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GRADE 6

001.944 INN

Innes, Brian. Giant humanlike beasts.

Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1999. Presents reports in which people claim to have seen the Abominable Snowman, the Wildman of China, Bigfoot, the Minnesota Iceman, and other giant humanlike creatures.

031.02 ASH

Ash, Russell. The world in one day. 1st American ed. New York

: DK Pub., 1997. Provides statistics on what happens to the

world in a single day, in such areas as geology, biology,

technology, and culture.

133.3 INN

Innes, Brian. Millennium prophecies. Austin, Tex. : Raintree

Steck-Vaughn Publishers, c1999. Discusses the Western

millennium and some of the prophecies associated with its

arrival, from Nostradamus to the Bible code and Edgar Cayce.

155.9 SCH

Schleifer, Jay. Everything you need to know when someone you

know has been killed. 1st ed. New York : Rosen Pub. Group,

c1998. Discusses death and the fear of death, explains the

emotions experienced when someone you know is killed, and

gives strategies to cope with them.

177 OUR

Ouriou, Katie, 1980-1996. Love ya like a sister : a story of

friendship : from the journals of Katie Ouriou. Toronto :

Plattsburgh, N.Y. : Tundra Books ; Tundra Books of Northern

New York, 1999. The life of a dead sixteen-year old girl is

constructed from her correspondence by members of her

family.

292 OSB

Osborne, Mary Pope. Favorite Greek myths. New York :

Scholastic, Inc., c1989. Retells twelve tales from Greek

mythology, including the stories of King Midas, Echo and

Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche.

297 KNI

Knight, Khadijah. Islamic festivals. Crystal Lake, IL :

Heinemann Library, c1997. Introduces the festivals

celebrated in the Islamic faith.

299 WIL

Williamson, Ray A.. First houses : Native American homes

and sacred structures. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1993.

The people of the Longhouse : the Iroquois league --

Emergence of the underworld : the Pueblo Kiva -- Shade and

shelter : Mohave houses -- Models of the world : Pawnee

Earth lodges. Presents a variety of North American Indian

creation myths and discusses how the "first houses"

described in these myths set the pattern used by the tribes

for their own homes and ritual structures.

306.3 LES

Lester, Julius. To be a slave. 30th anniversary ed. New York :

Dial Books, c1998. A compilation, selected from various

sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences

of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the

leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early

twentieth century.

324.6 BRI

Brill, Marlene Targ. Let women vote! Brookfield, Conn. :

Millbrook Press, c1996. Discusses the fight for the passage

of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted all women the

right to vote when it was ratified in 1920.

356 STA

Stapleton, Gerard. Air assault teams. Minneapolis :

Capstone Press, c1996. Describes the history, major

battles, and training necessary to become a member of the

Army's 101st Airborne Division.

356 STR

Streissguth, Thomas. The Green Berets. Minneapolis :

Capstone Press, c1996. A short history of the U.S. Army's

Special Forces and an explanation of the training required

to become a Green Beret.

636.1 BUD

Budd, Jackie. Horse & pony care. U.S. ed. Milwaukee, Wis. :

Gareth Stevens Pub., 1998. Explains how to keep horses and

ponies healthy and happy, discussing diet, grooming,

illness, injury, and the proper use of the saddle, bridle,

and other gear used while riding.

780 KRU

Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times

(and what the neighbors thought). San Diego : Harcourt

Brace, c1993. The lives of twenty composers and musicians,

ranging from Vivaldi, Mozart, and Bach to Gershwin, Gilbert

& Sullivan, and Woody Guthrie, are profiled in this

eclectic, humorous, and informative collection.

782 ZYM

Zymet, Cathy Alter. Backstreet Boys : Cathy Alter Zymet.

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2000. Describes how the

individual members of this group got together and the growth

of their popularity in both Europe and the United States.

796.3 AAS

Aaseng, Nathan. Top 10 basketball scoring small forwards.

Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1999. Discusses the

basketball careers of ten of the best small forwards in the

game: Paul Arizin, Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, Larry Bird,

Alex English, Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Grant Hill,

Scottie Pippen, and Glen Rice.

973 FRE

Freedman, Florence B. Two tickets to freedom : the true story of Ellen and William Craft, fugitive slaves. New York : P. Bedrick Books, 1999, c1971. Traces the search for freedom by an African-American man and

his wife who traveled to Boston and eventually to England

after their escape from slavery in Georgia.

