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Science Fiction/Fantasy
Asimov, Janet and Isaac - The Norby Series
These humorous books follow the adventures of Jeff Wells and his little robot Norby.Banks, Lynne - The Secret of the Indian
Omri's magic cupboard brings toy figures to life and friend Patrick travels back in time to the Old West.Billingsley, Franny - Well Wished
In time of dire need, eleven-year-old Nuria tries to outwit the magical wishing well in her mysterious mountain village.Bradshaw, Gillian - Beyond the North Wind
The Greek god Apollo sends a talented young magician on a quest to stop an evil queen from exterminating a small tribe of griffins.Greer, Gery - Max and Me and the Time Machine
Steve buys a time machine at a garage sale and takes his friend Max to the year 1250, where they land in the middle of a jousting match with the fierce Sir Bevis as an enemy.Greer, Gery - Max and Me and the Wild West
Steve and his friend Max use their time machine to return to the richest, roughest boom town in the old Wild West where they pursue Gentleman John Hooten, the Rhyming Robber of the Rockies.Griffin, Peni - Switching Well
Two unhappy girls from different centuries switch places only to discover that every era has its problems. A time travel story with strong appeal for middle-grade girls.Ibbotson, Eva - The Secret of Platform 13
Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen's son who had been stolen as an infant.Levine, Gail Carson - Ella Enchanted
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.Lisle, Janet T. - Afternoon of the Elves
Hilary discovers that the strange girl named Sara-Kate has a garden inhabited by elves.Lisle, Janet T. - Forest
Twelve-year-old Amber's invasion of an organized forest community of squirrels starts a war between humans and beasts, despite the protests of an unconventional and imaginative squirrel named Woodbine.McGraw, Eloise - Moorchild
Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she has been given.Norton, Mary - The Borrowers
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.Rowling, J.K. - The Harry Potter Series
Follow the adventures of Harry Potter and his good friends Ron and Hermione as they attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Scieszka, Jon - Summer Reading is Killing Me!
At the beginning of summer vacation, Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well known children's books.Yolen, Jane - The Merlin Series (Hobby, Passager, Merlin, etc.)
These books follow the adventures of Merlin (later of King Arthur fame) who, as a foundling, rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.
Adventure/Historical/Non-Fiction
Avi - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew is rebellious.Cone, Molly - Come Back Salmon!
This is a story about how a group of dedicated kids adopted Pigeon Creek and brought it back to life.Curtis, Christopher P. - Bud, Not Buddy
Ten year old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during The Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father, the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.Cushman, Karen - The Midwife's Apprentice
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.Cushman, Karen - Catherine, Called Birdy
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.DeFelice, Cynthia - The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.DeFelice, Cynthia - Weasel
A stranger appears at the cabin door of Nathan and his sister Molly with a locket that could have come only from their missing father.Giff, Patricia Reilly - Lily's Crossing
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.Karr, Kathleen - The Great Turkey Walk
In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit.Lasky, Katherine - True North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad
Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.Macauley, David - Pyramid
The engineering and architectural feats of the Egyptians are explored with detailed drawings.Merrill, Jean - The Pushcart War
Outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the world.Murphy, Jim - Across America on an Emigrant Train
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.O'Dell, Scott - Sarah Bishop
Left alone by the deaths of her father and brother on opposite sides in the War for Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.Paterson, Katherine - Lyddie
An impoverished Vermont farm girl, Lyddie Worthen, is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840's.Taylor, Mildred D. - Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, and learn from their parents pride and self-respect needed to survive.Wilcox, Charlotte - Mummies and Their Mysteries
This book discusses mummies found around the world, including Peru, Denmark, and the Italian Alps, and explains how studying them provides clues to past ways of life.
