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Aiken, Joan
The Wolves of Willoughy Chase
(53 copies)
Bonnie and
her cousin Sylvia are left in the care of a cruel governess when
Bonnie's parents go on a sea voyage. Besieged by wolves without and
the terrible Miss Slighcarp within, how are they to reclaim Willoughby
Chase?
Alcock,
Vivien
The Monster Garden
(57 copies)
Using a tissue sample she believes is from one of her father's
experiments in genetic engineering, Frankie accidentally creates a
baby monster, which begins to grow at an alarming rate.
Armstrong,
William
Sounder
(59 copies)
A young boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father
is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man.
Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but
become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
Avi
The Barn
(65 copies)
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request,
nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their
land in the Oregon Territory.
Avi
Poppy
(55 copies)
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn
big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl,
has other ideas.
Babbit,
Natalie
Tuck Everlasting
(52 copies)
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they
discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share
their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing
older.
Bauer,
Marion Dane
On My Honor
(51 copies)
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a
treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is
devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the
terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Bellairs,
John
The Curse of the Blue Figurine
(56 copies)
Johnny
Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a
blue figurine called an ushabt from a church.
Bellairs,
John
The House with a Clock in its Walls
(57 copies)
A boy goes
to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden
in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday
Blume,
Judy
Blubber
(21 copies)
Jill goes
along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate
and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.
Bunting,
Eve
Sharing Susan
(23 copies)
Twelve-year-old
Susan is shocked to find that she was switched with another baby in
the hospital and that the parents who have raised her may have to give
her up to her true biological parents.
Bunting,
Eve
Is Anybody There?
(57 copies)
After
discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a
thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be
prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother
is at work.
Byars,
Betsy
Summer of the Swans
(64 copies)
An
adolescent girl who learns to grow up, gaining new insight into
herself, her family and friends when her disabled brother gets lost.
Clements, Andrew
Frindle
(57 copies)
Of all Nick's ideas, the frindle is his most successful. It's a
pen, or what used to be called a pen. Soon, much of the nation is
crazy about frindles--except for Mrs. Granger, Nick's teacher, who,
although she doesn't realize it, was the inspiration for the idea.
Clements,
Andrew
The Janitor's Boy
(15 copies)
Fifth
grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it
becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his
anger onto his father.
Clifford,
Eth
The Remembering Box
(26 copies)
Nine-year-old
Joshua's weekly visits to his beloved grandmother on the Jewish
Sabbath give him an understanding of love, family, and tradition,
which helps him accept her death.
Codell, Esme Raji
Sahara
Special
(15 copies)
There are two files on Sahara Jones. The one the school counselor
keeps is evidence that she's a fifth grader who needs special
education. The other is the book Sahara is secretly writing, her
Heart-Wrenching Life Story and Amazing Adventures. The latest chapter
in her book unfolds when her mother insists that she be taken out of
special ed. So Sahara is facing fifth grade in the regular classroom,
again.
Coerr,
Eleanor
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
(60 copies)
Hospitalized
with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima
races against time to fold one thousand origami paper cranes to verify
the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Colfer, Eoin
Artemis Fowl
(60 copies)
Twelve-year old
Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius-----and, above all, a criminal
mastermind. But even
Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy,
Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.
These aren’t fairies of bedtime stories---they’re
dangerous!
Conrad,
Pam
Pedro’s Journal
(25 copies)
Written as
a diary by the ship's boy, this story presents a personal view of
Columbus's first trip across the Atlantic and of his discovery of
America
Cornelissen,
Cornelia
Soft Rain
(31 copies)
Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate, along
with her family, from North Carolina to the West.
Coville,
Bruce
Jennifer Murdley’s Toad
(59 copies)
When an ordinary-looking fifth grader purchases a talking toad, she
embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures.
Coville,
Bruce
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
(55 copies)
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy
Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
Creech,
Sharon
Walk Two Moons
(55 copies)
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her
grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the
way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has
also left.
Curtis,
Christopher Paul
Bud, Not
Buddy
(66 copies)
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.
Curtis,
Christopher Paul
The
Watsons go to Birmingham
(54 copies)
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an
African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically
changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of
1963.
DeAngeli,
Marguerite
The Door in the Wall
(67 copies)
A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage
and earns recognition from the King.
DeClements,
Barthe
Nothing’s
Fair in Fifth Grade
(59 copies)
A fifth
grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious
home problems, finally learns to accept her.
DiCamillo,
Kate
Because
of Winn-Dixie
(58 copies)
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town
of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because
of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Fields,
Terri
Danger
in the Desert
(54 copies)
Two brothers attempt to survive in the desert outside Scottsdale,
Arizona, after they are abandoned there following a carjacking.
Forbes, Esther
Johnny Tremain
(35 copies)
After
injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a
messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American
Revolution.
