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Alcock THE MONSTER GARDEN Using a tissue sample she believes is from one of her father’s experiments in genetic engineering, Frankie accidentally creates a baby monster, which begins to grow at an alarming rate.
Aliki WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE GLOBE
Welcome to the world of William Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, and Elizabethan times
with spectacular illustrations and brief informative explanations!
Alexander THE IRON RING
When the mysterious King Jaya arrives at his castle in the middle of the night and challenges him to a game of dice, Tamar, King of Sundari, loses everything. Then, he must go on a journey to recover his honor.
Arnosky SKETCHING OUTDOORS IN SUMMER (series)
A naturalist teaches you about nature and drawing.
Avi CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD
Left with no home and no possessions after his mother’s death, accused of theft and murder, and forced to flee his small English village, Asta’s son learns from a priest that his name is Crispin and is given his mother’s cross of lead. On the road, he meets Bear a juggler who forces Crispen to become his servant.
Babbitt TUCK EVERLASTING
Winnie Foster stumbles across the great secret of the Tuck family and sets off a series of events that include a kidnapping, a murder, and a jailbreak.
Balliett CHASING VERMEER
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
Barron THE MERLIN EFFECT
While helping her father locate the remnants of a sunken ship, Kate Gordon is pulled under the waves and swallowed by a great whirlpool into an undersea world where she must battle ancient forces to save her father’s life and her own.
Bauer ON MY HONOR.
Joel breaks a promise to his father and then must cope with the guilt of the accidental drowning of his best friend.
Bauer SQUASHED
Ellie Morgan struggles with unpredictable weather, pumpkin thieves, and Sweet Corn Coquette contestants as she attempts to grow a prize-winning pumpkin and to catch the attention of the new boy in town.
Blackwood THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER
Because Dr. Bright has taught Widge a unique kind of shorthand, he is able to sell this poor orphan to a cruel, unfeeling cutthroat who, in turn, forces Widge to work his way into the Globe Theater to steal the text of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. See also the sequel, SHAKESPEARE’S SCRIBE.
Choldenko AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards’ families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Duncan LOCKED IN TIME
Nore agrees to spend the summer with her father and his new wife on their Louisiana plantation. She soon discovers she is a threat to her new stepmother’s world -- a world locked in time.
Dunning REFLECTIONS ON A GIFT OF WATERMELON PICKLE AND OTHER MODERN VERSE.
“How to Eat a Poem” ... “Don’t be polite. Bite in....”
DuPrau THE CITY OF EMBER
When the great lights of Ember, which have always kept the darkness that surrounds the city at bay, begin to flicker, Lina and Doon are determined to find out why.
Ellis THE BREADWINNER
While women and girls are not allowed outside in Afghanistan, Parvana is permitted to accompany her father to the marketplace where he works each day because he has trouble walking on his own. When her father is sent to prison without reason, Parvana must find a way to help her family survive. Sequel: Parvana’s .‘ Journey.
English FRANCIE
When Francie becomes the tutor for a sixteen-year-old boy who wants to learn how to read, she soon finds herself becoming his protector as well and endangering her entire family.
Fox MONKEY ISLAND
Forced to live in the streets of New York after his mother disappears, 11 year old Clay meets two homeless men who help him, survive.
Freedman MARTHA GRAHAM, A DANCER’S LIFE
A photo biography of the great dancer’s life from her birth in Pittsburgh in 1894 to her final dance performance at age-j 75 and her continued career as a choreographer until her death in 1991.
Funke THE THIEF LORD
When their mother dies leaving them orphans, Prosper and his little brother Bo run away from a cruel aunt and uncle to Venice where they join forces with a mysterious 13- year-old boy and his band of thieves.
Funke INKHEART
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a
living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Gantos HEADS OR TALES: STORIES FROM THE SIXTH GRADE
Jack’s diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next- door neighbors who are really weird.
