2005
2005
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Author |
Title |
Annotation |
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Alexander, Lloyd |
The Jedera adventure |
The further adventures of Vesper Holly
and her faithful guardian Brinnie as they travel to the remote country of
Jedera where they brave many dangers trying to return a valuable book
borrowed many years ago by Vesper's father. |
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Allende, Isabel |
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon |
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by an outsider. |
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Almond, David |
Skellig American
Library association (ALA) |
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. |
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Almond, David |
The fire-eaters ALA |
Despite observing his father's illness
and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring
abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns
and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons
to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future. |
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Anderson, M.T. |
Whales on stilts Booklist |
Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales. |
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Avi
Visiting author March, 2005 |
Wolf rider ALA |
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him. Award-winning Author |
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Avi Visiting author March, 2005 |
S.O.R. losers
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Each member of the South Orange River seventh-grade soccer team has qualities of excellence, but not on the soccer field. Award-winning Author |
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Barron, T. A. |
Child of the dark prophecy Booklist
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The fate of Avalon rests in the hands
of three people: Tamwyn, Elli, and Scree; however one of them is the true
heir of Merlin and the only one who can save Avalon and one of them is the
child of Dark Prophecy, the person chosen to destroy it.
Great tree of Avalon ; bk. 1 |
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Bath, K. P. |
The secret of Castle Cant: being an
account of the remarkable adventures of Lucy Wickwright, maidservant and
spy |
When twelve-toed orphan Lucy Wickwright is brought to Castle Cant to be serving girl to the Baron's daughter, the Adorable & Honorable Pauline, she becomes involved with revolutionaries and uncovers surprising palace intrigues. |
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Bloor, Edward |
Story time |
George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School. Award-winning Author |
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Bode, N. E. |
The Anybodies Kirkus |
After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a place that feels like home." |
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Bowler, Tim |
Firmament Kirkus |
While struggling to cope with the
death of his father, a gifted musician, fourteen-year-old Luke must deal
with a dangerous bully, a lonely old woman, a blind young girl, his
mother's romantic involvement, and his own musical talent. |
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Bruchac, Joseph |
The dark pond |
After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water. Award-winning Author |
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Brugman, Alyssa |
Finding Grace Horn Book |
Undecided about her future after graduating from high school, an Australian girl takes a job caring for a brain-damaged woman. |
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Bryant, Jennifer |
The trial Booklist |
Living in Flemington, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son. |
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Buchanan, Jane |
Goodbye, Charley |
In 1943, twelve-year-old Celie's father brings home a rhesus monkey that helps Celie deal with all the difficulties that the war has brought into her life in Gloucester, Massachusetts. |
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Butcher, A. J. |
Spy High: mission one |
As students at a special high school that trains them to be secret agents, six teenagers struggle to complete the training exercises as a team before being sent out into the field to sink or swim. |
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Cabot, Meg |
Princess in pink |
In a series of humorous diary entries,
high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her
reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom. |
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Cabot, Meg |
Teen idol |
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker
shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie
role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents
to try to change things at school for the better. |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Ender's game ALA |
Ender, who is the result of genetic
experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against
an alien enemy. |
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Card, Orson Scott |
Shadow of the Hegemon ALA
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A sequel to "Ender's Shadow," in which the child-warriors, heroes of the Formic War, have returned to their families on Earth only to become the pawns of nations who want to use them as weapons in their quest for sovereignty. |
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Castellucci, Cecil |
Boy proof Bulletin of
the Center for Children's Books |
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies. |
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Catran, Ken |
Bloody Liggie |
Sixteen-year-old Danny Bourne suspects that the new girl in his high school might be teenager, Liggie Tanner, who killed her parents two years previous, escaped from prison, and was presumed drowned, but when he begins to investigate it, a school bully turns up missing. |
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Choldenko, Gennifer |
Al Capone does my shirts ALA |
A twelve-year-old boy 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. |
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Clancy, Tom |
Tom Clancy's Net Force: hidden agendas |
The Net Force must simultaneously find out who is posting top-secret data on the Internet while tracking a computer virus that is wreaking havoc on the federal financial systems. |
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Colfer, Eoin |
The supernaturalist |
In futuristic Satellite City,
fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from an abusive orphanage and teams
up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see
supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose
of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans. |
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Cormier, Robert |
