The Year of the Book

Title:  The Year of the Book
Author:  Andrea Cheng
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Description:  A young Chinese American girl navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom and finds a true best friend.
Lexile: 590

Word Count: 20,719

Location:  Find the The Year of the Book eBook in the Overdrive Collection at the Arlington Public Library.

Flora & Ulysses

Title:  Flora & Ulysses
Author:  Kate DiCamillo
Genre: Adventure
Description:  Self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman is not easily surprised but finding a flying, poetry-writing, superhero squirrel and meeting "profoundly strange" William Spiver puts a whole new spin on her life.
Lexile: 520

Word Count: 32,790

Location:  Find the Flora & Ulysses eBook in the Overdrive Collection at the Arlington Public Library.

Odette's Secret

Title:  Odette's Secret
Author:  Maryann Macdonald
Genre: Historical Fiction
Description:  When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, Odette's mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside, where she must keep many secrets to survive. The story is told in free verse.
Lexile: 580

Word Count: 28,405

Location:  Find the Odette's Secret eBook in the Overdrive Collection at the Arlington Public Library.