973.7 GRE

Green, Carl R. Confederate generals of the Civil War.

Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1998. Profiles the

lives and military careers of Nathan B. Forrest, William J.

Hardee, Ambrose P. Hill, John B. Hood, Stonewall Jackson,

Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, George

Pickett, and Jeb Stuart.

973.7 GRE

Green, Carl R. Union generals of the Civil War. Springfield, NJ

: Enslow Publishers, c1998. Profiles ten Union generals:

Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Halleck, Winfield

Scott Hancock, Joseph Hooker, George McClellan, George

Meade, Philip Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and George Henry

Thomas.

B ADA

Dunlap, Julie. Eye on the wild : a story about Ansel Adams.

Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1995. Golden Gate -- Music

and mountains -- The range of light -- Beautiful beyond

words -- The American earth. Tells how Ansel Adams became

one of the greatest photographers of all time and changed

the way Americans look at the country's wilderness areas.

B AIK

Dippold, Joel. Troy Aikman, quick-draw quarterback. Minneapolis

: Lerner Publications Co., c1994. Text and accompanying

photographs tell about the life of the Dallas Cowboys

quarterback who was raised in Oklahoma and made it in

professional football.

B ANG

Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings. New York :

Random House, c1969. The author tells of her painful

childhood and adolescence, and how she grew out of a

childhood fantasy that she was an enchanted white girl to

self-acceptance today.

B ANG

Raatma, Lucia. Maya Angelou : writer and documentary filmmaker.

Chicago : Ferguson, c2000. A biography of twentieth-century

African-American author, poet, journalist, teacher,

activist, and documentary filmmaker Maya Angelou; also

includes information on becoming a professional writer or

film director.

B ANT

Parker, Barbara Keevil. Susan B. Anthony : daring to vote.

Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1998. Presents the

highlights of the life of a nineteenth century crusader who

spent much of her life involved in the temperance,

abolitionist, and women's rights movements.

B ARI

Parker, Steve. Aristotle and scientific thought. New York :

Chelsea House, c1994. Biography of the Greek philosopher

and scientist, discussing his thinking and the times in

which he lived.

B BEI

Collins, David R. Bix Beiderbecke : jazz age genius. 1st ed.

Greensboro : Morgan Reynolds, c1998. A biography of the

cornet player from Davenport, Iowa, who helped raise jazz to

a respected musical form and who was inducted into the

International Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.

B BEL

Parker, Steve. Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. New

York : Chelsea House, c1995. Presents the life and times of

Bell, the inventor of the first fully-working version of the

telephone.

B BIL

Hamilton, John. Billy the Kid. Edina, MN : Abdo &

Daughters Pub., c1996. The life story of Billy the Kid, the

outlaw of the Old West, from his childhood and participation

in the Lincoln County Range War to his death at the hands of

Pat Garrett.

B BLU

Jeffrey, Laura S. Guion Bluford : a space biography.

Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1998. A biography of

the first African American astronaut, Guion Bluford, Jr.,

who flew aboard the Challenger space shuttle in 1983.

B BRA

Freedman, Russell. Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille.

New York : Clarion Books, c1997. A biography of the

nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded

himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of

raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and

write.

B BUF

Hamilton, John. Buffalo Bill Cody. Edina, Minn. : Abdo &

Daughters Pub., c1996. Biography of Buffalo Bill Cody, a

frontiersman, from his days at fourteen as a Pony Express

rider, to his days in show business in the Wild West shows

and his trying to settle on a ranch in Wyoming.

B CAR

Wellman, Sam. Mariah Carey. Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House

Publishers, c2000. Presents a biography of one of the

best-selling recording artists of the 1990s, whose vocal

styles are drawn from gospel and rhythm and blues.

B CHA

Turk, Ruth. Ray Charles : soul man. Minneapolis, Minn. :

Lerner, c1996. A biography of the popular singer, who

became blind as a young boy.

B CLE

Cleary, Beverly. A girl from Yamhill : a memoir. New York :

Morrow Junior Books, c1988. Follows the popular children's

author from her childhood years in Oregon through high

school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family

life and her growing interest in writing.

B CLI

LeVert, Suzanne. Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady.

Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, [1998], c1994. Text

and accompanying photographs present a biography of the

lawyer, activist, and First Lady of the United States.

B COL

Hart, Philip S. Up in the air : the story of Bessie Coleman.

Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1996. Presents the story

of Bessie Coleman, an American, who in 1920 traveled to

France to become the first African-American woman to earn a

pilot's license.

B COR

Marcovitz, Hal. Francisco Coronado and the exploration of the

American Southwest. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2000. A

biography of the conquistador whose quest for the Seven

Cities of Gold led to the exploration of the American

Southwest in 1540.

B DAH

Dahl, Roald. Boy : tales of childhood. 1st American ed. New

York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. Presents humorous

anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer

vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

B DIC

Stanley, Diane. Charles Dickens : the man who had great

expectations. New York : Morrow, c1993. Follows the life

and writing career of the popular nineteenth-century English

novelist.

B EAR

Szabo, Corrine. Sky pioneer : a photobiography of Amelia

Earhart. Washington, D.C. : [Emeryville, Calif.] : National

Geographic Society ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,

c1997. A biography, with numerous photographs and quotes

from Earhart herself, tracing this determined woman's life

and interest in flying.

B FOR

Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune, free man. New York : Dutton,

c1950. The life of the eighteenth-century African prince

who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to

Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy

his freedom at the age of sixty.

B FRA

Frank, Anne. The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition.

1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York :

Doubleday, 1995. A thirteen-year-old German-Jewish girl

records her impressions of the two years she and seven

others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were

discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes

entries previously omitted.

B GAR

Stewart, Mark. Nomar Garciaparra : non-stop shortstop.

Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c2000. A biography of

the hard-working short stop for the Boston Red Sox who was

the American League Rookie of the Year in 1997.

B HAM

Rutledge, Rachel. Mia Hamm : striking superstar. Brookfield,

Conn.: Millbrook, c2000. A biography of one of the members

of the 1999 Women's World Cup championship team, Mia Hamm.

B HAR

Fitz-Gerald, Christine Maloney. William Henry Harrison : ninth

president of the United States. Chicago : Childrens Press,

c1987. Examines the life of the man who became the ninth

president of the United States.

B HEN

Williams, Jean. Matthew Henson, polar adventurer. New York : F.

Watts, c1994. The life and achievements of the black

explorer who, together with Robert E. Peary, discovered the

North Pole in 1909.

B HUS

Deegan, Paul J. Saddam Hussein.

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

Rockbottom Books, c1991. Traces the life of Saddam Hussein,

leader of Iraq, from his birth in 1937 to his handling of

the Persian Gulf War.

B ISH

Collins, David R. Ishi : the last of his people. 1st ed.

Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds, c2000. Describes the

life and anthropologists' study of Ishi, the last man of the

Yahi Native Americans, who died in 1916.

B JET

Stewart, Mark. Derek Jeter : substance and style. Brookfield,

Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1999. Presents a biography of

Derek Jeter who was teased as a boy in Kalamazoo, Michigan,

for predicting he would be a great shortstop for the New

York Yankees and who grew up to do precisely that.

B JOA

Stanley, Diane. Joan of Arc. New York : Morrow Junior Books,

c1998. An illustrated biography of the fifteenth-century

peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the

English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.

B JOR

Aaseng, Nathan. Sports great Michael Jordan. Rev. ed.

Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997. A biography of

the star player for the Chicago Bulls who led the team to

their first ever NBA championship in 1991, quit the game in

1993, and returned after eighteen months.

B KEL

Keller, Helen. The story of my life. Bantam ed. New

York : Bantam Books, 1990. An autobiography of Helen

Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she

tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher

Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness

and deafness.

B KIN

Millender, Dharathula H. Martin Luther King, Jr. : young man

with a dream. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York :

Aladdin Paperbacks, 1986, c1983. A biography, emphasizing

the early years, of the civil rights leader whose philosophy

and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped

American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

B LEO

Stanley, Diane. Leonardo da Vinci. New York : Morrow Junior

Books, c1996. A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist

and inventor who, at about age thirty, began writing his

famous notebooks which contain the outpourings of his

amazing mind.

B LIN

Collins, David R. Shattered dreams : the story of Mary Todd

Lincoln. 1st ed. Greensboro : M. Reynolds, c1994. Trial

in Chicago -- Enter Abraham Lincoln -- Life in Springfield

-- Downward plunge. Biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of

America's 16th president. Provides an insightful attempt to

answer questions on whether the accusations that she was

power hungry, vain, and insane are true or not.