I am the cheese ALA |
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
Award-winning Author |
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Coville, Bruce |
William Shakespeare's Hamlet |
Retells, in simplified prose, William Shakespeare's play about a prince of Denmark who seeks revenge for his father's murder. |
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Creech, Sharon |
Bloomability |
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers her world expanding. |
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Crilley, Mark |
Billy Clikk: creatch battler |
Twelve-year-old Billy discovers that his parents' extermination business is really a cover for something a whole lot more sinister. |
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Crisp, Marty |
White Star: a dog on the Titanic |
Twelve-year-old Sam, a passenger on the Titanic's maiden sea voyage, volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner's kennel and becomes fast friends with the Irish setter of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner. |
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Cross, Gillian |
The dark ground |
Robert wakes up naked and alone in a
thick jungle. The last thing he remembers is being in a plane with his
family, but there is no sign of a crash or survivors. Then he discovers
the shocking truth--he is in the park near his house, but his familiar
world has been transformed into an alien landscape. When he finds others
in the same position, he enlists their help in getting back home. But the
journey is more perilous than Robert could ever imagine. |
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Crossley-Holland, Kevin |
King of the Middle March Booklist |
Arthur de Caldicot, on his way to
becoming a man, witnesses the horrors of the Fourth Crusade in Venice and
Zara, as well as the downfall of King Arthur's court, in his seeing stone. |
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Curry, |
The Black Canary Booklist |
As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well. |
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Curtis, Christopher |
Bucking the Sarge ALA |
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. Award-winning Author |
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Cushman, Karen |
Rodzina Booklist |
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery. Award-winning Author |
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Cushman, Karen |
The midwife's apprentice ALA
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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. |
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Danziger, Paula |
This place has no atmosphere |
Aurora loves her life on Earth in the twenty-first century, until she learns that her family is moving to the colony on the moon.
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Dessen, Sarah |
The truth about forever Kliatt
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The summer following her father's
death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend
to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business
where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. |
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Dickens, Charles |
Oliver Twist |
In nineteenth-century England, a young
orphan runs away from a workhouse, is captured by a gang of thieves, and
finally escapes. |
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Dokey, Cameron. |
Sunlight and shadow Kliatt |
A handsome prince is lured into a battle between darkness and light in order to claim the fair Pamina as his bride. Inspired by Mozart's Magic flute |
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Duncan, Lois |
The twisted window |
Tracy, a high school junior, becomes
embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in
"snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped
her. |
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DuPrau, Jeanne |
The people of Sparks School Library Journal
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Lina and Doon are thrilled to see their people join them above ground in the vibrant village of Sparks, but suspicion and prejudice soon turn the villagers and newcomers against each other. |
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Edwards, Julie |
Dragon: hound of honor |
In medieval France, an Irish wolfhound helps solve the murder of his master, the beloved son of the Count de Montdidier and leader of the Royal Bodyguard in the court of Charles V. |
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Farmer, Nancy |
The house of the scorpion Booklist |
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. Newbery Medal/Honor |
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Farmer, Nancy |
The Sea of Trolls ALA |
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. |
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Forrester, Sandra |
The witches of Sea-Dragon Bay |
Trying to undo the spell of the evil Dally Rumpe, Beatrice travels to a seaside resort, where she meets her father's great-uncle and cousins and learns about their connection to the evil sorcerer. Sequel to: The witches of Friar's Lantern. |
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Fox, Helen |
Eager Horn Book |
Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will. |
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Frost, Helen |
Spinning through the universe: a novel
in poems from room 214 |
A collection of poems written in the voices of Mrs. Williams of room 214, her students, and a custodian about their interactions with each other, their families, and the world around them. Includes notes on the poetic forms represented. |
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Grover, Lorie Ann |
On pointe
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In this novel written in free verse, Clare and her grandfather must deal with changes in their lives when Clare's summer growth spurt threatens to end her dream of becoming a ballet dancer and her grandfather suffers a stroke. |
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Grunwell, Jeanne Marie |
Mind games Publishers Weekly
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Each of the six members of Mr. Ennis's Mad Science Club presents a report of his or her experiences working on a science fair project to investigate ESP, which resulted in their winning the Maryland lottery. |
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Gutman, Dan |
The million dollar strike |
Best friends Ouchie and Squishy, who
love bowling and horror movies respectively, meet the eccentric owner of a
local bowling alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking
ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic. |
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
Escape from Memory |
Allowing herself to be hypnotized,
fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may
eventually cost her and her mother their lives.
