Battle of the Books 2019: 7th & 8th Grade Booklist

7th & 8th Grade Battle
February 26th, 2019
CLP – East Liberty | CLP – Main | CLP – Squirrel Hill
Learn more and register at www.carnegielibrary.org/battleofthebooks

If you’re interested in audio or digital copies of the books check out Hoopla and Overdrive (library card required) or ask library staff for help!

All Summer Long

Bina feels abandoned for the summer – her best friend Austin is at soccer camp and he’s not calling to check in. When she breaks out of her boredom through music and new friendship, Austin returns and starts acting strangely.


The Prince and the Dressmaker

Prince Sebastian has a secret. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia. Sebastian’s secret weapon, and best friend, is the brilliant dressmaker Frances, but how long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby.


Echo

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, three children– Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California– find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and as an eAudio on Libby, and as an eBook and as an eAudio on Hoopla. 




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David “accidentally” spends $2000 on his mom’s credit card. Luckily, he’s really good at eating a large amount of food in a short amount of time, and the world’s greatest pizza-eating contest is coming up. If he can win it while also looking after his autistic little brother Mal, things will be okay.


Spirit Hunters

Harper doesn’t trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family’s new house is haunted. Harper isn’t sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, in eAudio on Libby, as an eBook on Hoopla, and in eAudio on Hoopla. 


Lily and Dunkin

Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl–but being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the town he’s called home for the past thirteen years. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets Dunkin Dorfman, and their lives forever change. You can also check out this title as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby or as eBook on OverDrive/Libby.


The Glass Town Game

The Brontë family – Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell – are very imaginative. So imaginative that their invented fantasy game becomes real and they are taken to it in a magical train ride. However, now that the game is real, so are the dangers.