Kate DiCamillo - The Tale of Despereaux eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 148; File Size: 2 MB;
The Tale of Despereaux is a fantasy novel written by Kate DiCamillo, an American author well known for her fantasy stories for children featuring animals. This 2004 Newbery Medal winner novel is divided in four books and each of them delivers the story from different perspective of different character. The story also presents a unique assortment of exciting characters, who set out on their respective journeys and will come across each other.
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Lynne Rae Perkins - Criss Cross eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 229; File Size: 1.8 MB;

Criss Cross is a novel by Lynne Rae Perkins, American author and illustrator of books for children or young adult. It expands the story and, especially, the character of Debbie from her previous book All Alone in the Universe. Despite the mixed reviews (some consider it too subtle and many feel the contemporary realism in it resonates with them), the novel has proven its excellence in children's literature and won Newbery Medal in 2006.

Filled with vignettes, poems (haikus), illustrations, and photographs, the novel focuses on a bunch of teenagers in a small town, where nothing “big” really happens. The two main characters who narrate most of the story are Debbie and Hector; both are 14 years old both are entering the phase of leaving childhood behind yet not fully grown up. The other teen characters, who experience the exact same thing as both of them, are Patty, Lenny, Phil, and Peter.
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Susan Patron - The Higher Power of Lucky eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 97; File Size: 0.6 MB;

First published in 2006, The Higher Power of Lucky is a children’s novel written by Susan Patron. The book has successfully won Newbery Medal in 2007 and also successfully drawn a controversy. As written in a New York Times article, some school libraries banned it as a result of the use of a single word, “scrotum”, in the first page. Responses came from Patron herself, associations, and fellow authors. Patron stated that the choice of the word was based on her own knowledge of a rattlesnake biting a dog's scrotum and it also serves as anatomy explanation for 9 – 12 years old readers. The American Library Association and some authors also encouraged people to see the real value in the novel and not to focus on that single word.
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Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 133; File Size: 0.6 MB;

Kira-Kira (Japanese for glittering) is a novel by Japanese-American writer Cynthia Kadohata. This young adult book had gotten wide critical acclaims and won several award including the prestigious 2005 Newbery Medal for children’s literature.
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Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me eBook (PDF)

Language: English; PDF Pages: 164; File Size: 0.5 MB;

When You Reach Me is a novel by award-winning American author of books for young-adult and children, Rebecca Stead. The novel that mixes fantasy, science fiction, and mystery received mostly good reviews and critical acclaim following its publication in 2009. Getting the inspiration from an article in a newspaper about a man suffering from amnesia and also from A Wrinkle in Time, one of her favorite book from her childhood, Stead has successfully written a story with realistic setting and thorough details. The book also got commercial success and made it into The New York Times Bestseller list. The novel has also won several awards including Newbery Medal in 2010.
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Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book PDF eBook

Language: English; PDF Pages: 206; File Size: 1 MB;

First published in 2008, The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy novel written by one of the best English mystery-fantasy authors Neil Gaiman. It took Gaiman years to muster the confidence in writing and releasing the book. As stated by Gaiman, he got the inspiration in 1985 but he managed to finish it in 2008, through a lot of revisitings on the draft. After being published, the novel got wide critical acclaim and won many awards including Newbery Medal and Hugo Award.
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