Multi-Cultural Fiction
Buss, Fran Leeper - Journey of the Sparrows
Salvadoran refugees Maria and her brother are smuggled into the United States in crates and try to eke out a living in Chicago with the help of a sympathetic family.Dorris, Michael - Morning Girl
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in Pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.Hesse, Karen - Letters From Rifka
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for awhile when the others emigrate to America.Hesse, Karen - The Music of Dolphins
Using sophisticated computer technology, a fifteen-year-old girl, who has been raised by dolphins, records her thoughts about her reintroduction to the human world.O'Dell, Scott - Sing Down the Moon
A young Navaho girl recounts events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.O'Dell, Scott - Zia
Young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins.Uchida, Yoshiko - The Best Bad Thing
Dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko finds pleasant surprises, but bad things start to happen. Sequel to A Jar of Dreams.Uchida, Yoshiko - The Happiest Ending
When Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems.Uchida, Yoshiko - A Jar of Dreams
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese-American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.Yep, Laurence - Child of the Owl
Twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Mystery/Suspense/Supernatural
Avi - Something Upstairs
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.Bauer, Marion - Ghost Eye
Purrloom Popcorn, an exotically beautiful cat with one blue eye and one gold eye, receives his first real love from a lonely girl and an array of ghost cats.Byars, Betsy - Dead Letter
Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a secondhand coat.Byars, Betsy - McMummy
Looking after an eccentric scientist's greenhouse doesn't seem any stranger than the odd jobs taken by Mozie and his partner Battie--until Mozie discovers a large, mummy-shaped pod on one of the plants.Cooper, Susan - The Boggart
An o ld desk unleashes the Boggart, a mischievous spirit who has lived in a Scottish castle for centuries.De Felice, Cynthia - The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help.Hahn, Mary - The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story
Ten-year-old Ashley and her mother try to start a new life in a house owned by a grouchy octogenarian.Hahn, Mary - Wait Til Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel a.k.a. Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing Bodies
Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as manager of the Bessledorf Hotel. This book appears under either title.Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - Night Cry
Left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her traveling-salesman father, Ellen learns, through a terrifying experience, to distinguish between real and false fears.
Animals
Bauer, Marion Dana - A Question of Trust
A gripping story about a boy who adopts a mother cat and mistakenly harms her.Brandenburg, Jim - To the Top of the World: Adventures With Arctic Wolves
A wildlife photographer records visits to Ellesmer Island, Northwest Territories, where he filmed a pack of Arctic wolves over several months.DiCamillo, Kate - Because of Winn-Dixie
Ten-year old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.Farley, Walter - The Black Stallion
Sailing home from India, Drake, Alec and a wild horse are the only survivors after a storm at sea deposits them on an island.George, Jean Craighead - The Julie of the Wolves Series
These books follow the adventures of Miyax, also known as Julie, who, when lost in the Alaskan wilderness without food or even a compass, is taken in by a pack of Arctic wolves.King-Smith, Dick - The Cuckoo Child
Jack oversees the hatching of an ostrich egg and tends the offspring.Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - The Grand Escape
Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful, but dangerous world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries.Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - Shiloh
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.Pringle, Laurence - An Extraordinary Life: The Story of the Monarch Butterfly
This book introduces the life cycle, feeding habits, migration, predators, and mating of the monarch butterfly through the observation of one particular monarch named Danaus.
Sports
Avi - S.O.R. Losers
Each member of the South Orange River seventh-grade soccer team has qualities of excellence, but not on the soccer field.Christopher, Matt - Return of the Home Run Kid
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from an ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.Christopher, Matt - Undercover Tailback
Parker Nolan, a notorious liar, must convince his teammates that he saw a mysterious stranger stealing football plays from the coach's playbook.Gutman, Dan - The Million Dollar Shot
Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals.Korman, Gordon - The Toilet Paper Tigers
When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh-grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.Korman, Gordon - The Zucchini Warriors
Roommates Bruno and Boots find obstacles in their way as they attempt to lead the Macdonald Hall Zucchini Warriors to a victorious football season and earn the rewards of a new recreation center.Macy, Sue - A Whole New Ball Game
This book describes the activities of the members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the women's professional baseball league that existed between 1943 and 1954.Manes, Stephen - An Almost Perfect Game
As he and his grandmother keep score at the last game of the season for the local minor league team, Jake and his older brother begin to wonder if Jake=s scorecard can control the outcome of the game.Slote, Alfred - Hang Tough, Paul Mather
A baseball pitcher with an incurable blood disease is determined to get in as much time on the mound as possible.Slote, Alfred - The Trading Game
During a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself.Soto, Gary - Taking Sides
An aspiring basketball player must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.Spinelli, Jerry - There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
Thirteen year old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
Family, Friends, Feelings, Realistic Fiction
Bunting, Eve - Our Sixth Grade Sugar Babies
Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth-grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh-grade boy they both love.Byars, Betsy Cromer - The 18th Emergency
When the toughest boy in school swears to kill him, twelve-year-old Mouse finds little help from friends and must prepare for this emergency alone.Byars, Betsy Cromer - The Summer of the Swans
Fourteen-year-old Sara, moody, unpredictable, and on the brink of womanhood, sees her life change when her younger, mentally retarded brother disappears.Byars, Betsy Cromer - The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown
A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts.Conford, Ellen - The Revenge of the Incredible Dr. Rancid and His Youthful Assistant, Jeffrey
Short, skinny Jeffrey, always being picked on by the class bully, finds solace in writing a fantasy story in which he, with the help of the Incredible Dr. Rancid, emerges as hero.Conly, Jane Leslie - Crazy Lady!
