September 2011
BEHIND CIRC DESK
Lexile 1010
Go Ask Alice.
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of
the drug world.
CLASSIC FIC TOLKIEN
Lexile 1000
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. By J.R.R. Tolkien.
J. R. R. Tolkien's novel about Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit who lives
comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share
in an adventure from which he may never return.
CLASSIC FIC ALCOTT
Lexile 1260
Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's boys. By Louisa May Alcott.
With two sons of her own, and twelve boys at the Plumfield school, Jo March--now Jo Bhaer-couldn't be happier. But despite the help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting
into scrapes, and there are plenty of troubles and adventures in store.
CLASSIC FIC ALCOTT
Lexile 1300
Little Women. By Louisa May Alcott.
The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in nineteenth-century New England. Chronicles the
joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenthcentury New England.
CLASSIC FIC AUSTEN
Emma. By Jane Austen.
Lexile 1070
A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to
arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
CLASSIC FIC AUSTEN
Lexile 1100
Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen.
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a
snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes study
guide.
CLASSIC FIC BAUM
Lexile 1000
The Wizard of Oz . by L. Frank Baum.
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order
to return to Kansas.
CLASSIC FIC BUCK
Lexile 1530
The Good Earth. By Pearl Buck.
Wang Lung, rising from humble farmer to wealthy landowner, glories in the soil he works. He
holds it above family, religion and all other pursuits. The earth is not always good to him though
as he battles flood, drought, pestilence and revolution.
CLASSIC FIC BURNFORD
Lexile 1320
The Incredible Journey. By Sheila Every Burnford.
A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles
through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.
CLASSIC FIC CAT
Lexile 1010
My Ántonia,. By Willa Cather.
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer
Bohemian girl.
CLASSIC FIC COOPER
Lexile 1350
The Last of the Mohicans. By James Fenimore Cooper.
Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian, form an unlikely
friendship as they attempt to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile country
during the French and Indian War.
CLASSIC FIC DICKENS
Lexile 1070
David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens.
David tells his own story – from birth, through an impoverished and unhappy childhood to his
middle years of success and happiness.
CLASSIC FIC DICKENS
Lexile 1200
Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens.
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be
educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
CLASSIC FIC DICKENS
Lexile 1070
A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens
1859 historical novel set in Paris and London during the French Revolution, in which a French
nobleman, Charles Darnay, renounces his position and leaves his country, then returns during
the Terror to save the life of a servant, putting himself in grave danger.
CLASSIC FIC DOYLE
Lexile 1250
The Lost World. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A scientist finds dinosaurs roaming in an unexplored area in South America.
CLASSIC FIC DOYLE
Lexile 1090
The Hound of the Baskervilles. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around
the Baskervilles' ancestral home.
CLASSIC FIC GRAHAME
Lexile 1140
The Wind in the Willows. By Kenneth Grahame.
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad,
Mole, Rat, and Badger.
CLASSIC FIC HAW
Lexile 1320
The House of the Seven Gables : a Romance. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A prominent New England family suffering under a curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and
violent death.
CLASSIC FIC HUG
Lexile 1340
The Hunchback of Notre Dame. By Victor Hugo.
In medieval Paris, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, struggles to
save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
CLASSIC FIC JUS
Lexile 1000
The Phantom Tollbooth. By Norton Juster.
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a
cure for his boredom.
CLASSIC FIC KIPLING
Lexile 1140
The Jungle Book. By Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling's classic children's story about the adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by
animals in the jungles of India.
CLASSIC FIC KNOWLES
Lexile 1110
A Separate Peace:a Novel. By John Knowles.
Set in 1942, during World War II, two sixteen year old friends, Gene and Phineas, have different
gifts and character qualities that create difficulties and eventual tragedy.
CLASSIC FIC LONDON
Lexile 1120
The Call of the Wild ; : and White Fang by Jack London.
Presents two classics by Jack London: "The Call of the Wild," in which a dog in the Klondike
reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves; and "White Fang," in
which a wolf-dog trained to be a vicious fighter struggles to live in both the world of dogs and
that of the "gods," or humans.
CLASSIC FIC MITCHELL, M
Lexile 1100
Gone with the Wind. BY Margaret Mitchell.
After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett
O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
CLASSIC FIC O'DELL
Lexile 1000
Island of the Blue Dolphins. By Scott O’Dell.
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an
isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
CLASSIC FIC ORWELL
Animal farm. By George Orwell.
A satire in fable form expressed through the animals of Manor Farm.
Lexile 1170
CLASSIC FIC SHELLEY
Lexile 1170
Frankenstein. By Mary Shelley.
