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Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.
In the Forests of the Night Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders
back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed
against her will.
Babbitt, Lucy Cullyford
The Oval Amulet
Babbitt, Natalie Tuck
Everlasting
Barron, T.A. The
Mirror of Merlin Through adventures involving a haunted marsh, talking
trees, and the creature called the ballymag, the young wizard Merlin continues
to experience both his growing powers and his essential humanity.
Lost Years of Merlin: Book 4
Barron, T.A. The
Seven Songs of Merlin Having stumbled upon his hidden powers, the young
wizard Merlin voyages to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself and the way
to the realm of the spirit. Lost
Years of Merlin: Book 2
Brooks, Terry and
Sweet, Darrell The Elfstones of
Shannara Ancient evil threatens the Elves now that the Ellcrys, a magic
tree, is dying. A perilous quest by Wil Ohmsford and Amberle may save them.
Sequel to: The Sword of Shannara
Brooks, Terry First
King of Shannara Bremen, cast out by the Druids because of his study of
magic, discovers a plot by evil archmage Brona to conquer the Four Lands, but he
must work fast to unite the people of the lands and find a weapon that will stop
Brona's power.
Brooks, Terry The
Sword of Shannara In spite of his protests that he is only an ordinary man
and not a hero, Shea Ohmsford eventually accepts his role as the leader of his
people in the struggle against the Lord of Evil.
Brooks, Terry The
Tangle Box A fantasy tale set in the Magic Kingdom of Landover, ruled by Ben
Holiday. Horris Kew, a conjurer is sent by the Gorse, an evil sorcerer, to
enslave the fairy folk and take over Landover. Magic Kingdom of Landover:
Book 4
Calhoun, Dia Firegold
Colfer, Eoin Artemis
Fowl Twelve-year-old millionaire, genius, and criminal mastermind Artemis
Fowl finds himself in over his head after he kidnaps a dangerous fairy.
Dickinson, Peter and Andrew, Ian The Ropemaker When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
Gurney, James Dinotopia:
A Land Apart from Time In 1862, after being shipwrecked in uncharted seas,
Professor Arthur Denison and his twelve-year-old son Will find themselves washed
up on a strange island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully.
Hilton, James Lost
Horizon On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a
plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again. What Conway found
in ShangriLa makes the story.
Ibbotson, Eva and Porter, Sue The Secret of Platform 13 Odge Gribble, a young hag,
accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission
through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their King and
Queen's son who had been stolen as an infant.
Jacques, Brian and Chalk, Gary Mattimeo Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse
Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of
Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders. Sequel to: Redwall.
Jacques, Brian and Chalk, Gary Mossflower
Jacques, Brian Redwall
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of
the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse,
determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is
convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
Jones, Diana Wynne Dark
Lord of Derkholm 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.
Jones, Diana Wynne Fire
and Hemlock At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping,
sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her
parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she
accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.
Jones, Diana Wynne Year
of the Griffin Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives
for schooling at the Wizards' University where she encounters new friends,
pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.
Sequel to: Dark Lord of Derkholm
Jacques, Brian Marlfox When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island.
Le Guin, Ursula K. and Garraty, Gail
The tombs of Atuan Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in
the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.
Levitin, Sonia The
Cure A young boy living in 2407
collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting
the antisemitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Four English school children 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.
Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2
Lewis, C.S. and Baynes, Pauline The Magician’s Nephew 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. Chronicles of Narnia:
Book 1
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonquest
On a small beleaguered planet patrolled by giant dragons, a tiny golden
fire-lizard brings a searing threat greater than any Pern has ever met.
Dragonriders of Pern: Book 2
Nix, Garth Lirael:
Daughter of the Clayr When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a
long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the
Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies.
Sequel to: Sabriel
Nix, Garth Shade’s
Children In a savage future world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow
the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious
mentor.
Orwell, George, Animal
Farm A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but
find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
Pattison, Darcy The Wayfinder Eleven-year-old Win,
an apprentice Finder, must go into the mysterious Great Rift to find the Well of
Life, the only hope of healing the Heartland of plague.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. SERIES
Follows the Companions of the Ring as they set out to destroy the Ring of Power
and check the power of the evil Sauron. Part
1: The Fellowship of the Ring, Part
2: The Two Towers, Part 3: The
Return of the King
Turener, Megan Whalen
The Queen of Attolia Forsaken by the gods and left to his own
devices, Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an
attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.