Trying to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his relationship with neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.Creech, Sharon - Walk Two Moons
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.Creech, Sharon - The Wanderer
Thirteen year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.Danziger, Paula - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.Danziger, Paula - Divorce Express
Resentful of her parents' divorce, a young girl tries to accommodate herself to their new lives and find a place for herself.Danziger, Paula - Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars
Matthew just has to make money for that expensive computer program.Fenner, Carol - Yolanda's Genius
After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth-grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius.Konigsburg, E.L. - The View From Saturday
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.McEwan, Ian - The Daydreamer
An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming.Paterson, Katherine - Flip-Flop Girl
Uprooted following the death of their father, Vinnie and her brother Mason cope in different ways --one in silence-- but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.Slepian, Jan - Back to Before
Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home.Smith, Doris Buchanan - Return to Bitter Creek
An illegitimate child in the South learns the meaning of love and family-life.Smith, Robert Kimmel - The War With Grandpa
Upset that he has to give up the room he loves to his grandfather, Pete decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.Spinelli, Jerry - Crash
A relationship with a Quaker boy and his beloved grandfather's stroke teach John "Crash" Coogan, a smug jock, that he doesn't have to crash through life. This book features a clever, breezy first-person style.Taylor, Mildred D. - The Gold Cadillac
Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
Humorous
Dahl, Roald - Matilda
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.Greer, Gery - This Island Isn't Big Enough For the Four of Us!
Pete and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover that two girls with zany senses of humor are already in residence.Keller, Beverly - Desdemona: Twelve Going on Desperate
Mishap befalls Desdemona, including running into the handsomest boy in school.Korman, Gordon - The Twinkie Squad
Chaos spreads when Douglas, the most eccentric sixth-grader in Thaddeus G. Little Middle School, joins the Twinkie Squad, a special counseling group for problem students.Korman, Gordon - Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road?
When Justin Zeckendorf is teamed up with two of the smartest girls in his fourth-grade class for a good deed contest, his zany ideas almost cost them their chances to win.Park, Barbara - The Kid in the Red Jacket
Howard and family move to a different state where he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the girl in a nearby house.Robertson, Keith - Henry Reed, Inc.
