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GRADE 5

001.942 INN

Innes, Brian. The mysteries of UFOs.

Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1999.

Describes some of the sightings reported about mysterious and sometimes unexplained objects in the skies.

001.944 INN

Innes, Brian. Water monsters.

Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1999.

Describes sightings of unidentified water creatures, including the Biblical Leviathan, sea serpents, and the monsters supposedly inhabiting various lakes.

133.1 MEI

Meier, Gisela. Ghosts and poltergeists.

Mankato, Minn., USA Chicago : Capstone Press ; Distributed by Childrens Press, c1991.

Examines evidence supporting the existence of ghost and poltergeists.

133.3 INN

Innes, Brian. Amazing predictions.

Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1999.

Describes predictions people have made that came true, including a 1979 airplane disaster, President Lincoln's dream of his own assassination, and the sinking of the Titanic.

299. MON

Montejo, Victor. Popol vuh : a sacred book of the Maya.

Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Berkeley, CA : Groundwork Books ;

Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West, c1999.

retelling of the Sacred Book of the Maya, providing accounts of how the world was created; telling of the mythic creatures who battled against the Underworld Lords of Xib'alb'a; describing the creation of man from corn; and listing the line of K'iche' kings up to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.

303.6 NAT

Nathan, Amy. Everything you need to know about conflict resolution.

Rev. ed. New York : Rosen Pub. Grp., 1996.

Examines the causes of conflict and presents the skills need

to resolve differences. Also discusses peer counseling as a

solution for conflicts.

324.6 HEA

Heath, David. Elections in the United States.

Mankato, Minn : Capstone Press, c1999.

Discusses national, state and local elections, as well as political parties and the electoral college.

324.6 HEA

Heath, David. The presidency of the United States.

Mankato, Minn. : Capstone High/Low Books, c1999.

Discusses the establishment of the presidency in the United States, the system of checks and balances it helps maintain, the duties of the president, and the White House; and includes

information about past presidents, a glossary, related addresses and Internet sites, and an index.

328.73 HEA

Heath, David. The Congress of the United States.

Mankato, Minn. : Capstone High/Low Books, c1999.

Discusses the history and structure of the two branches of Congress and how they make laws. Includes a glossary, related

addresses and Internet sites, and an index.

332.4 MAE

Maestro, Betsy. The story of money.

New York : Clarion Books, c1993.

A history of money, beginning with the barter system in ancient times, to the first use of coins and paper money, to the development of modern monetary systems.

333.78 DAW

Dawson, Jim. Park naturalist.

Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, [1999], c2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index. An introduction to the career of park naturalist, including discussion of educational requirements, duties, workplace, salary, employment outlook, and possible future positions.

340 KEL

Kelly, Zachary A. Laws.

Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Corp., c1999.

An overview of the American legal system, including why laws are necessary, how they are made, criminal and civil law, law enforcement, and the rights of victims and of the accused.

347.73 HEA

Heath, David. The Supreme Court of the United States.

Mankato, MN : Capstone High/Low Books, c1999.

Discusses the duties, powers, checks and balances, Chief Justices, and important decisions of the Supreme Court.

355.3 GRE

Green, Michael. The United States Army.

Mankato, Minn. : Capstone High/Low Books, c1998.

An introduction to the history, organization, function, equipment, and future of the United States Army.

629.13 SAB

Sabin, Louis. Wilbur and Orville Wright : the flight to adventure.

[Mahwah, N.J.] : Troll Associates, c1983.

Focuses on the childhood of the Wright brothers and the

inventiveness they displayed from their earliest days.

782.42 VEN

Venezia, Mike. The Beatles.

New York : Children's Press, c1997.

Tells the story of the world's most celebrated and influential rock group.

796.357 GOL

Golenbock, Peter. Teammates.

San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1990.

Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African-American player in Major League baseball and depicts the acceptance and support he received from his white teammate Pee Wee Reese.

920 GRE

Greenfield, Eloise. Childtimes : a three-generation memoir.

1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1993.

Childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter--who lived in the 1880s to the 1950s.

973.7 SLA

Slavery time when I was chillun.

New York : Putnam, c1997.

Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936.

B AGA

Savage, Jeff. Andre Agassi : reaching the top--again.

Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, c1997.

A biography of the talented and colorful tennis player who won the Wimbledon championship in 1992 and earned the number one ranking in 1995.

B BAN

Ferris, Jeri. What are you figuring now? : a story about

Benjamin Banneker.

Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, c1988. A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.

B BAN

Hinman, Bonnie. Benjamin Banneker : American mathematician and

astronomer.

Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000.

A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.

B BEE

Venezia, Mike. Ludwig Van Beethoven.

New York : Children's Press, c1996.

Briefly recounts the life of a composer who wrote beautiful sonatas and symphonies despite tragic personal problems.

B BER

Venezia, Mike. Leonard Bernstein.

New York : Children's Press, c1997.

A brief biography of the talented composer, conductor, and musician known for his television series, Young People's Concerts.

B BOT

Venezia, Mike. Botticelli. Chicago : Childrens Press, c1993.

Examines the life and work of the Italian painter of the

early Renaissance, describing and giving examples of his

art.

B BRA

Andryszewski, Tricia, 1956-. Bill Bradley : scholar, athlete,

statesman. Brookfield, CT : Millbrook Press, c1999.

Follows the life of William Bradley, from his childhood in

Missouri through his basketball career to his life in

politics.

B BRA

Venezia, Mike. Johannes Brahms. New York : Children's Press,

c1999. Presents a biography of the nineteenth-century

German composer who combined both classical and romantic

musical styles to compose his lively songs and powerful

symphonies.