White, T. H. The
Once and Future King Tells the story of the youth and reign of King Arthur,
the establishment of the Round Table, and the search for the Holy Grail.
Wrede, Patricia C. Mairelon
the Magician Kim, a London guttersnipe disguised as a boy, finds her life
changed forever as she becomes entangled with the mysterious traveling magician,
Mairelon.
Yep, Lawrence Dragon War The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home.
Historical Fiction @ MTHS
Abelove, Joan - Go and Come Back. Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a
village in the Amazonian jungle of Peru, tells about the two American women
anthropologists who arrive to study her people's way of life.
Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea. An orphan
arrives in London and becomes embroiled in a plot against the king.
Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Surrounded by villains of the first order, brave Bonnie and gentle cousin Sylvia
conquer all obstacles in this Victorian melodrama.
Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune : a novel. Eliza Sommers, left alone and pregnant in Chile when her lover Joaquin runs off to California during the Gold Rush, decides to follow him only to become entranced with her new life of freedom and independence.
Christopher Paul Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy. 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.
Cynthia DeFelice - The Apprenticeship Of Lucas Whitaker. After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
Walter D. Edmonds - Drums Along the Mohawk. Gilbert Martin and his young wife, Lana, struggle to survive along the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War.
Rachel Field - All This And Heaven Too. Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-533). The fictionalized life story of a French governess who in 1847 became involved in a famous murder trial, in which she was known as Mademoiselle D. Although she was acquitted, life became so difficult for her in France that she came to America, where she married an American minister and presided over a Gramercy Park salon.
Paul Fleischman - The Borning Room. "A Charlotte Zolotow book." Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier.
Esther Forbes - Johnny Tremain. An illustrated edition of the award-winning novel "Johnny Tremain" about a young boy who encounters many historical figures as he works as a horse boy for the local newspaper.
Paula Fox - The Slave Dancer. "Laurel-leaf Newbery"--Cover. Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Adele Geras - Troy. "First published in the UK by Scholastic Ltd, 2000"--T.p. verso. The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up.
Kristiana Gregory - Earthquake at Dawn. "Gulliver Books.";Includes excerpts of a letter by Mary Exa Atkins Campbell.;Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194). A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. Includes reader's guide and author interview.
Christie Harris - Raven's Cry. Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1966. Fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation of the Northwest coast after their meeting with the white man.
John Hersey - A Bell for Adano. During World War II an American Major is placed in charge of the Italian village of Adano.
Pamela Smith Hill - A Voice From The Border. Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244). 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.
Anne Holm - North to Freedom. "An Odyssey classic.";Translation of: David. After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
James A. Houston - The White Dawn : An Eskimo Saga. When three whalers are shipwrecked in the eastern Arctic, they are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who teach them about their traditions, beliefs, and culture.
James A. Houston - Ghost Fox. Kidnapped by raiding Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian War, seventeen-year-old Sarah must make a choice between life in slavery or death by torture.
Dean Hughes - Soldier Boys. Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Irene Hunt - Across Five Aprils. "Jam." 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.
Irene Hunt - No Promises in the Wind. A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s.
Irene Hunt - Up a Road Slowly. "Jam." After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
M.E. Kerr - Slap Your Sides: A Novel. Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for
Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker
beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.
Kathryn Lasky - Beyond the Divide. In 1849, a
fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in
Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.
Julius Lester - Pharaoh's Daughter : A Novel of Ancient
Egypt. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-182). 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.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze.
The adventures of a young coppersmith's apprentice in China.
Michelle Magorian - Good Night, Mr. Tom. A battered
child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English
countryside during World War II.
Bernard Malamud - The Fixer. Jewish handyman Yakov
Bok, is arrested, imprisoned, and accused for a murder he did not commit.
Carol Matas - Daniel's Story. Daniel, whose family
suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a
concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
Carol Matas - In My Enemy's House. When German
soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide
whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order
to survive.
Carol Matas - The War Within : A Novel of the Civil War.
In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs,
Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding
slavery and the war.
Ruthanne Lum McCunn - The Moon Pearl. Rooster,
Shadow, and Mei Ju refuse to become wives or nuns as their culture expects of
them, instead choosing to support themselves through their skills in embroidery
and silk production.
Carolyn Meyer - Mary, Bloody Mary. "Gulliver
books." Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the
mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of
King Henry VIII.
N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn. A young
American Indian, Abel, lived in two worlds. One was that of his fathers and a
drug called peyote and the other was the twentieth century. Home from a foreign
war he was being torn apart, unable to find his place either in the white man's
world or on the reservation.
