2022-23 Bob Presentation
2022-23 Bob Presentation
OF THE
BOOKS
2022-2023
MIDDLE SCHOOL SELECTIONS
With Etta's training and a lot of hard work, Bree suddenly finds
her swim-crazed community counting on her to turn the school's
failing team around. But that's easier said than done, especially
when their rival, the prestigious Holyoke Prep, has everything
they need to leave the Mighty Manatees in their wake.
Can Bree defy the odds and guide her team to a state
championship, or have the Manatees swum their last lap--for
good?
Falling Short
by Ernesto Cisnero
A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other
in unexpected ways.
Seventh grader Aafiyah loves playing tennis, reading Weird but True
facts, and hanging out with her best friend, Zaina. However, Aafiyah
has a bad habit that troubles her--she's drawn to pretty things and
can't help but occasionally "borrow" them.
But what if her plan means giving in to her bad habit, the one she's
been trying to stop? Aafiyah wants to reunite her family but finds
that maybe her plan isn't so perfect after all. . .
The Accidental Apprentice
by Amanda Foody
The last thing Barclay Thorne ever wanted was an adventure.
Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the
discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A
sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent
on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically
purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether.
Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them,
any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
Winner of the 1968 Newbery Medal
When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would
be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia
appreciation. And she would go in comfort - she would live at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her
brother Jamie to go, mostly because he was a miser and would have
money.
Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie had some ideas, too; so the two
took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of
settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just
the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the
Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she had discovered its
maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.
The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her
- well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
Answers in the Pages
by David Levithan
A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to
ban a beloved book from the school curriculum by New York Times-
bestselling author David Levithan.
When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he
didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's
just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil
genius...right?
But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main
characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from
the school curriculum, and Donovan is caught in the middle.
Donovan doesn't really know if the two boys fall in love at the end or not--
but he does know this: even if they do, it shouldn't matter. The book
should not be banned from school.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up
as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his
father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an
uncertain future.
When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her
cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love
with Tye Brown, the MC. He's perfect, except . . . Tye is an activist and is
spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would
rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local
creamery. In order to impress Tye, Nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in
common with him. As they spend more time together, sharing more of
themselves, some of those lies get harder to keep up. As Nala falls deeper into
keeping up her lies and into love, she'll learn all the ways love is hard, and how
self-love is revolutionary.
In Love Is a Revolution, plus size girls are beautiful and get the attention of
the hot guys, the popular girl clique is not shallow but has strong
convictions and substance, and the ultimate love story is not only about
romance but about how to show radical love to the people in your life,
including to yourself.
Anne of West Philly
by Ivy Noelle Weir
Anne of Green Gables with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg,
Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Garden on 81st Street, this
full-color graphic novel moves Anne Shirley to modern-day
West Philadelphia, where where she finds new friends, new
rivals, and a new family.
Twelve-year-old twins Theodora and Alexander and their older sister Wilhelmina
Sinister-Winterbottom don’t know how they ended up with their Aunt Saffronia for
an entire summer. She’s not exactly well equipped to handle children. The twins
are determined to make it a good vacation, though, so when Aunt Saffronia
suggests a waterpark, they hastily agree.
But Fathoms of Fun is not your typical waterpark. Instead of cabanas, guests rent
mausoleums. The waterslides are gray tongues extending from horrible gargoyle
faces. The few people they encounter are very, very odd. And the owner
disappeared under bizarre circumstances, lost to the Cold, Unknowable Sea—the
wave pool.
When Wil goes missing, rule following, cautious Alexander and competitive,
brave Theo will have to work together to solve the mystery of Fathoms of Fun.
But are they out of their depth?
New From Here
by Kelly Yang
An Asian American boy fights to keep his family together and stand up to
racism during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans’s mom
makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to
California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to
prepare for an international move—and for leaving his dad, who has to stay
for work.
At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His
classmates think that because he’s from Asia, he must have brought over the
virus. At home, Mom just got fired and is panicking over the loss of health
insurance, and Dad doesn’t even know when he’ll see them again, since the
flights have been cancelled. And everyone struggles with Knox’s blurting-
things-out problem.
When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new
stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new
boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a
dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the
wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young
girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches
overnight.
MAY 11
The winning team from Moore
will face 29 other teams at a
field trip to Nashville Public
Library. The winning team for all
Middle Schools wins a PRIZE of a
LIMO ride back to school!