Whippersnapper Wednesday

Jellicoe Road

by: Melina Marchetta

Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (August 26, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061431834
ISBN-13: 978-0061431838

Product Description:

"What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn't a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all.

In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her, Hannah finding her then and her sudden departure now, a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear, a boy in her dreams, five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago, and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she might just be able to change her future.

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Savvy

by: Ingrid Law

Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Dial; Reprint edition (May 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803733062
ISBN-13: 978-0803733060

Product Description:

A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic.

For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a “savvy”—a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it’s the eve of Mibs’s big day.

As if waiting weren’t hard enough, the family gets scary news two days before Mibs’s birthday: Poppa has been in a terrible accident. Mibs develops the singular mission to get to the hospital and prove that her new power can save her dad. So she sneaks onto a salesman’s bus . . . only to find the bus heading in the opposite direction. Suddenly Mibs finds herself on an unforgettable odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up—and of other people, who might also have a few secrets hidden just beneath the skin.

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Both of these will be going on my wish list for sure! Yes, if I continue to add my spotlight books (as well as other great ones) to my wish list, my list is going to give War and Peace a run for it's money, in size, lol!!