Title
I Survived: The Great
Chicago Fire, 1871
Author
Lauren Tarshis
BL
4.8
Summary
Oscar Starling races to stay ahead of the
flames as Chicago burns to the ground.
Time Out
Helen Creswell
3.8
The Chocolate Touch
Patrick Skene
Catling
Joseph Bruchac
4.7
The Return of Skeleton
Man
Joseph Bruchac
5.5
The Dark Pond
Joseph Bruchac
5.3
Sounder
William H.
Armstrong
5.3
Sharing Susan
Eve Bunting
3.7
Trouble River
Betsy Byars
4.9
The Jacket
Andrew Clements
4.1
Mieko and the Fifth
Eleanor Coerr
4.3
Twelve-year-old Tweeny and her parents,
servants in a London house in 1887, use a
book of magic spells to travel forward in time
100 years and find the England of 1987 to be
an astonishing place.
Instead of gold, everything John Midas
touched turned to precious chocolate.
After her parents disappear and she is turned
over to the care of a strange "great-uncle,"
Molly must rely on her dreams about an old
Mohawk story for her safety, and maybe even
for her life.
In this sequel to SKELETON MAN, when Molly
and her parents attend a conference at
Mohonk Mountain House, Molly begins to fear
that she is being watched by the very man
who kidnapped and tried to kill them all the
previous year.
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.
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper
father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a
young black boy grows in courage and
understanding by learning to read and through
his relation with his devoted dog, Sounder.
Twelve-year-old Susan is shocked to find that
she was switched with another baby in the
hospital and that the parents who have raised
her may have to give her up to her true
biological parents.
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy
never dreams that it will serve as the sole
means of escape for him and his grandmother
when hostile Indians threaten their prairie
cabin.
Will Daniel be able to forgive Phil for an
accusation that was based on racial prejudice?
What will each boy learn about the other, and
most important, about himself?
Staying with her grandparents after the atomic
Skeleton Man
4.8
Treasure
A Taste of Smoke
Marion Dane
Bauer
Bruce Brooks
5.2
26 Fairmount Avenue
Tomie DePaola
4.4
The Door in the Wall
Marguerite de
Angeli
6.2
Drive-by
Lynne Ewing
3.6
Bionicle: Legends #5:
Inferno
Greg Farshtey
5.6
Bionicle: Legends #7:
Prisoners of the Pit
Greg Farshtey
5.7
The Midnight Horse
Sid Fleischman
4.2
The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman
3.9
Stone Fox
John Reynolds
Gardiner
4.0
Terror at the Zoo
Peg Kehret
4.6
Frightmares: Bone
Breath and the Vandals
Peg Kehret
4.8
The Wolfbay Wings #:
Woodsie
5.2
bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, tenyear-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her
heart has departed forever and she will no
longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing
for the contest at school.
On a camping trip, Caitlin encounters the
ghost of a boy who died 500 years before.
At the start of the new hockey season,
Woodsie alone believes that his teammates
can pick themselves up after several key
players defect to a rival team.
Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola
describes his experiences at home and in
school when he was a boy.
A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England
proves his courage and earns recognition from
the king.
Twelve-year-old Tito, while helping to care for
his little sister, struggles to find his way during
the aftermath of his brother's death in a gangrelated shooting.
The Toa Inika wage a desperate running battle
in the heart of a volcano as the hunt for the
Mask of Life reaches its climax! The Toa must
defeat the Piraka to reach the mask, but if they
do, they will face a monster beyond all
imagining.
Trapped in the ocean's depths, mutated
beyond recognition, the Toa must face their
greatest challenges. They need to convince the
Matoran who live in the watery city of Mahri
Nui to trust them.
Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a
ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's
plans to put Touch into the orphan house and
swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss
Sally.
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have
many adventures when they inadvertently
trade places.
Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his
grandfather's farm with the purse from a
dogsled race he enters.
A camp-out at a deserted zoo turns scary for
Corey and her little brother.
Rosie and Kayo are captured by spray-paint
vandals.
Toning the Sweep
Angela Johnson
4.7
Looking For Red
Angela Johnson
4.6
Aquamarine
Alice Hoffman
5.6
Don’t You Dare Read
This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Margaret Peterson
Haddix
4.9
Once Upon America:
The Day It Rained
Forever – The Story of
the Johnstown Flood
Virginia T. Gross
4.2
Sable
Karen Hesse
3.8
Green Angel
Alice Hoffman
5.2
Skin
Rick Jasper
3.9
The Night I Saved the
Universe
Joel and Abby
Klein
4.2
Naomi’s Road
Joy Kogawa
3.4
How I Survived Middle
School: Madame
Nancy Krulik
3.9
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.
