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Thompson, John. Jewel. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2001.
Inspirational story of performer, musician Jewel who made a bold decision that enabled her to devote all her time to music.
Reiss, Johanna. The upstairs room. New York : HarperCollins, c1972.
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.
Almond, David, 1951-. Kit's wilderness. 1st American ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, 2000.
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
Almond, David, 1951-. Skellig. New York : Delacorte Press, 1999.
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.
Anderson, John David, 1975-. Standard hero behavior. New York : Clarion
Books, c2007.
When fifteen-year-old Mason Quayle finds out that their town of
Darlington is about to be attacked by orcs, goblins, ogres, and trolls, he goes in search of some heroes to save the day.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York :
Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, c2000.
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Appelfeld, Aron. Badenheim 1939. 1st English ed. Boston : D. R. Godine,
1980.
A sampling of Jewish middle class life arrives at a resort town near
Vienna in 1939 along with the bland inspectors from the "Sanitation department.".
Appelfeld, Aron. Tzili, the story of a life. 1st Grove Press ed. New York : Grove
Press ;, 1996.
Tzili,the youngest of a large Jewish family, stays behind when her family flees Hitler's armies and seeks refuge and shelter among peasants in the forest.
Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-. Steal away. New York : Scholastic, c1992.
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom,
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Auth, Jeannine. Emmy's question. St. Augustine, FL : Morningtide Press, c2007.
Nine-year-old Emmy struggles with her mother's addiction to alcohol and tries to keep the truth from her friends at school and from herself.
Avi, 1937-. Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel. New York : Orchard
Books, c1991.
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Banks, Lynne Reid, 1929-. Broken bridge. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Morrow
Junior Books, 1994.
The murder of fourteen-year-old Glen Shelby, soon after his arrival in
Israel to visit his father's family, has a dramatic effect on the lives of his relatives, the other members of their kibbutz, and the Arabs responsible for his death.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The boy who dared. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic
Press, 2008.
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the
German people.
Baskin, Nora Raleigh. The truth about my bat mitzvah. 1st ed. New York :
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
After her beloved grandmother, Nana, dies, non-religious twelve-year-old
Caroline becomes curious about her mother's Jewish ancestry.
Bauer, Cat. Harley, like a person. New York : Knopf, [2007], c2000.
During her freshman year of high school, Harley decides she is not related to her abusive father and angry mother and embarks on a journey to find her real parents.
Bauer, Michael Gerard, 1950-. Don't call me Ishmael. 1st ed. New York :
Greenwillow Books, 2007, c2006.
Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new boy arrives, he shows Ishmael that things could be different.
Bell, Hilari. Sword of waters. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, c2008.
When fourteen-year-old Arisa, aided by Prince Edoran and Weasel, tries to find the long-lost sword, she faces betrayal of the worst kind.
Bennett, Cherie. The accident. [Mahwah, N.J.] : Troll, c1996.
Tina Wu, a volunteer at Hope Hospital, is impressed with the courage of
Marissa, a little girl whose face has been terribly disfigured in a fire, so when beautiful cheerleader Krystal Franklin is scarred in a car accident,
Tina knows Marissa can help Krystal deal with the tragedy.
Bennett, Cherie. Anne Frank and me. New York : Putnam's, c2001.
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit,
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Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the
Nazi occupation.
Bennett, Cherie. Life in the fat lane. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1999], c1998.
Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming
Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.
Bennett, Jay. Coverup : a novel. New York : Watts, c1991.
Teenage Brad is tormented by confused memories of a drunken ride with his best friend Alden, during which they may have hit and killed a man.
Bennett, Jay. The executioner. New York : Avon Books, c1982.
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 haunted one. New York : F. Watts, 1987.
After the girl eighteen-year-old Paul loves drowns at the New Jersey beach while he is the lifeguard on duty, he begins to receive phone calls from her and to see her in odd places.
Bennett, Jay. Sing me a death song. New York : Fawcett Juniper, 1991, c1990.
Jason risks his life to find evidence that his mother, a convicted murderer facing execution, was framed.
Bennett, Jay. Skinhead : a novel. New York : F. Watts, 1991.
A plea from a dying man he has never seen before involves nineteenyear-old Jonathan in a life-and-death struggle with white-supremacist skinheads.
Blacker, Terence. Boy2girl. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2005, c2004.
After the death of his mother, thirteen-year-old Sam comes to live with his cousin; and as a prank, he dresses up as a girl for school.
Block, Francesca Lia. The waters & the wild. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2009.
Thirteen-year-old Bee realizes that she is a fairy who has been switched at birth with another girl who now wants her life back.
Blume, Judy. Tiger eyes. New York : Dell, 1991, c1981.
Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-
Eleven store in Atlantic City.
Bo, Ben. Skullcrack. Minneapolis : Lerner Sports, 2000.
Jonah, a troubled boy who escapes from his dreary life with an alcoholic father by surfing on the coast of Ireland, discovers that he has a twin sister with whom he has an unusual mental link.
Borland, Hal, 1900-1978. When the legends die. [1st ed.]. Philadelphia, :
Lippincott, [1963].
After being betrayed by his own people and by white men, a Ute Indian boy tries to regain his pride in himself and his heritage.
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. The Martian chronicles. Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday,
1958.
The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the world they had left.
Brashares, Ann. 3 willows : the sisterhood grows. 1st ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2009.
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, are looking forward to high school, but wonder if their relationship will survive the challenges that each girl faces over the summer break.
Brashares, Ann. Girls in pants : the third summer of the Sisterhood. New York
: Delacorte Press, c2005.
The girls in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduate from high school and spend their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.
Brashares, Ann. The second summer of the Sisterhood. New York : Delacorte
Press, c2003.
The traveling pants and the Sisterhood that shares them embark on their second summer together.
Brashares, Ann. The sisterhood of the traveling pants. New York : Delacorte, c2001.
Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and
Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.
Brewer, Heather. The chronicles of Vladimir Tod : eighth grade bites. New
York : Speak, 2008, c2007.
Thirteen-year-old half-vampire Vladimir Tod struggles to navigate the ups and downs of eighth grade while keeping his untested powers and impulses under control.
Brewer, Heather. The chronicles of Vladimir Tod : ninth grade slays. 1st ed.
New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2008.
While half-vampire Vlad, his best friend Henry, and Henry's cousin Joss make their way through their freshman year at Bathory High, a hired vampire slayer seeks to destroy Vlad.
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. Night wings. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2009.
After being taken captive by a band of treasure seekers, thirteen-yearold Paul and his Abenaki grandfather must face a legendary Native
American monster at the top of Mount Washington.
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. Skeleton man. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
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.
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. The way. Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007.
Cody LeBeau, the new kid, becomes the new target for the bullies even though he is Abenaki like most of the school, but things begin to change
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Cody begin training together.
Burg, Ann E. All the broken pieces : a novel in verse. 1st ed. New York :
Scholastic Press, 2009.
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. A little princess. New York :
Scholastic, c2000.
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Butler, Dori Hillestad. Do you know the monkey man? 1st ed. Atlanta, Ga. :
Peachtree, c2005.
While searching for the father who left her and her mother ten years ago, thirteen-year-old Samantha begins to believe that the twin sister who supposedly died when they were three years old is still alive.
Cabot, Meg. The princess diaries. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2000.