Gantos JOEY PIGZA LOOSES CONTROL (JOEY PIGZA TRIOLOGY)
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Gaunthier THE HERO OF TICONDEROGA
When Therese, an unenthusiastic student, is chosen to do the plum assignment on local hero Ethan Allen, her repeated efforts at presenting an acceptable oral report help her discover her own talent for storytelling.
Giff LILY’S CROSSING
Lily makes up stories all the time -- stories about her involvement with spies, and submarines, and anti-Nazi plots. Then, she tells a really big lie - a lie that could endanger the life of an orphaned Hungarian refugee named Albert.
Giff PICTURES OF HOLLIS WOODS
Hollis Woods is the place where she was abandoned as a baby. Hollis Woods is her name. Hollis Woods, 12 years old, has lived in many different foster homes. Hollis Woods likes to draw, especially pictures of a family. Hollis Woods is now in big trouble!
Cottrell MILLIONS
After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.
Greenberg CHUCK CLOSE UP CLOSE
Chuck Close, a well-known artist today recognized for his enormous,
photographically realistic portraits of himself and his friends, not only overcame many ‘learning disabilities as a child but also faced many tremendous physical challenges after an illness as an adult.
Haddix TURNABOUT
Melly and Anny Beth, residents of a nursing home, are selected for a special experiment, Project Turnabout, and are given injections that reverse the aging process. In other words, they begin growing backwards, from there 80’s to middle age, the teen years, and eventually childhood and infancy.
Hahn STEPPING ON THE CRACKS
In a small Maryland town in 1944, two girls help a seriously ill Army deserter, a decision that changes their perceptions of right and wrong.
Hamilton ANTHONY BURNS: THE DEFEAT AND TRIUMPH OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE
In a dramatic, fictionalized account of the famous trial in Boston, slave Anthony Burns tests the Fugitive slave Act of 1850.
Henkes OLIVE’S OCEAN
Martha receives a page from the journal of a classmate, Olive, who died in an accident. Martha did not know Olive well but Olive had written about wanting to be Martha’s friend, wanting to see the ocean, and wanting to become a writer.
Hesse THE STOWAWAY.
In 1768, 11-year-old Nicholas Young stows away on Captain James Cook’s ship, The Endeavor, and records in his journal this historic and remarkable voyage that covered much of the world and lasted more than three years.
Hobbs BIG WANDER
Clay has many adventures on his “big wander” through Arizona’s canyon country in search of his missing uncle.
HoIm OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA
May Amelia, the only girl in a Finnish American family in Washington state, has seven brothers and resents being treated as a little lady in this family where the boys seem to get to do all of the neat things and have all of the fun.
Holt MY LOUISIANA SKY
When her grandmother dies, 12-year--Old Tiger Ann must make a choice that will determine the future for herself and her mentally retarded parents.
Ibbotson THE STAR OF KAZAN
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Jacques REDWALL (Series)
Matthias, a clumsy, young peace-loving mouse, galvanizes himself to defeat the evil rat, Cluny the Scourge. SEQUELS from The Redwall series about the imaginary world of Redwall Abbey and the animals who live there.
Jones CASTLE IN THE AIR
Abdullah is whisked away to a magic kingdom when he falls asleep on a magic carpet he has just bought.
Juster PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
Milo found everything in life boring. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his’ room, he drives through because he has nothing better to do and soon discovers more excitement than he ever thought possible.
Konigsburg THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY
Four unusual sixth-graders are brought together by their teacher to form a dynamite Academic Bowl team.
Lauber TALES MUMMIES TELL
Why are mummies so important? And what do they reveal about the civilizations in which they were made?
Lawrence THE THIEVES OF OSTIA
Flavia Germina is the daughter of a sea captain and an accomplished amateur detective. When dogs in her port city of Ostia begin to be murdered, Flavia and her friends Jonathan, Nubia, and Lupus search for the killers.
Lawrence THE WRECKERS
After a vicious storm, John Spencer finds himself to be the sole survivor of his father’s ship, the Isle of Skye, when it is shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall. It is not long, however, before John discovers an evil plot in this small village and becomes aware that his father too survived but must be saved. Sequels.
