the ruthless desperados, master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton has now set up a Private Eye business in Virginia City and is ready when a young maid named Martha approaches him for help in escaping a killer"--
Subjects: Mystery and detective stories. - Disguise - Fiction. - Orphans - Racially mixed people - Nevada - History - 19th century
Call number: JF LAW

Ghoulfriends just want to have fun /

Author: Daneshvari, Gitty.
ISBN: 9780316222532
Date added: 05/23/2013
Summary: "Ghoulfriends Just Want to Have Fun introduces three new monster characters: Robecca Steam, Rochelle Goyle, and Venus Mcflytrap. As new students, the trio must navigate the bewildering array of cute monster boys, established cliques, and monster-rific subjects like Mad Science, Ge-ogre-phy, and physical deaducation. As if that weren't hard enough, something strange and sinister seems to be happening at the school. Can the new GFFs solve the mystery?"--
Subjects: Monsters - Fiction. - Friendship - High schools - Schools
Call number: JF DAN

The lightning catcher /

Author: Cameron, Anne.
ISBN: 9780062112767
Date added: 05/23/2013
Summary: When eleven-year-old Angus McFangus learns that he is a storm prophet, someone who can predict and control catastrophic weather, he must stop the villainous Scabious Dankhart from unleashing an unending storm and achieving world domination.
Subjects: Weather - Fiction. - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF CAM

Clueless McGee /

Author: Mack, Jeff.
ISBN: 9780399257490
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/23/2013
Summary: Through a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee tells of his efforts to discover who stole macaroni and cheese from the school cafeteria.
Subjects: Behavior - Fiction. - Schools - Private investigators - Robbers and outlaws - Letters - Humorous stories.
Call number: JF MAC

Aerostar and the 3 1/2-point plan of vengeance /

Author: Nelson, Peter,
ISBN: 9780062012203
Date added: 05/23/2013
Summary: "Herbert, Alex, and Sammie are pretty sure their adventures in the future are over until they meet their greatest villain yet: Sammie's future self, AeroStar, a power-mad tyrant who wants revenge. It's up to our heroes to once again don the mantle of the AlienSlayers and somehow try to save the past, present, and the future from total annihilation"--
Subjects: Time travel - Fiction. - Extraterrestrial beings - Friendship
Call number: JF NEL

The mystery /

Author: Nix, Garth.
ISBN: 9780545258999
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/22/2013
Summary: When the old man who lives in Rourke Castle dies mysteriously, troubletwister twins Jack and Jaide Shield find themselves drawn into a search for something hidden in the castle--something that The Evil wants desperately--but they have no idea what it is they seek.
Subjects: Magic - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Twins - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: JF NIX

Just Grace and the trouble with cupcakes /

Author: Harper, Charise Mericle.
ISBN: 9780547877440
Date added: 05/22/2013
Summary: Count on third-grader Grace to cook up a creative compromise just in time to save the day at the cupcake-themed school fair.
Subjects: Cupcakes - Fiction. - Fairs - Schools
Call number: JF HAR

The hidden kingdom /

Author: Sutherland, Tui,
ISBN: 9780545349208
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/22/2013
Summary: The five dragonets of the prophecy are hoping to hide in safety in the RainWing kingdom, and Glory is hoping to learn more about her own identity, but when tribe members start disappearing and the old queen does nothing, it is up to Glory and her friends to uncover the lurking evil.
Subjects: Dragons - Fiction. - Prophecies - Identity - Kings, queens, rulers, etc. - Adventure and adventurers - Adventure fiction.
Call number: JF SUT

The year of the baby /

Author: Cheng, Andrea.
ISBN: 9780547910673
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/22/2013
Summary: Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
Subjects: Chinese Americans - Fiction. - Babies - Science projects - Intercountry adoption - Adoption - Best friends - Friendship - Schools
Call number: JF CHE

The hero's guide to storming the castle /

Author: Healy, Christopher,
ISBN: 9780062118455
Date added: 05/20/2013
Summary: "The four princes erroneously dubbed by Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales have to once again save the kingdom from a great threat"--
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Princes - Fiction. - Heroes - Characters in literature - Humorous stories.
Call number: JF HEA