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of
Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Cabot, Meg. Princess in the spotlight. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
Mia, the fourteen-year-old New York City-raised heir to the throne of the tiny European country of Genovia, manages to alienate her best friend, her family, and her soon-to-be-subjects in the space of one national primetime interview.
Carter, Ally. Cross my heart and hope to spy. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2007.
Genius Cammie Morgan begins the spring semester of her sophomore year with many questions about her ex-boyfriend, mother, and the last term, and intends to use her spying abilities to have them answered.
Carter, Ally. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. 1st Hyperion
Paperbacks ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2007, c2006.
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Carter, Anne, 1953-. The shepherd's granddaughter. Toronto : Groundwood
Books/House of Anansi Press ;, 2008.
Amani's lifelong dream to be a shepherd like her beloved grandfather,
Seedo, is devastated to discover the Israelis are going to build a settlement on the family homestead in Palestine, and while her uncle and brother prepare to take a militant stance, help comes from unexpected quarters.
Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of impossible goodbyes. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
1991.
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A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.
Cohn, Rachel. Two steps forward. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006.
Fourteen-year-old Annabel's extended family gathers in Los Angeles for several weeks over the summer where she must contend with step- and half- sisters and brothers and her own mother's failing second marriage.
Cole, Brock. The goats. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
Colfer, Eoin. Airman. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Cooper, Susan. The dark is rising. New York : Collier Books, 1986, c1973.
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the
Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old
Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
Cooper, Susan. The grey king. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry
Books, c1975.
Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
Cooper, Susan, 1935-. The Dark is rising. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007, c1973.
An eleven-year-old boy searches for six magical signs in order to save the world from the threatening evil of the Dark.
Crocker, Nancy. Billie Standish was here. 1st ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007.
The river jeopardizes the levee and most of the town leaves; but Miss
Lydia, an elderly neighbor, and Billie form a friendship that withstands tragedy and time.
Dahme, Joanne. Creepers. Philadelphia : RP Teens, c2008.
Thirteen-year-old Courtney, trying to adjust to life in Murmur,
Massachusetts, meets a father and daughter and joins them in trying to locate the remains of one of their family members whose body has disappeared from the cemetery behind Courtney's house.
Dashner, James, 1972-. The Journal of Curious Letters. Salt Lake City, Utah :
Shadow Mountain, 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.G.," and the clues contained therein lead him on a journey to the perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil Mistress Jane.
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Deans, Sis Boulos. Racing the past. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2001.
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
Dionne, Erin, 1975-. Models don't eat chocolate cookies. New York : Dial
Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss Huskey Peach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.
Doyle, Brian. Pure Spring. Toronto : Groundwood Books ;, c2007.
It's spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Matin has found a true home.
He's also working even though he had to lie about his age to get the job.
Martin is also in love, but his boss is robbing the family of the one he loves.
Durrant, Sabine. Cross your heart, Connie Pickles. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
HarperTempest, 2007.
Fourteen-year-old Connie Pickles records in her diary her determination to find a husband for her mother while wading into the waters of friendship, love, and money.
Ellis, Ann Dee. Everything is fine. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co.
Books for Young Readers, 2009.
When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to try to cope with her mother, who has been severely depressed since the death of Mazzy's baby sister.
Farmer, Nancy, 1941-. A girl named Disaster. New York : Puffin Books, 1998, c1996.
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Fast, Howard, 1914-. April morning, : a novel. New York, : Crown Publishers,
[1961].
Adam Cooper signs up on the muster roll of the Lexington Militia on April
19th, 1775, and then lives through the first day of conflict with the
British, during which his father is killed.
Ferris, Jean, 1939-. Bad. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998.
In an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls'
Rehabilitation Center.
Ferris, Jean, 1939-. Of sound mind. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux,
2001.
Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent.
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Flake, Sharon. Money hungry. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Books For Children, c2001.
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
Flake, Sharon. The skin I'm in. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Books for Children, c1998.
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
Fleischman, Paul. Mind's eye. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2001], c1999.
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a
1910 guidebook.
Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy,
1992, c1990.
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
Fleischman, Paul. Seek. Chicago : Cricket Books, c2001.
Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.
Fleischman, Paul. Whirligig. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1998.
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
Fox, Paula. The slave dancer. Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1975, c1973.
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Franklin, Kristine L. Dove song. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press,
1999.
When eleven-year-old Bobbie Lynn's father is reported missing in action in Vietnam, she and her thirteen-year-old brother must learn to cope with their own despair, as well as their mother's breakdown.
Fritz, Jean. Homesick : my own story. New York : Dell, 1984, c1982.
The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920s.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. New York : HarperCollins, c2002.
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a
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Gantos, Jack. The love curse of the Rumbaughs. 1st Square Fish ed. New York
: Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, c2006.
A young woman named Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. The cry of the crow : a novel. 1st ed. New
York : Harper & Row, c1980.
While caring for a baby crow, Mandy begins to look at her family and herself in a different light.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Julie. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1994.
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Julie of the wolves. New York : HarperCollins, c1972.
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteenyear-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo : an ecological mystery. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, 1992.
Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. My side of the mountain,. [1st ed.]. New
York, : Dutton, 1959.
Young Sam Gribley leaves New York City and spends a year living by himself in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. On the far side of the mountain. 1st ed. New
York : Dutton Children's Books, c1990.
Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Shark beneath the reef. 1st ed. New York :
Harper & Row, c1989.
On the Island of Coronado, a young Mexican fisherman comes of age as he becomes aware of the politics, corruption, and changes around him.
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. The talking earth. 1st ed. New York : Harper
& Row, c1983.
Billie Wind ventures out alone into the Florida Everglades to test the legends of her Indian ancestors and learns the importance of listening to the earth's vital messages.
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Gratz, Alan, 1972-. The Brooklyn nine : a novel in nine innings. New York :
Dial Books, c2009.
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
Green, Tim, 1963-. Football champ. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, c2009.
Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football plays proves a powerful secret weapon for the Atlanta Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects something is going on and sets out to shred the reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.
Green, Tim, 1963-. Football hero. 1st ed. New York, NY :
HarperCollinsPublishers, c2008.
When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the mafia.
Grimes, Nikki. Bronx masquerade. New York : Dial Books, c2002.
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
Gutman, Dan. Jim & me : a baseball card adventure. 1st ed. New York, NY :
HarperCollins Publishers, c2008.
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912
Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Closed for the season : a mystery story. Boston :
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
Hahn, Mary Downing. December stillness. New York : Clarion Books, c1988.
Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Deep and dark and dangerous. Boston : Sandpiper, c2007.
While spending the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home in Maine, thirteen-year-old Ali stumbles upon the secret to the childhood tragedy that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Hale, Shannon. Book of a thousand days. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury
;, 2007.
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the
Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then
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Hamilton, Virginia. The planet of Junior Brown. New York : Macmillan, [1971].
Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children,
Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
Hamilton, Virginia. Zeely. 1st Aladdin Books ed. New York : Aladdin Books,
1986, c1967.
Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.
Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. The house of Dies Drear. New York :
Macmillan, [1968].
An African-American family moves into a house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves and soon come to believe that their new home is possessed by the spirit of a murdered abolitionist, Dies Drear.
Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. The mystery of Drear House : the conclusion of the Dies Drear Chronicle. New York : Greenwillow, c1987.
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.
Harrington, Jane. Four things my geeky-jock-of-a-best-friend must do in
Europe. Plain City, Ohio: Darby Creek Pub., c2006.
