Ingomar Middle School

Library Media Center

Duquesne English Festival
May 13, 2010

   True Grit
          by Charles Portis

    With the help of a disreputable marshal and a Texas Ranger, Mattie Ross, 14, rushes after the man who
   robbed and killed her father in the 1870s.
 

   Going Going
          by Naomi Shiab Nye

   In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which
   supports small businesses and protests the effects of chain stores.

   Roots and Wings

          by Many Ly

   While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to give her grandmother a Cambodian funeral, fourteen-year-old Grace,
   who was raised in Pennsylvania, finally gets some answers about the father she never met, her mother's
   and grandmother's youth, and her Asian-American heritage.

   Money Hungry
          by Sharon Flake

   All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to
   worry about living on the streets again.

  The City of Ember
          by Jeanne Du Prau

   In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places
   in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

   The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
           by John Boyne

   Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi
   officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.