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agabThis week's theme is DANCERS. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Kylie Jean, Dancing Queen
by Marci Peschke
Kylie really wants the lead role in an upcoming professional production of Swan Lake, but she soon learns it might not be that easy. |
 | Fiona Finkelstein, Big-Time Ballerina!!
by Shawn K. Stout
Fiona is nervous about ballet ever since she got sick during her recital and threw up on another dancer. She really wants to dance again, but first she will have to overcome her stage fright once and for all. |
 | Ivy and Bean, Doomed to Dance
by Annie Barrows
Ivy and Bean really want to take ballet lessons, but once they're signed up, they don't like it as much as they expected. |
 | Codename: Dancer
by Amanda Brice
When Dani Spevak enrolls at a competitive boarding school for the performing arts, the last thing she expects is to be the victim of death threats! |
 | Cinderella Smith
by Stephanie Barden
Cinderella, who is nicknamed for her habit of losing shoes, struggles to win the lead role in a ballet production as a former friend tries to sabotage her chances. |
 | Dancing Carl
by Gary Paulsen
Best friends Marsh and Willy see their neighbor, a man named Carl, doing a dance on the ice, and over time, they learn the secret behind his secret dancing. |
For now, this is my final Themed Thursday post. All of the Themed Thursday lists will stay up on the blog, but I'll take a break from posting new ones until I become inspired again. In the meantime, beginning next week, be on the lookout for two new features: Short Story Spotlight, debuting on Monday, and Easy Reader Radar, debuting on Thursday.
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This week's books involve characters with ARTISTIC INTERESTS.
 | The Plain Janes
by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
A secret gang of teen artists stages "art attacks" to add excitement to their boring lives as high school students in this graphic novel. |
 | Artsy-Fartsy
by Karla Oceanak
In his notebook, Aldo Zelnick collects interesting vocabulary words and draws his own cartoons. (Dumbstruck, which I have reviewed, is part of this same series.) |
 | Saffy's Angel
by Hilary McKay
Saffy, the daughter of two wacky artists, uncovers a plethora of family secrets, including the fact that she is adopted. |
 | Trouble-Maker
by Andrew Clements
Clay, a talented artist, has to learn to stay out of trouble after the older brother he admires returns from jail with a changed outlook. |
 | Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel
by Ruth McNally Barshaw
Ellie records the unhappy, but humorous memories of her summer camping trip with her annoying cousins. |
 | Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
The stories in this collection are based on photographs. Pairs of authors were assigned the same photo to see how their stories would be similar or different. Includes stories by beloved YA authors Sarah Dessen and John Green. |
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As summer vacation begins, consider reading some of these titles all about THE BEACH. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Junonia
by Kevin Henkes
During her family's yearly winter vacation, everything has changed for Alice except her lifelong desire to find a rare junonia shell. |
 | Lexie
by Audrey Couloumbis
Lexie is horrified when her father brings his new girlfriend and her two sons on their summer beach vacation. |
 | Daisy Dawson at the Beach
by Steve Voake
Daisy, who can talk to animals, makes friends with two rabbits and a crab and saves a dolphin on her trip to the beach. |
 | A Million Miles from Boston
by Karen Day
Lucy must share her favorite vacation spot with her dad's new girlfriend and a mean boy she knows from school. |
 | The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
by Jeanne Birdsall
The three youngest Penderwicks spend their summer in Maine with Aunt Claire, where Jane finds love, Batty discovers musical talent, and Skye finds out just how difficult it is to be in charge. |
 | Summerhouse Time
by Eileen Spinelli
This novel in verse focuses on Sophie, who struggles to find her place at the family summerhouse, where her older cousin is too cool to hang out with her, and the adults seem unhappy. |
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This week's books are about BOATS AND SAILING. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Caribbean Cruising
by Rachel Hawthorne
Lindsay goes on a caribbean cruise with just one thing in mind - having a fling with a new guy. |
 | Mallory on Board
by Laurie Friedman
Mallory boards a ship to celebrate the marriage of her two best friends' parents, but is soon overcome with jealousy |
 | Jeremy Bender vs. The Cupcake Cadets
by Eric Luper
Jeremy and his best friend pose as Cupcake Cadets in order to enter a sailboat competition with a cash prize. |
 | Man Trip
by Graham Salisbury
Ledward, Calvin's mother's boyfriend, takes Calvin on a "man trip," during which Calvin learns to fish and develops respect for nature. |
 | Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
The four Walker children - John, Susan, Titty, and Roger -spend a summer sailing a boat around the Lake District and camping out on an island. |
 | Unbreak My Heart
by Melissa Walker
Dumped by her best friend, Clementine spends her family's summer voyage going over her mistakes and trying to forgive herself, while also flirting with James, whose family is traveling the same route. |
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This week's books are about FASHION. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Zibby Payne & the Wonderful, Terrible Tomboy Experiment
by Alison Bell
Zibby, who has always been a tomboy is taken by surprise when all the other girls in her sixth-grade class start getting into clothes, makeup, and hairstyles |
 | Blowout
by Taylor Morris
When Mickey gets a job at her mother's high-end hair salon, she suddenly finds herself stealing for popular girls and losing touch with her best guy friend, Jonah. |
 | Prep Cool
by Maya Gold