In this story, a thirteen-year-old girl struggles
to cope with the loss of her beloved older
brother, who disappeared four months earlier
off the coast of Cape Cod.
On the edge of growing up, during a summer
that is the hottest on record, Hailey and Claire
learn that life can take an unpredictable
course, that friendship is forever, and that
magic can be found in the most unexpected
places.
In the journal she is keeping for English class,
sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in
her life when her abusive father returns home
after a two-year absence.
Christina Berwind and her family live in
Johnstown. When the rains came, the dam
that held Lake Conemaugh burst, unleashing a
wall of water 125 feet high and rushing down
the narrow valley at 50 miles an hour toward
the town.
Tate is determined to keep a stray dog despite
her mother's protests.
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing
her family, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into
her ruined garden as she struggles to survive
emotionally and physically on her own.
Something evil is living under Nick Barry's skin.
He slowly finds out what's wrong with him, but
there's still one question that Nick must face
alone, how to destroy an evil that is inside
him. The plot contains descriptions of violence.
Mickey never heard of the Galactic Police
Department until he meets Crotis, a giant,
hairy, alien cop who offers to take him on the
ride of his life on Crotis's cool patrol spaceship.
Based on the award-winning novel Obasan,
this story parallels the author's own
experiences in a Canadian camp during World
War II.
When Jenny's friends hear that Addie is
running unopposed for sixth-grade president,
President
How I Survived Middle
School: I Heard a Rumor
Nancy Krulik
4.0
The Girls
Amy Goldman
Koss
4.7
When the Cherry
Blossoms Fell
Jennifer Maruno
4.3
The Drinking Gourd
F. N. Monjo
3.0
Among the Dolls
William Sleator
5.1
Tucket’s Gold
Gary Paulsen
5.2
The Winter Room
Gary Paulsen
5.0
Road Trip
Gary Paulsen and
Jim Paulsen
4.3
Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen
3.8
Masters of Disaster
Gary Paulsen
6.5
they know they have to convince Jenny to put
her name on the ballot. If they can't keep
Addie from winning, the Pops will officially run
the school.
The debut of the Madame X gossip column has
turned Joyce Kilmer Middle School upside
down. Whoever Madame X is, she's got her
finger on the pulse of the school and the
power to turn friends against one another by
spreading rumors.
Each of the girls in a middle-school clique
reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of
the group exerts on the others, causing hurt
and self-doubt among the girls.
Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa wants to be
proud of her heritage but can't be. The world
is at war and the government of Canada has
taken unprecedented actions against her
community and treats all Japanese people as
enemy aliens.
Sent home alone for misbehaving in church,
Tommy discovers that his house is a station on
the underground railroad.
Vicky is disappointed in her birthday gift of a
dollhouse, but she experiences real terror
when she is drawn into the house and the lives
of its malicious inhabitants.
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children
he has adopted travel across the Old West,
evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and
wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
A young boy growing up on a northern
Minnesota farm describes the scenes around
him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's
tales of an almost mythological logging past.
A father and son embark on a road trip to a
distant animal shelter to save a homeless
border collie puppy.
Sarny is a slave who wants to read and write,
and Nightjohn is a slave who returned from
freedom in the North to educate his friends.
The plot contains violence and cruelty.
Twelve-year-old Henry Mosely, having decided
his life is boring, ropes his friends Riley and
Reed into a series of hair-raising adventures,
including trying to break world records, visiting
a haunted house, and solving a century-old
Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen
4.3
World of Adventure:
Danger on Midnight
River
Abel’s Island
Gary Paulsen
3.7
William Steig
5.9
Hachiko Waits
Lesléa Newman
4.7
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park
5.0
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park
4.5
I Had Seen Castles
Cynthia Rylant
5.7
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
5.3
The Best Christmas
Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson
5.1
How to Eat Fried Worms Thomas Rockwell
3.5
The Time Warp Trio:
Tut, Tut
Jon Scieszka
4.2
The Time Warp Trio:
Your Mother Was a
Neanderthal
Jon Scieszka
3.7
Miracle’s Boys
Jacqueline
Woodson
4.3
murder.
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old
boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand
his summer lawn-mowing business.
Daniel helps rescue the bullies who have
teased him.
Stranded on a deserted island, a lovable young
mouse discovers inner resources he did not
know he possessed.
Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for
him at the train station every afternoon, and
even after the professor has a fatal heart
attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully
continues to await his return until the day the
dog dies.
Eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from
his family when the Sudanese civil war reaches
his village in 1985, and he must walk with
other Dinka tribe members in search of a safe
haven.
A young girl copes with the death of her
brother in a bike accident.