B BUR

Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a

fugitive slave. 1st Knopf pbk. ed. New York : A.A. Knopf,

1997. A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in

1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and

whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those

determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

B CHO

Venezia, Mike. Frédéric Chopin. New York, N.Y. : Children's

Press, c1999. Describes the life and work of the

nineteenth-century Polish composer who invented beautiful

music for the piano and new ways of playing it.

B COP

Venezia, Mike. Aaron Copland. Chicago : Childrens Press, 1995.

A biography of Copland, one of the greatest American

composersof the 20th century.

B DEV

Gutman, Bill. Gail Devers. Austin, Tex. : Raintree

Steck-Vaughn, c1996. The story of the courageous woman who

overcame a debilitating illness to go on to become an

Olympic gold medalist in track and field events.

B EDM

Reit, Seymour. Behind rebel lines : the incredible story of Emma

Edmonds, Civil War spy. San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace

Jovanovich, 1991. Recounts the story of the Canadian woman

who disguised herself as a man and slipped behind

Confederate lines to spy for the Union army.

B ETH

Shura, Mary Francis. Gentle Annie : the true story of a

Civil War nurse. New York : Scholastic, c1991. A biography

of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from

childhood through her four years of service with the army of

the Potomac.

B FRA

Fritz, Jean. What's the big idea, Ben Franklin? New York :

Putnam's, 1996, c1976. A brief biography of the

eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who

played an influential role in the early history of the

United States.

B GEO

George, Jean Craighead. The tarantula in my purse : and

172 other wild pets. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York :

HarperTrophy, 1997. A collection of autobiographical

stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets

including crows, skunks, and raccoons.

B GLE

Kramer, Barbara. John Glenn : a space biography. Springfield,

NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1998. A biography of the first

American to orbit the earth. covering his youth, his career

as an astronaut, and his life after NASA.

B GOR

Bach, Julie S., 1963-. Jeff Gordon. 1st ed. Mankato, Minn. :

Creative Education, c1999. Describes the life of the NASCAR

driver, from his childhood through his current career.

B HAN

Venezia, Mike. George Handel. Chicago : Childrens Press, 1995.

"Getting to know the world's greatest composers." A

biography of Handel, one of the most famous composers in

Europe during the 1700s.

B HAR

Yount, Lisa. William Harvey : discoverer of how blood

circulates. Hillside, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers,

c1994. William Harvey showed the world that the heart is

actually a pump that circulates blood thoughout the body.

B HEN

Fritz, Jean. Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? 1st

PaperStar ed. New York : Putnam, 1997, c1975,. A brief

biography of Patrick Henry tracing his progress from planter

to statesman.

B HIC

Hickam, Homer H., 1943-. Rocket boys : a memoir. New York :

Delacorte Press, c1998. An autobiographical account of NASA

engineer Homer Hickam's life that discusses his childhood,

his obsession with rockets, his NASA career, and other

related topics.

B KIN

Peck, Ira. The life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Rev.

ed. New York : Scholastic, c1999. Words and pictures

describe the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

B LAV

Yount, Lisa. Antoine Lavoisier : founder of modern chemistry.

Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997. Profiles the

life of the Frenchman who is considered the founder of

modern chemistry and biochemistry, because of his discovery

of oxygen and his work on combustion and respiration.

B LEE

Yount, Lisa. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek : first to see microscopic

life. Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1996. A

biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made

many discoveries examining microscopic life.

B LIN

Anderson, Margaret Jean, 1931-. Carl Linnaeus : father of

classification. Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997.

Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish

naturalist whose scientific naming of plants and animals

provided an international language of nature.

B MAH

Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-. Chinese Cinderella : the true story of

an unwanted daughter. New York : Delacorte, c1999. The

author tells the story of her painful childhood in China

where she lived until the age of fourteen with her father,

stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her bad

luck because her mother died shortly after giving birth to

her.

B MCG

Dougherty, Terri. Mark McGwire. Edina, Minn. : ABDO, c1999.

Presents a biography of the St. Louis Cardinal slugger who

broke Roger Maris' single-season home run record in 1998.

B MON

Fitz-Gerald, Christine Maloney. James Monroe : fifth President

of the United States. Chicago : Childrens Press, c1987.

The life and long political career of the fifth president of

the United States whose Monroe Doctrine proclaimed

opposition to further European control in the western

hemisphere.

B PIA

Savage, Jeff, 1961-. Mike Piazza : hard-hitting catcher.

Minneapolis, MN : Lerner, c1997. Describes the life and

achievements of the Los Angeles Dodgers' star catcher and

power-hitter who was voted National League Rookie of the

Year in 1993.

B POC

Fritz, Jean. The double life of Pocahontas. New York : Putnam,

c1983. A biography of the famous American Indian princess,

emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the

roles she played in two very different cultures.

B REV

Brandt, Keith, 1949-. Paul Revere, son of liberty. [Mahwah,

N.J.] : Troll Associates, c1982. Recounts the early life of

the boy who grew up to become a famous silversmith and

Revolutionary War patriot.

B RIP

Macnow, Glen. Sports great Cal Ripken, Jr. Hillside, N.J.,

U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, 1993. A biography of the

superstar shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.

B RUT

Brandt, Keith, 1949-. Babe Ruth, home run hero. [Mahwah, NJ] :

Troll Associates, c1986. A brief biography of the first

great home run hitter in baseball history.

B SCH

Italia, Bob, 1955-. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Edina, Minn.

: Minneapolis, Minn. : Abdo & Daughters : Distributed by

Rockbottom Books, c1992. Describes the life,

accomplishments, and goals of the general who commanded the

American troops during the Persian Gulf War.

B SEU

Weidt, Maryann N. Oh, the places he went : a story about Dr.

Seuss--Theodore Seuss Geisel. Minneapolis, Minn. :

Carolrhoda Books, c1994. Tells how a boy became the creator

of some of the most loved children's books of all time.

