Fish in a Tree
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt | 
Olive's Ocean
by Kevin Henkes | 
Max Einstein
by James Patterson | 
Pig-Heart Boy
by Malorie Blackman | 
The Year the Swallows Came Early
by Kathryn Fitzmaurice | 
Mudville
by Kurtis Scaletta |
The Man in the Ceiling
by Jules Feiffer | 
Tallahassee Higgins
by Mary Downing Hahn | 
Chicken Boy
by Frances O'Roark Dowell | 
Libby on Wednesday
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 
There's a Bat in Bunk Five
by Paula Danziger |
People Might Hear You
by Robin Klein | 
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
by Robert Cormier | 
Flip-Flop Girl
by Katherine Paterson | 
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini
by Peter Johnson | 
It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World
by Paula Danziger |
Blue Heron
by Avi | 
The Listmaker
by Robin Klein | 
The Cybil War
by Betsy Byars | 
Word Nerd
by Susin Nielsen |
Delrita likes being invisible. If no one notices her, then no one willnotice her uncle Punky either. Punky is a grown man with a child's mind. Delrita loves him dearly and can't stand people making fun of his Down Syndrome. But when tragedy strikes, Delrita's quiet life? and Punky's? are disrupted forever. Can she finally learn to trust others, for her own sake and Punky's? This story captures the joy and sorrow that come when we open our hearts to love.