Written in the form of letters to her best friend, Delia, back home, Brady tells of her adventures while on a Mediterranean cruise with her mother, and her progress on Delia's list of things she must do, including the search for a "code-red Euro-hottie.".
Harrington, Jane. My best friend, the Atlantic Ocean, and other great bodies standing between me and my life with Giulio. Plain City, OH : Darby
Creek Pub., [2008].
As a class assignment, Delia keeps a journal and records her life and her fantasies about the Italian exchange student Giulio, who also happens to be Brady's boyfriend. And, oh, by the way, Brady is Delia's best friend.
Haugaard, Erik Christian. The boy and the samurai. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1991.
Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century
Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
Haugaard, Erik Christian. The revenge of the forty-seven samurai. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
A fourteen-year-old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord
Asano's death.
Haugaard, Erik Christian. Under the black flag. Niwot, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart
Pub., c1993.
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The son of a plantation owner in Jamaica is kidnapped by the pirate
Blackbeard and held for ransom. He befriends a young slave from another pirate ship and together they plan their escape.
Hautzig, Esther Rudomin. The endless steppe : growing up in Siberia. 1st
Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1987, c1968.
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
Heldring, Thatcher. Toby Wheeler, eighth-grade benchwarmer. 1st ed. New
York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
When Toby finally decides to join the middle school basketball team, he does not anticipate the changes that will occur in his relationship with his best friend JJ, who is the team's star player, as well as in other areas of his life.
Hesse, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and
Friends, 2008.
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life takes a dramatic turn when, in
1903 Brooklyn, his parents turn their apartment into a factory for making teddy bears; and Joseph wonders whether he will ever see the glitter of
Coney Island.
Hiaasen, Carl. Scat. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2009.
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared
Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
Hinton, S. E. Hawkes Harbor. 1st mass market ed. New York : Tor, 2005, c2004.
Mental patient Jamie Sommers suffers from depression, partial amnesia, and a fear of the dark, but as Dr. McDevitt continues to try and probe the mind of the boy, Jamie is drawn closer and closer to the ultimate evil that could destroy him.
Hinton, S. E. The outsiders. Laurel Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1984, c1967.
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
Hinton, S. E. Rumble fish. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for
Young Readers, [1989], c1975.
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Hinton, S. E. Taming the star runner. Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1989, c1988.
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small
Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey.
Hinton, S. E. Tex. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young
Readers, [1989], c1979.
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The love between two teen-age brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
Hinton, S. E. That was then, this is now. New York : Speak, 2003, c1971.
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Ho, Minfong. The clay marble. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
1991.
In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn
Cambodia and becomes separated from her family.
Ho, Minfong. Rice without rain. 1st ed. New York : Lothrop, 1990.
After social rebels convince the headman of a small village in northern
Thailand to resist the land rent, his seventeen-year-old daughter Jinda finds herself caught up in the student uprising in Bangkok.
Hobbs, Will. The Big Wander. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young
Readers ;, c1992.
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo
Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
Hobbs, Will. Crossing the wire. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
Hobbs, Will. Down the Yukon. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
Hoffman, Alice. Aquamarine. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2001.
A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
Hoffman, Alice. Incantation. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a
Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
Hoffman, Alice. Indigo. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2002.
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
Holt, Kimberly Willis. Dancing in Cadillac light. New York : G.P. Putnam's,
Puffin Books, c2002, c2001.
In 1968, eleven-year-old Jaynell's life in the town of Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family.
Holt, Kimberly Willis. When Zachary Beaver came to town. New York : Holt, c1999.
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During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old
Toby and his best friend, Cal, meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound
Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
Hoobler, Dorothy. A samurai never fears death : a samurai mystery. New
York : Sleuth/Philomel, c2007.
Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
Hoobler, Dorothy. Seven paths to death : a samurai mystery. New York :
Philomel Books, c2008.
Samurai Seikei and Judge Ooka, his foster-father, search for seven men who have seven parts of a map tattooed on their backs, but when they put the pieces of the map together, Seikei and Judge Ooka learn of a dangerous location.
Hopkins, Cathy. Mates, dates, and inflatable bras. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New
York : Simon Pulse, 2003, c2001.
Fourteen-year-old Lucy finds herself desperately in need of a self-esteem boost when she is completely stumped by a class writing assignment, gets a bad haircut, and decides her physical development is lacking in comparison with her friends.
Howe, James, 1946-. The watcher. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, c1997.
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.
Howe, Norma. The adventures of Blue Avenger : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
H. Holt, 1999.
On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides--or does he--to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his
Oakland neighborhood and in the world.
Hunt, Irene. The lottery rose. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley Books, 1996, c1976.
A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.
Hunt, Irene. No promises in the wind. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley, 1993, c1970.
A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s.
Ibbitson, John. The landing : a novel. Toronto, ON ; : KCP Fiction, c2008.
Ben, who manages to grab some practice on his violin between chores at his Uncle Henry's business at Cooks Landing, gets a job fixing the grand old cottage on Pine Island and meets Ruth, a rich, cultured woman from
New York who introduces Ben to a new, more liberating world until a storm on Lake Muskoka changes everything.
Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-. The circuit : stories from the life of a migrant
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Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith, hope, and back-breaking work.
Jinks, Catherine. Evil genius. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2007, c2005.
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Jones, David, 1956-. Baboon : a novel. Toronto ; : Annick Press ;, c2007.
Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland regains consciousness after a plane crash in the African savanna only to discover that he has become one of the baboons his parents are studying.
Jones, V. M (Victoria Mary), 1958-. Out of reach. 1st Marshall Cavendish ed.
New York : Marshall Cavendish, 2008, c2003.
Pip McLeod is pressured by his aggressively competitive father to play soccer, but finds fulfillment and success by secretly pursuing indoor rock climbing, a sport he actually enjoys.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam. 1st ed. New York :
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.
Karr, Kathleen. Fortune's fool. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
In medieval Germany, fifteen-year-old Conrad, a court jester, and his beloved Christa, a servant girl, escape from a cruel master and journey through the countryside on a quest to find a kind lord who will give them sanctuary.
Klages, Ellen, 1954-. White sands, red menace. New York, N.Y. : Viking,
2008.
It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile
Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister,"
Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives.
Konigsburg, E. L. The mysterious edge of the heroic world. 1st ed. New York :
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Amedo moves to a new town with a dream. He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search.
Konigsburg, E. L. The second Mrs. Giaconda. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,
1975.
Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da
Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.
Konigsburg, E. L. Silent to the bone. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, c2000.
Thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech after being wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, and only his friend
Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what happened.
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Korman, Gordon. Schooled. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Hyperion
Paperbacks for Children, 2008, c2007.
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.
Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.
Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in
Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe.
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. The castaways. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies.
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. Gemini summer. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.
Danny's grief over the death of his older brother Beau is eased when a stray puppy adopts him, but he soon realizes that Beau is somehow in the dog, and sets out to make his brother's dream of seeing a rocket launch at Cape Kennedy come true.
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. Ghost boy. New York : Delacorte, c2000.
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. Lord of the nutcracker men. New York : Delacorte
Press, c2001.
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. The séance. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
In 1926, magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and to expose fraudulent mediums but thirteen-year-old Scooter King, who works for his mother making her séances seem real, needs Houdini's help to solve a murder.
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. The wreckers. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998.
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the Cornish coastal town where they are stranded.