A horror story about a life form created by a scientist experimenting with reproducing human life
from corpses found in cemeteries. The “monster” created is feared by all and lives a life of
confusion, rejection and eventual anger that turns to evil toward his creator.
CLASSIC FIC SINCLAIR
Lexile 1170
The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair.
Set in the early 1900’s this tells the story an immigrant who comes to Chicago with his family
and encounters very difficult social, economic and work place conditions.
CLASSIC FIC STEINBECK
Lexile 1010
The Pearl. By John Steinbeck.
Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman.
CLASSIC FIC STOKER
Lexile 1070
Dracula. By Bram Stoker.
By day he sleeps in a tomb beneath his desolate castle. By night he stalks the countryside,
driven by a supernatural and deadly hunger….
CLASSIC FIC STOWE
Lexile 1050
Uncle Tom's Cabin:or Life Among the Lowly. By Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A story of a slave family prior to the civil war that vividly depicts slavery, its cruelty and
oppression.
CLASSIC FIC TWAIN
Lexile 1080
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court . by Mark Twain.
Nineteenth-century mechanic Hank Morgan suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King
Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas to the
inhabitants.
CLASSIC FIC VERNE
Lexile 1080
Around the World in Eighty Days. By Jules Verne.
In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twentythree hours, and fifty-seven minutes.
CLASSIC FIC VERNE
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. By Jules Verne.
A science fiction adventure.
Lexile 1000
CLASSIC FIC WELLS
The War of the Worlds. By H.G. Wells.
An intellectually superior race invades the earth.
Lexile 1170
CLASSIC FIC WHITE
Lexile 1080
The Once and Future King. By T.H. White.
The Sword in the Stone -- The Queen of Air and Darkness -- The Ill-Made Knight -- The Candle in
the Wind.
Tells the story of the youth and reign of King Arthur, the establishment of the Round Table, and
the search for the Holy Grail.
CLASSIC FIC WHITE
Lexile 1120
The Sword in the Stone. By T.H. White.
A retelling of the Arthurian legend. Wart, as young Arthur is called, becomes a wiser, more
thoughtful person and a worthy king as a result of Merlin's lessons.
CLASSIC FIC WYSS
Lexile 1260
The Swiss Family Robinson. By Johann David Wyss.
A shipwrecked family learns to live off the natural vegetation on their island and refuses to leave
when a ship arrives to take them home.
F ADAMS
Lexile 1000
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By Douglas Adams.
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved
by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
F ANDERSON
Lexile 1060
The Kingdom on the Waves. By M.T. Anderson.
Octavian, a young African-American, is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years
prior to and during the American Revolution.
F ANDERSON
Lexile 1090
The Pox Party. By M.T. Anderson.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young
African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment
in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
F APPELBAUM
Lexile 1010
The Hollow Bettle. By Susannah Appelbaum.
When eleven-year-old Ivy's uncle, a famous healer, disappears, she and a young taster named
Rowan set out to find him, only to be pursued by people who may be after Ivy's red bettle, her
mysterious elixir, or Ivy herself.
F BAE
Lexile 1130
Walk the Dark Streets : a Novel. By Edith Baer.
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her
parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
F BAG
Lexile 1050
First French Kiss and Other Traumas. By Adam Bagdasarian.
The author recounts humorous, sad, traumatic, romantic, and confusing episodes from his
childhood.
F BENTON
Lexile 1010
Never Do Anything, Ever : by Jamie Kelly. By Jim Benton.
Jamie's diary reveals that her worst enemy is a sweetheart, her best friend is a backstabber, and
she decides to collect clothes with Isabella for a local charity.
F BOYNE
Lexile 1080
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas : a Fable. By John Boyne.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno,
the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
F BROOKS
Lexile 1100
Boot. By Bruce Brooks.
Boot, an orphan, dislikes some of the more physical aspects of hockey, but in protecting his
younger sister from a bully, he learns that aggression can be appropriate at times.
F BROOKS
Lexile 1150
The Moves Make the Man : a Novel. By Bruce Brooks.
An African-American boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a
precarious friendship.
F BROOKS, B
Lexile 1100
Cody. By Bruce Brooks.
Eleven-year-old Cody, who plays both hockey and guitar, tries to combine his two interests by
forming a fledgling band with some of his teammates, but he is presented with a difficult choice
when a conflict develops.
F BROOKS, B
Lexile 1020
Dolores : Seven Stories About Her. By Bruce Brooks.
A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-yearold to a self-assured sixteen-year-old.