Award-winning author |
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Hale, Shannon |
Enna burning |
Sequel to: The goose girl.Enna hopes that her new knowledge of how to wield fire will help protect her good friend Isi--the Princess Anidori--and all of Bayern against their enemies, but the need to burn is uncontrollable and puts Enna and her loved ones in grave danger. |
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Harrison, Mette Ivie |
Mira, mirror |
Long after the disappearance of Snow White's stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater. |
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Hartinger, Brent |
The Last Chance Texaco |
Troubled teen Lucy Pitt struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home. |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The house of the seven gables |
Follows the Pyncheon family who lived
for generations under a dead man's curse until his death restored their
house. |
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Hightman, Jason |
The Saint of Dragons |
After a lonely childhood at the Lighthouse School for Boys, thirteen-year-old Simon learns that he is descended from a medieval dragonslayer, and that his father needs his help to face the last of these evil monsters. |
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Hite, Sid |
The King of Slippery Falls |
While on a single-minded quest to catch an elusive giant trout, sixteen-year-old Lewis Hinton's life in a small Idaho town is turned upside-down when he learns that he is adopted and might be a descendant of French royalty. |
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Hobbs, Will |
Leaving protection Library Media Connection |
Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest. |
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Hoobler, Dorothy |
In darkness, death |
In eighteenth-century Japan, young
Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster
father, investigate the murder of a samurai. |
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Horowitz, Anthony |
Eagle Strike |
An Alex Rider adventure. After a
chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France,
teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and
philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister
motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international
drug trade. |
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Horowitz, Anthony |
Stormbreaker |
An Alex Rider adventure. After the
death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider
is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's
intelligence agency, MI6. |
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Hunter, Erin |
A dangerous path |
Tigerclaw is back and more dangerous than ever as the new leader of ShadowClan, but he is not the most terrifying enemy Fireheart must face as a new force sweeps through the woods. |
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Hunter, Erin |
The darkest hour |
ThunderClan's darkest hour is upon
them and Fireheart, the warrior cat, must protect his clan from a threat
unlike any the forest has ever seen, as the time comes for prophecies to
unfold and heroes to rise. |
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Hunter, Erin |
Fire and ice |
Fireheart, a full-fledged warrior cat,
must confront questions of loyalty and identity as he faces the
possibility of betrayal from within his own forest clan. |
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Hunter, Erin |
Forest of secrets |
The warrior cat Fireheart's
determination to uncover the truth about another warrior's death leads him
deep into danger, and reveals secrets that test the strength of clan
loyalties. |
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Hunter, Erin |
Rising storm |
Fireheart, the warrior cat, faces many
challenges in his new role of ThunderClan deputy as his apprentice,
Cloudpaw, resists following the warrior code, Bluestar weakens, and
Tigerclaw continues to haunt the forest seeking revenge. |
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Ibbotson, Eva |
The Star of Kazan ALA |
Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in
late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and
soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and
takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany. |
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Irving, Washington |
The legend of Sleepy Hollow |
Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
accompany this retelling of Irving's classic tale of a headless horseman. |
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Janeczko, Paul B. |
Worlds afire School Library Journal
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In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 180 people, mostly women and children. |
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Johnson, Maureen |
The key to the Golden Firebird Booklist |
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father. |
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Kantor, Melissa |
Confessions of a not it girl |
High school student Jan Miller, hoping
for a senior year romance, just cannot seem to do anything right,
especially when compared to her best friend Rebecca who has just been
named a New York "It Girl," but things start looking up when an old crush
moves back to town. |
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Karr, Kathleen |
Exiled: memoirs of a camel |
A first-person narrative from a
camel's viewpoint about being sent from Egypt to serve in the United
States Camel Corps, and life on the Mojave Desert before and during the
Civil War. |
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King-Smith, Dick |
The cuckoo child School
Library Journal |
With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm. |
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Krishnaswami, Uma |
Naming Maya |
When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents' divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother. |