Lee, Tanith. Red unicorn. 1st mass market ed. New York : Tor, 1998, c1997.
Feeling neglected because her sorceress mother is enamored with a flamboyant magician and her sister, Emperess Lizra, is infatuated with her own true love, Tanaquil is drawn into another world in which her mirror self is plotting to murder her sister.
Lee, Tanith. Wolf Tower. 1st American ed. New York : Dutton Children's
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When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old
Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
L'Engle, Madeleine. A ring of endless light. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1980.
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
L'Engle, Madeleine. A swiftly tilting planet. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1978.
The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against a dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
L'Engle, Madeleine. A wind in the door. New York : Bantam Doubelday Dell
Books for Young Readers, [1976], c1973.
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
Levin, Betty. The unmaking of Duncan Veerick. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front
Street, c2007.
Reluctantly, thirteen-year-old Duncan helps his neighbor, a widow recovering from a stroke, by hiding valuable antiques and art objects her husband had collected, but disaster strikes and the secrets he has been asked to keep may mean big trouble for Duncan.
Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. The cure. 1st ed. San Diego : Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Brace, c1999.
A young boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in
Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the antisemitism that sweeps through
Europe during the Black Plague.
Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Escape from Egypt : a novel. New York, NY : Puffin
Books, 1996.
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a
Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Evil encounter. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c1996.
Michelle begins attending group sessions to help her deal with her parents' divorce, but her increasingly intense involvement with the group's charismatic leader leads to even bigger problems for both her and her mother.
Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Yesterday's child. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1997.
After her mother's sudden death, high school student Laura starts hunting for information about her mother's mysterious past, and in searching, uncovers some terrible secrets.
Lewis, Richard, 1949-. The killing sea. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
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In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers,
American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.
Lipsyte, Robert. The chief. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1993.
On the verge of having a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship, nineteen-year-old Sonny Bear finds himself with conflicting loyalties when trouble erupts on his reservation over the construction of a new gambling casino. Sequel to "The Brave.".
Lipsyte, Robert. The contender. New York : HarperCollins, c1967.
A Harlem high school drop-out escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym. He learns being a contender is hard and often discouraging work and that you don't know anything until you try.
Lipsyte, Robert. One fat summer. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1977.
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
Lipsyte, Robert. Summer rules : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1981.
A teen-age boy has to deal with an unwanted summer camp job, his first love, and some crucial decisions.
Lipsyte, Robert. Yellow flag. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperTeen, 2007.
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.
Low, Dene. The entomological tales of Augustus T. Percival : Petronella saves nearly everyone. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
Petronella, who is about to celebrate her sixteenth birthday, finds out that her guardian, Uncle Augustus T. Percival, has a compulsion to eat bugs; but during the celebration, the birthday girl notices that guests are disappearing and that insects are turning up as clues.
Lowry, Lois. Autumn street. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
When her father goes to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often cruel realities of the adult world.
Lubar, David. Hidden talents. 1st ed. New York : Tom Doherty, 1999.
When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.
Lubar, David. Sleeping freshmen never lie. 1st ed. New York : Dutton
Children's Books, c2005.
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
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Luna, Louisa. Brave new girl. New York : Pocket Books, c2001.
Fourteen-year-old Doreen is trying to cope with her troubled relationship with her parents and the disappearance of her older brother, relying on her only links to the real world, her best friend Ted and her love of music, to get her through her teenage years.
Lupica, Mike. The big field. New York : Philomel Books, c2008.
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Lupica, Mike. Heat. New York : Philomel Books (Scholastic), Puffin Books, c2007, c2006.
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Lupica, Mike. Summer ball. New York : Philomel Books, 2007.
Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
MacHale, D. J. Black water. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, c2004.
Just when 15-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler he is faced with an impossible choice.
MacHale, D. J. The lost city of Faar. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, 2007.
Bobby is in the territory of Cloral and helps rid the area of marauders and locates the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to
Cloral's survival.
MacHale, D. J. The merchant of death. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.
Bobby, a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy, is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.
MacHale, D. J. The never war. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, 2007.
Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral named Spader have flumed to New
York City in 1937 where the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plot.
MacHale, D. J. The pilgrims of Rayne. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c2007.
With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the territories,
Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and battling--their way through different worlds as they try to save all of Halla.
MacHale, D. J. The Quillan games. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c2006.
With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to
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MacHale, D. J. The reality bug. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, 2007.
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon travels to Veelox, a world whose inhabitants have abandoned their real lives in favor of virtual reality.
MacHale, D. J. The rivers of Zadaa. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c2005.
The demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of
Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other
Travelers.
MacPhail, Catherine. Missing. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, ;, 2002, c2000.
Thirteen-year-old Maxine struggles to learn what is real when she begins receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be her runaway brother,
Derek, who has just been declared dead.
Magoon, Kekla. The rock and the river. 1st Aladdin ed. New York : Aladdin,
2009.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for
African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black
Panther Party.
Marsden, John, 1950-. A killing frost. 1st American ed. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin, 1998, c1995.
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the
Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
Marsden, John, 1950-. Letters from the inside. New York : Bantam Doubleday
Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1991.
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.
Marsden, John, 1950-. Tomorrow, when the war began. 1st American ed.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
Matas, Carol, 1949-. After the war. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c1996.
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteenyear-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to
Palestine.
Matas, Carol, 1949-. Greater than angels. 1st ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998.
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon,
France, during the German occupation.
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Matas, Carol, 1949-. In my enemy's house. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c1999.
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young
Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
Mazer, Harry. The girl of his dreams. 1st ed. New York : T.Y. Crowell, c1987.
Willis thinks he wants to fall in love but when Sophie comes into his life, and falls in love with him, he's not sure if she really is the girl of his dreams.
Mazer, Harry. Heroes don't run. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Scholastic), c2005.
To honor his father who died during the Japanese invasion of Pearl
Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the island of Okinawa.
Mazer, Harry. The last mission. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for
Young Readers, [1981], c1979.
In 1944, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the
West but instead enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
McCafferty, Megan. Sloppy firsts : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers
Press, c2001.
Sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated when her best friend moves away and leaves Jessica to face the trials of high school on her own.
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. Cut. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2000.
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. Purple Heart. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, c2009.
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his tenyear-old friend, Ali.
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. Sold. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2006.
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
McDonald, Janet, 1953-. Spellbound. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2001.
Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
McDonald, Janet, 1953-. Twists and turns. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
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With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteenyear-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live.
McGuigan, Mary Ann. Morning in a different place. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. :
Front Street, c2009.
In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-. Beware, Princess Elizabeth. 1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed. San Diego : Harcourt, 2002, c2001.
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old
Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming
Queen of England eleven years later.
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-. Doomed Queen Anne. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, c2002.
In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of
England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-. In Mozart's shadow : his sister's story. 1st ed. Orlando
: Harcourt, c2008.
In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender.
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-. Mary, Bloody Mary. 1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed. San
Diego : Harcourt, 2001, c1999.
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the midsixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of
King Henry VIII.
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-. The true adventures of Charley Darwin. 1st ed. Boston
[Mass.] : Harcourt, 2009.
In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous five-year journey by ship to explore the natural world.
Miklowitz, Gloria D. Past forgiving. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers , c1995.
Fifteen-year-old Alexandra finds that her boyfriend Cliff demands all her time, isolates her by his jealousy, and finally becomes physically abusive.