B LIN

Taylor, Richard L. The first solo transatlantic flight :

the story of Charles Lindbergh and his airplane, the Spirit

of St. Louis. New York : F. Watts, c1995. A biography of

air pilot Charles Lindbergh, focusing on his recordsetting

transatlantic flight.

B LIN

Weinberg, Larry. The story of Abraham Lincoln : president for

the people. [Large print ed.]. Milwaukee : Gareth Stevens

Pub., 1997. A biography of the president who preserved the

American Union during the Civil War.

B LOW

Brown, Fern G. Daisy and the Girl Scouts : the story of Juliette

Gordon Low. Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1996.

Describes the vigorous and unconventional life of the

founder of the Girl Scout movement in the United States.

B MAD

Gutman, Bill. Greg Maddux : master on the mound. Brookfield,

Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1999. Follows the life of

baseball pitcher Greg Maddux, from his childhood in an Air

Force family to his career with the Chicago Cubs and Atlanta

Braves.

B MAN

Stewart, Mark. Peyton Manning : rising son. Brookfield, Conn. :

Millbrook Press, c2000. A biography of the Indianapolis

Colts quarterback whose father was also a professional

quarterback.

B MIL

Wilner, Barry. Reggie Miller. Philadelphia : Chelsea House,

c1998. A look at the personal life and basketball career of

the high-scoring Indiana Pacer, known almost as much for his

verbal antics as for his shooting prowess.

B MON

Shephard, Marie Tennent. Maria Montessori : teacher of teachers.

Minneapolis, Minn. : Lerner Publications Co., c1996. Tells

the story of the life of Italy's first female physician and

the creator of the Montessori method of education.

B MOS

Stewart, Mark. Randy Moss : first in flight. Brookfield, Conn.

: Millbrook Press, c2000. A biography of the Minnesota

Vikings wide receiver, Randy Moss, highlighting his on-field

skills and the off-field controversy that has surrounded

him.

B MUI

Anderson, Peter. John Muir : wilderness prophet. New

York : F. Watts, c1995. Biography of naturalist John Muir,

whose love for the wilderness and battles on behalf of the

environment, inspired him to found the Sierra Club.

B MUT

Torres, John Albert. Sports great Dikembe Mutombo. Berkeley

Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2000. A biography of Dikembe "Mount"

Mutombo, who came to the United States from Zaire to attend

Georgetown University on an academic scholarship and went on

to become a basketball star with the Denver Nuggets and

Atlanta Hawks.

B MYE

Jordan, Denise. Walter Dean Myers : writer for real teens.

Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1999. Presents

the life and career of the African-American author who grew

up listening to stories and who carries on the storytelling

tradition in his numerous and award-winning books.

B NAI

Warren, Andrea. Orphan train rider : one boy's true story.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1996. Discusses the placement

of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes

throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the

story of one boy and his brothers.

B OGL

Lommel, Cookie. James Oglethorpe : humanitarian and soldier.

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001. A biography

of the English founder and first governor of the colony of

Georgia who was active in politics and penal reform.

B PAK

Stewart, Mark. Se Ri Pak : driven to win. Brookfield, Conn. :

Millbrook Press, c2000. Presents a biography of the young

Korean woman who is breaking records on America's

professional golf tour.

B PAR

Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks : my story. New York : Puffin,

1999. Rosa Park's life story reveals the deliberate choices

she made that earned her the title "Mother to a Movement.".

B PAU

Paulsen, Gary. Puppies, dogs, and blue northers : reflections on

being raised by a pack of sled dogs. 1st ed. San Diego :

Harcourt Brace & Co., c1996. Minnesota author and dog

musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs

as he and his animals discover the world around them.

B PEN

Lutz, Norma Jean. William Penn : founder of democracy.

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2000. A biography of the

famous Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and guaranteed

religious freedom to all its settlers.

B PIN

Anderson, Peter. Gifford Pinchot : American forester.

New York : F. Watts, c1995. Biography of Gifford Pinchot, a

pioneer in the field of forestry, who expanded the United

States Forestry Division, hired the first forest rangers,

and with the help of fellow outdoorsman President Teddy

Roosevelt, established many forest reserves.

B REV

Ford, Barbara. Paul Revere : rider for the Revolution.

Springfield, N.J. : Enslow Publishers, c1997. Describes the

life of the silversmith who made the historic ride to

announce the coming of British troops to Massachusetts at

the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

B ROB

Bock, Hal. David Robinson. Philadelphia : Chelsea House

Publishers, c1997. Discusses the life of David Robinson,

star player for the San Antonio Spurs.

