Curse of the Buttons by Ylvisaker, Anne 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 973157 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 570 F&P: U

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: City and town life - Iowa - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction

Summary: A Civil War prequel to the Button novels, featuring the inimitable "Granddaddy Ike" as a boy. When news arrives that Iowa has been called up to represent the Union, Ike tries to come up with a way to join, like the other males in his family have.

Flinkwater factor by Hautman, Pete 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 425728 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 740

Genres: Science Fiction Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Science fiction Technology - Fiction Comas - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Business enterprises - Fiction Humorous fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.

If you're reading this by Reedy, Trent 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2014)

BTSB #: 742614 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 MG+RC: 4.3 6-8 Lexile: 700

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Letters - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction Soldiers - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Iowa - Fiction

Summary: For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.

Linden tree by Mathews, Eleanor 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00839 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres:

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Farm life - Iowa - Fiction

Summary: In 1948, nine-year-old Katy Sue's mother dies suddenly, and she and her family spend the next year trying to recover from their loss, assisted by her Aunt Katherine, who quits her teaching job to help out on their Iowa farm.

Luck of the Buttons by Ylvisaker, Anne 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2011)

BTSB #: 973175 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 730 F&P: T

Genres: Mystery Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Luck - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Mystery fiction

Summary: In Iowa, Tugs vows to change her family's luck with a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.

Trap by Arntson, Steven 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)

BTSB #: 070930 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 700

Genres: Supernatural Family Life

Subjects: Supernatural - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Twins - Fiction Family life - Iowa - Fiction Iowa - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to make himself immortal--at any expense.