The complexities of war seen by a man
haunted by memories of World War II.
After the death of the beloved aunt who has
raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her
Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in
search of the strength to go on living.
The Herdman children, given to horrible
pranks, take over the Sunday school Christmas
pageant and eventually learn the true meaning
of Christmas.
Billy accepts the challenge to eat fifteen
worms in fifteen days when his friend bets fifty
dollars that he cannot do it.
Because of a magical time travel book, the kids
are dodging crocodiles and trying to outwit the
evil high priest.
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the
middle of an adventure in prehistoric times,
where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock"
music takes on a whole new meaning.
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship
with his older brother Charlie changes after
Charlie is released from a detention home and
blames Lafayette for the death of their
Between Madison and
Palmetto
Jacqueline
Woodson
3.9
Maizon at Blue Hill
Jacqueline
Woodson
4.1
Last Summer with
Maizon
Jacqueline
Woodson
4.0
Feathers
Jacqueline
Woodson
4.4
Recruited
Suzanne Weyn
4.2
Beaten
Suzanne Weyn
4.0
Cloaked in Red
Vivian Vande
Velde
5.9
Inside Out
Terry Trueman
4.6
Call it Courage
Armstrong Sperry
6.2
Storm Runners
Roland Smith
4.5
Chocolate Fever
Robert Kimmel
4.2
mother.
When Margaret's best friend Maizon returns
from boarding school and joins her in the
eighth grade, they try to resume their
friendship while dealing with personal
problems and watching their Brooklyn
neighborhood undergo changes.
Maizon gets a scholarship to a boarding school
where she confronts questions about her
friends, her family, racism, and her AfricanAmerican heritage.
This is the story of a very special friendship
and also deals with the identification and
nurturing of the gifted Black child.
When a new, white student nicknamed the
Jesus Boy joins her sixth grade class in the
winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship
with him makes her start to see some things in
a new light.
Kadeem Jones is a star quarterback for
Southside High. He is thrilled when college
scouts seek him out. A recruiter from Teller
College gives him money to have a good time.
The NCAA officials accuse Teller's staff of
illegally recruiting top talent.
Paige is thrilled when she starts dating Ty, the
football team's star running back, but when Ty
hits her out of anger and is arrested for
assault, she realizes she needs to decide
between being afraid and being alone.
This collection of eight short stories retells the
tale of Little Red Riding Hood from different
viewpoints.
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.
An inspiring youth overcomes his fear of the
sea and proves his courage to himself and his
tribe.
Thirteen-year-old Chase Masters and his father
are storm runners, learning more on the road
than he would in school. Chase is tested in
ways he never could have imagined when he
and a new friend are caught in a hurricane
near St. Petersburg
From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks
Smith
Rewind
William Sleator
4.1
Report to the Principal’s
Office
Jerry Spinelli
4.5
Bloodlines: Depth
Charge
M. Zachary
Sherman
5.3
Bloodlines: Fighting
Phantoms
M. Zachary
Sherman
5.5
Winning Season: The
Roar of the Crowd
Rich Wallace
4.2
Winning Season:
Technical Foul
Rich Wallace
4.1
Winning Season: Double Rich Wallace
Fake
4.2
Winning Season:
Curveball
4.8
Rich Wallace
out in brown bumps that help him foil some
hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson
about self-indulgence.
Not long after learning that he was adopted,
eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then
given several chances to alter events that
could lead to his death.
While Sunny is determined to hate everyone
at Plumstead Middle School, Eddie hopes to
simply survive, Salem tries her hand at writing,
and Pickles acts like -- Pickles. These four have
one thing in common, they're all about to
report to the principal.
Lieutenant Aaron Donovan of the Office of
Strategic Services embarks on a dangerous
mission to get aboard a damaged German
submarine and obtain the newest codebooks
for the German Enigma cipher machine.
In late 1970, Lieutenant Donovan sits aboard
an aircraft carrier waiting to fly his plane over
the skies of Vietnam. Then the call comes in--a
Marine Recon unit has taken heavy fire and
requires air support.
After years of playing nothing but soccer in
Hudson City, New Jersey, Manny has to work
very hard to play on the middle school football
team, using determination, speed, and smarts
to make up for being small and inexperienced.
Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson
City Middle School basketball team, gets angry
when the point guard accuses him of being
responsible for their string of losses, but finally
realizes they can win only if he becomes a
team player.
It's summer time, a time to hang out and have
fun for Calvin and his friend, Zero. They look
forward to a season of soccer with the YMCA
summer league and helping their team go into
the finals.
Seventh-grade baseball player Eddie Ventura
listens to the sports announcer's voice in his
head and gets into trouble when he writes a
series of articles for the school paper.