In this second Cinderella Cleaners book, Diana risks getting into trouble with her dad to dress up as a rich kid and sneak into a prep school where her best friend accidentally lost her phone. |
 | Fashion Kitty
by Charise Mericle Harper
Most of the time, Kiki Kittie is just your average cat, but when a fashion crisis arises, she becomes Fashion Kitty and swoops in to save the day! |
 | King of the Screwups
by K.L. Going
After Liam is kicked out of his house, he moves in with his cross-dressing uncle, known as "Aunt" Pete, and slowly realizes his own talent and eye for fashion. |
 | Ditched
by Robin Mellom
After she is inexplicably abandoned on Prom night, Justina uses the stains on her ruined dress to help her sort out what happened and how to fix it. |
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This week's books are about the complicated relationships between SISTERS. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | The Secret Life of Prince Charming
by Deb Caletti
Quinn, her little sister, Sprout, and their half-sister, whom they've never met, set out to right the wrongs committed by their father by returning items he's taken from his former girlfriends. |
 | Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks
by Lauren Myracle
Things become complicated between Carly and her sister Anna when Anna's body changes and she suddenly becomes "hot." |
 | Ten Rules for Living with My Sister
by Ann M. Martin
Pearl and her older sister Lexie could not be more different. These differences are highlighted when their grandfather moves in and the girls are forced to share a room. |
 | The Day I Had to Play With My Sister
by Crosby Bonsall
A big brother and little sister play hide and seek together, but they don't play the game exactly the same way. |
 | The Teacher's Funeral
by Richard Peck
When fifteen-year-old Russell's teacher dies, he doesn't count on his older sister taking her place. |
 | The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
by Jeanne Birdsall
The four sisters introduced in The Penderwicks conspire to keep their father from dating the wrong person, while dealing with their own personal dramas at their home on Gardam Street. |
 | The Sisters Club
by Megan McDonald
Alex, Stevie, and Joey, the dramatic daughters of a theater owner, use their Sisters Club as the forum for sisterly conflict, friendship, enmity, and hilarity. |
These books are about characters, who, in one way or another are SPEECHLESS. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Stuck in Neutral
by Terry Trueman
Trapped inside his body by cerebral palsy, Shawn can't communicate even though he can understand everything that happens around him, including the fact that his father might be trying to kill him. |
 | Silent to the Bone
by E.L. Konigsburg
After his baby half sister gets hurt and falls into a coma, Branwell stops speaking. Can his best friend Connor get him to break his silence and tell what he knows? |
 | Secrets of the Cicada Summer
by Andrea Beaty
Lily hasn't spoken since her brother Pete was killed two years ago, but a duplicitous newcomer might just break her silence. |
 | Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Something bad happened to Melinda at the end of summer where she called the cops and got all her friends in trouble, but she keeps it a secret to avoid being further ostracized. |
 | Just Listen
by Sarah Dessen
Annabel and Sophie stopped being friends, but Annabel hasn't been able to talk about why until she meets Owen, a boy who is willing to listen. |
 | The Loud Silence of Francine Green
by Karen Cushman
Good girl Francine never speaks out against anything, but when she becomes friends with opinionated Sophie Bowman she sees the impact words can have. |
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This week's theme is NON-TRADITIONAL FAMILIES. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Between Mom and Jo
by Julie Anne Peters
Nick is strongly affected when his birth mother and her wife, Jo, begin to experience marital strife. |
 | My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer
by Jennifer Gennari
June struggles against the cruelty of her neighbors, who don't want her mother to marry a woman. |
 | My So-Called Family
by Courtney Sheinmel
Leah will never know her father, because her mother conceived her with help from a sperm bank, but when she discovers the same donor has also fathered other children, she is desperate to learn more about them. |
 | The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron
When Lucky's mother dies, her father arranges for his second ex-wife, Brigitte, to take care of Lucky in her hometown of Hard Pan. |
 | Ballet Shoes
by Noel Streatfeild
Pauline, Petrova, and Posy are adopted by the eccentric Gum (Great Uncle Matthew) and decide on the surname of Fossil before joining a dance academy and rising to stardom and success. |
 | Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen
When her mother leaves, Ruby is sent to live with her older sister Cora and her husband, whose standard of living is much higher than what Ruby is accustomed to. |
 | Journey to an 800 Number
by E.L. Konigsburg
After his mother gets remarried, Bo joins his father in selling rides on his camel Ahmed at fairs and conventions. |
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This week's theme is TIME TRAVEL. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | A Year Without Autumn
by Liz Kessler
A mysterious elevator gives Jenni a glimpse of the future in which her best friend Autumn's life has been marred by tragedy. |
 | The Time Trilogy
by Madeleine L'Engle
Follow Meg Murray and her brother, Charles Wallace, through this series of science fiction adventures involving such things as tessering through time, kything, and battling Echthroi. |
 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J.K. Rowling
Hermione's use of a time turner figures heavily into an important rescue in this third Harry Potter book which first got me interested in time travel. |
 | When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Miranda receives mysterious notes which seem to come from the future, and which warn of a tragedy she must try to prevent, if she can. |
