Pierce County Library System
Information & Imagination

Adventures of Beanboy, The
(Harkrader, Lisa.)
Juvenile fiction (234 pages) Recommended for Grades 4-7. Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family [Kit added 12/2015]

Alabama Moon
(Watt Key)
Junior Fiction (294 pages) Recommended for Grades 5-9. After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. [Kit added 10/2011]

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
(Lenore Look)
Junior Fiction (172 pages) Recommended for Grades 1-4. A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything. [Kit added 10/2011]

Andy Shane and the Queen of Egypt
(Jennifer Richard Jacobson)
Junior Fiction (58 pages) Recommended for Grades K-3. Andy Shane would like to pick Egypt for his first-ever Culture Fair project. But Dolores Starbuckle says she is the Queen of Egypt, and she won't give Andy Shane a moment's peace until he agrees to do the project together. But Andy is not so sure he wants to work with the bossy Dolores. Will the two friends find a way to cooperate? [Kit added 11/2012]