001 - Henry County Schools
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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