F BRYANT
Lexile 1160
Pieces of Georgia : a Novel. By Jennifer Bryant.
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia
McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a
nearby art museum.
F CAB
Lexile 1200
Perfect Princess. By Meg Cabot.
Princess Mia's friends and assistants examine the style, accomplishments, and other
characteristics of real and fictional princesses, as Mia gleans from each a "random act of
princess" for self-improvement.
F CABOT
Lexile 1010
Princess in Pink. By Meg Cabot.
In a series of humorous diary entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to
get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom.
F CABOT
Lexile 1030
The Princess Present : a Princess Diaries Book. By Meg Cabot.
In a series of diary entries, Princess Mia describes celebrating Christmas with her friends in
Genovia.
F CADNUM
Lexile 1170
Starfall : Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun. by Michael Cadnum.
Phaeton embarks upon a long and dangerous journey to the gates of dawn in order to confront
Apollo and learn the truth of his parentage and is granted his wish to drive the chariot of the
sun.
F CARMAN
Lexile 1000
Beyond the Valley of Thorns. By Patrick Carman.
A year after narrowly saving Bridewell from destruction from within, thirteen-year-old Alexa
Daley finds herself in a much bigger fight, battling--along with Yipes, John Christopher, Odessa
the wolf, Murphy the squirrel, and Squire the hawk--a dark force from the outside that threatens
all of Elyon.
F CARTER
Lexile 1000
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You. By Ally Carter.
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.
F CLARKE
Lexile 1060
2001 : a Space Odyssey. By Arthur C. Clarke.
The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators
become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.
F COHN
Lexile 1070
Pop Princess. By Rachel Cohn.
Yearning to escape the small Massachusetts town where her family retreated after her sister's
death, Wonder Blake gets her chance when her sister's manager offers Wonder a record contract
on her sixteenth birthday.
F COMAN
Lexile 1010
What Jamie Saw. By Carolyn Coman.
Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby
sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and
fear.
F COOPER
Lexile 1010
Victory. By Susan Cooper.
Molly, upset by her family's move from London to the U.S., is strangely drawn to an old book
about the life of Admiral Lord Nelson, and soon finds her life intertwined with that of Sam,a boy
her age who served with Nelson aboard the HMS "Victory" a century earlier.
F COOPER, S
Lexile 1010
King of Shadows. By Susan Cooper.
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the
famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing
in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
F CORMIER
Lexile 1380
Frenchtown Summer. By Robert Cormier.
A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-yearold boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.
F CORNISH
Lexile 1020
Lamplighter. By D.M. Cornish.
As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against
monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to
plague him. Includes glossary.
F CREECH
Lexile 1010
Love that Dog. By Sharon Creech.
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different
famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
F CRUTCHER
Lexile 1020
Stotan! By Chris Crutcher.
A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous
training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.
F CURTIS
Lexile 1000
Bucking the Sarge. By Christopher Paul Curtis.
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan,
fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home
For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
F CURTIS
Lexile 1070
Elijah of Buxton. By Christopher Paul Curtis.
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for
slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the
lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
F CURTIS
Lexile 1000
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963. By Christopher Paul Curtis.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family
living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the
summer of 1963.
F CUSHMAN
Lexile 1030
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple. By Karen Cushman.
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught
when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
F CUSHMAN
Lexile 1170
Catherine, Called Birdy. By Karen Cushman.
The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her
life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to
avoid being married off.
F CUSHMAN
Lexile 1240
The Midwife's Apprentice. By Karen Cushman.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in
spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a
contented heart, and a place in this world.
F DALY
Lexile 1130
Seventeenth Summer. By Maureen Daly.
The summer after high school graduation, seventeen-year-old Angie finds herself in love for the
first time.
F DEF
Lexile 1070
Robinson Crusoe. By James Dunbar.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole
survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes
throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
F DENENBERG
Lexile 1140
When Will This Cruel War Be Over? : the Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville,
Virginia, 1864. By Barry Deneberg.
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the
hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
F DESSEN
Lexile 1020
That Summer. By Sarah Dessen.
During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old
Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
F DICKINSON
Lexile 1040
A Bone from a Dry Sea. By Peter Dickinson.
In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental
in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in
Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.
F DOWNER
Lexile 1080
Hatching Magic. By Ann Downer.
When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet
dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old
Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.
F DYGARD
Lexile 1010
Running Scared. By Thomas Dygard.
A football coach whose job is on the line discovers a talented quarterback who is afraid to run.
F ECKERT
Lexile 1200
Incident at Hawk's Hill,. By Allan W. Eckert.