B SMI

Grabowski, John F. Sports great Emmitt Smith. Springfield, NJ :

Enslow Publishers, c1998. Profiles the personal life and

football career of the All-Pro running back with the Dallas

Cowboys, Emmitt Smith.

B SOU

Venezia, Mike. John Philip Sousa. New York : Children's Press,

c1998. A simple biography of the famous band leader and

composer who was known as the March King.

B STA

Miller, Susan Martins. Miles Standish : Plymouth Colony leader.

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000. Presents a

biography of the courageous leader who arrived in America on

the Mayflower and led the defense of Plymouth Colony.

B STR

Venezia, Mike. Igor Stravinsky. New York : Children's Press,

c1996. The life story of the Russian composer known for his

musical innovations.

B TCH

Venezia, Mike. Peter Tchaikovsky. Chicago : Childrens Press,

c1994. "Getting to know the world's greatest composers." A

biography of Russian composer Tchaikovsky who wrote Swan

Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and the Nutcracker.

B THO

Ring, Elizabeth, 1920-. Henry David Thoreau : in step with

nature. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1993.

Introduces the life, thinking, and work of the New England

philosopher and nature writer.

B WHI

Collins, David R. To the point : a story about E.B. White.

Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, c1989. Follows the life of the

popular author of essays, poems, and children's books, from

his childhood in rural New York State to his death at the

age of eighty-six.

B WIL

Anderson, William, 1952-. Pioneer girl : the story of Laura

Ingalls Wilder. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins

Publishers, c1998. Recounts the life story of the author of

the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to

her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.

E BAN

Bannatyne-Cugnet, Jo. A prairie year. Montreal ; Plattsburgh,

N.Y. : Tundra Books, c1994. Depicts prairie farm life month

by month throughout the year, showing how children and their

families work, play, and appreciate the beauty around them.

FIC ALE

Alexander, Lloyd. Gypsy Rizka. New York : Puffin, 2000, 1999.

Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town

while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a

trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the

townspeople.

FIC ARM

Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-. Black-eyed Susan. 1st Knopf pbk.

ed. New York : Knopf, 1997. Ten-year-old Susie and her

father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its

vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's

mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio.

FIC BAB

Babbitt, Natalie. The search for delicious. 1st ed. New York :

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1969. The Prime Minister is

compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on

the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old

messenger to poll the country.

FIC BAI

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, 1875-1961. Miss Hickory. [New York] :

Penguin Books, 1978, c1946. Relates the adventures of a

country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut

for a head.

FIC BAN

Banks, Sara H., 1942-. Abraham's battle : a novel of Gettysburg.

1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999.

In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg

and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed

slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of

the Union Army.

FIC BAU

Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Rules of the road. New York : Putman's,

1998. Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly

owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to

Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to

retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a

saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic

father.

FIC BAW

Bawden, Nina, 1925-. The real Plato Jones. New York : Clarion

Books, 1993. Thirteen-year-old Plato Jones tries to come to

terms with his mixed heritage while visiting Greece, as he

finds out more about his Welsh grandfather, a World War II

hero, and his Greek grandfather, a supposed traitor.

FIC BEL

Bellairs, John. The revenge of the wizard's ghost. New York :

Puffin, 1997. While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies

dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly

professor and a schoolmate, try to find some way to free

him.

FIC BEL

Bellairs, John. The vengeance of the witch-finder. New York :

Puffin Books, 1995. In 1951, while visiting a distant

cousin in the English countryside, thirteen-year-old Lewis

Barnavelt accidentally unleashes demonic forces and summons

the ghost of an evil wizard bent on killing the Barnavelt

family.

FIC BIL

Billingsley, Franny, 1954-. The Folk Keeper. 1st ed. New York

: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. Orphan Corinna

disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who

keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a

seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family

in their manor by the sea.

FIC BON

Bond, Nancy. A string in the harp. 1st ed. New York :

Atheneum, 1976. Relates what happens to three American

children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year,

when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes

him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard

Taliesin.

FIC BRU

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. The arrow over the door. 1st ed. New

York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1998. In the year

1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a

memorable meeting.

FIC BRY

Bryant, Bonnie. Sidesaddle. New York : Bantam, 1999. Stevie

Lake, irked when her boyfriend praises the skills of

Tiffani, a new rider at Pine Hollow Stables, allows her

jealousy to push her into a foolish, one-sided competition.

FIC BUC

Buck, Pearl S. The big wave.

New York : HarperCollins, c1976. When his family and

village are swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live

with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.

FIC BUR

Burch, Robert, 1925-. Queenie Peavy. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :

Puffin Books, 1987, c1966. Tormented by taunts that her

father is in prison, thirteen-year-old Queenie retaliates by

causing a lot of trouble until she discovers something

important about her father and herself.

FIC CAM

Campbell, Joanna. Cindy's runaway colt. New York :

HarperPaperbacks, c1995. Cindy Blake is happy in her new

foster home with the McLean family on Whitebrook Farm, but

her happiness is threatened when Lavinia Townsend accuses

Cindy of stealing. Cindy's troubles multiply when she hides

a mistreated horse from a neighboring farm.

FIC CAR

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's shadow. 1st ed. New York : Tom

Doherty Associates Book, 1999. Bean must overcome his past

and prove to the recruiters at the Battle School that he can

help save the planet from an alien invasion.

FIC CHO

Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of impossible goodbyes. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, 1991. A young Korean girl survives the oppressive

Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the

1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.

FIC CHR

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Crooked house. New York :

HarperPaperbacks, [1991], c1948. The normally pleasant

household of the late Aristide Leonides is filled with a

mounting terror as it becomes obvious someone in his family

has given him a fatal dose of poison.