Henry and his friend Midge go into a research business during summer vacation.Smith, Robert Kimmel - Jelly Belly
The fattest kid in the fifth-grade wants to lose weight, but not badly enough to starve.Smith, Robert Kimmel - Mostly Michael
Michael's diary reflects the ups and downs of eleventh year: coping with braces, troublesome relatives, little sister, school play, and big spelling bee.GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Alcock, Vivien - Singer to the Sea God
When he and his companions flee their island home after the king's court is turned to stone, Phaidon begins to believe in the gods and monsters that his uncle has always scorned.Alexander, Lloyd - The Book of Three
Taran, the assistant pig-keeper, longs to be a hero. He journeys, with a strange assortment of companions, to save his beloved homeland. Packed with action, humor, romance, and gallantry.Card, Orson Scott - Enders Game
Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.Christopher, John - When the Tripods Came
Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps.Dalkey, Kara - Little Sister
Thirteen-year-old Fujiwara no Mitsuko, daughter of a noble family in the imperial court of twelfth-century Japan, enlists the help of a shape-shifter and other figures from Japanese mythology in her efforts to save her older sister's life.Dalkey, Kara - Heavenward Path
Haunted by a broken promise to a powerful god, fifteen-year-old Mitsuko again enlists the aid of a mischievous shape-shifter who helps her learn to think for herself.Dickinson, Peter - Eva
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.Farmer, Nancy - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnaped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.Hughes, Monica - Invitation to the Game
In 2154, eight unemployed graduates are invited to participate in the Game, and are transported to a future first attractive, then frightening. Underlying the exciting sci-fi/survival story is a cautionary parable.Jacques, Brian - The Redwall Series
This series chronicles the adventures of the "good" mice, "evil" rats and other animal inhabitants that live in ancient Redwall Abby.Kindl, Patrice - Owl in Love
A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform into an owl, has a crush on her science teacher which leads her into interesting new relationships with both humans and owls.McKinley, Robin - The Hero and the Crown
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witch woman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.Pinkwater, Daniel Manus - Lizard Music
When left to care for himself, a boy becomes involved with intelligent lizards who tell him of an invasion from outer space.Sleator, William - The Boy Who Reversed Himself
Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door has the ability to go into the fourth dimension and makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.Sleator, William - Interstellar Pig
Barney's boring seaside vacation becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by exotic neighbors addicted to a game called "Interstellar Pig."Sleator, William - Others See Us
When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the summer reunion.Sleator, William - The Duplicate
Sixteen-year-old David finds a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.Adventure/Historical
Adamson, Joy - Born Free, A Lioness of Two Worlds
A woman describes her experiences raising an orphaned lion cub intending that it eventually return to the jungle.Bachrach, Susan D. - Tell Them We Remember : The Story of the Holocaust with Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This is a non-fiction book about the Holocaust. The title explains what the book includes.Bunting, Eve - SOS Titantic
Fifteen year old Barry O=Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.Creech, Sharon - The Wanderer
Thirteen year old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.Curtis, Christopher Paul - The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.Dickinson, Peter - A Bone From the Dry Sea
In the two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.Doherty, Berlie - Street Child
A novel based on the life of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in London in the 1860s and survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's "ragged" children.Fleischman, Paul - Bull Run
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys and worried sisters describe the glory, horror, thrill, and disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.Freedman, Russell - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
This book is a photo biography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a girl in Arkansas.Hamilton, Virginia - The House of Dies Drear
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.Hamilton, Virginia - Many Thousand Gone
On a journey of black slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, an extended group of people help fugitive slaves in many ways.Hamilton, Virginia - The Mystery of Drear House: Book Two of the Dies Drear Chronicle
A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.Herriot, James - All Creatures Great and Small
This is the biography of the English veterinarian James Herriot.Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust
In a series of poems, 15 year old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years of the Depression.London, Jack - White Fang
A young man fulfills his father's dying wish, and a magnificent wolf is torn between civilization and the wild.Pullman, Philip - The Ruby in the Smoke
In 19th Century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.*Read, Piers Paul - Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Sixteen people survive a plane crash in the Andes with their only shelter the plane's shattered fuselage, their only supplies, a little wine and some candy.Reeder, Carolyn - Across the Lines
Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.Rinaldi, Ann- Time Enough for Drums
