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SEA OF SORROWS
MCCLINTOCK, NORAH
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family.
But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffin ships," so named for the staggering number of immigrants who
died enroute. One by one Johanna loses the members of her family — first her baby brother on the journey over,
then her mother in the Grosse Isle fever sheds where sick passengers are quarantined when they reach the port
of Québec, and her father soon after. Johanna has only her brother Michael left when she sets foot on Canadian
soil. When her brother is mistakenly told that she too has died, he sets off to find their uncle "somewhere in
Canada," leaving Johanna to face a new life in a strange land... totally alone.
MIDDLE FICTION
ARTHUR A. LEVINE 304 PAGES
9781443107105 SERIES: DEAR CANADA
$16.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
THE SECOND LIFE OF ABIGAIL WALKER
DOWELL, FRANCES O'ROARK
Seventeen pounds. That’s the difference between Abigail Walker and Kristen Gorzca. Between chubby and slim,
between teased and taunting. Abby is fine with her body and sick of seventeen pounds making her miserable, so
she speaks out against Kristen and her groupies—and becomes officially unpopular. Embracing her new status,
Abby heads to an abandoned lot across the street and crosses an unfamiliar stream that leads her to a boy
who’s as different as they come. Anders is homeschooled, and while he’s worried that Abby’s former friends are
out to get her, he’s even more worried about his dad, a war veteran home from Afghanistan who is disillusioned
with life. But if his dad can finish his poem about the expedition of Lewis and Clark, if he can effectively imagine
what it is to experience innocence, maybe he will be okay. As Abby dives into her role as research assistant, she
discovers that by helping someone else find hope in the world, there is plenty there for herself, as well.
MIDDLE FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
ATHENEUM 240 PAGES
9781442405936
$19.99 HC
AUGUST 2012
THE SECRET OF THE FORTUNE WOOKIEE
ANGLEBERGER, TOM
With Dwight attending Tippett Academy this semester, the kids of McQuarrie Middle School are on their own—no
Origami Yoda to give advice and help them navigate the treacherous waters of middle school. Then Sara gets a
gift she says is from Dwight—a paper fortune-teller in the form of Chewbacca. It’s a Fortune Wookiee, and it
seems to give advice that’s just as good as Yoda’s—even if, in the hands of the girls, it seems too preoccupied
with romance. In the meantime, Dwight is fitting in a little too well at Tippett. Has the unimaginable happened?
Has Dwight become normal? It’s up to his old friends at McQuarrie to remind their kooky friend that it’s in his
weirdness that his greatness lies.
MIDDLE FICTION
AMULET BOOKS 208 PAGES
9781419703928 SERIES: ORIGAMI YODA
$13.95 HC
AUGUST 2012
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