FIC CHR

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Death on the Nile. New York :

HarperPaperbacks, [1992], c1937. A murder on a cruise ship

on the Nile baffles everyone except Hercule Poirot.

FIC CHR

Christopher, John. When the Tripods came. Rev. cover ed. New

York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999. Fourteen-year-old Laurie

and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods

descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone

with their hypnotic Caps.

FIC CHR

Christopher, Matt. Baseball turnaround. 1st ed. Boston :

Little, Brown, c1997. Sandy is drawn unknowingly into a

shoplifting incident, but his community service involves his

beloved baseball and he meets people who help him finally

put the past behind him.

FIC CHR

Christopher, Matt. Dirt bike runaway. 1st ed. Boston : Little,

Brown, c1983. A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent

for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home

and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and

good.

FIC CLA

Clark, Clara Gillow. Willie and the Rattlesnake King. 1st Boyds

Mills Press pbk. ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press,

1999, c1997. A thirteen-year-old boy learns life's lessons

when he runs away from the farm to join a traveling medicine

show.

FIC CLE

Cleary, Beverly. Ramona and her father. New York : Morrow,

c1977. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in

second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

FIC CLE

Cleary, Beverly. Ramona Quimby, age 8. New York : Morrow,

c1981. The further adventures of the Quimby family as

Ramona enters the third grade.

FIC COL

Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. Who is Carrie? New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1987], c1984. A

young black girl living in New York City in the late

eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place

around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her

own identity.

FIC COU

Couloumbis, Audrey. Getting near to baby. New York : G.P.

Putnam's Sons, c1999. Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo

and her Aunt Patty seem to be constantly at odds, staying

with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister

come to terms with the death of their family's baby.

FIC CUR

Curry, Jane Louise. A stolen life. 1st ed. New York : M.K.

McElderry, c1999. In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina

MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested

when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing

voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a

Virginia planter.

FIC CUR

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy. New York : Delacorte

Press, c1999. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in

Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad

foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to

be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of

Grand Rapids.

FIC DE

De Jong, Meindert, 1910-. Hurry home, Candy. Trophy ed. New

York : Harper & Row, 1971, c1953. A stray dog finally finds

loving companionship.

FIC DE

De Jong, Meindert, 1910-. The house of sixty fathers. New York,

: HarperCollins, c1984, c1956. Alone in a sampan with his

pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled

down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his

parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long

and frightening days regaining his family and new home.

FIC DEF

DeFelice, Cynthia C. Nowhere to call home. 1st ed. New York :

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. When her father kills

himself after losing his money in the stock market crash,

twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to

hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo.

FIC DEF

DeFelice, Cynthia C. Weasel. New York : Atheneum Books for

Young Readers, c1990. Alone in the frontier wilderness in

the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an

injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade

killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery

about the concept of revenge.

FIC DIX

Dixon, Franklin W. Daredevils. New York, NY : Pocket Books,

c2000. The Hardy Boys investigate attempts to kill a Hollywood stuntman.

FIC DUA

Duane, Diane. A wizard abroad. 1st U.S. ed. San Diego :

Harcourt Brace, 1997. Sent on vacation to her aunt's home

in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita becomes entangled in a magic

battle to save the country from the ghosts of its past.

FIC DUA

Duane, Diane. So you want to be a wizard. 1st Magic Carpet

Books ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996, 1983.

Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies

because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a

library book on wizardry which guides her into another

dimension.

FIC ENR

Enright, Elizabeth, 1909-1968. Gone-Away Lake. 1st Harcourt

Young Classics ed. San Diego : Harcourt, 2000, c1957.

Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden

colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy

lake.

FIC FAR

Farley, Walter, 1915-. The black stallion. New York : Random

House, [1998]. Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert

island with a horse destined to play an important part in

his life. Following their rescue their adventure continues

in America.

FIC FLE

Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins

Publishers, c1993. Northerners, Southerners, generals,

couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the

glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of

the first battle of the Civil War.

FIC FLE

Fletcher, Susan, 1951-. Flight of the Dragon Kyn. 1st ed. New

York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers : [Maxwell Macmillan

International], c1993. Fifteen-year-old Kara is summoned by

King Orrik, who believes she has the power to call down the

dragons that have been plundering his realm, and she is

caught up in the fierce rivalry between Orrik and his

jealous brother Rog.

FIC FOX

Fox, Paula. One-eyed cat : a novel. Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury

Press, c1984. An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with

his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and

eventually assumes responsibility for it.

FIC GAR

Garland, Sherry. Cabin 102. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1995.

While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty

encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom

he comes to terms with his fears.

FIC GIP

Gipson, Fred, 1908-. Old Yeller. New York : Harper & Row,

c1956. In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big

yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving

relationship.

FIC GO

Go ask Alice. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Readers, c1971. Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old

drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the

drug world.

FIC GRE

Gregory, Kristiana. The great railroad race : the diary of Libby

West. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1999. As the

daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby

keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her

during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

FIC GRE

Gregory, Kristiana. The winter of red snow : the Revolutionary

War diary of Abigail Jane Stewart. New York : Scholastic

Inc., c1996. Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary

account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July

1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the

British.

FIC HAM

Hamilton, Virginia. The planet of Junior Brown. New York :

Macmillan, [1971]. Already a leader in New York's

underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on

the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally

disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from

eighth grade all semester.

FIC HAN

Hansen, Joyce. The captive. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic,

1994. Kofi's safe world is suddenly shattered by white men

who have arrived from the coast, stealing his people to sell

into slavery. Soon Kofi finds himself being led in chains

from his African village to a cold farm in New England.