Beverley Naidoo - The Other Side Of Truth. "Originally published in 2000 by Puffin Books ... London, England"--T.p. verso.;"Ages 10 up"--Cover p. 4. Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
Lensey Namioka - Ties That Bind, Ties That Break : A
Novel. Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of
upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall - Mutiny on the
Bounty. "Back Bay books." Fictionalizes the mutiny of the British
war vessel "Bounty" in 1789.
Naomi
Shihab Nye - Habibi. When
fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from
St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her
father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between
Jews and Palestinians.
Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins. 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.
Scott O'Dell - Sing Down The Moon. A young Navajo
girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort
Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
Scott O'Dell - Streams To The River, River To The Sea :
A Novel Of Sacagawea. A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and
cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark
Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall - Thunder Rolling In The Mountains. In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
Scott O'Dell - Zia. 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 the Island of the
Blue Dolphins.
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient : A Novel.
The stories of four people reveal themselves during the final moments of World
War II in a deserted Indian villa.
Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel. The rulers
of the French Revolution cannot discover who this maddeningly elusive figure is
that threatens their total power with his disguises, endless ruses and infinite
daring.
Uri Orlev - The Island On Bird Street. Translation
of: ha-I bi-Rehov ha-tsiporim. During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his
own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all
the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Uri Orlev - The Man From The Other Side. "First
published in Israel as Ish min ha-tsad ha-aher by the Domino Press"--T.p.
verso. Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II,
fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days
before the Jewish uprising.
Mary Pope Osborne - Adaline Falling Star. Feeling
abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, 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.
Gary Paulsen - The Beet Fields : Memories Of A Sixteenth
Summer. A boy runs away from home and his drunken parents and spends his
sixteenth summer learning about life as a migrant laborer, and carnival worker.
Gary Paulsen - Nightjohn. Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Randall Beth Platt - The Likes Of Me. In 1918,
having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a
fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and
finds work in a carnival.
Johanna Reiss - The Upstairs Room. A Dutch Jewish
girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs
bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet On The Western Front.
Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and
suffering during the last days of World War I.
Ann Rinaldi - The Last Silk Dress. Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-328). During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.
Ann Rinaldi - A Stitch In Time. Includes
bibliographical references (p. 303-305). Shortly after the War of Independence,
Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments as
her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help
start a new town in the Northwest Territory.
Virginia Frances Schwartz - Send One Angel Down. A
young slave tries to hide the horrors of slavery from his younger cousin, a
light-skinned slave who is the daughter of the plantation owner.
Ouida Sebestyen - Words By Heart. "A Yearling
book." A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better
future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the
only blacks.
Ian Serraillier - Escape From Warsaw. Original
title: The silver sword. During 1942 in Warsaw, Edek shoots a Nazi Storm
Trooper. Edek and his two sisters must escape from the secret police.
Elizabeth George Speare - The Witch Of Blackbird Pond.
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.
Nancy Springer - I Am Morgan Le Fay : A Tale From
Camelot. In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually
become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has magic powers
and links to the faerie world.
Rosemary Sutcliff (retold by) - Beowulf. Reprint,
originally published: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1962. The epic of a dragon-slaying
hero.
Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle Of The Ninth. "A
Sunburst book.";"First American edition published by Henry Z. Walck,
1954"--T.p. verso.;"First published in Great Britain by Oxford
University Press, 1954"--T.p. verso. A young centurion ventures among the
hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth,
a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
Mildred D. Taylor - The Land. Prequel to: Roll of
thunder, hear my cry. Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave
mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two
worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of
the Civil War.
Mildred D. Taylor - Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken.;Newbery Medal, 1977. An African-American
family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with
prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Theodore Taylor - Walking Up A Rainbow. In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.
Yoshiko Uchida - Journey To Topaz : A Story Of The
Japanese-American Evacuation. Eleven-year-old Yuki and her Japanese-American
family are uprooted from their home and put in a concentration camp called
Topaz.
Vivian Vande Velde - Never Trust A Dead Man. In the
medieval village of Penryth, seventeen-year-old Selwyn sets out to find the real
killer of Farold, a young man he has been wrongfully convicted of murdering,
with Farold himself as his only companion, brought back to life in the form of a
bat by a cave-dwelling witch.
Cynthia Voigt - Jackaroo. When hard times among the
people revive old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows
her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend.
Eric Walters - Caged Eagles. Sequel to: War of the
eagles. Fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima, forced to move with his family from
their fishing village on the Northwest coast of British Columbia to an
internment center in Vancouver during World War II, struggles to make sense of
the racism and injustice to which Japanese immigrants are being subjected.