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the
protection of a badger.
F FLAKE
Lexile 1060
Begging for C hange. By Sharon Flake.
Raspberry steals money from a friend in order to get her mother out of a tough situation, and
must now face the consequences and the fear of going down the same path as her drug-addicted
father.
F FLEISCHMAN, P
Lexile 1030
Saturnalia. By Paul Fleischman.
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.
F FORMAN
Lexile 1080
Becca's Story. By James D. Forman.
A Civil War romance concerning a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who are rivals for her hand.
F FREDERICK
Lexile 1020
The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed. By Heather Vogel Frederick.
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience
and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and
Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
F GANTOS
Lexile 1020
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs. By Jack Gantos.
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.
F GEORGE
Lexile 1060
Looks. By Madeleine George.
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely
friendship.
F GLIORI
Lexile 1090
Pure Dead Batty. By Debi Gliori.
Titus, Pandora, and Damp become increasingly gloomy after their beloved nanny disappears and
their father is imprisoned for her alleged murder, but soon mysterious signs and messages that
may help them resolve their terrible dilemma begin to appear around their Scottish home.
F GLIORI
Pure Dead Brilliant. By Debi Gliori.
Lexile 1110
Time travel, a computer virus that's deadly to humans, and other strange things begin to happen
when some would-be witches come to stay with the eccentric Strega-Borgia family.
F GLIORI
Lexile 1130
Gliori, Debi. Pure Dead Frozen. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, [2007], c2006.
The Strega-Borgias make one last stand to defend their home against invaders who seek the
Chronostone--and one little baby who may not be what he appears.
F GLIORI
Lexile 1110
Pure Dead Trouble. By Debi Gliori.
Danger continues to find the members of the eccentric Strega-Borgia family at their Scottish
castle, this time in the form of a butler who wants to blow up a nearby corporation and a demon
who seeks the all-powerful Chronostone.
F GLIORI
Lexile 1020
Pure Dead Wicked. By Debi Gliori.
The Strega-Borgia children accidentally create 500 clones of themselves at the same time that
the roof on their Scottish castle falls in, attracting evil contractors who want their home.
F GOING
Lexile 1190
Saint Iggy. By K.L. Going.
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good
and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes
his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
F HILL, STUART
Lexile 1140
The Cry of the Icemark. By Stuart Hill.
Princess Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield forms an army consisting of the Snow
Leopards, ancient Vampires, and ferocious Wolf-folk in order to protect her kingdom against the
armies of the evil general Scipio Bellorum.
F HOWE, N
Lexile 1020
The Adventures of Blue Avenger : a Novel. By Norma Howe.
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.
F HUNT, I
Lexile 1100
Across Five Aprils. By Irene Hunt.
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family
farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
F JACQUES
Lexile 1010
The Outcast of Redwall : a Tale from Redwall. By Brian Jacques.
The destinies of the badger lord dubbed Sunflash and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord
Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of
Redwall Abbey.
F JENNINGS
Lexile 1000
Ghost Town. By Richard W. Jennings.
Thirteen-year-old Spencer Honesty and his imaginary friend, an Indian called Chief Leopard Frog,
improbably achieve fame and riches in the abandoned town of Paisley, Kansas, when Spencer
begins taking photographs with his deceased father's ancient camera and Chief Leopard Frog has
his poems published by a shady businessman in the Cayman Islands.
F JENNINGS
Lexile 1210
The Pirates of Turtle Rock. By Richard W. Jennings.
Sixteen-year-old Jenny Snow of South Florida finds the adventurous life she craves when she
joins forces with eighteen-year-old Coop DeVille, a seventh-generation pirate, to seek the lost
turtle totem of the Ugiri-Tom.
F KINNEY
Lexile 1010
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Dog Days. By Jeff Kinney.
Greg Heffley recounts his daily experiences during summer vacation as he tries to live out his
ultimate fantasy of spending the days indoors playing video games with no responsibilities and
no rules, despite his mother's attempts to pack the summer with outdoor activities and family
fun.
F LAIRD, C
Lexile 1150
But Can the Phoenix Sing? By Christa Laird.
Seventeen-year-old Richard discovers the incredible details of his stern and remote stepfather's
hidden past when he is left a manuscript to read while his stepfather is away in Australia.
F LAW
Lexile 1070
Savvy. By Ingrid Law.
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"-a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible
accident.
F LE GUIN
Lexile 1150
A Wizard of Earthsea. By Ursula Le Guin.
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an
apprenctice to the Master Wizard.
F MAHY
Lexile 1030
The Changeover : a Supernatural Romance. By Margaret Mahy.