FIC HEN

Henry, Marguerite, 1902-. King of the wind. New York : Simon &

Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1976. Traces the abuses

and triumphs of the Arabian stallion who became a founding

sire of the Thoroughbred breed, and of the mute Arabian boy

who tended him as long as he lived.

FIC HES

Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of

Amelia Martin. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1999. In

1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on

an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia

records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to

devastate her divided state.

FIC HIL

Hill, Pamela Smith. A voice from the border. 1st ed. New York

: Holiday House, c1998. Living in the border state of

Missouri during the Civil War, fifteen-year-old Reeves tries

to understand her father's decision regarding their slaves.

FIC HOB

Hobbs, Will. Far North. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1996.

After the destruction of their float plane, sixteen-year-old

Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggleto survive a

winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of

Canada.

FIC HOB

Hobbs, Will. River thunder. New York : Bantam Doubleday Books

for Young Readers, [1999], c1997. Despite some

reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her companions

from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado River for

a legal rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.

FIC HOU

Houston, Gloria. Mountain Valor. New York : Philomel Books,

c1994. With her father and brothers gone to serve in the

Civil War and her mother sick, teenage Valor ignores what is

proper behavior for a girl and fights to defend her North

Carolina mountain farm.

FIC JON

Jones, Diana Wynne. Dark Lord of Derkholm. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c1998. Derk, an unconventional wizard,

and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a

stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the

tyrannical Mr. Chesney.

FIC JON

Jones, Diana Wynne. The magicians of Caprona. 1st Beech Tree

ed. New York : Beech Tree, 1999. After two centuries of

feuding, the powers of the two families of magicians in

mythical Caprona are too weak to stop an incipient war, but

the younger members of the families find a way.

FIC KAL

Kalashnikoff, Nicholas. The defender. New York : Walker, 1993.

Turgen, a shepherd in northeastern Siberia, defends the wild

mountain rams and befriends a widow and her children.

FIC KEH

Kehret, Peg. Horror at the haunted house. New York : Pocket

Books, c1992. While acting in a "haunted house" featuring

interesting deaths in history, Ellen is contacted by the

ghost of a former resident, who seems to be protecting the

collection of antique Wedgwood dishes on display there.

FIC KIN

Kindl, Patrice. The woman in the wall. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, 1997. Because she suffers from extreme shyness,

Anna retreats into herself and her secret rooms where she

attempts to remain hidden from the outside world.

FIC KIN

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. As long as there are mountains. 1st

ed. New York : Cobblehill Books, c1997. Thirteen-year-old

Iris dreams of one day running the family farm in northern

Vermont, but the summer of 1956 holds many shocking changes

that threaten the life Iris loves.

FIC KJE

Kjelgaard, Jim. Big Red. New York : Holiday House, 1973. A

trapper's son and a champion Irish Setter roam wilderness

areas and grow to maturity together.

FIC KJE

Kjelgaard, Jim. Irish Red. Holiday House ed. New York :

Bantam, 1984, c1951. After many misadventures, a rebellious

Irish setter finally proves that he can act like the

thoroughbred he is. Sequel to "Big Red.".

FIC KLI

Kline, Lisa Williams, 1954-. Eleanor Hill. 1st ed. Chicago :

Front Street/Cricket Books, 1999. In the early years of the

twentieth century, inspired by a free-thinking teacher and

determined not to get married and stay trapped in her North

Carolina fishing village, teenage Eleanor sets out to seek

her chosen path of living as an independent woman.

FIC KON

Konigsburg, E. L. Up from Jericho Tel. Aladdin Paperbacks ed.

New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998, c1986. The spirit of a

dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out

among a group of colorful street performers to search for a

missing necklace.

FIC LAF

LaFaye, A. Edith Shay. New York : Viking, 1998. Leaving her

home in Wisconsin in 1865, sixteen-year-old Katherine sets

out for Chicago to prove to her family that she can make a

life for herself.

FIC LAN

Langton, Jane. The fledgling. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row,

c1980. Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is

fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada

goose.

FIC LAS

Lasky, Kathryn. Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor.

New York : Scholastic, c1999. In a series of diary entries,

Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-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.

FIC LE

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The tombs of Atuan. [1st ed.]. New

York : Atheneum, 1971. Arha's isolated existence as high

priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who

seeks a special treasure.

FIC LEE

Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. Warner Books ed. New York

: Warner, [1982], c1960. Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells

of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a

lawyer.

FIC LEM

LeMieux, A. C. A hidden place. 1st Aladdin

Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, c1998.

Sylvia teams up with her new friend, the former bully Dana

Brennan, in an attempt to save their neighborhood and Fairy

Lair from a scheme which would pollute the environment.

FIC LEN

L'Engle, Madeleine. Dragons in the waters. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1982], c1976. A

thirteen-year-old boy's trip to Venezuela with his cousin

culminates in murder and the discovery of an unexpected bond

with an Indian tribe, dating from the days of Simón Bolívar.

FIC LES

Lester, Alison. Quicksand pony. 1st Houghton Mifflin ed.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. After her pony Bella,

trapped in quicksand, is rescued by a mysterious unseen

person, ten-year-old Biddy follows the trail into the

Australian bush and discovers the solution to a

disappearance that happened years ago.

FIC LES

Lester, Julius. Pharaoh's daughter : a novel of ancient Egypt.

1st ed. San Diego : Silver Whistle/Harcourt, Inc., c2000.

A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an

Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a

prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self

as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. New York HarperCollins, [1994].

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a

wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the

golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed

the land with eternal winter.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. Prince Caspian : the return to Narnia.

New York : HarperCollins, [1994]. Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. The voyage of the Dawn Treader.

New York : HarperCollins, [1994]. Lucy and

Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to

the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed

into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and

skepticism.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. The silver chair.