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Kurtz, Jane. |
The Feverbird's claw |
On the eve of the day she is to begin temple service, Moralin of Delagua is kidnapped by the Arkera, enduring grueling adventures as she tries to escape, and ultimately learning surprising truths about her own people. |
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Kwasney, Michelle D. |
Baby Blue |
In western Massachusetts in 1976, still grieving and guilt-ridden over her father's drowning, twelve-year-old Blue is dealt another blow when her older sister, Star, runs away to escape their stepfather's violence against their mother. |
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Langrish, Katherine |
Troll Fell Booklist
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Forced to move to Troll Fell to live with his uncles, Baldur and Grim, after his father's death, young Peer Ulfsson learns of his uncles' sinister plan to sell children to the trolls and sets out with an adventurous neighbor girl named Hilde to stop them. |
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Lasky, Kathryn |
Blood secret |
Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition. |
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Lawrence, Iain |
B for Buster Bulletin of
the Center for Children's Books |
Sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age in the spring of 1943 to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany. Award-winning Author |
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Lawrence, Michael |
A crack in the line Booklist |
Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how
to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place
in the family is held by a girl, Naia. |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
Gifts Booklist
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When a young man in the Uplands blinds
himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by
members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among
rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of
its own. Award-winning
Author |
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Limb, Sue |
Girl, 15, charming but insane |
Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her
mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who
seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets
through humor. Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum,
separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to
do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.
Award-winning Author |
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Lupica, Mike |
Travel team |
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory. |
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Lyon, Steve |
The gift moves |
In a futuristic United States devoid of wealth and material things, a teenage baker befriends a talented weaver's apprentice who holds a dark secret. |
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Mackel, Kathy |
Alien in a bottle |
With the help of a star-gazing classmate and an unusual assortment of aliens from outer space, teenager Sean Winger tries to find a way to convince his parents to let him pursue his dream of becoming a glass blower. |
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Mackler, Carolyn. |
The earth, my butt, and other big round things Library Media Connection |
Feeling like she does not fit in with
the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and
good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image,
her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the
people closest to her. M.
Printz Award |
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Matthews, Andrew |
A winter night's dream Booklist |
Casey, a high school freshman, and Stew, a senior, search for love separately, with the help of a favorite teacher, before meeting each other. |
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Mazer, Harry |
A boy no more |
After his father is killed in the
attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from
Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war,
Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity. |
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McGhee, Alison |
Snap Booklist |
Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised her. |
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McKay, Hilary |
Indigo's star ALA |
Spurred on by his youngest sister,
Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who
has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies. |
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McNaughton, Janet Elizabeth |
The secret under my skin Kliatt
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In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past. |
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Meyer, L. A. |
Curse of the blue tattoo: being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman and fine lady Booklist |
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse. |
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Minchin, Adele |
The beat goes on Library Media Connection |
Fifteen-year-old Leyla has always looked up to her outgoing cousin, Emma, but when Emma learns she is HIV positive after having unprotected sex jut once, Leyla must be the strong one and support her cousin. |
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Mitchell, Marianne |
Firebug |
Twelve-year-old Haley Sparks was not looking forward to cleaning cabins and washing dishes at her Uncle Jake's bed and breakfast cabins, but when an arsonist burns one of the cabins Haley sets out to find the culprit. |
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Morpurgo, Michael |
Private Peaceful Booklist |
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. |
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Murphy, Barbara |
Life! how I love you |
Twelve-year-old Lily faces the loss of
her older sister to leukemia.
