The Girl Who Drank the Moon

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Newbery Medal 2016

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this will make her happy enough to leave their town alone. But the witch in the forest is kind and can't figure out why these people do this every year. So, every year she rescues the babies and delivers them to loving familes on the other side of the forest. One year the father of the baby that is to be offered decides enough is enough and sets out to kill the witch. Will Luna, the girl that was accidentally fed the moon, be able to help save the baby and the witch that she also believes is her grandmother?

Fantasy isn't usually my favorite genre, but this was a book that I could not put down!

Hour of the Bees

Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar

Her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and fun. Carolina is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met. 

This is a must read. I loved every page of this book!

The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing 
by Sheila Turnage

Miss Mo LoBeau is half of the famous Desperado Detective Agency. She and her fellow Desperado, Dale, went famous for about a week over the summer when they solved a murder in their hometown of Tupelo Landing - population 148. So when her beloved Miss Lana makes and accidental bid at the Tupelo auction and winds up the mortified owner of an old inn with an unidentified ghost in the fine print, Mo's itching to take the case.

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small town until the day a new student, Betty, walks into her class. Betty quickly proves herself as a bully. Things quickly escalate when Betty targets Toby, a reclusive WWI veteran. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle knows only his kindness. Soon, she will need to find the courage to stand as a lone voice of justice.

Summerlost

Summerlost by Ally Condie

It's been a year since the accident that took Cedar's father and younger brother, Ben. Cedar, her mother and Miles are spending the summer in her mother's hometown of Iron Creek and trying to mend their broken pieces. One day a boy named Leo, dressed in costume, rides by on his bike and everything about Cedar's summer changes.

The War That Saved My Life

The War That Saved My Life 
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

This Newbery Honor Book is a must read! One of the best I've read this school year.

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother, Jamie, is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute.....she sneaks out to join him.

Space Case

Space Case
A Moon Base Alpha Novel by;  Stuart Gibbs

Life on the moon is a snooze. We are one of the first families to live on the moon. It's not all it's cracked up to be. You're stuck inside a small base with only a few other kids, and your not allowed to for low gravity romps on the surface of the moon. What's the point?

When top lunar scientist turns up dead, 12-year-old Dashiell gets a jolt. Dash suspects foul play, but no one believes him. Is there a moon maniac on the Loose? And what is he or she trying to hide?