New York : HarperCollins, [1994]. Two English children undergo

hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue

mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive

in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. The horse and his boy.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. The magician's nephew.

New York : HarperCollins, [1994]. When Digory and Polly try

to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic

gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness

Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.

FIC LEW

Lewis, C. S. The last battle.

New York : HarperCollins, [1994]. When evil comes to Narnia,

Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan

leads his people to a glorious new paradise.

FIC LIS

Lisle, Janet Taylor. The lost flower children. New York :

Philomel Books, c1999. After their mother's death, Olivia

and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they

slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to

life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well.

FIC MAG

Maguire, Gregory. Six haunted hairdos. New York : Clarion

Books, c1997. With the help of their favorite teacher, two

rival clubs, the all-boy Copycats and the all-girl

Tattletales, stop trying to out-do each other long enough to

help the ghosts of a baby elephant and a herd of mastodons

that appear near their small Vermont town.

FIC MCC

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The pirate's son. 1st American ed. New

York : Scholastic Press, 1998. Left penniless in eighteenth

century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy

sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate,

to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by

their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.

FIC MCG

McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The moorchild. 1st ed. New York, NY :

Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1996. Feeling that she is

neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true

identity and attempts to find the human child whose place

she had been given.

FIC MCG

McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Moccasin trail. New York : Puffin, 1986,

c1952. A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is

reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in

the white man's culture.

FIC MEY

Meyer, Carolyn. Jubilee journey. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,

c1997. Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in

Connecticut with her African-American mother and her

French-American father, but when they spend some time with

her great-grandmother in Texas, Emily Rose learns about her

black heritage and uncovers some new and exciting parts of

her own identity.

FIC MOO

Moore, Lorrie. The forgotten helper : a Christmas story. New

York : Delacorte, c2000. When he is left behind at the

house of a very bad little girl, Santa's grouchiest elf must

find a way to improve her behavior so that Santa will return

the following Christmas and take him back to the North Pole.

e.

FIC MOR

Morpurgo, Michael. Joan of Arc of Domrémy. 1st U.S. ed. San

Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999. While sitting on the

riverbank in the ancient French city of Orléans,

seventeen-year-old Eloise hears a voice which relates the

adventures and struggles of the medieval heroine, Joan of

Arc, as she fights to free France by driving out the

English.

FIC MOR

Morris, Gerald, 1963-. The squire, his knight, & his lady.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. After several years at

King Arthur's court, Terence, as Sir Gawain's squire and

friend, accompanies him on a perilous quest that tests all

their skills and whose successful completion could mean

certain death for Gawain.

FIC MOS

Moss, Marissa. Rachel's journal : the story of a pioneer girl.

1st ed. San Diego : Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace, c1998.

In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures

traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.

FIC MOW

Mowat, Farley. Owls in the family. New York : Bantam Doubleday

Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1961. A young boy

decides to raise two owlets as pets. Wol and Weeps provide

fun and excitement for the boy in Saskatoon.

FIC MYE

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Monster. 1st ed. New York :

HarperCollins, c1999. While on trial as an accomplice to a

murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his

experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a

film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his

life has taken.

FIC NAY

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The agony of Alice. 1st ed. New York

: Atheneum, 1985. Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides

she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right;

and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is

greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people

are inside that counts.

FIC NAY

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor.

1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1993. Come as you

are -- Bird talk -- Cat and mouse -- In the coffin.

Convinced that the strange things happening at the funeral

parlor next door to his family's hotel are somehow connected

to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by

proving his theory and catching the thief.

FIC NAY

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The Fear Place. 1st Aladdin

Paperbacks ed. New York, NY : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996.

When he and his older brother Gordon are left camping alone

in the Rocky Mountains, twelve-year-old Doug faces his fear

of heights and his feelings about Gordon--with the help of a

cougar.

FIC NAY

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Night cry. New York : Atheneum, 1984.

Often left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her

traveling-salesman father, Ellen learns, through a

terrifying experience, to distinguish between real and false

fears.

FIC NAY

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. All but Alice. 1st ed. New York :

Toronto : New York : Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ;

Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. Seventh grader Alice

decides that the only way to stave off personal and social

disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in"

crowd, no matter how boring and, potentially, difficult.

FIC NIX

Nixon, Joan Lowery. In the face of danger. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1989.

Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of

poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in

her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving

adopted family.

FIC NIX

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Keeping secrets. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1995. In

1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous

activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her

home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill

and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.

FIC NIX

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Caesar's story, 1759. New York : Delacorte

Press, c2000. After having been a slave on Carter's Grove

plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood,

Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future.

FIC NIX

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Caught in the act. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1988.

Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is

sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic

owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which

may be murder.

FIC NOR

Norton, Mary. The Borrowers. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1981.

Miniature people who live in an old country house by

borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from

their home under the clock.

FIC OBR

O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh. [1st ed.].

New York : Atheneum, 1971. Having no one to help her with

her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former

imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

FIC OBR

O'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.

New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1987, c1974. Seemingly the

only person left alive after a nuclear war, a

sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into

her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she

must somehow escape.

FIC ODE

O'Dell, Scott. Carlota. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books

for Young Readers, [1989], c1977. A young girl relates her

feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of

San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the

Californians and Americans.

FIC ODE

O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1987], c1960.

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.

FIC ODE

O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. The King's fifth. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, c1994. A tale of seven adventurers who left the

summer camp of Coronado's army and struck out into the great

Southwest to find the golden cities of Cibola.

FIC ODE

O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Zia. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell

Books for Young Readers, [1995], c1976. A young Indian

girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her

mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by

her aunt Karana whose story was told in "Island of the Blue

Dolphins.".