Award-winning Author |
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Myracle, Lauren |
Ttyl School Library Journal
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Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade. |
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Napoli, Donna Jo |
Bound Booklist |
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. |
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Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
Including Alice |
Fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard
to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her
brother moves to his own apartment. Includes a CD of Sylvia and Ben's
wedding music. |
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Oppel, Kenneth |
Airborn ALA |
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an
airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team
up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly
living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. |
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Peck, Richard |
Past perfect, present tense: new and collected stories Library
Media Connection |
A collection of short stories, including two previously unpublished ones, that deal with the way things could be. |
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Peck, Richard |
The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts ALA |
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies." |
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Perkins, Mitali |
Monsoon summer |
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic. |
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Pierce, Meredith Ann |
Waters luminous & deep: shorter fictions |
Contains eight shorter fiction works
by fantasy writer Meredith Ann Pierce, each of which features water in a
prominent way.
Award-winning Author |
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Pierce, Tamora |
Trickster's queen Bulletin of
the Center for Children's Books |
Aly fails to foresee the dangers that
await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings,
despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the
Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated. |
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Place, François. |
The old man mad about drawing: a tale of Hokusai Booklist |
Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes. |
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Reeve, Philip |
Mortal engines Publishers
Weekly
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Tom, a third class apprentice in a
distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move
about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales,
has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus
Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic
weapon. |
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Rennison, Louise |
Away laughing on a fast camel: even more confessions of Georgia Nicolson Kirkus
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The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him. Sequel to: Dancing in my nuddy-pants. |
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Roth, Philip |
The plot against America Kirkus |
A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings. |
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Salisbury, Graham |
Under the blood-red sun |
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are
baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family
in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in
December 1941. |
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San Souci, Robert D. |
Dare to be scared: thirteen stories to chill and thrill |
Presents thirteen spookily illustrated stories for children, including ghost stories and other tales of the supernatural, science fiction stories, and fantasy. |
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Schmidt, Gary D. |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy ALA |
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot. |
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Shusterman, Neal |
The Schwa was here ALA |
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone |
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Sedgwick, Marcus |
The book of Dead Days Booklist |
A magician named Valerian has only the days between Christmas and New Years to save his own life after making a pact with the devil years before and seeks the help of a servant boy and an orphan girl named Willow. |
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Sherlock, Patti. |
Letters from Wolfie |
Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return. |
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Shinn, Sharon |
The Safe-Keeper's secret Kirkus |
Fiona is Safe-Keeper in the small
village of Tambleham, where neighbors and strangers alike come one by one,
in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else. |
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Shreve, Susan Richards. |
Under the Watson's porch Booklist |
Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see. |
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
The unseen School Library Journal
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Feeling angry and out-of-place in her
large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of
ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her
siblings more clearly.
Award-winning Author |
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Sones, Sonya |
One of those hideous books where the mother dies Booklist |
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves
her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston
and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous
movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. |
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Spinelli, Jerry |
Milkweed Booklist |
A street child, known to himself only
as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in
Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. |
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Strasser, Todd |
Can't get there from here |
Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty
from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless
teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future
and longs for someone to care about her. |
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Stroud, Jonathan. |
The golem's eye Publishers
Weekly |
In their continuing adventures,
magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni
Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before
it destroys London. |
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Sutherland, Tui |
This must be love
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Two good friends tell of strange occurrences between themselves and the boys they like during a high school production of "Romeo and Juliet," which are reminiscent of the magical world of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." |
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Swanson, Julie A. |
Going for the record Booklist
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Seventeen-year-old Leah's quest to make the national soccer team does not seem so important when she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live. |
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Tashjian, Janet |
Vote for Larry Publishers Weekly
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Sequel to: The gospel according to
Larry. Not yet eighteen years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry, comes out of hiding