L’Engle A WRINKLE IN TIME
Meg and Charles Wallace Murray and their friend Calvin go in search of the Murray children’s father, a scientist who has disappeared while doing secret work for the government on “tessering.”
Levine ELLA ENCHANTED
At birth, Ella is cursed with a gift -- the gift of obedience. Forced to obey every command made of her, she becomes aware that she must take charge and somehow learn to say, “NOl”
Levine THE WISH
When an extraordinary old woman gives her a wish for sharing her seat on the bus, Wilma Sturtz wishes to be the most popular kid at Claverford School. She likes being popular and having friends. Then she realizes she has only three more weeks at Claverford before going on to high school!
Lindquist SUMMER SOLDIERS
During the summer of 1918, Joe Farrington’s dad and almost every other dad are off fighting in the war. Because his friend Jim Morgan’s dad decided not to fight, the community thinks he is a coward.
Lowry YOUR MOVE, J.P.
12 year old J.P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest--a girl!
Lynch GOLD DUST
Richard Riley Moncrief knows everything about baseball and is an avid Boston Red Sox fan, but he is totally baffled by his friendship with Napoleon Charlie Ellis, a new student from the island of Dominica at his Catholic school, in racially charged .Boston of 1975.
MacLachlan JOURNEY
Grandfather’s new hobby of taking family photographs helps Journey come to terms with his anger and his grief over his mother’s running away.
Matas DANIEL’S STORY
Daniel’s memories of a happy and safe family life fade fast as he and his family face the dangers threatening the Jews in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930’s. Forced from their home, they are first sent to Lodz ghetto in Poland and then to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp.
McCaffrey DRAGONSONG (SERIES)
Menolly wants desperately to be a Harper, but on the planet Pern women are not allowed to play and sing. Unwilling to give up her music, she runs away.
McCloskey HOMER PRICE *
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price, including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits, and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
McKinley THE BLUE SWORD
Harry Crewe, bored with her dull and sheltered life, finds magic, love, and her destiny as a woman warrior when she is kidnapped by a handsom— king with mysterious powers.
McKissack SOJOURNER TRUTH: AIN’T I A ‘WOMAN
A slave for the first thirty years of her life, Sojourner Truth achieved freedom and became an eloquent orator for the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women.
Morris THE SQUIRE’S TALE
When Terence begins his service as a knight of King Arthur, his life changes dramatically.
Morris GOOD OLD BOY
Adding caster oil, milk of magnesia and dog worming medicine to cookies is just one way Willie and his buddies keep people on their toes! This autobiography of Willie Morris, as well as his book My Dog Skip, is the inspiration for the movie, My Dog Skip.
Murphy BLIZZARD
Sub-zero temperatures, 85-mile-per-hour winds, and an ocean of snow are all vividly re-created in this vivid account of the blizzard of March 1888 which paralyzed the Northeast.
Myers THE RIGHTEOUS REVENGE OF ARTEMIS T. BONNER
Artemis tracks the evil Caffish Grimes through the old west in a wild, hilarious chase in an effort to recover his Uncle Ned’s lost fortune for his widowed aunt.
Myers THE MOUSE RAP
Mouse, his ace Styx, and other friends search for money hidden by a 1930’s gangland leader.
Nelson RUBY ELECTRIC
Ruby deals with her real life problems by visualizing screen plays in her head.
Oppel AIRBORN
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface.
Paolini Eragon
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters
Paterson PREACHER’S BOY
Robbie Hewitt, the son of a Congregational minister in a small Vermont town in 1899, finds himself in the biggest scrape of his life where he is finally forced to choose whether to hide or to tell the truth.
Paulsen HARRIS AND ME
A young city boy, sent to his aunt and uncle’s farm to spend the summer,
experiences all kinds of crazy escapades and finds himself in all kinds of trouble with his cousin Harris, a “wild, ragtag, daredevil of a boy.”
Paulsen HATCHET
I On the way to visit his father, Brian Robeson survives a plane crash only to find himself on his own in the Canadian wilderness.