Miklowitz, Gloria D. The war between the classes. New York : Delacorte Press, c1985.
Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband.
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Miller, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-. Miss Spitfire : reaching Helen Keller. 1st ed.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old
Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
Minter, J. Inside girl : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury :, 2007.
Flan Flood, younger sister of the handsome and popular Patch, just wants to fit in when she starts high school in New York City, but her crazy friends Liesel, Sara Beth, and Philippa make it anything but easy for her.
Mitchell, Saundra. Shadowed summer. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's daughter. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, c1993.
After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.
Morris, Gerald, 1963-. The quest of the fair unknown. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin, 2006.
Having grown up in an isolated forest, Beaufils sets off for Camelot to find his father and winds up undertaking quests with Sirs Gawain and
Galahad, visiting various hermits, and traveling to the fairy world.
Mowry, Jess, 1960-. Babylon boyz. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers, c1997.
Inner-city teenagers find a suitcase full of cocaine and must decide whether to sell it and take the opportunities the money would provide or to destroy it to keep the drug from poisoning their community.
Murphy, Pat, 1955-. The wild girls. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2007.
When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Hoops. Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1984, c1981.
A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Monster. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve
Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life
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Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. The righteous revenge of Artemis Bonner. 1st ed.
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992.
Fifteen-year-old Artemis journeys from New York City to Tombstone,
Arizona, in 1882, to avenge the murder of his uncle.
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Scorpions. New York : HarperCollins, c1988.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the
Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
Myracle, Lauren, 1969-. The fashion disaster that changed my life. 1st ed.
New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2005.
Seventh-grader Alli describes in her journal the ups and downs of being in junior high, where she fits in, and what it means to be a real friend.
Naidoo, Beverley. Chain of fire. 1st American ed. New York : Lippincott, 1990, c1989.
When the villagers of Bophelong are forced to leave their houses and resettle in a barren "homeland," thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother join in a school demonstration and learn that the South
African government treats even children who dissent with brutality.
Nance, Andrew. Daemon Hall. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2007.
Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of
Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house.
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Alligator bayou. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb
Books, c2009.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and antiimmigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Jade green : a ghost story. New York : Atheneum, c1999.
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.
Nelson, Blake, 1960-. Gender blender. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2006.
When the students in health class at George Wilson Middle School are assigned girl/boy partners to discuss gender issues, no one could imagine that two students would actually switch bodies.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The dark and deadly pool. New York : Delacorte Press, c1987.
Sixteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Don't scream. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books
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When two new guys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if she can trust them.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. A family apart. Toronto ; : Bantam Books, 1987.
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in
Missouri in 1860.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The ghosts of now. New York : Dell, [1992], c1984.
High school senior Angie Dupree stirs up animosity and danger in the small west Texas community where her family has recently moved when she sets out to investigate the hit-and-run accident that has left her brother in a coma.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The haunting. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998.
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The kidnapping of Christina Lattimore. 1st ed. New York :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1979.
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 name of the game was murder. Thorndike, Me. :
Thorndike Press, c1993.
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Playing for keeps. New York : Delacorte Press, c2001.
On a Caribbean cruise, sixteen-year-old Rosie meets a teenage Cuban baseball player seeking political asylum in the United States and tries to help him escape a charge of murder.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The specter. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell, [1993], c1982.
A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nine-year-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Spirit seeker. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, c1995.
To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The stalker. New York : Dell, c1985.
When her best friend is accused of murder, seventeen-year-old Jennifer is determined to prove her innocence by finding the real culprit.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Who are you? New York : Delacorte Press, c1999.
When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a
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O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Carlota. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1989], c1977.
A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the
Californians and Americans.
O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. My name is not Angelica. New York : Dell Yearling,
[1990], c1989.
Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.
Paterson, Katherine. Of nightingales that weep. New York, : Crowell, [1974].
The vain young daughter of a samurai finds her comfortable life ripped apart when opposing warrior clans begin a struggle for imperial control of
Japan.
Patterson, James, 1947-. The angel experiment. 1st mass market ed. New
York : Warner Vision Books, 2006, c2005.
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the
"bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Patterson, James, 1947-. The final warning. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York :
Little, Brown and Co., 2008, c2007.
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Patterson, James, 1947-. Saving the world and other extreme sports. 1st mass market ed. New York : Vision, 2008, c2007.
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
Patterson, James, 1947-. School's out-- forever. 1st pbk. ed. New York :
Little, Brown, 2007, c2006.
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
Paulsen, Gary. Call me Francis Tucket. New York : Yearling, c1995.
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Paulsen, Gary. Canyons. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young
Readers, [1991], c1990.
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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 1800s.
Paulsen, Gary. The car. [1st ed.]. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eyeopening journey.
Paulsen, Gary. The crossing. Laurel-leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1990, c1987.
Young 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.
Paulsen, Gary. Harris and me : a summer remembered. San Diego : Harcourt
Brace & Co., 1993.
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
Paulsen, Gary. The island. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for
Young Readers, [1990], c1988.
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
Paulsen, Gary. The legend of Bass Reeves : being the true account of the most valiant marshal in the West. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb
Books, c2006.
The story of Bass Reeves who was born a slave and later became one of the most respected federal marshals in Oklahoma and Texas.
Paulsen, Gary. The monument. New York : Delacorte Press, 1991.
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
Paulsen, Gary. The rifle. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1995.
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, carried throughout the American
Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful
Christmas Eve of 1994.
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers : a novel of the Civil War. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998.
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Paulsen, Gary. The Transall saga. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998.
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Paulsen, Gary. The voyage of the Frog. New York : Orchard Books, c1989.
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive
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Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, c1990.
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.
Pausewang, Gudrun. The final journey. New York : Puffin Books, 1998.
During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.
Pearsall, Shelley. All shook up. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.
When thirteen-year-old Josh goes to stay with his father in Chicago for a few months, he discovers--to his horror--that his dad has become an
Elvis impersonator.
Peck, Richard, 1934-. Ghosts I have been : a novel. New York : Bantam
Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, c1994.
Blossom Culp's gift of second sight, which she discovers gradually, leads her into some unusual adventures.
Peck, Richard, 1934-. Lost in cyberspace. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books for
Young Readers, c1995.
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend
Aaron use the computer at their New York prep school to travel through time, learning some secrets from the school's past and improving Josh's home situation.
Peck, Richard, 1934-. The river between us. New York : Dial Books, c2003.
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to
Illinois.
Peck, Richard, 1934-. Strays like us. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1998.
When her drug-addict mother can no longer care for her, twelve-year-old
Molly comes to stay with her great-aunt and slowly begins to realize that others in the small town also feel as if they don't belong.
Peck, Richard, 1934-. A year down yonder. New York : Dial Books for Young
Readers, c2000.
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.
Peet, Mal. Keeper. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007, c2003.
Paul Faustino learns about world-famous goalkeeper, El Gato's encounter with a mystical mentor named the Keeper, in the South American rain forest and the magical lessons he learned under his tutelage that helped him become the best in the world.
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Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-. The dead and the gone. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla.
: Harcourt, 2008.
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-. Life as we knew it. 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Pierce, Meredith Ann. The darkangel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007, c1982.
The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of greatness she has seen in him.
Pierce, Meredith Ann. A gathering of gargoyles. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little,
Brown, 2007, c1984.
