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Most recent book suggestions:

Katherine Applegate. "Roscoe Riley Rules" (Series)

Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs. (HarperCollins, 2008)

Never Swipe a Bully's Bear. (HarperCollins, 2008)

Never Swap Your Sweater for a Dog. (HarperCollins, 2008)

Never Swim in Applesauce. (HarperCollins, 2008)

Don't Tap-Dance on Your Teacher. (HarperCollins, 2009)

Never Walk in Shoes That Talk. (HarperCollins, 2009)

Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin. (HarperCollins, 2009)

Elementary School

Rick Riordan. The Red Pyramid. [The Kane Chronicles] (Disney Hyperion, 2010)
Hold onto your butts. The ancient gods and goddesses are REAL! No, not the Greek gods and goddesses, that was Rick Riordan's other series. And two kids are descended from the gods. No, they aren't the direct children of gods, that's Rick Riordan's other series. There's a war brewing, and the descendants of the gods must play their part. Yeah, I know, that was in the other series too, but if the kids loved Percy Jackson (and what kid didn't?) they will line up for The Red Pyramid, Book One of the Kane Chronicles.
Middle & High School

Gordon Korman. Pop. (Balzer + Bray, 2009)
It is the part of the game that makes your head spin, your eyes blur, your mom gasp, and your adrenaline seep out every pore on your body. You don't play football the way Marcus did in his old school, you've got to love the pop. When you don't love the jarring, rib-rattling hit, it is time to hang up the spikes. Marcus learns that in the most bizarre way in a high school football book that has all the characters and story lines you want, but the book is about football, and football is all about the pop.
High School

Fred Bowen. No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the Last .400 Season. (Dutton, 2010)
Bowen tells, in spare text and with illustrations reminiscent of Norman Rockwell, the simple story of Ted Williams, who wouldn't go into the record books with a tainted record and anything less than a full season of hitting .400, a feat that has not been matched in seven decades. This is a baseball biography for even the very young; read this to a future Hall of Famer in your life.

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