Jemima, a teenager, and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British King.Rinaldi, Ann, - Wolf By the Ears
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.Rostkowski, Margaret - After the Dancing Days
A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "A Hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.Stanley, Jerry - Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Migrant workers travel from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and are forced to live in a federal labor camp.Turner, Megan Whalen - The Thief
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.Wyss, Johann - The Swiss Family Robinson
They built a wonderful house in a tree, survived cleverly and happily, and did not want to be rescued.Yolen, Jane - The Devil's Arithmetic
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she - and we - need to remember the past.Multi-Cultural Fiction
Beake, Lesley - Song of Be
Be, a young Bushman woman searching in the desert for the peace she remembers from her childhood, realizes that she and her people must reconcile new personal and political realities with ancient traditions.Farmer, Nancy - A Girl Named Disaster
While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.Garland, Sherry - Song of the Buffalo Boy
Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States and find her American father.Garrique, Sheila - The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito
In Vancouver during World War II, the loyalty and spirit of a Japanese-American gardener captures the heart of a displaced English girl who witnesses the effects of war and prejudice on her family and friends.Gordon, Sheila - Waiting for the Rain
Nine years of chronicles in the lives of two South African youths, one black, one white, as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier.Jiang, Ji-li - Red Scarf Girl
The author tells about the happy life a girl led in China up until she was 12 years old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution. She had to make a choice of either denouncing her father or losing her future in the Communist Party.Lee, Marie G. - Necessary Roughness
Sixteen-year old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father.Paulsen, Gary - Canyons
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800's.Paulsen, Gary - The Crossing
Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.Soto, Gary - Baseball in April and Other Stories
A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.Temple, Frances - Grab Hands and Run
After his father disappears, Felipe, his mother, and his sister set out on a difficult and dangerous journey, trying to make their way from their home in El Salvador to Canada.Yep, Laurence - Dragon's Gate
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, uncle, and other Chinese working on a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.Mystery/Suspense/Supernatural
*Bennett, Jay - The Birthday Murderer
Did Shan really commit a childhood murder? Is someone really trying to kill him now? Or is Shan losing his mind?Bennett, Jay - The Executioner
Three survivors of an automobile crash in which the driver was killed are threatened by an executioner who believes they too should die.Bennett, Jay - The Dark Corridor
At the end of a summer disrupted by three teenage suicides in their town, eighteen-year-old Kerry's girlfriend Alicia apparently kills herself, leaving him obsessed with death and strange doubts.Block, Francesca Lia - Missing Angel Juan
Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat.Cooney, Caroline B. - The Fire
Are the Shervingtons trying to make Christina think she's going crazy? Or has the evil finally taken control of Christina's mind?Cooney, Caroline B. - The Fog
The fog has moved in and trapped Christina and Anya in the old house in the cliffs above the sea.Cooney, Caroline B. - The Snow
Christina is having horrifying experiences with evil and the cruel Shervington family. Before she can revive Anya and help Doely, she must first save herself.Duncan, Lois - Don't Look Behind You
April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.Duncan, Lois - Killing Mr. Griffin
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?Duncan, Lois - Ransom
When five unsuspecting teenagers are kidnapped by a strange new bus driver, their fight to escape his madness teaches them some amazing truths about themselves.Mahy, Margaret - The Haunting
After a shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages, he learns about a family legacy which could be considered a curse or a rare gift.Nixon, Joan Lowery - The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
A teenage girl is kidnapped, but, when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother.Nixon, Joan Lowery - The Other Side of Dark
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.Peck, Richard - Voices After Midnight
Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when they slip back in time to 1888.Raskin, Ellen - The Westing Game
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.Voigt, Cynthia - Jackaroo
When hard times among the Peiole revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend.Family/Friends/Feelings/Realistic Fiction
Alcock, Vivien - The Trial of Anna Cotman
New to town, Anna is happy to find a friend in Lindy and is pleased to join the secret society run by Lindy's brother until she commits a "crime" that the society won't forgive.Bauer, Joan - Hope Was Here
When sixteen-year old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as a waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner ownerís political campaign to oust the townís corrupt mayor.Bunting, Eve - A Sudden Silence
Jesse Harmon searches for the hit and run driver who killed his brother Bry.Bunting, Eve - Jumping the Nail
Teenagers in a California costal community challenge each other to "Jump the Nail" -- leap from dangerous cliffs into the ocean. Group pressure and manipulative relationships quickly drive the game out of control.Byars, Betsy Cromer - The TV Kid
