Y
Title: And Now Miguel
by: Joseph Krumgold
Title: Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by: Virginia Hamilton
Y
Summary: The secret wish of Miguel Chavez, to go to the
mountains with the men of his family, comes true.
Award: Newbery 1954
Cassette: None
Summary: This book is a biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation
of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between
abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive
Slave Acts.
Award: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
4.8
Quiz#:
4
AR Points:
8.0
AR Level:
5.8
Quiz#:
355
AR Points:
7.0
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
56043
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
41841
Number of Pages:
245
Copies:
4
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Number of Pages:
186
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Y
Title: Artemis Fowl
by: Eoin Colfer
Y
Title: The Best Poems Ever
by: Edric Mesmer
Summary: Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant
criminal mastermind, but even he does not know what he
has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short
of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and they
are dangerous.
Summary: Includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan
Poe, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman,
Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Barret Browning
and more.
Award: None
Award: None
Cassette: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
5.0
Quiz#:
54675
AR Points:
9.0
AR Level:
None
Quiz#:
None
AR Points:
None
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
No
Word Count:
56684
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
None available
Number of Pages:
280
Copies:
9
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Number of Pages:
70
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Y
Title: Bull Run
by: Paul Fleischman
Y
Title: The Call of the Wild
by: Jack London
Summary: Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers,
dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory,
the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first
battle of the Civil War.
Summary: Buck, a dog that has been forced into the
harsh life of a sled dog, befriends a man seeking his fortune in the Klondike gold fields, and must ultimately decide whether to stay with his master or obey his instinct
to join the wolves.
Award: None
Award: None
Cassette: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
5.3
Quiz#:
8455
AR Points:
2.0
AR Level:
8.0
Quiz#:
107
AR Points:
7.0
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
13507
Voice Recorded:
Yes
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
37058
Number of Pages:
102
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Number of Pages:
201
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Y
Title: The Chocolate War
by: Robert Cormier
Y
Title: The Devil's Arithmetic
by: Jane Yolen
Summary: This powerful novel is about a young high school
student who refuses to be intimidated by society and the
people around him.
Summary: Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish
heritage, until time travel places her in the middle of a
small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Award: None
Award: None
Cassette: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
5.4
Quiz#:
5260
AR Points:
8.0
AR Level:
4.6
Quiz#:
6998
AR Points:
6.0
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
No
Word Count:
51115
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
No
Word Count:
38286
Number of Pages:
191
Copies:
3
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Number of Pages:
170
Copies:
18
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Y
Title: The Endless Steppe
by: Esther Hautzig
Y
Title: The Giver
by: Lois Lowry
Summary: 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.
Summary: The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to
be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the
memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional
boy.
Award: None
Award: Newbery 1994
Cassette: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
6.3
Quiz#:
361
AR Points:
10.0
AR Level:
5.7
Quiz#:
8568
AR Points:
7.0
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
No
Word Count:
61776
Voice Recorded:
Yes
Lesson Plans:
No
Word Count:
43617
Number of Pages:
243
Copies:
24
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Number of Pages:
180
Copies:
5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Y
Title: Now Is Your Time!
by: Walter Dean Myers
Y
Title: Sacajawea
by: Joseph Bruchac
Summary: A history of the African-American struggle for
freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution,
the Civil War, and into contemporary times.
Summary: Sacajawea, a Shoshone Indian interpreter,
peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.
Award: Coretta Scott King 1992
Award: None
Cassette: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
8.3
Quiz#:
7015
AR Points:
9.0
AR Level:
5.7
Quiz#:
35646
AR Points:
8.0
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
48016
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
51809
Number of Pages:
274
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Number of Pages:
199
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Y
Title: Samir and Yonatan
by: Daniella Carmi
Y
Title: Some Friend!
by: Carol Carrick
Summary: Samir is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital
where he has two otherworldly experiences, making
friends with an Israeli boy and traveling with him to
Mars, where Samir finds peace about his brother's
death. Translation is done by Yael Lotan.
Summary: Mike has always been a little in awe of his
self-assertive friend Rob but one day, when pushed too
far, Mike realizes he will have to take a stand of his own
or lose self-respect.
Award: None
Award: None
Cassette: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
5.0
Quiz#:
60451
AR Points:
6.0
AR Level:
None
Quiz#:
None
AR Points:
None
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
38440
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
No
Word Count:
None available
Number of Pages:
183
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Number of Pages:
112
Copies:
10
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Y
Title: Your Life in Poems
by: Charles Doersch
Summary: "Do you know any poets? You might. Rockers
can be poets. Rappers can be poets. The special someone
who sits across from you in Spanish class might be a
poet, too. Poetry is about the everyday stuff in your life.
Award: None
Cassette: None
AR Level:
None
Quiz#:
None
AR Points:
None
Voice Recorded:
No
Lesson Plans:
Yes
Word Count:
None available
Number of Pages:
40
Copies:
6
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction