In a Flash

The DBTRC has six copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Gabriel


WALTERS, ERIC
IN A FLASH


There was playful combat everywhere. I didn't have time to look around, but there had to be close to a hundred people around me, yelling, laughing and swinging their pillows.


On the edges of the battle other people watched. There were grown-ups holding their kids by the hand or loaded down with shopping bags, looking stunned or amused or confused. Some laughed and pointed, and others hurried away like they were scared. There had to be almost as many people watching as there were participating.


One of the pillows burst, and a million white feathers shot into the air like a billowing cloud! The crowd -- watching and fighting - erupted into gasps and screams and laughter.


The first flash mob Ian puts together himself is a sixty-plus person, four-minute pillow fight in a department store. His friend Oswald is thrilled with the event, but Julia, the one Ian really wants to impress, is still convinced that flash mobs are stupid. While Ian tries to prove Julia wrong by initiating flash mobs with political impact, Julia is busy waging war with the strict new principal at school. When Julia goes too far and gets herself suspended, Ian sees an opportunity for a revelent and persuasive flash mob.


RL: 3.1

Reckless

The DBTRC has six copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Gabriel
CHOYCE, LESLEY
RECKLESS

I staggered to my feet, tore off my helmet and looked down at the crumpled figure on the road. He wasn't moving.

I was sure I had killed him. The blood drained out of my head. I was afraid to approach him. I needed to get help. I took several deep breaths and found myself shaking. Hold it together, I told myself. Just hold it together.

Josh knows he's riding recklessly when he knocks down the old man. But he is shocked when the old man walks into the forest with his dirt bike. A week without his beloved bike motivates Josh to hike into the woods to confront the crazy old man he suspects is the hermit of Loggerman Creek.

RL: 2.9

Sewer Rats

The DBTRC has six copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Gabriel

BROUWER, SIGMUND
SEWER RATS

"The teachers can't do nothing to us," Lisa told him, crossing her arms. "The paintball wars aren't on school property."

"But-," Micky tried. It was like trying to stop a hurricane.

"Do you think I care what the teachers think?" Lisa asked. "They think we band together because no one else likes us. And we're proud to agree with them, aren't we?"

Micky shrugged. When people called us losers, it just made our group stronger.

"It's the Medford gang I care about," Lisa continued. "The Sewer Rats have never lost a paintball war and we're not going to chicken out now."

Jim, Micky and Lisa belong to a secret club called the Sewer Rats. Every Saturday the Sewer Rats rein supreme in paintball wars held in the city's storm drain system. The new kid, Carter, wants to join, but Lisa doesn't want him in the club. When Carter is hurt in his first paintball war, Jim and Micky suspect that Lisa planned the accident. They try to confront her, but she runs into the tunnels just as a rainstorm begins. Jim and Micky have to get Lisa out before the tunnels fill with water.

Bear Market

The DBTRC has six copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Gabriel


BOSSLEY, MICHELE MARTIN
BEAR MARKET


The skinny dude looked frightened. "I think my boot's stuck," he whimpered.


The bear took another swipe, this time catching the edge of the guy's jeans. They tore easily. The bear grunted deep in his chest. Now terror stood out on the skinny dude's face.


Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the poachers. Bear is not only big game, they learn, but big money to poachers. The stakes are high and the suspects many, as the kids head into their most dangerous adventure yet.


RL: 3.8

Branded

The DBTRC has six copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Gabriel


WALTERS, ERIC
BRANDED


Oswald walked onto the stage. He was wearing a jacket and a tie! I didn't even know Oswald owned a tie.


"Introducing our new school uniforms," Mr. Roberts announced.


There was a stunned silent reaction from the audience. It was as if no one could believe what they'd heard or seen.


Ian's school is in an uproar about the new school uniforms. Ian wants nothing to do with the issue. He's busy pursuing a newfound passion for social justice. Why should he worry about uniforms when there are kids in the world who would give anything to be able to go to school? But things change when he discovers the two issues might be related.


R.L. 4.1

Bones and the Math Test Mystery

The DBTRC has six copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Jerome


ADLER, DAVID A.
BONES AND THE MATH TEST MYSTERY


Where is Bones's math test? Jeffrey Bones doesn't like math tests -- especially when he forgets to study for them. Now his test is missing! Will Bones be able to solve this mystery? Can he find his missing math test and get an Excellent grade?



RL: 1.7

The Case of the Lost Boy

The DBTRC has 8 copies of this book.
LOCATION: St. Jerome

BUTLER, DORI HILLESTAD
THE CASE OF THE LOST BOY


King's family is missing, and he's been put in the p-o-u-n-d. Why doesn't his beloved human, Kayla, come to get him? When King is adopted by Connor and his mom, things get more confusing. The new family calls him Buddy. Then Connor disappears!

RL: 3.5

Escape to Freedom Literature Circle

Kit contains 6 copies of each book. LOCATION: ST. Elizabeth Ann Seton

HAISLIP, PHYLLIS HALL

Lottie's Courage : a contraband slave's story

Ten-year-old Lottie is sold away from her mother at a slave auction in Williamsburg, Virginia. Bought by the evil slave trader Nephus Slye, Lottie travels south tied to other slaves. The uncertainty of her future leads Lottie to attempt escape. With Weza, an older woman who befriends her, Lottie slips away in the darkness. Morning finds the slave trader and dogs closing in.

HURMENCE, BELINDA

A Girl Called Boy

Blanceh Overtha Yancey goes by the name Boy. She hates her real name -- a tribute to her great-grandmothers, who were slaves. Boy had nothing for disdain for her ancestors. She can't believe the way they let themselves be pushed around. No one could make her a slave.

But that's before she somehow slips back in time to the year 1853 and takes the place of Overtha, a runaway. Now Boy is on the run from the ruthless slave catcher and his bloodhounds and hoping to find a way back to her own life. But first she'll have to survive life as a slave, in all its terror, deprivation and brutality.

RL: 6.1 GRL: U

RUBY, LOIS

Steal Away

When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family's old house, she's unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room -- containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up?

With the help of the diary found in the room, Dana learns her house was once a station on the Underground Railroad. The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana's world and 1856, the story of the families that lived in the house unfolds. But as pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, one haunting question remains -- why did Lizbet Charles die?

RL : 5.1

SCHWARTZ, VIRGINIA FRANCES

Crossing to Freedom

Just eleven when he flees from his Georgia plantation, Solomon avoids the slavecatchers and reaches the border separating the United States from Canada. But his grandfather -- his only remaining family -- has been injured and would not survive the crossing. If Solomon does reach Canada, how ill he make his way without Grandpa Jacob at his side?

RL: 4.9 GRL: T

SCHWARTZ, VIRGINIA FRANCES

If I Just Had Two Wings

Born on a plantation in Alabama, thirteen-year-old Phoebe has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave. While picking cotton, she learns of a way to escape to the north, and so begins her treacherous flight to Canada.

RL: 4.1 GRL: T

WYETH, SHARON DENNIS

Freedom's Wings : Corey's Underground Railroad Diary

In Book One of his diary, Corey Birdsong's fate changes when his father flees the Kentucky plantation where they are slaves. Now Corey and his mother must head towards freedom too, along the Underground Railroad.

RL: 3.2 GRL: P

Kit also includes 1 copy of the following:

Traveled on the Undeground Railroad

Courage to Run

Under the Quilt