Robert Westall - The Machine Gunners. After an air
raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from
adults who are looking for it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House In The Big Woods.
"The Laura years"--Cover. Depicts the life of Laura Ingalls and her
family when they lived in a little log house in Wisconsin in 1872.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House On The Prairie.
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie,
where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, dig a well, and fight a
prairie fire.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - On The Banks Of Plum Creek.
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - By The Shores Of Silver Lake.
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy. 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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little Town On The Prairie.
First published: 1941. In 1880s Dakota Territory, teenager Laura Ingalls
struggles to earn her teaching certificate, says good-bye to her sister Mary
when she leaves home to attend a school for the blind, and shyly begins a
romance with Almanzo Wilder.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - These Happy Golden Years.
Fifteen-year-old Laura becomes a school teacher and becomes engaged, and starts
a new life as the wife of Almanzo Wilder.
Laurence Yep - The Star Fisher. Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.
Horror
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Aiken, Joan Night
Fall Megan lived a glamorous life in Hollywood with her mother until her
mother died in a car crash when Meg was only nine years old.
She then went to live with an aloof father in London, England until she
began a successful career and married a handsome young stockbroker.
She is about to begin her new and exciting life when she is drawn to the
rugged coast of Cornwall to trace a mysterious memory and finds herself at the
center of a murder which had never been solved.
Barr, Nevada Deep
South Park Ranger Anna Pigeon moves to Mississippi to accept a promotion,
but she begins to think she has made a big mistake when the body of a young girl
is found near an overgrown country cemetery, and her attempts to find answers
are met with silence, hostility, and violence.
Bell, Hilari A
Matter of Profit Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets,
Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy
marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the
Emperor.
Bennett, Jay Coverup
Benchley, Peter The
Island Maynard, star of Jaws, and his son pursue a story to a remote
archipelago southeast of the Bahamas. There,
on the deceptively inviting waters of the tropics, Maynard and his son sail into
as sinister a drama as has ever been played out on the sea.
For the islands harbor a violent and shocking secret-and by discovering
it, Maynard and his son are plunged into a nightmare struggle to survive.
Christie, Agatha By
the Pricking of My Thumbs "A Tommy and Tuppence mystery"--Cover.
When a sweet old lady disappears, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford come out of
retirement to find out what happened to her.
Clark, Mary Higgins The
Lottery Winner This collection of six mystery stories featuring Alvirah
Meehan and her husband, Willy, spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. The body
in the closet -- Death on the Cape -- Plumbing for Willy -- A clean sweep -- The
lottery winner -- Bye, baby bunting.
Clark, Mary Higgins Pretend
You Don’t See Her A dying murder victim entrusts real estate agent Lacey
Farrell with her journal, which contains information so damaging that even the
government's witness protection program cannot keep Lacey safe.
Clark, Mary Higgins Remember Me After the death of their two-year-old son, Menley and her husband, a high profile criminal defense attorney, are determined to rebuild a life around their new infant daughter--unaware that someone has a different agenda for them.
Clark, Mary Higgins Weep
No More, My Lady Elizabeth Lange is haunted by the tragic death of her
sister Leila, who plunged from the balcony of her New York penthouse under
mysterious circumstances. While visiting the Cypress Point Spa, Elizabeth
decides to find out exactly what happened.
Clark, Mary Higgins While
My Pretty One Sleeps A famous New York gossip writer, whose forthcoming book
threatens to expose the secrets of some powerful figures in the world of
fashion, is murdered.
Collins, Wilkie The
Moonstone "First published in 1868"--T.p. verso.;Includes
bibliographical references (p. xxxv-xxxvii). English police Sergeant Cuff tries
to locate a fabulous diamond that might have been stolen by a group of Hindus
who regard it as a sacred stone.
Connelly, Michael Angles
Flight The last coyote -- Trunk music -- Angels flight. A collection of
three crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD homicide detective Harry
Bosch
Connelly, Michael Blood Work Forced into early retirement, former FBI investigator for Los Angeles Terrell McCaleb spends his time restoring his fishing boat. When an intriguing murder is committed, McCaleb agrees to take up the case and finds himself on the trail of a grisly kill
Connelly, Michael The
Last Coyote The last coyote -- Trunk music -- Angels flight. A collection of
three crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD homicide detective Harry
Bosch
Cormier, Robert The
Rag and Bone Shop Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure
a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his
seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime
and Punishment Describes the resultant physical and mental depletion after a student in St.