FIC PAT

Paterson, Katherine. Jip : his story. 1st ed. New York :

Lodestar Books, c1996. While living on a Vermont poor farm

during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of

his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this

place.

FIC PAT

Paterson, Katherine. Jacob have I loved. 1st ed. New York :

Crowell, c1980. Feeling deprived all her life of schooling,

friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister,

Louise finally begins to find her identity.

FIC PAT

Paterson, Katherine. Preacher's boy. New York : Clarion Books,

c1999. In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a

small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble

when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make

the most of his life before the end of the world.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. The cookcamp. New York : Orchard Books, c1991.

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.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. Mr. Tucket. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell

Books for Young Readers, c1994. In 1848, while on a wagon

train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is

kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a

one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : a novel of the Civil War. New

York : Delacorte Press, c1998. 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.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. Brian's return. New York : Delacorte Press,

c1999. After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian

finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return

to the place where he really belongs.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. The crossing. New York : Orchard Books, c1987.

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.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. Dogsong. New York : Atheneum Books for Young

Readers, c1985. A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels

assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile

journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains

seeking his own "song" of himself.

FIC PAU

Paulsen, Gary. The river. New York : Delacorte Press, c1991.

Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for

fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed

by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar

experience to help scientists learn more about the

psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet.".

FIC PIE

Pierce, Tamora. Emperor Mage. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Random

House, 1997. When she is sent as part of the delegation

from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak,

fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate

with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's

dying birds.

FIC PIE

Pierce, Tamora. Wolf-speaker. 1st paperback ed. New York :

Random House, 1997. With the help of her animal friends,

Daine fights to save the kingdom of Tortall from ambitious

mortals and dangerous immortals.

FIC PIE

Pierce, Tamora. The realms of the gods. 1st paperback ed. New

York : Random House, 1998. While in the mystical realms of

the gods along with Nunair, Daine learns the secrets of her

past and the implications for her future as she and Nunair

are compelled to return to the mortal world of Tortall to

help fight against the immortals.

FIC PIN

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Silent thunder : a Civil War story. 1st

ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children,

c1999. In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her

thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how

life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves

is affected by the Civil War.

FIC PLA

Platt, Richard. Castle diary : the journal of Tobias Burgess,

page. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press,

1999. As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century

England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his

experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and

behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen,

castles, and feudalism.

FIC PRE

Pressler, Mirjam. Halinka. 1st American ed. New York : H.

Holt, 1998. While living in a home for troubled girls in

Germany just after World War II, twelve-year-old Halinka

carefully hides her thoughts, feelings, and even her hopes.

FIC RAS

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing game. [1st ed.]. New York : Dutton,

c1978. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire

brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must

uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim

their inheritance.

FIC RAW

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953. The yearling. New York :

Scribner, 1985. A young boy living in the Florida backwoods

is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly

raised as a pet.

FIC RIC

Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968. The light in the forest. 1st

Ballantine Books ed. New York : Fawcett Juniper, 1991,

c1953. After being raised as an Indian for eleven years

following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is

forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long

for the freedom of Indian life.

FIC ROB

Roberts, Laura Peyton. No doubt. New York : Bantam, c1999.

Jenna tries to repair her relationship with her sister,

meanwhile, Miguel and Leah try to decide if marriage is

right for them.

FIC ROB

Robinson, Barbara. The best Christmas pageant ever. New York :

HarperCollins, c1972. The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal,

smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in

the community Christmas pageant.

FIC ROB

Robinson, Barbara. The best school year ever. 1st ed. New York

: HarperCollins, c1994. The six horrible Herdmans, the

worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem

throughout the school year.

FIC SAV

Savage, Deborah. Summer hawk. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

When her rescue of a baby hawk takes fifteen-year-old Taylor

to a raptor rehabilitation center in rural Pennsylvania,

their offer of a summer public relations job seems a step

toward her dream of becoming a journalist.

FIC SNY

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The headless Cupid. New York :

Atheneum, 1985, c1971. Life is never quite the same again

for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new

stepsister, a student of the occult.

FIC SNY

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The witches of Worm. [1st ed.]. New

York, : Atheneum, 1972. A lonely twelve-year-old is

convinced that the cat she finds is possessed by a witch and

is responsible for her own strange behavior.

FIC SPE

Speare, Elizabeth George. The witch of Blackbird Pond. Boston :

Houghton Mifflin, c1958. In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler,

feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt,

befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community

and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

FIC STA

Stanley, Diane. A time apart. New York : Morrow Junior Books,

c1999. While her mother undergoes treatment for cancer,

thirteen-year-old Ginny is sent to live with her father in

England, where she becomes part of an archeological

experiment to investigate life during the Iron Age.

FIC STE

Steele, Mary Q. Journey outside. [New York] : Puffin Books,

1979. The Raft People live in darkness and travel a

circular journey on an underground river. One boy finds his

way outside and tries to learn as much as possible so he can

ultimately lead his people to the Better Place.

FIC TAY

Taylor, Mildred D. Let the circle be unbroken. New York : Dial

Press, c1981. Four black children growing up in rural

Mississippi during the Depression experience racial

antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the

pride and self-respect they need to survive.

FIC TAY

Taylor, Theodore, 1921-. Timothy of the cay. 1st ed. San Diego

: Harcourt Brace, c1993. Having survived being blinded and

shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black

man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and

hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate

chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young

cabin boy.

FIC THO

Thompson, Kate. Switchers. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c1998.

When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves

southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the

world from disaster through their ability to switch into

animal forms.

FIC VAN

Vande Velde, Vivian. Ghost of a hanged man. New York : M.

Cavendish, c1998. An outlaw condemned to be hanged

threatens to wreak vengeance from the grave on those

responsible for his death.