Gantos, Jack
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
(52 copies)
To the
constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has
trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his
prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and
acting wired.
Gilson, Jamie
Do Bananas Chew Gum?
(59 copies)
Able to
read and write at only a second grade level, sixth-grader Sam Mott
considers himself dumb until he is prompted to cooperate with those
who think something can be done about his problem.
Gauthier,
Gail
A Year
With Butch and Spike
(73 copies)
Straight-A student Jasper Gordon has always loved his teachers, and
they have always loved him. Then he meets his sixth grade teacher,
Mrs. McNulty (a.k.a. the McNutt). She seats him between the two most
notorious bad kids in school, cousins Butch and Spike Couture, in the
hopes that some of his goodness will rub off on them. She never
dreamed that the opposite could happen...
George,
Jean Craighead
My Side
of the Mountain
(61 copies)
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living
alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival,
his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate
realization that he needs human companionship.
Haddix, Margaret
Among the Hidden
(20 copies)
Government regulations limit families to two children each, so
Luke, an illegal third-born, must live his life in secret, hidden in
his family's farmhouse. Then he joins Jen, another "shadow
child," for a chance to come out into the light.
Haddix,
Margaret
Running
Out of Time
(58 copies)
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old
Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen
observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape
the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Hahn,
Mary Dowling
Stepping on the Cracks
(50 copies)
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II,
eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy
when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and
decides to help him.
Henry, Marguerite
Brown
Brown
Sunshine of Sawdust Valley
(18 copies)
Molly wants a
horse of her own, but money is tight in the Moore household, making it
unlikely that she'll ever realize her dream. When the sale of an old
tractor brings in a windfall, Mr. Moore resolves to buy a present for
her tenth birthday. They come away from the weekly horse auction,
however, with a skinny, mangy-looking old mare, not the young steed
Molly has always envisioned.
Hobbs,
William
The Big Wander
(66 copies)
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon
country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of
Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
Howe,
James
Bunnicula
(60 copies)
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn
his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
Hunt, Irene
Across
Five Aprils
(28 copies)
Young
Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take
care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the
Civil War.
James,
Mary
Shoebag
(60
copies)
Shoebag, a happy young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed
into a little boy, changes the lives of those around him before
returning to his former life as an insect.
Kehert,
Peg
Earthquake Terror
(59 copies)
Left at their Magpie Island campsite when their mother is rushed to
the hospital with a broken ankle, Jonathan Palmer, his young sister,
and the family dog struggle for survival when a terrible earthquake
strikes.
Kehert,
Peg
Terror at the Zoo
(58 copies)
Twelve-year-old Ellen and her younger brother Corey are excited about
their overnight camp-out at the zoo, until they discover that they are
locked inside with a desperate escaped convict.
Kerr, Judith
When
Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
(53 copies)
Recounts
the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the
early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England.
Konigsburg,
E. L.
(63 copies)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep
things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a
heroine to herself.
Konigsburg, E. L.
The
View From Saturday
(60 copies)
How
had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a
number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really
chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such
a good team?
L’Engle,
Madeline
A Wind in the Door
(20 copies)
With Meg
Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the
vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life
and death.
Levine,
Gail Carson
Ella Enchanted
(65 copies)
In this
novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the
childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Lewis, C. S.
The Horse
and His Boy
(25 copies)
An orphaned boy and a kidnapped horse gallop for Narnia...and
freedom. Narnia...where horses talk and hermits like company, where
evil men turn into donkeys, where boys go into battle...and where the
adventure begins.
Lowry,
Lois
Anastasia Krupnick
(60 copies)
Anastasia's tenth year has some good things like falling in love
and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like
finding out about an impending baby brother.
Lowry, Lois
Number the
Stars
(55 copies)
In
1943 Copenhagen, the Germans begin their campaign to
"relocate" the Jews of Denmark. So Annemarie Johansen's
parents take in her best friend Ellen Rosen and pretend that she is a
part of their family.
MacLachlan, Patricia
Sarah, Plain and Tall
(65 copies)
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come to live with
them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by her and
hope that she will stay.
MacLachlan,
Patricia
Skylark
(31 copies)
Sequel to
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Manes,
Stephen
Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days
(23 copies)
Milo,
tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a
book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three
days.
Myers, Walter
Dean
Darnell
Rock Reporting
(55 copies)
Thirteen-year-old
Darnell's twin sister and the other members of the Corner Crew have
doubts about his work on the school newspaper, but the article he
writes about a homeless man changes his attitude about school.
Namioka,
Lensey
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
(60 copies)
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao
is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for
his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing
baseball.
Norton,
Mary
The Borrowers
(59 copies)
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. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the
author.
O’Brien,
Robert
Mrs.
Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
(65 copies)
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.
O'Dell,
Scott
Island
of the Blue Dolphins
(25 copies)
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of
California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely
surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also
finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
O’Dell, Scott
My Name
is Not Angelica
(26 copies)
The story
of a Senegalese girl brought to the West Indies as a slave.