Petersburg murders an old woman, a money lender, and her sister.
Duncan, Lois Don’t
Look Behind You Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed
forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her
family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired
killer.
Duncan, Lois Locked
in Time Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her
new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
Duncan, Lois Ransom
This work has been published under the title, Five were missing"--T.p.
verso. Five high school students from a wealthy neighborhood are kidnapped while
on their way home in the school bus and try to find a way to escape their
captors while their parents scrape to meet the ransom demands.
Duncan, Lois They
Never Came Home When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger
claims that one owes him $2,000. The boys' sister volunteers to repay the money
while continually looking for clues that he is alive.
Evanovich, Janet Seven Up Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's seemingly simple new assignment to bring in a senior citizen charged with smuggling cigarettes is complicated by a murder and two proposals.
Evanovich, Janet High Five & Hot Six Presents books five and six in the continuing adventures Stephanie Plum, an inept New Jersey bounty hunter whose attempts to round up bad guys are complicated by her involvement with Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli, and her mysterious colleague Ranger.
Francis, Dick Come
to Grief Sid Halley, jockey turned investigator, is despised after he
uncovers evidence that puts a beloved sports hero on trial.
George, Elizabeth In
The Presence of The Enemy Dennis Luxford's past catches up with him when he
receives an anonymous note demanding that he admit to fathering the daughter of
an up-and-coming politician who refuses to allow the information to be made
public.
Hayes, Daniel The
Trouble with Lemons Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead
body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.
Hillerman, Tony The
Blessing Way Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police and anthropologist
Bergen McKee follow the horrifying trail of murder left by the Wolf-Witch.
Jance, Judith Devil’s
Claw Sheriff Joanna Brady's attention is pulled from the turmoil of her
personal life when she receives a report that an Indian woman, recently released
from prison, has been found murdered at Cochise Stronghold and that the victim's
daughter, fifteen-year-old Lucy Ridder, is on the run.
Jance, Judith Hour of The Hunter Diana Ladd’s life stopped six years ago when her husband killed himself after being accused of the brutal rape and murder of a young Indian woman. Diana has just begun to put her life back together when a ruthless, phychotic killer blames Diana for his time spent in prison!
Kellerman, Faye False
Prophet "A Fawcett Crest Book."--T.p. verso. LAPD detective Peter
Decker, awaiting the birth of his first child with new wife Rina Lazarus, takes
on the case of Lilah Brecht, the beautiful owner of a popular health club who
has been beaten, raped, and robbed, but when a family member of Lilah's turns up
dead, Peter begins to suspect his client is keeping deadly secrets.
Klause, Annette Curtis
Alien Secrets "A Yearling book." On her journey to the
distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a
troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious
artifact.
L’Engle, Madeleine Dragons in the WatersmLaurel-Leaf books." 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 Simon Bolivar.
L’Engle, Madeleine Troubling a
Star As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the
Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls theseries of events that brought her
to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
Martin, Ann M. Missing
Since Monday When their little sister doesn't come home from school,
fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets
about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.
Nixon, Joan Lowery The
Name of the Game Was Murder When she visits her great-uncle, a successful
and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island,
fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads
to murder.
Nixon, Joan Lowery The
Séance The seance started as a game, but it led to murder and terror for
the people of a small east Texas community.
Nixon, Joan Lowery Spirit
Seeker To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the
help of a clairvoyant.
Nixon, Joan Lowery Nobody’s
There Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a
seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen
whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
Qualey, Marsha Close
to a Killer Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, c1999.
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are
somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
Roberts, Willo Davis Nightmare
When a falling body strikes Nick's car as he drives under an overpass, the
police call the man's death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his
life in danger when he tries to investigate.
McCall Smith, Alexander
Tears of the Giraffe "More from The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency." Precious Ramotswe, owner and operator of the No. 1 Ladies'
Detective Agency in contemporary Botswana, accepts a job searching for a missing
American man, while also dealing with her impending marriage, and her fiance's
resentful maid.
Truman, Margaret Murder
at the National Gallery The senior curator at the National Gallery of Art
plans a brilliant exhibition around a long-lost Caravaggio painting while
secretly scheming to steal the priceless work of art for himself.
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Sammy Keyes and the Skelton Man On Halloween night, seventh grader
Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some
heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant
for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the
investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from
the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
Werlin, Nancy Black
Mirror : A Novel Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than
suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious
student activities at her boarding school.
