http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:28:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ant, or Antonia as her parents like to call her, is different from her two perfect sisters. She dresses in camouflage and black, she isn't into ballet, and her hair is unruly and brown instead of styled and blond. Ant feels as if she can't do anything right, so she ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=126 Margaret and Maizon may not be family but they feel like sisters. they have done everything together since they can remember on their block in Brooklyn. Everything might be changing though. Margaret's father is int he hospital and for the first time she and Maizon will be ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=118 In Coraline's apartment are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen doors open and one only opens on to a brick wall until the day it leads to another world just like hers only different. There is another mother, another father and they want Coraline to stay with them ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=116 Twelve-year-old Mike (short for Michaela) is inseparable from her brother Red. then one day Red disappears. One minute he is here, the next...gone. No warning. No time to prepare. This is a story that is equal parts mystery, romance and tragedy. It is the ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=114 Have you ever wished you were someone else? Mary Elousie is dying to be in the school play, but the part she gets is the last one she wants--narrator of the Black History skit. Even though her grandmother, Big Momma, says it's important to remember her heritage, Mary ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=112 OK, Kids, you asked for it!  Here is where you can post your own book recommendations for each other!  Just post them as a comment to this post!  I can't wait to hear what you are reading and loving!! Mrs. Spisak http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=109 Cuban-born Michael Arroyo is a phenomenal little league baseball player. One day he hopes to play for the pros, but for this year, he is hoping his Bronx little league team can make it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At 12 years old, this is his ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=103 Shortly after moving to Florida, India Opal Buloni adopts a dog she names Winn-Dixie, after the supermarket where she finds him. Winn-Dixie becomes her first true friend. Soon after, she begins to make many unusual friends who help her deal with the loss of her mother. Very sweet ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=100 Georgia Nicholson’s journal is laugh-out-loud funny! Her story takes place over the course of one year and details her interesting views on life, her interest in one particular guy, and her most embarrassing moments. This is the first of multiple books about Georgia’s crazy life. This book made me ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=96 A group of genetically enhanced kids who can fly and have other unique talents are on the run from part-human, part-wolf predators called Erasers in this exciting thriller.  Max, 14, and her adopted family–Fang and Iggy, both 13, Nudge, 11, Gazzy, 8, and Angel, 6–were all created as experiments in ... http://hcmscougars.org/bookrecs/?p=93