Painfully aware that her husband Irrylath is still not free of the white witch's spell, Aeriel sets out on a dangerous quest to gather the winged steeds that Irrylath and his brothers need to do battle against the powerful witch.
Pierce, Meredith Ann. Treasure at the heart of the Tanglewood. New York :
Viking, c2001.
Hannah, a healer with unusual powers, leaves the wizard she has always served and, along with her animal companions, begins a journey which uncovers the truth about her real nature.
Pierce, Meredith Ann. The woman who loved reindeer. 1st ed. Boston :
Atlantic Monthly Press, c1985.
When her sister-in-law brings her a strange golden baby to care for, a young girl, living in the cold lands far to the north, is unaware that this unusual child will help her fulfill her destiny as leader of her people.
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-. The education of Robert Nifkin. 1st ed. New
York : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.
Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school experiences in the form of a college application essay.
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-. The Yggyssey : how Iggy wondered what happened to all the ghosts, found out where they went, and went there.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009.
In the mid-1950s, Yggdrasil Birnbaum and her friends, Seamus and
Neddie, journey to Old New Hackensack, which is on another plane, to try to learn why ghosts are disappearing from the Birnbaum's hotel and other Hollywood, California, locations.
Prévost, Guillaume. The book of time. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Levine Books,
2007.
Sam Faulkner travels back in time to medieval Ireland, ancient Egypt and
Renaissance Bruges in search of his missing father.
Prévost, Guillaume. The gate of days : the book of time II. 1st ed. New York :
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While seeking the seven magical coins that will allow him to reach his father, who is trapped in the castle of Vlad Tepes, Sam Faulkner travels to such places as ancient Delphi, a Stone Age cave, and 1930s Chicago.
Qamar, Amjed. Beneath my mother's feet. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum
Books for Young Readers, c2008.
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
Rennison, Louise. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging : confessions of
Georgia Nicolson. 1st HarperTempest ed. New York : HarperTempest,
2001, c1999.
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old
British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
Rennison, Louise. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. New York : Avon Books,
2004.
Angus, thongs, and full-frontal snogging -- On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god.
Rennison, Louise. Dancing in my nuddy-pants : even further confessions of
Georgia Nicolson. 1st HarperTempest ed. New York : HarperTempest,
2003, c2002.
An English teenager tries to decide whether her musician boyfriend
Robbie, whom she may get the chance to accompany on tour, is her one and only, or if her ex, Dave the Laugh, could fill his shoes.
Rennison, Louise. Knocked out by my nunga-nungas : further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson. 1st HarperTempest ed. New York :
HarperTempest, 2002, c2001.
The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.
Rennison, Louise. On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god : further confessions of Georgia Nicolson. 1st Harper Tempest ed. New
York : HarperTempest, 2002, c2001.
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old
Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.
Rennison, Louise. Then he ate my boy entrancers : more mad, marvy confessions of Georgia Nicolson. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2005.
After trying to take Hamburger-a-gogo land, also known as the United
States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a
British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats.
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Rylant, Cynthia. The Heavenly Village. New York : Blue Sky Press, c1999.
Undecided souls who have died while they are not quite ready to go to heaven find themselves in the halfway place known as the Heavenly
Village.
Sachs, Marilyn. The fat girl. 1st ed. New York : E.P. Dutton, c1984.
Jeff, a high school senior, becomes obsessed with creating a new, beautiful, person out of an unhappy fat girl, but when she begins to think independently, he loses control of the situation.
Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy. New York : Clarion
Books, c2004.
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.
Schmidt, Gary D. Trouble. New York : Clarion Books, c2008.
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday wars. New York : Clarion Books, c2007.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader
Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Schumacher, Julie, 1958-. Black box : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte
Press, c2008.
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
Sebestyen, Ouida. Out of nowhere : a novel. New York : Puffin Books, 1995, c1994.
When he no longer fits into his vagabond mother's life, thirteen-year-old
Harley adopts an abandoned dog and falls in with an outspoken old woman, a cantankerous junk collector, and an energetic and loving teenage girl.
Shan, Darren. Bec. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008, c2006.
As the demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and her warrior companions leave the devastated area not only to answer a call for help but also to find information that will enable Bec to unlock the secrets of her past.
Shan, Darren. Blood beast. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co.,
2007.
When he begins experiencing alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, Grubbs Grady, who has so far escaped his family curse, fears that
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Shan, Darren. Death's Shadow. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
As Bec's relationship with Dervish improves, werewolves and demons attack and she sends Shark and Meera through a window to another universe to seek Beranabus, and soon all must face an even greater force of evil, the Shadow.
Shan, Darren. Demon apocalypse. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Little, Brown,
2008, c2007.
Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade the eightarmed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.
Shan, Darren. Demon thief. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007, c2005.
With the opening of a window into a demon world, a boy discovers his powers as a Disciple and his mission to hunt the viciously powerful
Demonata to the death.
Shan, Darren. Lord Loss. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006, c2005.
Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.
Shan, Darren. Slawter. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007, c2006.
While on a horror movie set with his Uncle Dervish, Grubbs Grady realizes that his battle with the evil demon master Lord Loss may be about to resume.
Shusterman, Neal. Antsy does time. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2008.
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Shusterman, Neal. The dark side of nowhere. 1st Tor ed. New York : Tor,
1999, c1997.
Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.
Shusterman, Neal. Downsiders : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1999.
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the
Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.
Shusterman, Neal. Dread locks. New York : Scholastic, c2005.
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
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Shusterman, Neal. Everlost. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, c2006.
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where, although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
Shusterman, Neal. Mindtwisters : stories to shred your head. 1st ed. New
York : Tor Kids, 1997.
Dark alley -- The in crowd -- Special deliverance -- Mr. Vandermeer's attic of shame -- Pea soup -- The elsewhere boutique -- Ralph Sherman's bag of wind -- Loveless. Contains eight suspense stories, featuring a kid who controls the wind, a boy who makes deliveries to hell, a killer bowling lane, and other sinister characters and situations.
Shusterman, Neal. The Schwa was here. New York : Puffin Books, 2006, c2004.
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.
Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, c2007.
Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
Shusterman, Neal. What daddy did : a novel. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York
: HarperCOllins, 1993.
A twelve-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.
Sleator, William. The beasties. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books,
1997.
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
Sleator, William. The boxes. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1998.
When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time.
Sleator, William. The boy who couldn't die. New York : Amulet, 2004.
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.
Sleator, William. The boy who reversed himself. 1st ed. New York : E.P.
Dutton, c1986.
When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.
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Sleator, William. The duplicate. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c1988.
Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.
Sleator, William. Marco's millions. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2001.
Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old.
Sleator, William. The night the heads came. 1st ed. New York : Dutton
Children's Books, c1996.
When aliens abduct both Leo and his artist friend Tim, Leo tries to determine why these creatures from outer space want particularly to use his friend's talent.
Sleator, William. Singularity. 1st ed. New York : E.P. Dutton, c1985.
Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship.
Sleator, William. The spirit house. New York : Puffin, 1993.
Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.
Smelcer, John E., 1963-. The trap. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2006.
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
Smith, Roland, 1951-. Cryptid hunters. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books For
Children, (Scholastic), c2005.
Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
Smith, Roland, 1951-. Jack's run. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2005.
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
Smith, Roland, 1951-. Peak. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla : Harcourt (Scholastic), c2007.
