Holm, Jennifer Penny from Heaven Penny has two families: her dead dad’s enormous Italian family, and her mother and grandparents with whom she lives. Everybody loves her like crazy but they’re not telling her everything. (Takes place in 1953.) (2007 Newbery Honor book)
Jones, D W Witch Week Still a marvel of plotting and characterization, and totally fun.
Excellent – told from POV of Catherine, 12, whose younger brother has autism. Centers around: family interactions (fun and frustrating); her developing friendship with Jason, a boy at PT who can’t speak but with whom she converses via word cards (and she draws him new ones); and the new girl next door who doesn’t live up to friend potential.
McNish, Cliff The Silver Child Compellingly creepy beginning shows several regular children abruptly changing into... something elses. Maintains the credible otherness flavor, as the special children (having become giants, insectivores, empaths, etc.) find each other one by one in a rubbishy wasteland outside of town. Has that "Book One" feeling (of the Silver Sequence) - things are just beginning. 2005.
Morris, Gerald The Quest of the Fair Unknown When his mother dies, Beaufils leaves their hut in the forest and ventures into the world, where he is intrigued by the foibles of people, quests with Galahad, Gawain and a woman named Ellyn, and eventually discovers his father’s identity and his own quest. (Fair Unknown = both his nickname (Le Beau Desconu) and his quest.)
Pennypacker, Sara Clementine Clementine is having not so good of a week.
Selznick, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret “When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.”
Woodson, Jacqueline Feathers Hope is the thing with feathers, and this slight book is a musing upon belief, hope, daily life and the differences and bridges among us. It is told in the form of a story set in 1971 about Frannie, the new white-looking kid in her 6th grade class everyone's calling Jesus Boy, her religious best friend, her worry over her mother's pregnancy (others have ended tragically), and her relationship with her family, including her deaf older brother. Very meditative.
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