When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura
seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has
supernatural powers.
F MCCAFFREY
Lexile 1030
Black Horses for the King. By Anne McCaffrey.
Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later known
as King Arthur, using his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for
the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle against the Saxons.
F MCCAFFREY
Lexile 1120
Dragondrums. By Anne McCaffrey.
When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to
help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes
dangerous adventures.
F MCCORMICK
Lexile 1010
My Brother's Keeper. By Patricia McCormick.
Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone struggles to keep his family together after his father leaves;
however, keeping his older brother Jake's drug habit from their mother is getting harder and
harder.
F MCK
Lexile 1230
Dragonhaven. By Robin McKinley.
Jake Mendoza, whose father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on
his first solo overnight in the Smokehill National Park where he finds an infant dragon whose
mother has been killed by a poacher.
F MCKINLEY
Lexile 1070
Chalice. By Robin McKinley.
A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the
most important advisor to the new Master, a former priest of fire.
F MCKINLEY
Lexile 1220
Spindle's End. By Robin McKinley.
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then
whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of
her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
F MCKINLEY
Lexile 1210
Rose Daughter. By Robin McKinley.
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he
is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.
F MEYER
Lexile 1040
In the Belly of the Bloodhound : Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life
of Jacky Faber. By L.A. Meyer.
Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are
kidnapped while on a school outing and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the
slave markets of North Africa.
F MEYER, C
Lexile 1000
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats : the Story of Cynthia Ann Parker. By Carolyn Meyer.
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann
Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only
friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
F MEYER, L
Lexile 1120
Curse of the Blue Tattoo : Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman
and Fine Lady. By L.A. Meyer.
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself
attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish
classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
F MEYER, L
Lexile 1000
Under the Jolly Roger : Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber. By
L.A. Meyer.
In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea after seeing her beloved Jaimy with
another woman; however, her life takes a dramatic turn when she and her shipmates take
command of the ship and she is accused of piracy.
F MURDOCK
Lexile 1160
The Off Season. By Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
High school junior D. J. Schwenk staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured
brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and
her own athletic aspirations.
F MYERS, W
Lexile 1000
The Journal of Joshua Loper : A Black Cowboy, the Chisholm Trail 1871. By Walter Dean Myers.
In 1871, Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences
while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trailboss.
F NAYLOR
Lexile 1040
Jade green : a Ghost Story. By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
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.
F NAYLOR
Lexile 1020
Saving Shiloh. By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his
mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
F NOEL
Lexile 1120
Radiance : a Novel. By Alyson Noel.
After Riley crosses a bridge into the afterlife, she is summoned before The Council and paired up
with a teacher, Bodhi, who returns to Earth with Riley and helps her learn her new role as a Soul
Catcher on her first assignment to capture the boy who has been haunting a castle in England.
F PAOLINI
Lexile 1050
Brisingr, or, The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular.
By Christopher Paolini.
Eragon tries to uphold the oath he made to save Katrina from King Galbatorix, while being pulled
in different directions by the needs of the Varden, elves, and dwarves--all of whom need his help
and strength to overcome the tyranny of the king.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1460 NC
Alida's Song. By Gary Paulsen.
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful
summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1070
The Boy who Owned the School : a Comedy of Love. By Gary Paulsen.
Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful
classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1020
Hatchet. By Gary Paulsen.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to
survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to
survive his parents' divorce.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1180
Brian's Hunt. By Gary Paulsen.
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old
returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1030
Brian's Return. By Gary Paulsen.
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it
increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the
place where he feels he really belongs.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1140
Brian's Winter. By Gary Paulsen.
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays
what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness
with only his survival pack and hatchet.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1050
Call Me Francis Tucket. By Gary Paulsen.
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.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1070
The Cookcamp. By Gary Paulsen.
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers
building a road through the wilderness.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1150
The Crossing. By Gary Paulsen.
Thirteen-year-old 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.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1500
The Glass Café, or, The Stripper and the State : How My Mother Started a War with the System
that Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous. By Gary Paulsen.
When twelve-year-old Tony, a talented artist, begins sketching the dancers at the Kitty Kat Club
where his mother is an exotic dancer, it sparks the attention of social services.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1010
The Haymeadow. By Gary Paulsen.
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in
the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1050
The Island. By Gary Paulsen.
Fifteen-year-old Will discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on
an island in northern Wisconsin.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1100
Masters of Disaster. By Gary Paulsen.
