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| Author |
Title |
Description |
Call# |
|
Aiken, Joan |
The Wolves of Willoughby |
Chase Bonnie and Sylvia’s parents
left them in the care of the terrible Miss Slighcarp and they
face many chilly misadventures |
J AIK |
|
Almond, David |
Skellig |
Unhappy about his baby sister’s
illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house,
Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger
who is something like a bird and something like an angel |
J ALM |
|
Burnford, Sheila |
The Incredible Journey |
A Siamese Cat, an old bull terrier
and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through
the Canadian wilderness to find their family. |
J BUR |
|
Chabon, Michael |
Summerland |
When Summerland, an area known for
its perfect weather, and controlled by tiny beings known as
ferishers, is threatened by an ancient enemy, they enlist the
aid of baseball player Ethan Feld, who sets out to vanquish
giants, goblins and a magical ball club. |
J CHA |
|
Choldenko, Gennifer |
Al Capone Does My Shirts |
A 12-year-old by named Moose moves
to Alcatraz Island in 1935, when guards’ families were housed
there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment
in addition to life with his autistic sister. |
J CHO |
|
Creech, Sharon |
Walk Two Moons |
After her mother leaves home
suddenly, 13-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip
retracing her mother’s route. Along the way, Sal recounts the
story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. |
J CRE |
|
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. |
J CRE |
|
Farmer, Nancy |
The House of the Scorpion
|
In a future where humans despise
clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El
Patron, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled
between Mexico and the U.S. |
Y FAR |
|
George, Jean Craighead |
Julie of the Wolves |
While running away from home and an
unwanted marriage, a 13-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the
north Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. |
J GEO |
|
Hamilton, Virginia |
The House of Dies Drear |
A black family tries to unravel the
secrets of their new home that was once a stop on the
Underground Railroad. |
J HAM |
|
Henkes, Kevin |
Olive’s Ocean |
On a summer visit to her
grandmother’s cottage by the ocean, 12-year-old Martha gains
perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship
with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy and on
her plans to be a writer. |
J HEN |
|
Hiassen, Carl |
Hoot |
Roy, who is new to his small Florida
community, becomes involved in another boy’s attempt to save a
colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
|
J HIA |
|
Holt, Kimberly Willis |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
|
During the summer of 1971 in a small
Texas town, 13-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the
star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in
the world. |
J HOL |
|
Lewis, C. S. |
The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe |
Four English schoolchildren find
their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of
Narnia, and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the
White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. |
J LEW |
|
Lowry, Lois |
The Giver |
Given his lifetime assignment as the
Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories
shared by only one other in his community and discovers the
terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
Y LOW |
|
Martin, Ann M. |
A Corner of the Universe |
The summer that Hattie turns 12, she
meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes Friends
with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie’s
small town. |
J MAR |
|
O’Brien, Robert |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
(paperback title: The Secret of NIMH) |
Having no one to help her with her
problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former
imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
|
J OBR |
|
O’Dell, Scott |
Island of the Blue Dolphins
|
Left alone on a beautiful but
isolated island off the California coast, a young Indian girl
spends 18 years, not only merely surviving through her enormous
courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of
happiness in her solitary life. |
J ODE |
|
Peck, Robert Newton |
A Day No Pigs Would Die |
To a 13-year-old Vermont boy whose
father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he
learns “doing what’s got to be done,” especially regarding his
pet pig that cannot produce a litter. |
Y PEC |
|
Peck, Richard |
A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in
Stories |
A boy recounts his annual summer
trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great
Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. |
J PEC |
|
Pullman, Philip |
The Golden Compass |
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra
Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped
children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in
the Far North. (Sequels: The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) |
Y PUL |
|
Raskin, Ellen |
The Westing Game |
The mysterious death of an eccentric
millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who
must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can
claim their inheritance. |
J RAS |
|
Reiss, Johanna |
The Upstairs Room |
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the
two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs
bedroom of a farmer’s house during World War II. |
J 940.53 REI |
|
Riordan, Rick |
The Lightning Thief |
After learning that he is the son of a
mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, 12-year-old Percy is
sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself and joins his
new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
(sequels: The Sea of monsters; The Titan’s Curse) |
J RIO |
|
Sachar, Louis |
Holes |
As further evidence of his family’s
bad fortune, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional
camp in the Texas desert where he find his first real friend, a
treasure and a new sense of himself. |
J SAC |
|
Speare, Elizabeth George |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
|
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler,
feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt,
befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and
suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. |
J SPE |
|
Sperry, Armstrong |
Call it Courage |
The story of a youth who overcomes his
fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
|
J SPE |
|
Spinelli, Jerry |
Wringer |
As Palmer comes of age, he must either
accept the violence of being a wringer at his town’s annual
Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. |
J SPI |
|
Taylor, Theodore |
The Cay |
When the freighter on which they are
traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War
II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and
an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribben island where
the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage and love from his
old companion. |
J TAY |
|
Wrede, Patricia C. |
Dealing With Dragons |
Bored with traditional palace life, a
princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon
becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizard
who want to steal away the dragon’s kingdom. (Sequels: Searching
for Dragons; Calling On Dragons; Talking to Dragons) |
J WRE |
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