Alexandra

**__Chasing Vermeer__**
by Blue Balliett

This mysterious book has many puzzles for you to figure out. In the story, a friend is missing and a painting has been stolen! Two kids try and discover out who stole the painting. They sneak around town trying to find the painting. Will they figure out this dangerous mystery?

**__Our Only May Amelia__**
by Jennifer L. Holm

May Amelia is the only girl on Nasel River. While her mother is pregnant with a baby, May Amelia has to take care of the house and do the cooking. Then wicked Grandmother Patience comes to help May's mother. Grandmother Patience says that May should act like //A Proper Young Lady//. But May still goes on adventures with her 7 older brothers: Matti, Kaarlo, Isaiah, Wendell, Alvin and Ivan, and Wilbert. They meet a cougar that sounds like a crying baby, run into Olaaf Kuula, and May falls into the Nasel! There is also a murderer on the lose. May wishes for the baby to be a girl. Will May's wish come true?



__The Neddiad __
By Daniel Pinkwater

This book is about a boy named Neddie. Neddie and his family move to Los Angeles from Chicago. They take a train called the Super Chief. When the train stops, Neddie gets off - but the train is not in Los Angeles. It's in Flagstaff, Arizona. While in Arizona, Neddie mets a ghost and a movie-star's son. Luckily, the ghost and the boy and his father are going to Los Angeles. So they all drive to Los Angeles together. While Neddie was in Flagstaff, Neddie met a shaman named Melvin. Melvin gave Neddie a sacred turtle because the world is supposed to end. Will the world really end or will Neddie save it?