Wynne-Jones, Tim The Boy in the Burning House "A Sunburst book.";First published: Canada : Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre. Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
New Non-fiction @ MTHS
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Poetry
@ MTHS
Angelou, Maya The
Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Complete collection of Mary Angelou's published poems, including her
inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning."
Burt, John The
Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Includes index. Presents every poem every published by Robert Penn Warren,
the first Poet Laureate of the United States, with the exception of
"Brother to Dragons."
Collins, Billy Nine
Horses : Poems
A collection of poems by 2002-2003 Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy
Collins.
Collins, Billy Sailing
Alone Around The Room
A collection of poems by Billy Collins.
Cruz, Victor Hernandez
Paper Dance : 55 Latino Poets
An anthology of poetry by Latin American poets living and writing in the
United States.
Dove, Rita Mother
Love : Poems
A collection of poems derived from the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and
Persephone that explores the love between mother and daughter.
Dove, Rita The
Best American Poetry 2000
Presents seventy-five poems chosen by "The Best American Poetry"
series Guest Editor Rita Dove as the best of 1999, plus twelve top-fifteen lists
of the best poems of the twentieth century, compiled by fellow series editors.
Dove, Rita
Thomas and Beulah
A collection of poems, written by this winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for
poetry, tells two sides of a story and meant to be read in sequence.
Fleischman, Paul Joyful
Noise : Poems For Two Voices
"A Charlotte Zolotow book." This book has a collection of poems
describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
Glenn, Mel Split
Image : A Story In Poems
A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people--
students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others-- about the
seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School.
Hass, Robert Sun
Under Wood : New Poems
This is the fourth collection of poems by the 1995 United States Poet
Laureate.
Harjo, Joy How
We Became Human : New and Selected Poems
Includes bibliographical references and index. This is a collection of poems
written by Joy Harjo between 1975 and 2001.
Merrill, James Collected
Poems
Includes bibliographical references (p. 871-872) and indexes. An anthology
of poems by twentieth-century American poet James Merrill, including all the
poems in ten trade volumes published between 1946 and 1995, a selection of poems
from his first book, poems excluded from earlier volumes, translations of
twenty-one poems from several languages, and forty-four previously uncollected
works.
Mora, Pat My
Own True Name : New and Slected Poems For Young Adults
The text in these poems is mainly in English with some Spanish. More than
sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The
Young Sor Juana," "Graduation Morning," "Border Town
1938," "Legal Alien," "Abuelita Magic," and "In
the Blood."
Olds, Sharon The Father
This is a sequence of poems chronicling the events of a father's illness and
death as seen through his daughters' eyes.
Parisi, Joseph The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: 90 Years
of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine
Includes index. Presents poems drawn from throughout the ninety-year history
of "Poetry" magazine, featuring selections from William Butler Yeats,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and many others.
Stafford, Wallace Even
In Quite Places
"A James R. Hepworth book." Compiled from four of the author's
previously published works: Who are you really, wanderer?, Holding onto the
grass, History is loose again, and The Methow River poems.; Includes index.
Collection of over ninety poems previously published by small presses and
written by William Stafford, the winner of the National Book Award, the Shelley
Memorial Award, and the Award in Literature of the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters.
Stafford, Wallace
Learning To Live In The World : Earth Poems
This book includes indexes and a collection of fifty poems, which reflect
the ways in which we relate to the world around us.
Swenson, May American Poetry. 20th Century
Vol 2 E.E. Cummings to May Swenson
Includes bibliographical references and index. Presents a selection of poems
from eighty-five American poets written between the beginning of the twentieth
century and the end of World War II; arranged chronologically by the birth date
of the author, from 1838 to 1893.
Updike, John American
and Other Poems
A collection of sixty-two poems by American author John Updike, covering
America, its cities and airplanes; aspects of Updike's life; foreign travel; and
daily life.
A collection of poems which span four decades of the award-winning poet Mona
Van Duyn's career.
Walker, Alice Absolute
Trust In The Goodness Of The Earth : New Poems
Presents more than eighty poems by African-American writer Alice Walker,
covering such themes as grief, love, aging, acceptance, and the hectic pace of
daily life.
Anderson, M.T. Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to
control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious
trouble.
Aronson, Billy Journey
to the Center of the Earth
An abridged version of the classic story about Professor Lidenbrock's
adventures inside the crater of a volcano, narrated by Wishbone the television
dog, with information about the author and setting of the story, and a list of
characters.