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Smith, Roland, 1951-. Zach's lie. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books For
Children, c2001.
When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada,
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Sones, Sonya. Stop pretending : what happened when my big sister went crazy. 1st Harper Tempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2001, c1999.
A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Drums, girls, & dangerous pie. New York : Scholastic,
[2006], c2004.
When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old
Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Zen and the art of faking it. 1st ed. New York :
Scholastic Press, 2007.
When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer-and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
Spinelli, Jerry. Love, Stargirl. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Spinelli, Jerry. Smiles to go. 1st ed. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2008.
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
Springer, Nancy. The case of the bizarre bouquets. New York, NY : Philomel
Books, c2008.
Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, disguised as a beautiful woman, finds clues in floral bouquets as she searches for the missing Doctor Watson, a companion of her famous older brother, Sherlock.
Springer, Nancy. The case of the cryptic crinoline : an Enola Holmes mystery.
New York : Philomel Books, c2009.
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence
Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a
Crimean War widow grows cold.
Springer, Nancy. The case of the peculiar pink fan. New York, NY : Philomel
Books, c2008.
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady
Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
Springer, Nancy. I am Morgan le Fay : a tale from Camelot. New York :
Philomel, c2001.
In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has
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Springer, Nancy. Sky rider. 1st ed. New York : Avon tempest, c1999.
Dealing with her mother's death, a back injury that prevents her from riding, and the imminent destruction of her sick horse, fourteen-year-old
Dusty receives physical and spiritual healing from the ghost of a recently killed boy.
Strasser, Todd. Girl gives birth to own prom date. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996.
When Brad asks someone else to the senior prom, Nicole resorts to a desperate measure--she decides to make her next-door neighbor over into a dream date.
Strasser, Todd. Give a boy a gun. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000.
Interweaves the voices of students, teachers, friends, and gunmen in a fictional story about two heavily armed students, Gary and Brendan, who hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance after being tormented by football players and teachers. Includes real-life statistics on guns and violence.
Strasser, Todd. How I changed my life. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1995.
Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself.
Strasser, Todd. How I spent my last night on Earth. 1st ed. New York : Simon
& Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998.
When a rumor appears on the Internet that a giant asteroid is about to destroy Earth, Legs Hanover scrambles to meet the boy of her dreams, elusive Andros Bliss.
Stroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. 1st ed. New York : Miramax
Books/Hyperion Books For Children, c2003.
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni
Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.
John, Laurie. Good-bye, Elizabeth. New York : Bantam, c1998.
Elizabeth thinks she is ready to leave Sweet Valley and begin her new life in Denver, but when her ex-boyfriend starts treating her better than her new boyfriend, she begins to wonder if she made the right decision.
Pascal, Francine. As if I care. New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
When her friend Jade begins to get involved with her ex-boyfriend
Jeremy, Jessica finds it hard to handle.
Pascal, Francine. Backstabber. New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
Elizabeth Wakefield's boyfriend Conner and Elizabeth's friend Tia have been good friends for a long time. But now Tia finds herself in love with
Conner.
Pascal, Francine. Bad girl. New York : Bantam Books, c2000.
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Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield experience major changes in their lives and attitudes.
Pascal, Francine. Boy meets girl. New York : Bantam Books, c1999.
While Elizabeth is trying to deal with the consequences of dating her best friend's ex-boyfriend, Jessica finds true love with Jeremy.
Pascal, Francine. Broken angel. New York : Bantam Books, c1999.
Conner decides not to attend Stanford so that he can be with Tia.
Pascal, Francine. Can't stay away. New York : Bantam Books, 1999.
Due to the earthquake damage to their school, 500 El Carro High School students are sent to Sweet Valley High and the Wakefield family stays with friends while their new house is being built.
Pascal, Francine. If you only knew. New York, NY : Bantam Books, 1999.
Hardworking Jeremy Aames falls in love with Jessica Wakefield.
Pascal, Francine. It's my life. New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
Conner has difficulty getting along with Tia.
Pascal, Francine. I've got a secret. New York, NY : Bantam Books, c1999.
Jessica tries to keep Jeremy from finding out about her life from students who are familiar with her.
Pascal, Francine. Maria who? New York : Bantam Books, 1999.
While Jessica is trying to find out who her secret admirer is, Elizabeth is trying to get over her crush on Connor.
Pascal, Francine. Say it to my face. New York : Bantam Books, c1999.
Jessica Wakefield tries to deal with nasty rumors about her which are circulating around her school.
Pascal, Francine. So cool. New York : Bantam Books, c1999.
Connor McDermot is determined not to get involved with Elizabeth
Wakefield, because he is afraid of getting his heart broken, but he can't stop thinking about her and he knows he will have to do something before he goes crazy.
Pascal, Francine. Split decision. New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
Tia is confused by her feelings when she finds herself attracted to Trent only two weeks after Angel has gone off to college.
Pascal, Francine. Three girls and a guy. New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
Conner has trouble coping with Elizabeth, Tia, and Maria.
Pascal, Francine. Tia in the middle. New York : Bantam Books, 2002.
Tia has misgivings about her best friend Conner's future when she learns that his girlfriend is giving up a spot at UCLA to follow him to Boston.
William, Kate. Aftershock. New York : Bantam, c1998.
All of Sweet Valley has been ruined in the earthquake, and now
Elizabeth, Jessica, and their friends must try to put their lives back together.
William, Kate. Almost married. New York : Bantam, 1994.
When Elizabeth discovers that her mother is having an affair with Mr.
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Patman, Bruce's father, she and Bruce decide to investigate.
William, Kate. Cover girls. New York : Bantam, c1997.
Teenage twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield enjoy interning at
Flair, a glamourous fashion magazine, until Jessica has to cater to a supermodel with a bad attitude and Elizabeth's boyfriend, Todd, is discovered as a model.
William, Kate. A deadly Christmas. New York : Bantam, c1994.
Jessica Wakefield plots to get even with her fiancé, but her plan goes wrong and she gets caught in her own trap.
William, Kate. Earthquake. New York : Bantam, c1998.
The twins struggle to find each other after an earthquake and are not certain about the fate of their friends.
William, Kate. Elizabeth's rival. New York : Bantam, c1996.
Working as a junior counselor at a performing arts camp for the summer,
Elizabeth is reunited with Maria, a friend from middle school, but finds that she cannot get along with Maria's best friend, Nicole.
William, Kate. Elizabeth's secret diary : volume III. New York : Bantam, c1997.
After a fight with her longtime boyfriend Todd, Elizabeth reads past entries of her diary and alley, Elizabeth looks through past entries in her diary, remembering a time when she had a secret crush on Sam
Woodruff.
William, Kate. The evil twin. New York : Bantam, c1993.
Margo has discovered the Wakefield twins and their "perfect" family and plans to get rid of one of the twins so she can take her place in the
Wakefield home.
William, Kate. Fashion victim. New York : Bantam, c1997.
Twin teenage sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield experience problems when Jessica begins dating a world-famous fashion photographer and Elizabeth falls into terrible danger while investigating the world of fashion publishing.
William, Kate. In love with the enemy. New York : Bantam, c1996.
A gang from Palisades High beats up Sweet Valley High's quarterback
Ken Matthews. Jessica Wakefield is falling in love with Christian Gorman, but doesn't know that he is the leader of Palisades High's most violent gang.
William, Kate. Jessica takes Manhattan. New York : Bantam, 1997.