Osborne,
Mary Pope
Adaline Falling Star
(60
copies)
Feeling
abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Kit
Carson, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins
with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness,
with only a mongrel dog for company.
Patterson,
Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
(55 copies)
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he
becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely
death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
Paulsen,
Gary
Brian's Winter
(60 copies)
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's
book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian
had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his
survival pack and hatchet.
Paulsen,
Gary
Harris and Me
(18 copies)
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy
home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris
and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet
(55 copies)
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days
in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet
given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents'
divorce.
Paulsen,
Gary
Mr. Tucket
(57 copies)
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.
Peck,
Richard
Ghost Belonged to Me
(58 copies)
In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from
exploding steamboats to "exorcizing" a ghost.
Peck,
Robert Newton
Soup
(63 copies)
Rob is
caught up in his friend Soup's plan to help their town of Learning,
Vermont, celebrate the Fourth of July with a suitable pageant that
sets the record straight about several of the town's citizens.
Raskin,
Ellen
The Westing Game
(17 copies)
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.
Rawls, Wilson
Where the
Red Fern Grows
(55 copies)
A young boy living
in the Ozarks achieves his heart’s desire when he becomes the owner
of two redbone hounds and teaches them to become champion hunters.
Roberts,
Willo Davis
Megan’s Island
(60 copies)
First
eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking
her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before
school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.
Robinson,
Barbara
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
(58 copies)
The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the
girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.
Ryan,
Pam Munoz
Esperanza
Rising
(60
copies)
Esperanza
and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege
in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where
they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing farm workers on the
eve of the Great Depression.
Ryan,
Pam Munoz
Riding
Freedom
(60 copies)
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away
from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled
everyone by her appearance.
Rylant,
Cynthia
Missing
May
(65 copies)
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her,
twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia
trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Sachar,
Louis
Holes
(15 copies)
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute
to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish
boys' juvenile detention center in the Texas desert. As punishment,
the boys here must each dig a hole every day, five feet deep and five
feet across. Ultimately, Stanley "digs up the truth" -- and
through his experience, finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a
new sense of himself.
Sachar,
Louis
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
(60 copies)
An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to
believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who
is a sort of misfit too.
Snyder,
Zilpha
The Egypt Game
(57 copies)
The deserted storage yard and shed behind the A-Z Antique and Curio
Shop becomes the Land of Egypt for April and Melanie, who spend every
available moment playing the Egypt game.
Speare,
Elizabeth
Witch of Blackbird Pond
(65 copies)
Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut
Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the
river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor
named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back
up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her
aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her.
Spinelli,
Jerry
Maniac Magee
(60 copies)
After his
parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he
accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Taylor,
Mildred
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(25 copies)
A black
family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice
and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Taylor,
Theodore
The Cay
(55 copies)
When the
freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German
submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by
a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert
island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision,
courage, and love from his old companion.
Voigt,
Cynthia
Bad Girls
(22 copies)
After
meeting on the first day in Mrs. Chemsky's fifth-grade class, Margalo
and Mikey help each other in and out of trouble, as they try to
maintain a friendship while each asserts her independence.
Wallace,
Barbara
Twin in the Tavern
(60 copies)
A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself
at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria,
Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and
a missing twin.
Wallace,
Bill
Beauty
(62 copies)
Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to
Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and
caring for a horse named Beauty.
Wallace,
Bill
Danger on Panther Peak
(60 copies)
There hadn't been a panther on Panther Peak in decades. But the year
the Burkes move to their grandfather's ranch, something begins killing
off the livestock. Tom shudders. Could his grandfather's tales about
panthers be true? Then one winter morning, Tom sees a dark shape move
silently through the fog, spooking the animals in the barn. Later that
day, a blizzard hits and Tom's grandfather is injured in an accident.
With the phone lines dead, Tom must take his horse and ride for help
-- by himself -- through the panther's territory. Can he reach safety
in time to save his grandfather before the panther strikes one more
time?
Wilder,
Laura Ingalls
On the Banks of Plum Creek
(24 copies)
Laura and
her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new
house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and
grasshoppers.
Winthrop,
Elizabeth
The Castle
in the Attic
(60 copies)
A gift of a toy
castle, complete with a silver knight, introduces William to an
adventure involving magic and a personal quest.
Winthrop,
Elizabeth
The Battle for the Castle
(60 copies)
Twelve-year-old
William uses the magic token to return, through the toy castle in his
attic, to the medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced by a
skeleton ship bearing a plague of ravenous rats.
Sequel to The Castle in the Attic.
Wright, Betty Ren
The
Dollhouse Murders
(50 copies)
A dollhouse filled
with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have
moved from where she last left them lead Amy to unravel the mystery
surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
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