Tasteful Tuesday's First Chapters
By Mrs. Winningham
Tasteful Tuesday's First ChaptersMay 18, 2021
The Running Dream By Wendelen Van Draanen
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
Genre: Sports , Realistic Fiction
In A Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
Genre: Adventure, Fairy Tales
The year of goodbyes! by Debbie Levy
Debbie Levy reveals the story of her mother's life in 1938, the family's last year in Germany before they escaped Nazi persecution, based on the poems, inscriptions, and drawings collected in twelve-year-old Jutta's autograph book, and describes Jutta's life in New York City.
Genre: Historical Fiction, Book in Verse
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Nobody can stop Nick Hall- he's a star on the soccer team, cruising in school and getting ready to ask out the girl of his dreams. But then a bombshell announcement shatters his world.
Genre: Sports
Red, White and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
Reha feels town between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indiana American student, and home, with her family and their community. But Reha's parents don't understand. She feels disconnected from her mother. Although their names are linked- they are a universe apart.
Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes
This coming of age book is written in verse and allows the reader a unique insight in to Joylin's personal journey through middle school.
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
This realist fiction book tells the story of a young Afghan refugee in Oklahoma and how his stories, of his homeland and family, help him try to adjust to life in a new country.
There's Someone Inside Your House By Stephanie Perkins
A heart pounding page-turner with an outstanding cast of characters, a deliciously creepy setting and an absolutely merciless body count. This horror suspense story is soon to be a Netflix movie.
Salt to the Sea By Ruta Sepetys
As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull. This historical fiction story by Ruta Sepetys weaves the lives of four refugees together all from a different country and with their own different secrets.
Overturned by Lamar Giles
Overturned by Lamar Giles is a mystery book. Lamar Giles is an Black Author whose mysteries inspire all readers. Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence. Now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation. Nikki's dad is determined to find the real killer and she is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Hush is a releaisic fiction story about twelve-year-old Toswiah. She finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program
Matched by Ally Condie
Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.
Look Both Ways: A tale told in ten blocks by Jason Reynolds
A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school.
The Traitor's Game By Jennifer Nielsen
This is a historical fiction story by writer Jennifer Nielsen . She has written many books including The False Prince series.
Charlie Hernandez & The League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo
This is the first book in this mystery series. It is set in Miami Florida.
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Blake
This is a realistic fiction book that takes place in Georgia.
Soar by Joan Bauer
Mrs. Winningham reads chapter 1 of this baseball book.
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Chapter 1 read by Mrs. Winningham.
Gamer Army by Trent Reedy
Gamer Army by Trent Reedy. Read by Mrs. Winningham
Dragonwatch by Bradon Mull - Chapter 1
Chapter 1 read by Elizabeth Winningham.