2013 Intermediate Sequoyah Master List
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Balliett, Blue. THE DANGER BOX. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010. Zoomy is legally blind, doesn’t have any friends, lives with his grandparents, and has never met his father until the day he shows up and drops off a box with a mysterious battered notebook inside.
Buckingham, Royce. THE DEAD BOYS. New York: Putnam’s, 2010. Twelve-year-old Teddy Matthews gets wrapped up in his new town’s history when a nuclear waste-infected tree attempts to eat him and use his life energy for itself.
Connor, Leslie. CRUNCH. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. The Bike Barn is running smoothly even though Dewey’s folks are away, but strange things start happening that worry the kids.
Cummings, Priscilla. BLINDSIDED. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2010. Natalie knew from an early age that she could become totally blind, but at fourteen she isn’t prepared to face a life without her sight, but the time has now come to learn to deal with friends, family, and most of all, a school for the blind.
Flood, Nancy Bo. WARRIORS IN THE CROSSFIRE. Honesdale, PA: Front Street, 2010. During WWII on the island of Saipan, Joseph finds himself the only one who can save his family from the dangers of the Japanese and American’s crossfire by leading them on a difficult path to a secret hidden cave his family has used before to hide from the enemy.
Flores-Galbis, Enrique. 90 MILES TO HAVANA. New York: Roaring Book Press, 2010. Julian and his brothers leave the dangers of Cuba via Operation Pedro Pan only to find new types of dangers await them in Miami.
Hughes, Mark Peter. A CRACK IN THE SKY. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010. A boy, a mongoose, a family business, and secrets galore, await you under the Infinicorp domes. Infinicorp takes care of everything, but not everything is right with the world. Can Eli save the world, as he knows it from collapse?
McMullan, Margaret. SOURCES OF LIGHT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother witness and experience much of the cruelty of the Deep South’s prejudices and violence while Samantha learns from a friend about the importance of capturing life through photography.
Paulsen, Gary. WOODS RUNNER. New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2010. When twelve-year-old Samuel’s Pennsylvania village is raided by British Redcoats and Iroquois Indians, he sets off hot on their trail, intent on freeing his parents and any other captives they may have taken.
Poblocki, Dan. THE NIGHTMARYS. New York: Randomhouse, 2010. Abigail is the new girl in school and Timothy isn’t quite sure what to make of her when, after her class humiliates her, two sinister little girls start haunting her and beckoning her to come and play.
Shulman, Mark. SCRAWL. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2010. When eighth-grader Tod Munn gets in trouble for bullying, his guidance counselor insists that he come to detention every day after school and fill a notebook with several pages a day describing his daily life and his past bullying incidents.
Shulman, Polly. THE GRIMM LEGACY. New York: Putnam, 2010. Elizabeth takes an after school job as a page at the New-York Circulating Material Repository, which lends items, including the magical ones straight out of the Grimm fairy tales; but when items start to go missing, it is up to her and the other pages to catch the magical thief before they are accused themselves.
Sonnenblick, Jordan. AFTER EVER AFTER. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010. Having both experienced the frightening cancer disease, eighth graders, Jeff and Tad, offer each other support and encouragement as they deal with trials of the school year and focus on end-of-the-year graduation.
Stanley, Diane. SAVING SKY. New York: Harper, 2010. During a time of terrorist strikes in New Mexico a young girl named Sky is living on 60 acres of land where her parents farm and survive off the land, when terrorist strikes start to cause panic Sky’s family hides one of her classmates to keep him from going to a Deportation center.
Williams-Garcia, Rita. ONE CRAZY SUMMER. New York: Amistad, 2010. Sisters Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern never expected to attend Black Panther day camp during a visit with their mother that crazy summer of 1968.