B ROB

Santella, Andrew. Jackie Robinson breaks the color line. New

York : Children's Press, c1996. Biography of Jackie

Robinson, the first African-American baseball player to play

in the Major Leagues, and describes the racism he dealt

with.

B ROD

Stewart, Mark. Alex Rodriguez : gunning for greatness.

Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1999. An illustrated

biography of the Seattle Mariners' shortstop, who is a star

player both at the plate and in the infield.

B SAC

White, Alana. Sacagawea : westward with Lewis and Clark.

Springfield, NJ : Enslow, c1997. Profiles the life and

times of Sacagawea, with an emphasis on her journey taken

with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

B SHA

Stanley, Diane. Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare.

New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1992. A brief biography of

the world's most famous playwright, using only historically

correct information.

B SMI

Mello, Tara Baukus. John Smith : English explorer and colonist.

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000. A biography

of the colonist and explorer who led the struggling

Jamestown colony through its early years and helped found

Virginia.

B SMI

Thornley, Stew. Emmitt Smith : relentless rusher. Minneapolis :

Lerner Publications, c1997. Profiles the star running back

who helped the Dallas Cowboys win Super Bowls in 1993, 1994,

and 1996.

B SPE

Lutz, Norma Jean. Britney Spears. Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea

House Publishers, c2000. Biography of the young singer who

began her career on the 1990's update of the "Micky Mouse

Club" television show.

B STA

Fritz, Jean. You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton? New York :

PaperStar/Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999. A

biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton from her

childhood, to her fight for the end of slavery, to her death

18 years before women were granted the right to vote.

B STR

Weidt, Maryann N. Mr. Blue Jeans : a story about Levi Strauss.

Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, c1990. Traces the life of the

immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss &

Co., the world's first and largest manufacturer of denim

jeans.

B THO

Anderson, Peter. Henry David Thoreau : American naturalist.

New York : F. Watts, c1995. Introduces the life, ideas, and writings of the nineteenth-century philosopher and nature writer.

B TUB

Petry, Ann Lane. Harriet Tubman : conductor on the

Underground Railroad. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York :

HarperTrophy, 1996. A biography of the famous woman who

worked to free her people on the Underground Railroad.

B TWA

Collins, David R. Mark T-W-A-I-N! : a story about Samuel Clemens. MINNeapolis : Carolrhoda, c1994. Covers the life

of the famed nineteenth-century author from his childhood in

Hannibal, Missouri, through his careers as journalist,

riverboat pilot, soldier, prospector, and humorist.

B WHI

Berg, Julie. E.B. White. Edina, MN : Minneapolis : Abdo &

Daughters Pub. ; Distributed by Rockbottom Books, 1994. A

biography of the writer who may be best known for his works

for children, especially "Charlotte's Web.".

B WIE

Jeffrey, Laura S. Simon Wiesenthal : tracking down Nazi criminals.

Springfield, NJ : Enslow, c1997.

FIC ALE

Alexander, Lloyd. Taran Wanderer. Rev. ed. New York : H. Holt,

1999, c1967. The fourth book of the Prydain cycle tells of

the adventures that befell Taran when he went in search of

his birthright and the truth about himself.

FIC BAR

Barron, T. A. The Ancient One. 1st TOR ed. New York : TOR,

1994, c1992. While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to

protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers,

thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a

time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent

on destroying the same forest.

FIC BLO

Blos, Joan W. A gathering of days : a New England girl's

journal, 1830-32 : a novel. New York : Atheneum Books for

Young Readers, c1979. The journal of a 14-year-old girl,

kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records

daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's

remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

FIC BOX

Boston, L. M. A stranger at Green Knowe.

San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1989. A strange friendship

develops between an orphaned Chinese refugee who is spending

the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from

the London Zoo.

FIC BRA

Bradbury, Ray. The Martian chronicles. 1st ed. New York

: Avon Books, 1997. The first Earth people to attempt the

colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the

image of the civilization they left behind.

FIC BRY

Bryant, Bonnie. Show jumper. New York : Skylark/Bantam, c1999.

The Saddle Club plans to win at a prestigious horse show

with Samson, a natural-born jumper.

FIC CAM

Cameron, Eleanor. The court of the stone children. New

York : Puffin Books, 1990. Aided by the journal of a young

woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves a

murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon.

FIC CHR

Christopher, John. The city of gold and lead. Rev. cover ed.

New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999, c1967. Three boys set

out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods

and learn more about these strange beings that rule the

earth.

FIC COO

Cooper, Susan. The Boggart and the monster. 1st ed. New York :

Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1997. In this companion

volume to The Boggart, the invisible and mischievous spirit

living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save

Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of its few remaining

cousins.

FIC DAV

Davids, Paul. Mission from Mount Yoda. New York : Bantam, 1993.

A mysterious visitor comes to the Rebel fortress located

atop Mount Yoda, bringing ominous news. A prophet of the

Dark Side plans to destroy the carbonized body of Trioculus

and take control of the Empire.

FIC DAV

Davids, Paul. Prophets of the dark side. New York : Bantam,

1993. The battle against the evil empire rages on as

members of the Alliance continue their struggle to end the

era of darkness. By rescuing an imperial prisoner, they face

possibly disastrous consequences.

FIC DAV

Davids, Paul. The Glove of Darth Vader. New York : Bantam,

1992. Luke, Princess Leia, Han and the Rebel Alliance find

a new threat in the Empire. Surviving imperial warlords have

been fighting among themselves for power. Prophets of the

Dark Side have foretold that a new emperor will soon arise!.

FIC DAV

Davids, Paul. Queen of the Empire. Milwaukee, Wis. : Gareth

Stevens Pub., 1997. While the Rebel Alliance continues its

struggle to restore freedom to the galaxy, Princess Leia

faces an old enemy bent on reshaping her destiny and turning

her to the Dark Side.

FIC DE

De Angeli, Marguerite. The door in the wall. New York :

Doubleday, 1989, c1949. A crippled boy in

fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns

recognition from the King.

FIC DEN

Denenberg, Barry. When will this cruel war be over? : the Civil

War diary of Emma Simpson. New York : Scholastic, c1996.

The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in

Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by

her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.

FIC DU

Du Bois, William Pène. The twenty-one balloons. New York

: Viking, c1975. Three weeks after leaving San Francisco in

a balloon to fly across the Pacific, Professor Sherman is

picked up in the Atlantic clinging to wreckage.

FIC FAR

Farley, Walter. The black stallion returns. New York :

Random House, [1999], c1973. When his rightful owner

repossesses the Black, eighteen-year-old Alec travels across

the deserts of Arabia to find the great stallion and helps

resolve a tribal feud.

FIC FRI

Friedman, Michael Jan. Mystery of the missing crew. New York :

Pocket Books, c1995. On his way to Starfleet Academy, the

android Data and three other classmates discover that the

adult crew has mysteriously disappeared from the Yosemite

vessel, and it's up to them to get them back.

FIC FRI

Friedman, Michael Jan. The secret of the lizard people. New

York : Pocket Books, c1995. Cadet Data and his classmates

are selected to observe a super-Jovian planet ignition, but

a distress call from an alien space station draws their

starship to a nearby astroid belt where they are attacked by

dangerous lizard-like creatures.

FIC GRO

Grove, Vicki. Rimwalkers. New York : Putnam & Grosset Group,

1996. As she develops a closeness with two cousins during a

summer on her grandparents' farm in Illinois,

fourteen-year-old Victoria emerges from the shadow of her

showy younger sister and has some experiences that change

her life forever.

FIC HEN

Henry, O. The gift of the magi.

1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997. A

husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to

buy each other Christmas presents.

FIC HUN

Hunter, Mollie. A stranger came ashore : a story of suspense.

1st Harper Trophy ed. New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1977.

Twelve-year-old Robbie becomes convinced that the stranger befriended by his family is one of the Selkie Folk and tries to get help against his magical powers from the local wizard.

FIC LAW

Lawson, Robert. Rabbit hill. New York : Viking

Press, c1972. New folks are coming to live in the Big

House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant

a garden and thus be good providers.

FIC LOW

Lowry, Lois. Stay! : Keeper's story. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,

1997. Separated early in life from his mother and siblings,

Keeper tells of his adventures with various human masters

and his continual search for his little sister.

FIC MAT

Matcheck, Diane. The sacrifice. New York : Puffin Books, 1999,

c1998. When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an

outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a

fifteen-year-old girl sets out to avenge his death and prove

that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the

Great One.