Twelve-year-old Henry Mosely, having decided his life is boring, ropes his friends Riley and Reed
into a series of hair-raising adventures, including trying to break world records, visiting a
haunted house, and solving a century-old murder.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1160
The Quilt. By Gary Paulsen.
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago,
a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community
in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1480
The Rifle. By Gary Paulsen.
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through
the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1010
The Schernoff Discoveries. By Gary Paulsen.
Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual
science experiments, the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high school.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1030
Sentries. By Gary Paulsen.
The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four
young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a
sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1000
Soldier's Heart : a Novel of the Civil War. By Gary Paulsen.
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.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1130
Tiltawhirl John. By Gary Paulsen.
A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the
cruelties of life.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1010
Tracker. By Gary Paulsen.
Thirteen-year-old John tracks a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat and, in
doing so, finds himself drawn to the doe that leads him.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1080
The Voyage of the Frog. By Gary Paulsen.
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 many days on his own as he works out his
feelings about life and his uncle.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1170
The winter Room. By Gary Paulsen.
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and
recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
F PAULSEN
Lexile 1060
Harris and Me : a Summer Remembered. By Gary Paulsen.
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.
F PEARSALL
Lexile 1000
All of the Above : a Novel. By Shelley Pearsall.
Five urban middle school students, their teacher, and other community members relate how a
school project to build the world's largest tetrahedron affects the lives of everyone involved.
F PECK, DALE
Lexile 1050
Drift House : the First Voyage. By Dale Peck.
Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and
her two younger stepbrothers embark on an unexpected adventure involving duplicitous
mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.
F PHILBRICK
Lexile 1000
Freak the Mighty. By W.R. Philbrick.
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth
defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they
make a powerful team.
F RAYBURN
Lexile 1010
The Melting of Maggie Bean. By Tricia Rayburn.
Hoping to make new friends and gain the attention of her crush, Peter Applewood, overweight,
straight-A student Maggie Bean, decides to try out for the synchronized swim team.
F REEVE
Lexile 1170
Larklight, or, The Revenge of the White Spiders!, or, To Saturn's Rings and Back! : a Rousing
Tale of dauntless pluck in the farthest reaches of space. By Philip Reeve.
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a
floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy
the solar system.
F REEVE
Lexile 1130 NC
Mothstorm, or, The horror from Beyond Georgium Sidus, or, A Tale of Two Shapers : a Rattling
Yarn of Danger, Dastardy [sic] and Derring-Do Upon the Far Frontiers of British Space! By Philip
Reeve.
A menacing cloud is approaching the outskirts of the Known Universe, and a valiant effort is
begun to save the universe from an evil demigod and army of blue lizards.
F REEVE
Lexile 1150
Starcross, or, The Coming of the Moobs, or, Our Adventures in the Fourth Dimension! : a Stirring
Adventure of Spies, Time Travel and Curious Hats. By Philip Reeve.
Young Arthur Mumby, his sister Myrtle, and their mother accept an invitation to take a holiday at
an up-and-coming resort in the asteroid belt, where they become involved in a dastardly plot
involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing.
F REEVE
Lexile 1000
Fever Crumb. By Philip Reeve.
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London,
England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her
sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the
present.
F RODOWSKY
Lexile 1060
Remembering Mog. By Colby F. Rodowsky.
After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of
her sister who had been murdered two years earlier.
F ROSOFF
Lexile1620
How I Live Now. By Meg Rosoff.
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to
England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks
out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
F ROWLING
Lexile 1030
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. By J.K. Rowling.
Novice wizard Harry Potter, now sixteen-years-old, begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry in the midst of the battle between good and evil which has heated up
with the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort.
F SHU
Lexile 1110
Downsiders : a Novel. By Neal Shusterman.
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.
F SILBERBERG
Lexile 1180 NC
Milo : Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze. By Alan Silberberg.
In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One
Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has
changed everything at home.
F SMITH
Lexile 1070
The Comeback Season. By Jennifer E. Smith.
High school freshman Ryan Walsh, a Chicago Cubs fan, meets Nick when they both skip school
on opening day, and their blossoming relationship becomes difficult for Ryan when she discovers
that Nick is seriously ill and she again feels thepain of losing her father five years earlier.
F SMITH
Lexile 1180
You are Here. By Jennifer Smith.
Sixteen-year-old Emma Healy has never felt that she fit in with the rest of her family, so when
she discovers that she had a twin brother who died shortly after they were born, she takes off on
an impulsive road trip to try to discover who she really is.
F SMITH, P
Lexile 1050
Weetamoo, Heart of the Pocassets. By Patricia Clark Smith.
