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Magorian GOOD NIGHT, MR. TOM A quiet, abused boy is evacuated from London to the countryside during World War II. With the help of Mr. Tom,he learns to be friendly and not afraid. Then a telegram from his mother says he must return to London immediately. McKinley THE HERO AND THE CROWN Aerin, the only child of the King of Damar and his rightful heir, battles Maur, the Black Dragon, meets the wizard lutl'1e, and faces the evil mage Agsded who has seized the Hero's Crown - the greatest treasure and the strength of Damar. Myers BAD BOY, A MEMOIR Popular young adult author, Walter Dean Myers, shares the story of his own troubled teen years. See also his biography, THE GREATEST: MUHAMMAD ALI. Myers MONSTER When sixteen·year-old Steve Harmon is charged as an adult accomplice to a murder, he uses his love of film-making and presents his case as a movie. Is Steve the monster the prosecutor says he is, or is he a victim of circumstances? Myers A TIME TO LOVE: STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT Six Old Testament stories, told from the young adult narrator's point of view, explore the meaning of love. Na A STEP FROM HEAVEN Young Ju emigrates from Korea to the United States believing that America is heaven. The family struggles to adjust to life in America. a new culture, and the difficulty of learning English, and that struggle takes its toll on the family. Naidoo CHAIN OF FIRE Naledi learns that her village in South Africa is to be relocated to a "homeland." When students demonstrate peacefully, the police violently terminate the demonstration. Napoli STONES IN WATER Kidnapped from a movie theater in Venice by German soldiers, Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort. Escape becomes his only hope. Naylor WALKER'S CROSSING Ryan has always wanted to be a working cowboy on the Saddlebow Ranch in Wyoming where he lives with his family; but, when his brother and his best friend Matt become involved in a local militia group run by Matt's dad, Ryan faces some difficult choices.
Nelson AND ONE FOR ALL Geraldine has always had a close relationship with her older brother Wing and his best friend Sam, but that relationship changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam becomes involved in a peace march against the Vietnam War. Opdyke IN MY HANDS: MEMORIES OF A HOLOCAUST RESCUER Irene Gut is a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl, and just seventeen years old and training to be a nurse when war breaks out. Finding herself in the midst of Nazi officers and determined to fight their evil, she takes incredible risks to help the Jews. Orlav THE MAN FROM THE OTHER SIDE 14-year-old Marek helps a young Jewish man hide from the hated German soldiers in his grandparents' home in the Warsaw ghetto. Park A SINGLE SHARD Tree-ear, an orphan living under a bridge in a potters' village in 12th century Korea, watches the potters at work and secretly wishes he too could learn to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. His desire leads him on a long and dangerous journey. Park WHEN MY NAME WAS KEOKO When the Japanese occupied Korea in World War II, Kim Sun and her brother Tae-yul had to take Japanese names, attend Japanese schools, and give up their Korean identity. Paterson JACOB HAVE I LOVED In the shadow of her beautiful and talented twin sister Caroline, Louise struggles to find her place and her own identity. Paterson L YDDIE Working in a 1840's Paulsen SARNY In the aftermath of the Civil War, Samy - the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read - flees the plantation in search of her sold-away children. Paulsen A SOLDIER'S HEART Charley Goddard enters military service at age 15 and, through various Civil War battles, discovers the grim reality of war. Peck REMEMBERING THE GOOD TIMES Kate, the leader Buck, a boy who lives with his father in a trailer parked at a service station, and Trav. a brilliant but troubled son of one of the prominent, affluent families. They are three best friends, but how well do they know each other? Peck THE RIVER BETWEEN US When the Rob Roy steamboat, traveling up the Mississippi River docks in a little town along the river in Illinois, two remarkable young women disembark and change the life of Tilly Pruitt and her family forever. Rinaldi WOLF BY THE EARS Harriet Hemmings, rumored to be Thomas Jefferson's daughter, faces the choice of passing as a white or remaining a slave in the sheltered life at Monticello. Rostkowski AFTER THE DANCING DAYS In the aftermath of World War I, Annie develops a friendship with a badly disfigured soldier. Schmidt LIZZlE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY Turner Buckminster. son of the new minister in Seabrooke JUDY SCUPPERNONG Deanna, Lola and Stacy are fascinated by Judy and envious of her freedom until they discover a sad truth about her life. Sebestyen WORDS BY HEART At the turn of the century, a young black girl struggles to live up to her father's ideals and to make a place for herself in a white Southwestern town. Sleator HOUSE OF STAIRS Five 16-year old orphans find themselves alone in an experimental nightmare -where only stairs and landings stretch as far as the eye can see and a strange red light trains them to dance for their food. Spinelli MILKWEED Living in the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II, Misha, a homeless and gutsy young boy, desperately seeks an identity. Spinelli WRINGER All of Palmer LaRue's friends want to be wringers. Palmer, however, does not; but he is running out of time. Staples SHABANU, DAUGHTER OF THE WIND Shabanu, a member of a Nomadic tribe in the Pakistani dessert, is torn between allegiances to her family and its traditions and her own growing independence. Taylor LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN The year is 1935, and this sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry finds the Logan family deep into the problems of the Depression in rural Mississippi. Followed by The Road to Memphis, in which Cassie Logan must help a good friend escape to the North after a violent racial incident on the eve of World War II. Temple THE RAMSAY SCALLOP 14-year-old Elenor and her betrothed, lord Thomas, just returned from a Crusade to the Holy Land, are sent by their priest on a religious pilgrimage acrOS6 France to a shrine in Spain. Voigt DICEY'S SONG When Dicey, James, Sammy, and Maybeth are taken in by their grandmother, Dicey must adjust to being a "kid" again with someone else in charge. Voigt IZZY WILLY NILL Y Socially conscious sophomore Izzy dates Marco, a senior, to enhance her popularity. Then Marco drinks too much at a party and on the way home crashes his car into a tree. Voigt SOLITARY BLUE A companion book to DICEY'S SONG. Jeff feels confused about his relationship with his parents -- a quiet, intellectual father and a mother who left him when he was very young. Whelan CHU JU'S HOUSE When Chu Ju is 14-years-old, her mother gives birth to another girl. Chinese law permits a family to have only two children. When this second child is a girl, Ghu Ju's grandmother says they must give the baby up for adoption. To protect her sister, Chu Ju runs away. White DEATHWATCH Ben agrees to guide Madec on a hunting trip for bighorn sheep in the Desert Mountains because he needs the money, but it almost costs Ben his life. Woodson HUSH When her father, a Denver police officer, testifies against fellow officers who shot an African-American youth, Toswiah and her sister Cameron and her parents must enter the Witness Protection program, leave their home, and change their identities. Wyss HERE AT THE SCENIC-VU MOTEL In his journal for English class, senior Jake Callahan tells about his experiences in charge of seven teenagers, who live at the Pineville Motel Sunday night through Friday because their own town is too far away from the school to commute each day. Yep DRAGON'S GATE When he accidentally kills a Manchu, Otter is sent from China to America to join his father Squeaky and his Uncle Foxfire and other Chinese men working to build a tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains for the Transcontinental Railroad. Yolen THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC Hannah wonders why she has to spend every Jewish holiday listening to boring stories of the past. Then, at Passover Seder, she opens the door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah and suddenly finds herself in a Jewish village in Poland in the 1940's. Copyright e 2006 by Lorraine Bentley | ||
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