Asimov, Isaac I,
Robot
Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great practitioner of the new science of
robopsychology in 2008, looks back on her career with U.S. Robotics on the
occasion of her retirement fifty years later, telling stories of how the
mechanical race developed.
Bell, Hilari A
Matter of Profit
Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end
his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can
discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.
Card, Orson Scott Children
of the Mind
"The conclusion to Ender's saga"--Cover.;"A Tom Doherty
Associates book." Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three
sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are
threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help
of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.
Card, Orson Scott Ender’s
Game
Sequel: Speaker for the Dead.;"Author's definitive edition"--Cover.;"A
Tom Doherty Associates book." Ender, who is the result of genetic
experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an
alien enemy.
Card, Orson Scott Ender’s
Shadow
"A Tor Book." 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.
Card, Orson Scott Speaker
for the Dead
"A Tom Doherty Associates book.";Sequel to: Ender's game. Andrew
Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, is called to aid in the investigation of
two deaths when a race of sapient beings is discovered on the planet Lusitania.
Card, Orson Scott Shadow
Puppets
Peter Wiggin, leader of the worldwide government in the aftermath of the
victory over the alien Formics, makes a tactical error when he arranges for the
rescue of his archenemy Achilles who is being held by the Chinese, only to learn
Achilles is insane and determined to kill Bean, the genetic anomaly who served
as second-in-command during the conflict.
Card, Orson Scott Shadow
of the Hegemon
A Tom Doherty Associates book." A sequel to "Ender's Shadow,"
in which the child-warriors, heroes of the Formic War, have returned to their
families on Earth only to become the pawns of nations who want to use them as
weapons in their quest for sovereignty.
Card, Orson Scott
Xenocide
"Volume three of the Ender quartet"--Cover.;Sequel to: Ender's
game.;"A Tom Doherty Associates book." Lusitania seems to be a planet
on which three intelligent species--humans, the pequininos, and the Hive
Queen--can finally live together, until a virus dangerous to humans but vital to
the pequininos is found, and the Starways Congress orders Lusitania and its
inhabitants to be destroyed.
Christopher, John
When the Tripods Came
"This edition ... is by arrangement with the publisher, Dutton
Children's Books"--T.p. verso. 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.
Datnow, Claire L. American
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
Profiles the lives and careers of ten influential science fiction and
fantasy writers.
Farmer, Nancy The
Ear, the Eye and the Arm
"Includes a new preface from Nancy Farmer and a discussion
guide"--Cover p. 4. In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children
are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives
use their special powers to search for them.
Foster, Alan Dean Splinter
of the Minds Eye
"A Del Rey book." The further adventures of Luke Skywalker as he
fights for right and justice against the evil Imperial forces on the planet
Mimbran.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Turnabout
Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific
experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger,
until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when
other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth
refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they
are too young to do it themselves.
Hautman, Pete Hole
in the Sky
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three
other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying
to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
Hughes, Monica Invitation
to the Game
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse
and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their
"Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
Lowry, Lois Gathering
Blue
"Walter Lorraine Books." Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is
mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council
Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of
the all-powerful Guardians.
Lowry, Lois
The Giver
Newberry Medal, 1994 Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of
Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his
community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonsdawn
"A Del Rey book." Colonists from Earth set out to protect their
new home, Pern, from the deadly spores that fall from the sky and devour
everything in their path.
Sagan, Carl Contact
Scientist Eleanor Arroway risks her life and reputation in an attempt to
respond when radio telescopes on Earth receive a signal indicating the existence
of life twenty-six light-years away in the vicinity of the star Vega.
Sleator, William Intersteller
Pig
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the
cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a
game they call "Interstellar Pig."
Verne, Jules Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Adaptation of: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. An adaptation of the
nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric
captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific
achievements of the twentieth century.
Wells, H. G. The
Time Machine
"First published in 1895"--T.p. verso. A scientist invents a
machine that transports him far into the future where he discovers a changed
world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.
Wells, H. G.
The War of the Worlds
An intellectually-superior race from Mars invades the Earth with plans to
enslave human beings.
24 Hours - Mahy,
Margaret, c2000 During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school,
seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far
different from his comfortable life, which helps deal with his best friend's
recent suicide.
America : A Novel - Frank, E. R., c2002., 242p, America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret.
Being with Henry
- Brooks, Martha, 1944, 216p,
Forced out of his home by a disagreeable and bullying stepfather,
sixteen-year-old Laker moves to another town and strikes up an unexpected
friendship with a frail but determined old man.