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of
her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and
with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
F SNICKET
Lexile 1010
The Bad Beginning / Series of Unfortunate Events Book 1. By Lemony Snicket.
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each
other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is
determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. The entire Snicket series is
lexiled very high.
F SNYDER
Lexile 1070
Libby on Wednesday. By Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth grade program by her bizarre and creative
family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her "socialization" process, until she makes some
highly original friends in a writing workshop.
F SNYDER, Z
Lexile 1030
The Magic Nation Thing. By Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Although twelve-year-old Abby has always tried to deny that she has some kind of weird psychic
power, she takes advantage of it to help her mother, a struggling private investigator, and, more
importantly, to find her best friend's little brother when he goes missing at a ski resort.
F SPARKS
Lexile 1010
A Walk to Remember. By Nicholas Sparks.
When a twist of fate makes Jamie Sullivan his date at the homecoming dance, Landon Carter
never dreamed they would fall in love, but as he comes to realize his true feelings for Jamie, he
learns of a terrible secret that will take his love away from him forever.
F STAPLES
Lexile 1030
Haveli. By Suzanne Fisher Staples.
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom
she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the
malice of his other wives.
F STAPLES
Lexile 1010
Under the Persimmon Tree. By Suzanne Fisher Staples.
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after
Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long
journey to located their missing loved ones after the war ends.
F STEWART
Lexile 1000
Curse of the Night Wolf. By Paull Stewart.
Barnaby Grimes, a punctual lad who runs errands around the city, seeks out mysteries to solve,
is attacked one night by a huge dog, and gets caught up in a world of corrupt doctors, strange
potions, and expensive furs.
F STOCKTON
The Lady or the Tiger? By Frank Richard Stockton.
A princess must choose the fate for her lover--the lady or the tiger.
Very short story.
Lexile 1260
F TOLKIEN
Lexile 1150
The Silmarillion. By J.R.R. Tolkien
Includes "The Simarillion," and four short works: "Ainulindalë," "Valaquenta," "Akallabêth," and
"Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age.".
F TURNER
Lexile 1160
Learning to Swim: a Memoir by Ann Turner.
A series of poems convey the feelings of a young girl whose sense of joy and security at the
family’s summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.
F UPDALE
Lexile 1100
Montmorency : Thief, Liar, Gentleman? By Eleanor Updale.
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he
gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to
create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
F WEDEKIND
Lexile 1040
A horse of her own. By Annie Wedekind.
At summer camp Jane feels like an outsider among the cliquish rich girls who board their horses
at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she
feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse, and
the experience brings out the best in her.
F WHITE, E
Lexile 1010
Voyage on the Great Titanic : the Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912. By Ellen
Emerson White.
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a
London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic,
and experiences its sinking.
F WILSON
Lexile 1010
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade. By Diane L. Wilson.
Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a race and
bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1339.
F WOOD
Lexile 1000
The Mysterious Howling. By Maryrose Wood.
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor
Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves
and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
F WREDE
Lexile 1010
The Thirteenth Child. By Patricia C. Wrede.
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special
training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her
extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western
frontier.
F YOL
Lexile 1010
Sword of the Rightful King : a Novel of King Arthur. By Jane Yolen.
Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of
England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble arises when someone else removes the
sword first.
F ZAPPA
Lexile 1010
The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless. By Ahmet Zappa
With the help of Dr. Devilstone and a book called the Monstranomicon, Minerva and her brother
Max go to the evil Zarmaglorg's Castle Doominstinkinfart to rescue their father, whom they have
discovered comes from a long line of monsterminators.
F ZINDEL
Lexile 1010
The Pigman's Legacy. By Paul Zindel.
Haunted by the memory of a dead friend, two teenagers join an old man in a series of
misadventures.
MYSTERY
MYSTERY F DUNCAN
Lexile 1020
Don't Look Behind You. By Lois Duncan.
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her
father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and
flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
MYSTERY F HAYES
Lexile 1100
Flyers. By Daniel Hayes.
While filming a movie for a school project, Gabe and his friends discover mysterious activities at
a supposedly vacant house.
MYSTERY F SNYDER
Lexile 1010
The Egypt Game. By Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
A group of children, entranced with Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret
oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new
interests, such as Gypsies.
MYSTERY F SNYDER
Lexile 1060
The Treasures of Weatherby. By Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Determined to be as strong and powerful as the first Harleigh, who built the rambling Weatherby
Hall, twelve-year-old Harleigh Fourth and an equally diminutive new friend try to foil the plans of
a distant relative who is seeking the long-lost Weatherby fortune.
MYSTERY F SPRINGER
Lexile 1070
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets. By Nancy Springer.
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.
MYSTERY F SPRINGER
Lexile 1070
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady. By Nancy Springer.
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola,
disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-yearold daughter in nineteenth-century London.
MYSTERY F SPRINGER
Lexile 1020
The Case of the Missing Marquess. By Nancy Springer.
Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in
disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
MYSTERY F SPRINGER
Lexile 1120
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline : an Enola Holmes Mystery. By Nancy Springer.
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.
MYSTERY F ZINDEL
Lexile 1050
The Undertaker's Gone Bananas. By Paul Zindel.
Two teenagers believe a neighbor, an undertaker, has murdered his wife but can't convince
anyone else.
Story Collections
SC 911
Lexile 1060
911 : the book of help.
A collection of essays, poems, short fiction, and drawings created in response to the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, by authors and illustrators of books for young adults.
SC ROWLING
Lexile 1290
The Tales of Beedle the Bard. By J.K. Rowling.
The wizard and the hopping pot -- The Fountain of Fair Fortune -- The warlock's hairy heart -Babbitty Rabbitty and her cackling stump -- The tale of the three brothers. Contains five
illustrated moral tales for children from the world of Harry Potter, reportedly discovered and
translated by young witch Hermione Granger, with an introduction and commentary from Albus
Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
SC SLEATOR
Lexile 1010
Oddballs : Stories. By William Sleator.
A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual
assortment of family and friends.
SC VANDEVELDE
Lexile 1010
All Hallows' Eve : 13 stories. By Vivian Vande Velde.
Come in rest a spell -- Marian -- Morgan Roehmar's boys -- Only on all Hallow's Eve -- Cemetery
field trip -- Best friends -- Pretending -- I want to thank you -- When and how -- When my
parents come to visit -- Edward, lost and far from home -- My real mother -- Holding on.
Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.
Biographies
92 CRUTCHER
Lexile 1180
King of the Mild Frontier : an Ill-Advised Autobiography. By Chris Crutcher.
Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as
short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.
92 DAVINCI
Lexile 1120
Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer. By Robert Byrd.
Illustrations and text portray the life of Leonardo da Vinci, who gained fame as a artist through
such works as the Mona Lisa, and as a scientist by studying various subjects including human
anatomy and flight.
92 FRANK
Lexile 1080
The Diary of a Young Girl : the Definitive Editon. By Anne Frank.
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven
others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration
camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
92 TOL
Lexile 1090
Myth Maker : J.R.R. Tolkien. By Anne E. Neimark.
Follows the life and work of the renowned fantasy writer, creator of hobbits, Middle Earth, and
"The Lord of the Rings.".
920 ROHMER
Lexile 1070
Heroes of the Environment : True Stories of People Who are Helping to Protect Our Planet. By
Harriet Rohmer.
Profiles the lives and accomplishments of twelve environmentalists from United States, Canada,
and Mexico; and describes a teenage girl who sought to remove an industrial pollutant from the
Ohio River, a Mexican wrestler who acts as an advocate for turtles and whales, and more.
Legends
398.2 PYLE
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights. By Howard Pyle.
Tells of King Arthur, his rise to the throne, the winning of his queen, and the stories of the three
worthies of his court, Merlin, Sir Pellias, and Sir Gawaine.
398.22 SER
The White Stag;. By Kate Seredy.
Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where
they hope to find a permanent home.
Non-Fiction Titles
796.357 RUTH HAMPTON
Lexile 1120
Babe Ruth : a Twentieth-Century Life. By Wilborn Hampton.
Chronicles the life and career of Babe Ruth, discussing his childhood, education, baseball
success, and other related topics.
940.3 FREEDMAN
Lexile 1220
The War to End All Wars : World War I. by Russell Freedman.
Murder in Sarajevo -- Armed to the teeth -- To Berlin! To Paris! -- "The most terrible August in
the history of the world" -- Stalemate -- The technology of death and destruction -- Life and
death in the trenches -- Over the top -- The Battle of Verdun -- The Battle of the Somme -- The
war at sea -- Mutiny, revolution, and the collapse of armies -- "Lafayette, we are here!" America
joins the fight -- The last offensive and the collapse of empires -- Losing the peace. A narrative
history of World War I for young readers that features archival photographs, and describes how
advanced military weaponry impacted the course of the war.
943 TUNNELL
Candy Bomber : the Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell.
Describes the efforts of US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to aid the children in Russianblockaded West Berlin by dropping packages filled with candy from the air. Features personal
photographs, along with letters and drawings from the children of Berlin.