and returns to public life, this time to run for President as an advocate
for issues of concern to youth and to encourage voter turnout. |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. |
The hobbit, or, There and back again |
The adventures of the well-to-do
hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a
wandering wizard granted his wish. |
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Townley, Rod |
Sky: a novel in three sets and an encore |
In New York City in 1959, fifteen-year-old Alec Schuyler, at odds with his widowed father over his love of music, finds a mentor and friend in a blind, black jazz musician. |
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Triana, Gaby |
Backstage pass |
After moving to Miami, Florida, sixteen-year-old Desert McGraw, whose life as the daughter of a rock star has been anything but normal, determines to make a permanent home for herself and her family--even if it means breaking up the band. |
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Trueman, Terry |
Inside out |
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage. |
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Tunnell, Michael O. |
Wishing moon Kirkus
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After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by the genie inside it allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance. |
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Twain, Mark |
The adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The adventures and pranks of a
mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early
nineteenth century. |
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Valentine, James |
Jumpman rule #1: don't touch anything |
Theo, a teenager in the year fifteen billion and seventy-three, wins a chance to be the first person to test the new JumpMan, a device that allows people to travel, invisibly, through time, but he is forced to turn to two twenty-first-century teens for help when something goes wrong and he lands, perfectly visible, in 2004, and is unable to get back. |
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Vander Zee, Ruth. |
Mississippi morning Booklist |
Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan. |
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Verne, Jules |
A journey to the center of the earth |
Three men dare to adventure into a
subterranean world full of danger and beauty. They discover many unusual
things on their trip to the Earth's mysterious core. |
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Wallace, Rich |
Wrestling Sturbridge Booklist
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Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future. Award-winning Author |
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Wardlaw, Lee |
101 ways to bug your teacher |
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt attempts to
thwart his parents' plan to have him skip eighth grade, but he has bigger
problems when his friends disapprove of his new list and Mrs. "Fierce"
Pierce threatens to keep him from the Invention Convention. |
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Werlin, Nancy |
Double helix Booklist |
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a
shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel
Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. |
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Westerfeld, Scot t |
The secret hour |
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess. |
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Whelan, Gloria |
Burying the sun Booklist |
In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege. |
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Whelan, Gloria |
Chu Ju's house Publishers Weekly
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In order to save her baby sister,
fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns
food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting
rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
Award-winning Author |
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Whelan, Gloria |
Angel on the square Publishers Weekly
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In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya
eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older
cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of
Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and
undreamed of changes to her life. |
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White, Ruth |
Belle Prater's boy ALA
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When Woodrow's mother suddenly
disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town
where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face
the terrible losses and fears in their lives. |
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White, Ruth |
The search for Belle Prater Booklist |
Sequel to: Belle Prater's boy. In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way. |
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Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward |
Blue fingers: a ninja's tale |
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where he remains disloyal until he discovers samurai have burned his former village. |
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Wilhelm, Doug |
The revealers Library Media Connection
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Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School. |
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Williams, Dar |
Amalee |
Amalee is being raised by her single father and his group of eccentric friends, and when he becomes seriously ill everyone pitches in to try to cope with the ensuing fear and chaos. |
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Wilson, Diane L. |
I rode a horse of milk white jade |
In early fourteenth-century China, Oyuna tells her granddaughter of her girlhood in Mongolia and how love for her horse enabled her to win an important race and bring good luck to her family. |
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Wright, Randall |
Hunchback |
Thirteen-year-old Juffa, a hunchback orphan living in Castle Marlby, dreams of serving a prince, and when his wish comes true he becomes embroiled in adventure and intrigue. |
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Yolen, Jane |
Prince across the water Booklist |
In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war. |
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Zahn, Timothy |
Dragon and soldier: the second dragonback adventure |
Fourteen-year-old Jack, who is the
human host in a symbiotic relationship with a dragon warrior named Draycos,
joins a mercenary outfit to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy to wipe
out Draycos's race.
Award-winning Author |
Links to outstanding young adult (YA) literature from the American Library Association (ALA)
Our previous years' lists: ("Any book one hasn't read is a new book" Anonymous)
Also:
Adventures to Read All Through the Summer from Librarian Nancy Pearl. Includes
links to other book lists. From National Public Radio (NPR).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4646599
Pop-Up and Moveable Books: A Tour Through Their History
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/
Summer Reading Recommended by Horn Book Editors
http://www.hbook.com/booklists/summer.asp
Summertime Favorites from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
http://www.neh.gov/projects/summertimefavorites.html
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