Curl up and share a story! Retired GDS librarian Cecily Pilzer has chosen these books certain to entertain your 8- to 12-year-old: The Phantom Isles by Stephen Alter and John Rocco, Safe at Home by Sharon Robinson, The 39 Clues Book 2: One False Note by Gordon Korman, Qwerty Stevens Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin by Dan Gutman, and Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlit.