6th Chick Lit @ Lunch
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass.
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays
together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth
and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to
celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar
things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins
to repeat itself over and over again
13 Gifts by Wendy Mass.Shortly before her thirteenth
birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her
aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of
Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes
involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles,
who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of
mysterious message.
The A.B.C. Murders. / Agatha Christie.
AR: 7-12, 6.1, 9.0
A is for Mrs.Ascher-fatally attacked in Andover. B is for
Betty Barnard-strangled on the beach in Bexhill. C is for
Sir Carmichael Clarke-now a corpse in Churston.
Abhorsen / Garth Nix.
AR: 7-12, 6.6, 16.0
Lirael, the young Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr,
is abruptly transformed into the Abhorsen-in-Waiting--a
future guardian of the border between life and death--and
immediately finds the fate of all life in her hands.
Lirael, daughter of Clayr. / AR: 7-12, 7.1, 23.0
When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a
long buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into
a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true
destinies.
Sabriel / AR: 7-12, 7.3, 16.0
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must
journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to
rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.
The Absolutely True Story-- How I Visited Yellowstone
Park with the Terrible Rupes / Willo Davis Roberts.
AR: 4-9, 5.1, 6.0 : 890
What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a
nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister
Alison, when they accompany their irresponsible new
neighbors on a trip to Yellowstone Park and are chased by
two mysterious men.
Alice Rose & Sam / Kathryn Lasky.
AR: 4-9, 5.3, 7.0
Alice Rose, an irrepressible twelve-year-old, shares
adventures with Mark Twain, an outlandish reporter on
her father's newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, during
the 1860s.
Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll,
AR: 4-9, 7.8, 10.0
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world
of nonsensical and amusing characters.
The Ancient One / T. A Barron
AR: 7-12, 6.1, 14.0
While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an
Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old
Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and
faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying
the same forest.
Anne of Green Gables. / L. M Montgomery
AR: 4-9, 7.3, 17.0
The Cuthbert's had planned on adopting a boy, but
instead got Anne, a talkative eleven-year-old with a heart
full of dreams. Green Gables will never be the same.
Anne of Avonlea / AR: 4-9, 8.6, 16.0
Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever,
returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she
herself was taught.
The Apothecary / Maile Meloy
Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London
from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a
mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows,
and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin
when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal
his book of secrets.
The Arkadians / Lloyd Alexander
AR: MG, 5.4, 8.0
To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked
soothsayers, an honest young man joins with a poetturned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a
series of epic adventures.
Artemis Fowl / Eoin Colfer.
AR: MG, 5.0, 9.0
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his
family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a
ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic,
technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Baby / MacLachlan, Patricia.
Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of the
tourist season helps a family come to terms with the death
of their own infant son
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple / Karen Cushman.
AR: MG, 5.8, 7.0
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.
Bat 6. / Virginia Euwer Wolff.
AR: 4-9, 5.1, 8.0
In a small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th
grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game,
during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
Beauty / Robin McKinley
AR: 7-12, 6.2, 11.0 : 970
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is
compelled to stay and through her love releases him from
the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince
into an ugly beast.
Beware, Princess Elizabeth. / Carolyn Meyer.
AR: UG, 7.2, 8.0
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.
Beyond the Valley of Thorns.
AR: 4-9, 6.2, 8.0 : 1000
When thirteen-year-old Alexa embarks on a mysterious
quest, she finds her old friends Yipes the little man,
murphy the squirrel, Odessa the wolf, and Squire the
hawk have been designated to help her.
The Birchbark House / Louise Erdrich
AR: 4-9, 6.1, 7.0
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the
Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the
perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Black Beauty / Anna Sewell, and Lucy Kemp-Welch.
AR-BL7.3-Pts.10.0
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his
experiences with both good and bad masters.
Black hearts in Battersea / Joan Aiken.
AR: 4-9, 6.1, 9.0 : 900
An orphan arrives in London and becomes embroiled in a
plot against the king.
The cuckoo tree / AR: 7-12, 6.4, 11.0
As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the
responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's
Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames
during the coronation of James IV.
Bloomability. / Sharon Creech.
AR: 4-9, 8.6, 16.0
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to
Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school,
thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and
her place within it.
The Blue Sword / Robin McKinley
AR: 4-9, 7.6, 18.0
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orangegrowing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when
she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
The Boggart / Susan Cooper
AR: MG, 6.1, 8.0
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has
inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old
Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with
her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a
fondness for practical jokes.
A Break With Charity / Ann Rinaldi.
AR 7-12, 4.7, 8.0
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna
English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the
malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her
village apart in 1692
Burning Up. / Caroline B Cooney
AR: UG, 5.0, 8.0
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is
murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a
school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had
not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy
Connecticut community.
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Caddie Woodlawn / Carol Ryrie Brink,
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 8.0
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up
on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Calico bush / Rachel Field, and Allen Lewis.
AR: 4-9, 6.2, 9.0 : 1060
In 1742, Marguerite left France with her grandmother and
uncle to seek a home in America. A year later, 13-year-old
Marguerite is alone in the world and a "bound-out girl"
on her way to Maine.
The Candymakers-Wendy Mass.
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has
grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy
factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual
contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover
secrets about themselves during the process.
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets / Nancy Springer
AR: 4-9, 7.4, 6.0
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.
The case of the Goblin Pearls / Laurence Yep
AR: MG, 5.3, 6.0
Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, join
forces to solve the theft of some priceless pearls and stop
the operator of a sweatshop in San Francisco's Chinatown.
The Castle of Llyr / Lloyd Alexander.
AR: 4-9, 5.4, 7.0
Princess Eilonwy goes to the Isle of Mona for training as a
proper princess, and there her loyal friends must go to
rescue her when something sinister befalls her.
Cat running / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
AR: 4-9, 5.6, 7.0
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout
to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a
poor family who have come to California after losing their
Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
Catherine, called Birdy / Karen Cushman.
AR: UG, 6.4, 8.0
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.
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox,
Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox
scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New
York City.
Chains / Laurie Halse Anderson
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 5.2, 11.0
Cold fire. / Tamora Pierce
AR: 7-12, 5.6, 13.0
While studying with her teacher Frostpine in the northern
land of Namorn, Daja helps the twin daughters of her host
family discover their own magic and uses her powers to
track a deadly arsonist.
Charles and Emma / Deborah Heiligman.
AR: MG, 7.6, 11.0
Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and
evolutionary theory, examining how his personal life
affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's
strong religious beliefs.
Chasing Redbird / Sharon Creech
Accelerated Reader: UG, 5.0, 7.0
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets
and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that
begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
Chasing Vermeer / Blue Balliett
AR: MG, 5.4, 6.0
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to
happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears,
eleven-year-old Petra and Calder combine their talents to
sovle an international art scandal.
Cheaper by the dozen / Frank B Gilbreth
AR: MG, 6.0, 10.0
Depicts the lives and adventures of the Gilbreths and their
twelve children.
Child of the owl / Laurence Yep.
AR: MG, 5.5, 10.0
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese
heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San
Francisco's Chinatown.
Children of the Lamp / Philip Kerr
AR: 4-9, 5.7, 13.0
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover
that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their
mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes
them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their
extraordinary powers.
Cleopatra VII / Kristiana Gregory
AR: MG, 6.2, 6.0
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life,
twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she
fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become
Queen of Egypt some day.
Close to Famous / Joan Bauer.
The residents of Culpepper, despite their grand
aspirations, have made little progress toward achieving
their goals, but unexpected events and surprises put the
ambitions of the residents of Culpepper to the test
Code Orange / Caroline B Cooney.
AR: 4-9, 6.2, 8.0
Coraline. / Neil Gaiman.
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 5.1, 5.0
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.
Count Karlstein / Philip Pullman
AR: 4-9, 6.2, 8.0
In the mountains of Switzerland, the wicked Count
Karlstein plots to abandon his two nieces in a hunting
lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly
hounds.
The cry of the icemark / Stuart Hill.
AR: 4-9, 8.0, 24.0
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.
A dangerous promise /Joan Lowery Nixon.
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 7.0 :
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in
Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd
Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the
horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
The Dark Hills Divide / Patrick Carman
AR: 4-9, 6.1, 10.0 : 940
When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out
of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa
realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests
and mountains that lie beyond the wall.
The Darkest Hour / Erin Hunter
AR: 4-9, 6.3, 12.0
ThunderClan's darkest hour is upon them and Fireheart,
the warrior cat, must protect his clan from a threat unlike
any the forest has ever seen, as the time comes for
prophecies to unfold and heroes to rise.
Daughter of the wind. / Michael Cadnum.
AR: 7-12, 7.2, 9.0 : 1020
In medival times as various groups of Vikings fight for
supremacy of the northern lands and waters, Hallgerd,
Gauk, and Hego, three young people from the quiet coastal
village of Spjothof, find their fates intertwined as a series
of events take them into danger far from home.
other dragonets are destined to end, according to the
mysterious prophecy they have been taught.
Dead End in Norvelt / Jack Gantos.
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-yearold Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for
various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly
neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly
dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies,
underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and
countless bloody noses.
Dragonspell / Donita K Paul
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 5.2, 16.0
Kale, a slave girl, finds a dragon's egg and is sent off by the
village elders to present herself and egg to the great
wizards of the walled city, but her journey is fraught with
danger as she finds more dragon eggs, some of them hatch,
and she becomes the target of an evil wizard who wants to
harness her talent for finding eggs for himself.
Dovey Coe / Frances O'Roark Dowell
AR: 4-9, 5.4, 6.0
Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town
in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl,
comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf
brother, as she attempts to clear her name.
Eight cousins, or, The Aunt-hill / Louisa May Alcott.
AR: MG, 8.2, 13.0
Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difult to fit in when she
goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy
cousins.
Rose in bloom / AR: MG, 8.6, 17.0
Rose Campbells adventures with her cousins continue this
sequel to Eight Cousins.
Dragon cauldron / Laurence Yep
AR: MG, 5.5, 10.0
A dragon princess named Shimmer, a monkey wizard, a
reformed witch, and two humans go on a quest to mend
the magic caudron needed to repair the dragon's home.
Dragon of the lost sea / AR: MG, 6.0, 5.8
Shimmer, a renegade dragon princess, tries to redeem
herself by capturing a witch with the help of a human boy.
Dragon steel / AR: 4-9, 5.8, 8.0
To free her clan from slavery at underwater forges, the
dragon princess Shimmer and her human companion
Thorn combat the Dragon King's jealousy and treachery.
Dragon war / AR: 7-12, 5.9, 11.0
The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a
war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their
friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home.
Dragon's gate / Laurence Yep
AR: 7-12, 5.3, 10.0
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old
Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle,
and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the
transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada
mountains in 1867.
Dragonwings / AR: MG, 5.3, 10.0
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins
his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his
dream of making a flying machine.
Dragon's Keep / Janet Lee Carey.
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old
Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of
Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny,
while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was
born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark
secrets.
The Dragon’s Prophecy / Tui Sutherland.
AR: MG, 5.0, 10.0
Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The
MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the
dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four
Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor / Kathryn
Lasky. AR: 4-9, 5.5, 6.0
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the elevenyear-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays
and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her
studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
The emerald atlas / John Stephens.
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one
orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents
disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they
have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark
on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
Enchantress from the stars / Sylvia Louise Engdahl
AR: 7-12, 7.3, 15.0
Three civilizations from different planets in widely varying
stages of development clash in what could be either a
mutually disastrous or beneial encounter.
Every Soul a star-a novel/ Mass, Wendy,
Ally, Bree, and Jack neet at the one place the Great Eclipse
can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of
different personal problems, which become dim when
compared to the task they embarked upon and the
friendship they find
Fairy Tale Detectives-Sisters Grim / Michael Buckley
AR- 5.2, 9.0
The Falconer's Knot / Mary Hoffman.
AR: 4-9, 6.3, 12.0
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a
nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another
and dream of a future together, but when murders are
committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind
the crimes before they can realize their love.
A Family Apart / Joan Lowery Nixon
AR: 4-9, 5.4, 7.0
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.
Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms
with the death of their family's baby.
Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
AR: 4-9, 6.7, 7.0
Biography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston relating her
experiences of living at the Manzanar internment camp
during World War II and how it has influenced
bore-the Ring of Power that would enable evil Sauron to
destroy all that was good in Middle-earth.
A girl named disaster / Nancy Farmer.
AR: 7-12, 5.1, 14.0
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.
Finally/ Wendy Mass.
After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things
she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences
interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at
her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Girl of the shining mountains / Peter Roop
AR: 4-9, 5.5, 6.0
Sacagawea describes how, at the age of sixteen, she
becomes part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and
serves as their interpreter and guide, surviving many
dangerous adventures on their trek through the
wilderness.
First Light / Rebecca Stead.
Accelerated Reader: MG, 4.8, 10.0
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in
Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a
secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and
begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
First test / Tamora Pierce
AR: 4-9, 5.3, 8.0
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles,
serves as a page but must prove herself to the males
around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a
knight.
Five little peppers and how they grew. / Margaret Sidney.
AR: MG, 7.9, 13.0
A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished
condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
Forge / Laurie Halse Anderson.
Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course
of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that
someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free,
and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with
Isabel.
Found /Margaret Peterson Haddix.
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both
adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that
appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on
board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery
involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying
to repair the fabric of time.
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry
AR: 7-12, 5.0, 7.0
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously
removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial
Council Edie, where she is expected to use her gifts as a
weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Getting Near to Baby / Audrey Couloumbis
AR: 7-12, 5.1, 6.0
Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty
seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle
The girl who could fly / Victoria Forester
AR: MG, 6.0, 11.0
When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her
ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government
facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but
she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins
working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape.
The golden compass / Philip Pullman
AR: 7-12, 7.1, 19.0
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to
prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from
becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far
North.
The subtle knife / AR: UG, 6.2, 16.0 : 890
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra
and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his
father and for a powerful, magical knife.
The golden goblet / Eloise Jarvis McGraw
AR: MG, 6.3, 11.0
A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime
and reshape his own destiny.
Gone-Away Lake. / Elizabeth Enright.
AR: 4-9, 5.3, 7.0
Portia and her cousin Julia discover summer adventure in
a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores
of a swampy lake.
The Graveyard Book / Neil Gaiman
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 5.1, 10.0
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been
raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates. / Mary Dodge.
AR: MG, 8.2, 14.0
A Dutch boy and girl seek two goals-aiding their father
and winning a skating competition.
Heartbeat / Sharon Creech
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 5.0, 2.0
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life
the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her
grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and
running partner) becomes distant.
Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported
back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under
the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
Heidi. / Johanna Spyri.
AR: MG, 8.2, 16.0 : 960
Heidi is taken from her grandfather by her Aunt Dete to a
strange family to be campanion for their invalid daughter.
Surprising things happen when she returns home.
The Lacemaker and the Princess/Kimberly Brubaker
Bradley.
In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker
grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles,
becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter,
Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated
not only by their different social class but by the growing
political unrest and resentment of the French people.
Heir Apparent / Vivian Vande Velde
AR: 4-9, 5.6, 11.0
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of
kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that
demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she
is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be
damaged herself.
The Hero and the Crown / Robin McKinley
AR: 4-9, 7.0, 15.0
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help
of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the
daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the
mysterious, demon-haunted North.
Life as We Knew it / Susan Beth Pfeffer
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 4.7, 14.0
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.
Little Lord Fauntleroy / Frances Hodgson Burnett
AR: 4-9, 8.1, 11.0
American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England
where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
The Hobbit / J. R. R Tolkien
AR: 7-12, 6.6, 16.0
The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins,
who lived happily in his comfortable home until a
wandering wizard granted his wish.
A Little Princess / Frances (Hodgson) Burnett.
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 11.0
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.
Homesick, my own story / Jean Fritz,
AR: MG, 5.1, 6.0
The author's tionalized version, though all the events are
true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy / Gary D Schmidt.
AR: 4-9, 5.9, 10.0
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.
Hope was here / Joan Bauer.
AR: 4-9, 5.1, 6.0
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised
her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work
as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they
become involved with the diner owner's political campaign
to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place/ Mary Woods
AR: 6.5, 10.0
Jo's boys and how they turned out / Louisa May Alcott.
AR: 7-12, 8.8, 18.0
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of
the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to
"Little Men."
Kaiulani / Ellen Emerson White
AR: 4-9, 6.4, 6.0 : 940
Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to
1893 as she studies to be a better princess,
King of shadows / Susan Cooper
AR: 4-9, 6.2, 8.0
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company
preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe
Lucky Breaks / Susan Patron, and Matt Phelan.
AR: MG, 6.0, 6.0
Lucky, having met a potential best friend who was visiting
her uncle who lives in Hard Pan, California, devises a plan
to get the young girl back to the town.
Lucky for Good / AR: MG, 6.5, 7.0
Eleven-year-old Lucky feels like the universe is conspiring
against her as she faces troubles with her father, the health
inspector, her school principal, and middle school boys.
Magyk / Angie Sage
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 18.0
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked
from her home and carried toward safety by the
Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her
father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy
412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten
years earlier.
Flyte / AR: 4-9, 6.0, 16.0
When Princess Jenna is pursued by a dark wizard, it is the
apprentice, Septimus Heap, who must save her while
enduring such terrors as a night in the Forest with hungry
wolverines and carnivorous trees.
Marie Antoinette / Kathryn Lasky. –
AR: 4-9, 6.2, 7.0 : 830
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha
Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a
journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her
preparations for her future role as queen of France.
Mary Poppins / P. L Travers,
AR: MG, 6.1, 6.0
The wind brings four English children a new nanny who
slides up the bannister and introduces them to some
delightful people and experiences.
Mary, Bloody Mary. / Carolyn Meyer.
AR: UG, 6.3, 8.0
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England
during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her
troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Without a Country /
Kathryn Lasky..AR: 4-9, 6.0, 6.0 : 850
Mary, the young Scottish queen, writes in her diary about
her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry
II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
Maximum Ride Series
Final Warning / James Patterson.
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.
Angel experiment / James Patterson.
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.
Angel / James Patterson.
Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang,
leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil
scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the
world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is
her perfect mate.
Fang / James Patterson.
When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous
scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to
"improve" the human race, they decide that they must try
to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang
dying.
Max / James Patterson.
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii
and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the
government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically
modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of
the disaster before it is too late.
School's out / James Patterson.
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.
Saving the world and other extreme sports/
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 reengineer a select population into a scientially superior
master race.
Melting Stones / Tamora Pierce.
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 4.3, 11.
Residents of the island of Starns send for help from
Winding Circle temple, and when prickly green mage
Rosethorn and young stone mage trainee Evvy respond,
Evvy finds that the problem is with a long-dormant
volcano and tries to use her talents to avert the looming
destruction.
Midnight / Erin Hunter.
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 12.0
Called by StarClan to fulfill a new prophecy, a group of
young cats sets out on a long and dangerous journey,
knowing only that trouble threatens the forest, as the
adventures of the warrior clans continue.
Millicent Min, Girl Genius. / Lisa Yee.
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 5.8, 8.0
In a series of Journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy
Mlllicent Min records her struggles to learn to play
volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's
departure, and make friends over the course of tumultuous
summer.
So Totally Emily Embers / AR: MG, 3.9, 9.0
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old
Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents'
divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
/ Trenton Lee Stewart, AR: 4-9, 6.1, 19.0
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the
Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members
of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that
turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the
Prisoner's Dilemma / AR: MG, 6.3, 15.0
When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown,
Benedict Society members Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and
Constance follow clues on an adventure that threatens to
separate them from their families, friends, and even one
another.
No Passengers Beyond this Point / Gennifer Choldenko.
With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse
and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in
Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the
plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds
to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house
and a clock that is ticking down the time.
Okay for Now / Gary D Schmidt.
AR: MG, 4.9, 11.0
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with
no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older
brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against
him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady.
Together, they find a safe haven in the local library,
inspiration in learning about the plates of John James
Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a
Broadway stage.
Palace of Mirrors/ Margaret Haddix
AR 5.4, 10.0
The Perilous Gard. / Elizabeth Marie Pope.
AR: 4-9, 6.3, 14.0 : 1020
In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl
becomes involved in a series of events that lead to an
underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of
druidic magic.
Peter Pan / J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
AR: MG, 7.2, 8.0
In Never-Never land there is much excitement and
children never grow up. Though Michael, John and
Wendy go there with Peter Pan, they stay only a short
time.
The Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
AR: 4-9, 6.7, 7.0
A journey through a land where Milo learns the
importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his
boredom.
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
AR: 7-12, 12.0, 27.0
The classic Jane Austen novel about the hopes and
heartbreaks of sisters Jane and Elizabeth Bennet.
Princess Academy / Shannon Hale
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 10.0
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses
with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteenyear-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and
connections to her homeland.
Racing in the Rain my life as a dog : a novel/Garth
Stein.
Adapted from the author's adult novel: The art of racing
in the rain.A dog decides that when he dies and returns to
earth as a man, he will model his behavior after his
beloved owner, a race car driver.
Radiance / Alyson Noel
Accelerated Reader: MG, 6.6, 6.0
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called
Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence
continues in much the same way as when she was alive
until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together
with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first
assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been
haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all
previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
Shimmer / Alyson Noel. AR: MG, 6.8, 6.0
Riley, dead at age twelve and now a Soul Catcher, works
with her teacher Bodhi to help Rebecca, the daughter of a
former plantation owner who, furious about being
murdered during a 1733 slave revolt, is keeping those who
died with her from crossing over.
Dreamland / Alyson Noel.
Eager to contact her sister Ever, ghost Riley goes in search
of the place where dreams are made, where she finds a
renegade ghost boy who has been flouting the rules of
Dreamland for decades.
The Redheaded Princess / Ann Rinaldi.
AR: 4-9, 5.2, 8.
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate
near London, striving to get back into the good graces of
her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she
faces his death and those of other close relatives until she
finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in
1558.
Replay / Sharon Creech.
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 4.2, 4.0
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-yearold Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a
teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow
up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
The Romeo and Juliet Code / Phoebe Stone
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from
London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother,
aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode
mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing
parents.
Ruby Holler / Sharon Creech
Accelerated Reader: MG, 4.3, 6.0
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have
grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change
forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites
them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost
magical place called Ruby Holler.
Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception /Wendelin Van
Draanen.
Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates
mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
Sandry's Book / Tamora Pierce
Accelerated Reader: UG, 5.5, 9.0
Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly
disciplined temple community where they become friends
while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers,
especially magic.
Savvy / Ingrid Law
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 9.0
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.
Scumble
Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his
"savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of
their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers
his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to
future reporter Sarah
School of Fear / Gitty Daneshvari
AR: MG, 6.2, 8.0
Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteenyear-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts
school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and
the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance-to face their fears.
The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
AR: 4-9, 6.3, 13.0
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the
Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the
mysteries of a locked garden.
Shakespeare's scribe / Gary L Blackwood
AR: UG, 6.1, 10.0
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan
boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road
with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his
parents along the way.
The Sherwood Ring. / Elizabeth Marie Pope.
AR: UG, 6.6, 10.0
Orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off guard when she
arrives at her family's estate and encounters mysteries and
ghosts involving her Colonial ancestors.
Shiva's fire / Suzanne Fisher Staples.
AR: UG, 6.8, 11.0
A young girl in India is trained by a master of classical
dance and comes to see her art as her destiny--until she
meets a gentle-eyed boy whom she cannot let go.
The Silver Bowl /Diane Stanley.
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a
castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years
later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep
Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.\
The singer of all songs / Kate Constable.
AR: MG, 6.2, 13.0
Calwyn, a young priestess of ice magic, or "chantment, "
joins with other chanters who have different magical skills
to fight a sorcerer who wants to claim all powers for his
own.
Spellbound / Jacqueline West
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire
of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells
to uncover the house's magic and control the cats
themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
Spindle's end / Robin McKinley.
AR: UG, 7.2, 22.0
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.
Stir It Up /Ramin Ganeshram.
Thirteen-year-old Anjali dreams of hosting a televised
cooking show featuring foods based on her Hindu and
Trinidadian heritage, but when an opportunity presents
itself, she will have to defy her family to go to the audition.
Includes recipes.
Stravaganza / Mary Hoffman.
AR: 7-12, 6.2, 19.0
Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other
Stravagante when he leaves London for Giglia, a city
similar to renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in
ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
Survival in the Storm / Katelan Janke.
AR: 4-9, 6.4, 6.0 : 990
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and
friends' difult experiences in the Texas Panhandle, part of
the "Dust Bowl, " during the Great Depression. Includes a
historical note about life in America in 1935.
Terrier / Tamora Pierce
Accelerated Reader: MG, 4.5, 19.0
When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of
"Dogs, " as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her
police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to
help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's
Lower City.
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer / John Grisham.
Theodore Boone is a teenager and a lawyer in a murder
trial because he is the only one who knows the truth.
Theodore Boone: the Abduction (Book 2)
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the
middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal
knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth
and save April.
The Thief / Megan Whalen Turner
AR: 4-9, 6.0, 11.0
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the
adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods
where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
The Queen of Attolia AR: 4-9, 6.7, 14.0 : 860
Forsaken by the gods and left to his own devices,
Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and
wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.
Torn thread. / Anne Isaacs
AR: UG, 6.3, 7.0
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends
her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where
she and her sister survive the war.
Tris's Book / Tamora Pierce
Accelerated Reader: UG, 5.5, 9.0
With the defenses of Winding Circle Temple seriously
weakened by an earthquake, Tris and her fellow sages-in-
training try to join their different magic powers to protect
the Winding Circle community from a pirate attack.
Trouble / Gary D Schmidt
AR: 4-9, 5.7, 12.0
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.
Up a road slowly. / Irene Hunt
AR-BL6.6-Pts.8.0
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where
she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
There are many happy memories and sad times too;
jealousy of her sister, death of a schoolmate, and
disappointment of first love.
Victoria, May blossom of Britannia-England, 1829. / Anna
Kirwin. AR: 4-9, 6.2, 6.0
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal
chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes
information on the reign, marriage, and family life of
Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
Walk two moons / Sharon Creech
Accelerated Reader: 4-9, 4.9, 9.0
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old
Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her
mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of
her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
The Wanderer / Sharon Creech
AR-BL5.2-Pts.6.0
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their
transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five
foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin,
is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
The Wednesday Wars / Gary D Schmidt
AR: MG, 5.9, 12.0
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.
When You Reach Me / Rebecca Stead
Accelerated Reader: MG, 4.5, 6.0
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s
television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelveyear-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series
of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source
that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman.
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a
whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes,
sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
The white giraffe / Lauren St. John
AR: MG, 6.2, 7.0
After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must
leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife
game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a
mythical white giraffe.
The Will of the Empress / Tamora Pierce.
Accelerated Reader: MG, 5.7, 21.0
On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her
devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old
Sandry must rely on her childhood friends and fellow
mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that has
grown between them.
The Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum
AR: MG, 7.0, 7.0
After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz,
Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin
man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the
Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy
return home to Kansas.
The Land of Oz / L. Frank Baum AR: 4-9, 8.0, 7.0
Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkinhead, run away to Oz,
where they save the city after it is captured by girls.
Ozma of Oz / L. Frank Baum,
AR: MG, 7.4,
7.0
Dorothy Gale, swept by a raging sea storm into the fairy
land of Ev, sets off on a magic carpet with an assortment of
old friends and new, to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten
children from the wicked Nome King, who has turned
Princess Ozma into an emerald grasshopper
Wonder/ R.J. Palacio
Accelerated Reader: MG, 4.8, 11.0
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with
extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to
survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth
grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which
entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as
he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Wonder Struck /Brian Selznick.
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time,
twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to
seek the father he never knew in New York City, and
meets there Rose, who is also longing for something
missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's
in pictures.
Words in the Dust / Trent Reedy.
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a
series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as
she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman
who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and
American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring
cleft lip.