Jessica Wakefield and Lila Fowler travel to New York and e xperience a range of adventures from dating a rock star to b eing mistaken for royalty.
William, Kate. Jessica's secret diary : volume II. New York : Bantam, c1996.
Jessica flirts with the idea of going out with her sister Elizabeth's boyfriend, Todd Wilkins, but she reconsiders when a life-threatening incident makes her realize how much she loves her family.
William, Kate. Jessica's secret diary : volume III. New York : Bantam, c1997.
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Jessica has been discovered by the producer of her favorite soap opera but Jessica is reluctant to tell her boyfriend Sam.
William, Kate. Last wish. New York : Bantam, c1998.
Jessica and Elizabeth prepare to celebrate their seventeenth birthday but one of them may not survive for her next birthday.
William, Kate. Love and death in London. New York : Bantam, 1994.
Working as summer interns assigned the Scotland Yard beat for the
London Journal, Elizabeth and Jessica are bored with all the petty cases.
When a series of murders break out, they decide to do some sleuthing on their own.
William, Kate. Murder on the line. New York : Bantam, 1992.
Jessica accidentally discovers that a crossed telephone line enables her to eavesdrop on other people's conversations. It's great until she overhears plans for a murder!.
William, Kate. My best friend's boyfriend. New York : Bantam, c1992.
Denise is poised, elegant, and beautiful and her best friend, Ginny, isn't.
So to gain self-confidence Ginny volunteers to work for a teen phone hot line. When she helps a guy named Mike, he wants to meet her in person.
What can she do?.
William, Kate. Once upon a time. New York : Bantam, c1997.
Twin teenage sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield love being treated like royalty while working as au pairs for the summer at a European château--but quickly learn that their trip is not entirely like a fairy tale.
William, Kate. Party weekend! New York : Bantam, c1998.
Now that the junior prom is over, the twins and their friends are ready to compete in a talent show with kids from other high schools, but soon a feud gets out of control and the twins need to do something before it turns deadly.
William, Kate. A picture-perfect prom? New York : Bantam, c1998.
Elizabeth thought she would be happy to have some time to herself after she told Todd and Devon she needed space, but now that the prom is coming up she doesn't have a date and is beginning to wonder who she is going to go with.
William, Kate. Please forgive me. New York : Bantam, c1998.
Todd desperately tries to earn Elizabeth's forgiveness after his rivalry with Devon Whitelaw erupts into violence.
William, Kate. Return of the evil twin. New York : Bantam, 1995.
Last winter Margo, a girl who looked, talked, and dressed just like Jessica and Elizabeth, arrived in Sweet Valley determined to kill Elizabeth and take her place in the Wakefield family. When Margo fell to her apparent death, the Wakefields believed the nightmare was over, but they did not know that Margo, too, had a twin who is now out to avenge her sister's death.
William, Kate. A stranger in the house. New York : Bantam, c1995.
Jessica and Elizabeth find themselves in danger when John Marin, a bitter killer prosecuted by their father ten years earlier, is released from prison.
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William, Kate. The treasure of Death Valley. New York : Bantam, 1995.
When Elizabeth discovers a treasure map and some gold nuggets during a desert survival course, she and Jessica lead a group on the treasure hunt, not knowing that three convicted murderers are following them.
William, Kate. The Wakefield legacy : the untold story. New York : Bantam, c1992.
Discover the lives and loves of the members of the Wakefield family who came before Jessica and Elizabeth including Frontiersman Theodore
Wakefield, turn of-the-century beauty Sarah Wakefield, and Ned
Wakefield of the idealistic sixties.
William, Kate. The Wakefields of Sweet Valley. New York : Bantam, 1991.
Describes the lives and loves of five generations of the Wakefield family.
William, Kate. What Jessica wants-- New York : Bantam, c1998.
Elizabeth has always thought that she and Todd were meant for each other, but now that the new boy in school, Devon, has entered the picture, she isn't so sure, and to make matters worse, Elizabeth isn't the only one who likes him.
Taylor, Mildred D. Let the circle be unbroken. Toronto ; : Bantam, 1984, c1981.
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need.
Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006. Sniper. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, c1989.
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.
Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006. The weirdo. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, c1991.
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the
Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.
Temple, Frances. Taste of salt : a story of modern Haiti. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1994, c1992.
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, 17-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in
Haiti.
Thesman, Jean. The moonstones. New York : Viking, 1998.
While helping her mother clean out the family home in Puget Sound, fifteen-year-old Jane must deal with her hateful aunt and difficult cousin
Ricki, a romance that cannot last, and secrets from her mother's past.
Thesman, Jean. Summerspell. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
While living with her sister, fifteen-year-old Jocelyn has trouble with her hateful brother-in-law and runs away to her family's summer cabin, where the unwanted presence of two boys complicates her plan of escape.
Thompson, Kate, 1956-. The last of the high kings. 1st ed. New York :
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When eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy, in turmoil over learning that she is a changeling, makes a deal with a devil creature, she endangers the human race but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's High Kings help to make things right.
Thompson, Kate, 1956-. The new policeman. 1st American ed. New York, NY :
Greenwillow Books, 2007.
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into
Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The book of lost tales. 1st
Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1992, c1983.
Presents ten episodes, in verse and prose, from the history of Valinor and
Middle-earth, the imaginary lands created by J.R.R. Tolkien, including
"Gilfanon's Tale," each with notes and commentary.
Tolkien, J. R. R (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The lord of the rings. New York : Ballantine Books,
[2003].
The discovery of the One Ring ignites the great war between good and evil in Middle-earth, as a courageous group of adventurers embarks on a perilous quest to destroy the dangerous artifact.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The hobbit : a 3-D pop-up adventure. 1st American ed. [New York] : HarperFestival, 1999.
Scenes from the Middle Earth fantasy world of dragons, wizards and goblins are illustrated in this book of pop-ups, pull-tabs and excerpts from the text.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1994.
As the Shadow of Mordor grows, the companions find their way through danger and mystery as they defeat the Dark Lord and celebrate
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The second volume of the Lord of the Rings epic, set in the fantastic world of the Third Age of Middle Earth.
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His father's loyalty to the Mexican president deposed by Porfirio Diaz in
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After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences
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Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey must decide what she wants for her siblings and herself.
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Abandoned by their father and then their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
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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.
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When hard times among the people revive old stories of the hero
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Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
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While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell
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Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder.
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In London during the 1830s, twelve-year-old orphan Victor begins to realize that men are purposely infecting children with a sickness so they can sell the dead bodies to scientists, and sets out to uncover the man behind the deadly crime.
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In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody,
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Sorted by Call Number, then Author fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.
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Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
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When his older brother, a bull-riding champion, returns from the Iraq
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From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
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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.
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Thirteen-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
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Marie, the only African-American girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old
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Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother
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Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni
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Roddy Macallan determines to fight back when everyone in his village loses their land to the laird and teams up with a Robin Hood-like rogue who roams the Highlands.
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After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live.".
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In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteenyear-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
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Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's
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Zindel, Paul. Night of the bat. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2001.
Teenage Jake joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the
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Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret.
Zuckerman, Linda. A taste for rabbit. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine
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Quentin, a rabbit who lives in a walled compound run by a militaristic government, must join forces with Harry, a fox, to stop the sinister disappearances of outspoken and rebellious rabbit citizens.
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