 | Time Warp Trio series
by Jon Scieszka
Joe, Sam, and Fred find a mysterious book that helps them travel through time and space, to both the past and the future. |
 | Magic Tree House series
by Mary Pope Osborne
Aided by a magical tree house, Jack and Annie explore various times and places from world history. |
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These books are all about topics important to GIRLS GROWING UP. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | Only Girls Allowed
by Debra Moffitt
Three girls are tapped by the mysterious Pink Locker Society to help other girls understand the PBBs (periods, bras, and boys.) |
 | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
Margaret questions God and waits for her period in this famous book about puberty. Newer editions have been updated to reflect the changes in feminine hygiene products since the book's first publication. |
 | Lovingly, Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
This entire series deals with important adolescent issues for girls, but this book in particular focuses on all the curious discussions fifth grade girls have about their bodies. |
 | Love and Other Four-Letter Words
by Carolyn Mackler
Sammie deals with her parents' divorce, and changes in her friendships as her feelings and body begin to mature. |
 | Twelve
by Lauren Myracle
Winnie starts middle school wondering if she will be able to keep her friends, manage stress, and survive shopping for her first bra. |
 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashare
Four best girlfriends, separated for the summer, share one pair of jeans, which somehow manages to fit each of them perfectly. |
 | Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
by Louise Rennison
British teen Georgia Nicolson writes a diary about the angst and indignities of teenage life. |
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These fair and balanced young adult books focus on teens who practice a RELIGION. Click the image to learn more about each book. Linked titles will bring you to my reviews.
 | The God Box
by Alex Sanchez
Paul, a Christian teen, struggles with some new questions when he meets Manuel, the first openly gay person to live in his small town. |
 | OyMG
by Amy Fellner Dominy
Ellie attends a Christian debate camp, hoping to win a scholarship, but is faced with the unexpected question of whether to deny her Jewish roots in order to cement her victory. |
 | Once Was Lost
by Sara Zarr
Family problems and a local kidnapping cause Samara, the pastor's daughter, to question her faith in God and his miracles. |
 | Back When You Were Easier to Love
by Emily Wing Smith
Joy, a Mormon teen living in Utah, where her religion permeates the culture, finds comfort in mocking her classmates with boyfriend Zan, until he leaves early for college without saying goodbye. |
 | Clay
by David Almond
A Catholic altar boy is urged by his priest to befriend a strange newcomer who claims to have the power to create life from ordinary clay |
 | Ringside, 1925
by Jen Bryant
This novel in verse tells the events of the Scopes Monkey Trial from the points of view of several people directly affected by it. |
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Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so today's theme is CRUSHES.
 | Lola and the Boy Next Door
by Stephanie Perkins
Lola has conflicted feelings when Cricket, her first love, moves back into the house next door. |
 | Mallory's Guide to Boys, Brothers, Dads, and Dogs
by Laurie Friedman
Mallory's schoolwork begins to suffer when she develops a crush on her brother's friend and starts trying to impress him. |
 | The Boy Next Door
by Laura Dower
Taryn and Jeff have always been neighbors and good friends, but when sixth grade begins, everything changes. |
 | The Boyfriend List
by E. Lockhart
Ruby Oliver tries to work through her feelings about being dumped and becoming a social outcast by visiting her therapist regularly. |
 | If We Kiss
by Rachel Vail
Charlie falls for a forbidden boy, wondering all the time what it would be like to kiss him. |
 | Sweet Treats and Secret Crushes
by Lisa Greenwald
On a snow day, three best friends deliver fortune cookies to their neighbors and grappled with the changes wrought by their new-found interest in boys. |
 | The Best Girl
by Emma Harrison
Farrah is taken by surprise when she discovers her long-time crush works at the same hotel where her brother will be married - and that he thinks she works there too! |
This week's theme is GEEKS & NERDS. Click an image to learn more about the book. Linked titles will take you to my reviews.
 | Geektastic edited by Holly Black & Cecil Castelucci
A quirky and eclectic short story collection about species of geeks and nerds ranging from Trekkies to Dungeons & Dragons players. |  | Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Mathlete Jessie seeks out a new clique after her closest friends go punk. |  | My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies by Allen Zadoff
Adam, who is mourning the loss of his dad, must deal with the scorn of his fellow crew members when he falls for an actress. |  | An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Colin Singleton, who has been dumped by nineteen girls named Katherine, tries to make sense of his Dumpee status using math. |  | Nerd Girls by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Main character Maureen must deal with family issues, a weight problem, and the cliquey behavior of her classmates. |  | Revenge of the Snob Squad by Julie Anne Peters
Jenny Solano, who is desperate to fit in both at home and at school, becomes the leader of the school misfits when they wage war on a popular clique. |  | Mission (Un)Popular by Anna Humphrey
Canadian-Indian seventh grader Margot Button is drawn to the mysterious Em, a new girl in school, but soon finds out t
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I'm sorry to hear you'll be stopping Themed Thursdays for a while! I really enjoy them. Thanks for writing them all up in the past, they will be helpful to me later, I'm sure. :)