To escape failure, boredom, and loneliness, a young boy plunges with all his imagination into the world of television.Conford, Ellen - Dear Lovely Hart, I Am Desperate
When she takes on the advice column for her school newspaper, Carrie encounters more problems than she expects.Cooney, Carolyn B. - Driver's Ed
Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident.Fine, Anne - Flour Babies
When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while coming to terms with his long-absent father.Fox, Paula - One-Eyed Cat
An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.Gantos, Jack - Joey Pigza Loses Control
Sequel to: Joey Pigza swallowed the key. Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.Hesse, Karen - Phoenix Rising
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.Hinton, S.E. - Taming the Star Runner
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets a horse trainer named Casey.Holman, Felice - Slak's Limbo
Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes, flees into New York City's subway tunnels, never again to emerge.Johnson, Angela - Toning the Sweep
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.Johnston, Julie - Adam and Eve and Pinch-me
Fifteen-year-old Sara Moone, abandoned at birth and shunted from one foster home to another, finds that she cannot remain aloof from her latest family.Koertge, Ronald - Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
Worried that his mother will send his beloved grandfather to a nursing home "for his own good," Jesse and some of his eighth-grade classmates accompany Pappy into the mountains near their small California town to look for the tiger tracks he claims to have seen.Lipsyte, Robert - The Contender
After a successful start in a boxing career, a Harlem high school dropout decides competing in the ring isn't enough of a life and resolves to aim for different goals.Lowry, Lois - Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
Seemingly a girl who has everything, Natalie, at seventeen, goes in pursuit of her real mother.Mazer, Norma Fox - After the Rain
After discovering her grandfather is dying, Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.Myers, Walter Dean - Scorpions
Reluctantly taking on the leadership of a Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun - until a tragedy occurs.Myers, Walter Dean - Somewhere in the Darkness
A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of discovery for them both.Nelson, Theresa - Earthshine
Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.Paulsen, Gary - The Monument
Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her Kansas town to design a war memorial.Peck, Richard - A Year Down Yonder
Sequel to: A Long Way From Chicago
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.Peck, Richard - Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats
Bambi, Buffie, and Brick, three totally cool siblings from Los Angeles, move with their parents to Hickory Fork, a small town terrorized by a high school gang.Pfeffer, Susan Beth - The Year Without Michael
The remaining members of the Chapman family try to cope with the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Michael.Qualey, Marsha - Revolutions of the Heart
Cory's seventeenth year is marked by her mother's sudden death, the return of her hotheaded older brother, her romance with a Native American boy, and the eruption of bigotry in her small Wisconsin town.Voight, Cynthia - Izzy ,Willy-Nilly
A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.White Ruth - Belle Prater's Boy
The story of 12-year-old Gypsy's struggle to understand the mysterious disappearance of her Aunt Belle and why her young cousin Woodrow, Belle=s son, has so calmly accepted it.Wolff, Virginia Euwer - Make Lemonade
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.Zindel, Paul - A Begonia For Miss Applebaum
Discovering that their beloved former teacher Miss Applebaum is terminally ill, fifteen-year-old Henry and his friend Zelda accompany her on her excursions to the colorful parts of New York City and join her in confronting death with quiet courage.Sports
Baczewski, Paul - Just for Kicks
15 year old Brandon does not suspect the difficulties in store for him as manager of the varsity football team when his sister Sarah joins and becomes the star punter.Dygard, Thomas - Game Plan
When the Barton High football coach=s hospitalization forces skinny student manager Beano Hatton to take over coaching the team, he must deal with a rebellious quarterback and his own lack of confidence.Dygard, Thomas - Soccer Duel
A former football star finds he must share the spotlight with other players when he decides to play soccer.Gutman, Dan - Baseball's Biggest Blooper
Gutman, Dan - Baseball's Greatest Games
This book features an account of a few of the great games of baseball recounted in play-by-play detail. Includes photographs, newspaper accounts, and box scores.Hoffius, Stephen - Winners and Losers
When a heart condition threatens to curtail his friend Daryl's track career, Curt finds himself taking Daryl's place as lead contender for the conference championship and as the new obsession of Daryl=s driven father.Hughes, Dean - End of the Race
Two twelve-year old boys, one black and one white, train for and compete in the 400 meter race, but find it hard to become friends because of racial differences and their father's past relationship.Lewin, Ted - I was a Teenage Professional Wrestler
Text and accompanying photographs describe the author's early days supporting himself as a professional wrestler.Weaver, Will - Striking Out
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in Northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball. This book contains stories of baseball players who made errors that people are still talking about.*Book is not in print at this time, but it may be available in school and public libraries.
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