FIC VOI

Voigt, Cynthia. A solitary blue. New York : Scholastic, 1993,

c1983. Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before,

reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his

father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can

heal.

FIC VOI

Voigt, Cynthia. Dicey's song. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,

1982. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are

settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their

new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

FIC WIL

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. By the shores of Silver Lake.

New York : HarperCollins, [c1994], c1967. Ma and the girls

follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a

rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

FIC WIL

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. The long winter;. Newly

illustrated, uniform ed. New York, : Harper, 1953. After

an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim

shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has

predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

FIC WIL

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. These happy golden years. New

York : HarperCollins, [c1994]. Laura has her first

experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.

FIC WIL

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. Farmer boy. Rev. ed. New

York : HarperCollins, 1953. Nine-year-old Almanzo lives

with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end

of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves,

helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can

have his own colt.

FIC WIL

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. The first four years. New

York : Harper & Row, [1971]. During their first four years

of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight

a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on

the South Dakota prairie.

FIC WIL

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. Little house in the big woods.

Rev. ed. New York : HarperCollins, 1953. A year in the

life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin

frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores,

enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special

occasions when they get together with relatives or

neighbors.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. Dance of death. New York : Bantam, c1996. While

Sweet Valley trembles in the grip of a serial murderer,

Jessica Wakefield continues her pursuit of the dark,

mysterious Jonathan Cain who lives alone in a crumbling

mansion, and Elizabeth vacilates between her summer fling

Joey Mason and long-time love Todd Wilkins, while trying to

keep an eye on her foolish sister.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. Cover girls. New York : Bantam, c1997. Teenage

twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield enjoy interning

at Flair, a glamourous fashion magazine, until Jessica has

to cater to a supermodel with a bad attitude and Elizabeth's

boyfriend, Todd, is discovered as a model.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. A deadly Christmas. New York : Bantam, c1994.

Jessica Wakefield plots to get even with her fiancé, but her

plan goes wrong and she gets caught in her own trap.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. Fashion victim. New York : Bantam, c1997. Twin

teenage sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield experience

problems when Jessica begins dating a world-famous fashion

photographer and Elizabeth falls into terrible danger while

investigating the world of fashion publishing.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. Once upon a time. New York : Bantam, c1997.

Twin teenage sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield love

being treated like royalty while working as au pairs for the

summer at a European château--but quickly learn that their

trip is not entirely like a fairy tale.

FIC WOJ

Wojciechowska, Maia. Shadow of a bull. New York : Atheneum

Books for Young Readers, [1983], c1964. Manolo Olivar has

to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow

and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become

a doctor.

FIC WOO

Wood, June Rae. When pigs fly. New York : Putnam & Grosset

Group, 1997. Thirteen-year-old Buddy Rae and her best

friend Jiniwin do everything together--taking care of

Buddy's slow younger sister, "parenting" egg babies, talking

about boys, and dealing with Buddy's family move to a farm

outside Turnback, Missouri.

FIC YEP

Yep, Laurence. Child of the owl. 1st ed. New York : Harper &

Row, c1977. A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about

her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in

San Francisco's Chinatown.

FIC YOL

Yolen, Jane. The ballad of the pirate queens. 1st Voyager Books

ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1998, c1995. Two women who

sailed with Calico Jack Rackham and his pirates in the early

1700s do their best to defend their ship while the men on

board are busy drinking.

FIC YOL

Yolen, Jane. Armageddon summer. San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt

Brace, c1998. Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old

Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers,

to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where

they try to decide what they themselves believe.

FIC YOL

Yolen, Jane. Armageddon summer. 1st Harcourt Brace Paperbacks

ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999, c1998.

Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany

their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the

end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to

decide what they themselves believe.

FIC ZIN

Zindel, Paul. The pigman : a novel. New York : HarperCollins,

c1968. A teenage boy and a girl, high school sophomores

from unhappy homes, tell of their bizzare relationship with

an old man.

FIC ZIN

Zindel, Paul. The pigman's legacy. Bantam ed. New York :

Bantam, 1981, c1980. Haunted by the memory of a dead

friend, two teenagers join an old man in a series of

misadventures.

SC GLO

A glory of unicorns. New York : Scholastic, [2000], c1998. The

guardian of memory / Bruce Coville -- Tearing down the

unicorns / Janni Lee Simner -- Beyond the fringe / Gregory

Maguire -- Stealing dreams / Ruth O'Neill -- The

dream-child/ Nancy Varian Berberick -- The ugly unicorn /

Jessica Amanda Salmonson -- Story hour / Katherine Coville

-- The unicorns of Kabustan / Aletha Eason -- A song for

Croaker Nordge / Nancy Varian Berberick and Greg Labarbera

-- The healing truth / Kathryn Lay -- Child of faerie / Gail

Kimberly -- The new girl / Sean Stewart. Thirteen short

stories, by such authors as Nancy Varian Berberick, Gregory

Maguire, and Margaret Bechard, about unicorns in both

mythical and contemporary settings.

SC SEC

Second sight : stories for a new millennium. New York : Philomel

Books, c1999. A collection of short stories by such authors

as Madeleine L'Engle, Richard Peck, Rita Williams-Garcia,

and Nancy Springer.

SC SOT

Soto, Gary. Petty crimes. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,

c1998. La güera -- Mother's clothes -- Try to remember --

The boxing lesson -- Your turn, Norma -- The funeral suits

-- Little scams -- If the shoe fits -- Frankie the rooster

-- Born worker. A collection of short stories about Mexican

American youth growing up in California's Central Valley.

SC SOT

Soto, Gary. Local news. New York : Scholastic, 1994, c1993. A

collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday

lives of Mexican American young people in California's

Central Valley.

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