Peck A YEAR DOWN UNDER
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her
feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Peck FAIR WEATHER
Aunt Euterpe’s invitation to Rosie and her Illinois’ farm family to travel to Chicago to visit the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition turns out to be a life-changing event for everyone in the family..
Peck THE TEACHER’S FUNERAL
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell’s dream of quitting school and
joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle “hauls off and dies.”
Pinkwater ALAN MENDELSOHN, THE BOY FROM MARS
Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle Chili Parlor -- and Mind Control!
Reeder SHADES OF GRAY
At the end of the Civil War, 12 year old Will has lost all of his family and must leave his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with an aunt and an uncle -a man Will resents because he had refused to fight the Yankees.
Richler JACOB TWO-1’VVO MEETS THE HOODED FANG*
Unjustly imprisoned by the Hooded Fang and other big people, Jacob Two-Two
awaits the aid of the members of Child Power to free him and two hundred other children.
Ryan ESPERANZA RISING
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Rylant MISSING MAY
When 12 year old Summer hears that the spirit of May, her mother for the last six years, has appeared to her husband Ob near their West Virginia trailer, she is none too pleased. She needs help from May herself to keep Ob from dying too.
Sleator INTO THE DREAM
Francine Gill and Paul Rhodes each have the SAME nightmare every night.
Snicket SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: A BAD BEGINNING (Series)
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.
Spinelli CRASH
Eighth grader, Crash Coogan, reflects on his life as a football star and a bully and his relationship with the dweeb, Penn Webb.
Thompson AUKS, ROCKS, AND THE ODD DINOSAUR: INSIDE STORIES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Peggy Thomson, a local author, shares the inside story of more than twenty objects on display in this museum, including an auk, meteorites collected by school boys in New Mexico, and a Mexican orange-kneed tarantula.
Woodson LOCOMOTION
Lonnie must cope with the loss of his parents in a fire, the adoption of his sister, and his own assignment to a foster home.
Wrede DEALING WITH DRAGONS
Cimorene is not a proper princess. She is too tall, too stubborn, and finds being a princess unbearably dull. She runs away to become the princess of the dragon
Kazul and gets involved with a witch, a jinn, a death-dealing bird, a stone prince, and some very disreputable wizards.
Yep THIEF OF HEARTS
When Stacy is paired at school with a Chinese girl, newly arrived from Hong Kong, she is forced to come to terms with her own Chinese and American heritage.
Tolen SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES.
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, has been kicked out of every school he has attended. His last chance is the artistic and eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy.
Uchilda JOURNEY TO TOPAZ
An 11 year old Japanese girl living in California during World War II suddenly finds herself in a Utah prison camp.
VanDraanen FLIPPED
Bryce Loski and Juli Baker, neighbors, tell the story of their friendship through the years.
Voigt HOMECOMING
Abandoned by their mother, Dicey Tillerman leads her younger sister and two brothers from Connecticut to Maryland and a new home. Sequels -- DICEY’S SONG and SOLITARY BLUE.
Westall THE MACHINE-GUNNERS
Charles McGill finds a crashed German Heinkel plane with its machine gun and all of its ammunition in tact. He just has to figure out how to remove it from the plane, and it will be his!
Wilson MOUNTAIN POSE
When 12-year-old Ellie Dunklie’s estranged grandmother dies, Ellie inherits the family farm and a box of diaries -- diaries her father warns her not to read.
Wiseman JEREMY VISICK
Matthew Clemens, while doing a history homework assignment, becomes obsessed with a gravestone inscription and finds himself, with Jeremy Visick, in the Wheal Maid Mining Disaster of 1852.
Yolen DRAGON’S BLOOD
Jakkin’s freedom is ensured when the dragon he steals and secretly trains wins its first flight.
Zindel THE PIGMAN
As a result of a crank phone call, two teenagers, John and Lorraine, meet and befriend old Mr. Pignati, whom they nickname Pigman.
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