Fleabrain loves Franny by Rocklin, Joanne 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 761271 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Poliomyelitis - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Family life - Pennsylvania - Fiction Fleas - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: This middle-grade novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952-53. The protagonist is Franny, a young girl of imagination, curiosity, and stubbornness. While recovering from polio, she begins a correspondence with a flea named Fleabrain.

Way home looks now by Shang, Wendy Wan Long 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2015)

BTSB #: 805272 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 650

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Little League baseball - Fiction Baseball - Fiction Grief - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.