Freaky Fast Frankie Joe by Clifton, Lutricia 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2012)

BTSB #: 222762 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.8 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 600

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Stepfamilies - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Fiction Delivery of goods - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction Illinois - Fiction

Summary: Frankie Joe, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas.

Long way from Chicago : a novel in stories [Puffin Modern Classics]by Peck, Richard 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2004)

BTSB #: 707422 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 750 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Illinois - Fiction

Summary: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Roster rebound [Jake Maddox Sports Stories]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2024)

BTSB #: 596111 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.8 MG F&P: P

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Basketball - Fiction Teamwork (Sports) - Fiction Moving - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Illinois - Fiction

Summary: Since Nina's middle school in her new home in tiny Janesville, Illinois, does not have a girls basketball team, she tries out for the boys team and makes the roster--but the hostility of one of the players threatens to disrupt the whole team.

Sink or swim by Balaban, Bob 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2013)

BTSB #: 085490 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 710

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Self-acceptance - Fiction Theft - Fiction Popularity - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Cousins - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Fiction Humorous fiction Illinois - Fiction

Summary: Shortly after spontaneously morphing into a giant mutant dinosaur, 12-year-old Charlie Drinkwater discovers he's not the only creature in town.

Year down yonder by Peck, Richard 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000)

BTSB #: 707535 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-16   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.9 6-8 Lexile: 670 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Country life - Fiction Illinois - Fiction

Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. Sequel to: A long way from Chicago.