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BENJAMIN PRATT AND THE KEEPERS OF THE SCHOOL Book 1: We the Children (978-1-4169-3886-6) Book 2: Fear Itself (978-1-4169-3887-3) Book 3: The Whites of Their Eyes (978-1-4169-3888-0) Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010-2012 Grades 3-6 Reviewed from personal copies.   Book 1: Benjamin Pratt’s school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he’s going to like an amusement park in the middle of his town—with all the buses and traffic and eight dollar slices of pizza. It’s going to change everything. And, Ben is not so big on all the new changes in his life, like how his dad has moved out and started living in the marina on what used to be the "family” sailboat. Maybe it would be nice if the school just stayed as it is. He likes the school. Loves it, actually. It’s over 200 years old and sits right on the harbor. The playground has ocean breezes and the classrooms have million dollar ...

I've found another fun challenge to join for 2012.  I have stacks of books sitting in my room waiting to be read.  Some of them have been waiting for years.  I am hoping to get some of these books read this year. I am going to go for the Grungy Level (20+ books).  Here are a few of the books I am considering for this challenge: Disasters: Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes Through the Centuries by Brenda Z. Guiberson The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville Keepers of the School: We the Children by Andrew Clements The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye by Nancy Springer Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I by Ann Bausum A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom by Jim Murphy Palace Beautiful by Sarah DeFord Williams Drita My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard Lowji Discovers America by Candace Fleming Syren (Septimus Heap) by Angie Sage The Boy Sherl...