FIC MCK

McKinley, Robin. The blue sword. Ace ed. New York : Ace, 1987.

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote

orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself

when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious

powers.

FIC MEY

Meyer, Carolyn. Where the broken heart still beats : the story

of Cynthia Ann Parker. San Diego : Harcourt Brace &

Company, c1992. Having been taken as a child and raised by

Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is

forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs

for her Indian life and her only friend is her

twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.

FIC NIX

Nixon, Joan Lowery. A dangerous promise. [Large print ed.].

Milwaukee, Wis. : Gareth Stevens Pub., 2000. In 1861, while

living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,

twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely

join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of

glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at

the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.

FIC SAN

Sandoz, MarI. The horsecatcher. Lincoln : Univ. of

Nebraska Press, 1986, c1957. Unable to kill, a young

Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a

horse catcher rather than a warrior.

FIC SHE

Vogel, Malvina G. Frankenstein. New York, N.Y. : Baronet,

c1993. Obsessed university student Victor Frankenstein

creates a being by reanimating the dead, but when it opens

its eyes he flees, leaving behind a being that craves

affection and acceptance, but is reviled instead. The

creature, vowing revenge, pursues Victor to the ends of the

earth.

FIC SNY

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The Egypt game. New York : Atheneum

Books for Young Readers, c1976. Melanie and April turn a

deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many

hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are

real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe

world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.

FIC STO

Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Modern Library ed. New York

: Modern Library, c1996. Having discovered the double

identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman Count

Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the

evil vampire.

FIC THO

Thomas, Rob. Green thumb. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster

Books for Young Readers, c1999. While spending the summer

in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical

research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret

language used by the trees to communicate with each other

and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives

seem questionable.

FIC TOL

Tolkien, J. R. R. The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The

LORD OF THE RINGS. 2nd ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1982. Frodo the

HOBBIT AND A BAND OF WARRIORS FROM THE DIFFERENT KINGDOMS

SET OUT TO DESTROY THE RING OF POWER BEFORE THE EVIL SAURON

GRASPS CONTROL.

FIC TUR

Turner, Megan Whalen. The thief. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c1996. Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a

thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote

temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious

stone.

FIC WHI

White, E. B. Stuart Little.

NEW WORK: HarperCollins, c1973. The adventures of the mouse Stuart

Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest

friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's

garden.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. In love with the enemy. New York : Bantam,

c1996. A gang from Palisades High beats up Sweet Valley

High's quarterback Ken Matthews. Jessica Wakefield is

falling in love with Christian Gorman, but doesn't know that

he is the leader of Palisades High's most violent gang.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. Jessica's older guy. New York : Bantam, c1995.

While visiting her brother at Sweet Valley University,

Jessica lies to Zach Marsden about her age and wonders how

he will react when he learns she is only in high school.

Meanwhile Elizabeth is offered the chance to go to Sweet

Valley University and leave high school behind.

FIC WIL

William, Kate. Murder on the line. New York : Bantam, 1992.

Jessica accidentally discovers that a crossed telephone line

enables her to eavesdrop on other people's conversations.

It's great until she overhears plans for a murder!.

SC AME

American fairy tales : from Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga

stories. 1st Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion, 1998,

c1996. Rip Van Winkle / Washinton Irving -- Feathertop /

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The rich man's place / Horace E.

Scudder -- What they did not do on the birthday of Jacob

Abbott B., familiarly called Snibbuggledyboozledom / M.S.B.

-- The bee-man of Orn / Frank Stockton -- The apple of

contentment / Howard Pyle -- Rosy's journey / Louisa May

Alcott -- The glass dog / L. Frank Baum -- The golden

windows / Laura E. Richards -- The princess who could not

dance / Ruth Plumly Thompson -- The lad and Luck's house /

Will Bradley -- How they broke away to go to the rootabaga

country / Carl Sandburg. Presents stories by such American

authors as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace E.

Scudder, M.S.B., Frank Stockton, Howard Pyle, Louisa May

Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Laura E. Richards, Ruth Plumly

Thompson, Will Bradley, and Carl Sandburg.

SC KIP

Kipling, Rudyard. Just so stories. New York : Knopf

: Distributed by Random House, 1992. A collection of the

well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His

Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That

Stamped.".

SC SLE

Sleator, William. Oddballs : stories. New York : Puffin Books,

1995, c1993. A collection of stories based on experiences

from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual

assortment of family and friends.

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