Big Mouth & Ugly
Girl - Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938, 266p, AR: 5.1
When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high
school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
Black Mirror : A
Novel - Werlin, Nancy c2001., 249p, AR: 4.7
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old
Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her
boarding school.
Born Blue -
Nolan, Han., c2001., 277p, AR: 4.9
Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect.
Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is
unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer.
Breathing Underwater
- Flinn, Alexandra., c2001., 263p, AR: 3.9
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a
journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines
his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive
father.
Catalyst -
Anderson, Laurie Halse., 2002., 232p, AR: 4.0
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter,
finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult
neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her
choice, and an unexpected death.
The Color of Absence
: 12 stories about loss and hope -
c2001., 238p, AR: 4.5
Presents twelve short stories that examine how young people deal with different
types of loss.
Cut - McCormick,
Patricia, 1956, 168p, AR: 4.6
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to
understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts
to get better.
A Dance For Three
- Plummer, Louise., c2000., 230p, AR: 4.1
Fifteen-year-old Hannah is forced to face some hard facts about her life when
she becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not
responsible.
Dunk - Lubar,
David, c2002., 249p, AR: 3.8
Chad, hoping to work out his frustrations and his anger by taking a summer job
as a dunk tank Bozo on the boardwalk at the New Jersey shore, comes to a better
understanding of himself and the uses of humor as he undergoes training in the
fine art of insults.
Eight Seconds -
Ferris, Jean, 1939, 186p, AR: 4.6
Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo
school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart,
tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay.
Fresh Girl -
Placide, Jaira., c2002., 216p, AR: 3.9
After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her
grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents and
try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.
Ghost Boy -
Lawrence, Iain, 1955, 326p, AR: 4.4
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who
thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he
works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Gingerbread -
Cohn, Rachel., c2002., 172p, AR: 6.1
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with
her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is
subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her
biological father.
Habibi - Nye, Naomi Shihab., c1997., 271p, AR: 5.2
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move
from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where
her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions
between Jews and Palestinians.
Hanging on to Max
- Bechard, Margaret., c2002., 142p, AR: 3.3
When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is
determined to keep him and raise him alone.
Myrtle of Willendorf
- O'Connell, Rebecca, 1968, 116p, AR: 5.6
Myrtle has trouble adjusting to college life, until she discovers a new sense of
self and a different kind of beauty through her painting.
Night Hoops -
Deuker, Carl., 2000., 212p, AR: 4.5
While trying to prove that he is good enough to play on his high school's
varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and
erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
Of Sound Mind -
Ferris, Jean, 1939, 215p, AR: 5.1
Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on
him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new
student who also has a deaf parent.
The Other Side of
Truth - Naidoo, Beverley., 2003., 252p, RL 5.8, AR: 5.3
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger
brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the
airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have
happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
Peeling the Onion
- Orr, Wendy., 1997., 166p, AR: 5.3
Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate
champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family.
Playing Without The
Ball : A Novel In Four Quarters - Wallace, Rich., c2000., 213p, RL 5.2, AR:
4.1
Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him
behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the
future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.
Rainbow Boys -
Sanchez, Alex, 1957, 233p, AR: 3.7
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a
closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues,
gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Secret Sacrament
- Jordan, Sherryl., 2000., 338p, AR: 6.6
A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows the role
Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navoran people and the Shinali, a
role which is solidified when he becomes an Elected One and trains to be a
Healer.
Seek -
Fleischman, Paul., 2001., 167p, AR: 4.7
Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a
radio announcer.
Shabanu : Daughter
Of The Wind - Staples, Suzanne Fisher., 1997., RL 7.0, 240p, AR: 5.9
When eleven-year-old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of
present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will
bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the
custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
Stoner & Spaz
- Koertge, Ronald., 2002., 169p, AR: 3.5
A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the
help of a drug-addicted young woman.
Tangerine -
Bloor, Edward, 1950, 294p, AR: 4.3
Paul Fisher, a stellar soccer player despite being legally blind, finally comes
into his own when his family moves to the strange town of Tangerine, Florida.
Tears Of A Tiger
- Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills), c1994., RL 6.5, 180p, AR: 4.3
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile
accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car,
and many others in the school.
Ten Miles From
Winnemucca - Wyss, Thelma Hatch., c2002., 129p, AR: 4.5
When his mother and her new husband take off on a long honeymoon and his new
stepbrother throws his belongings out the window, sixteen-year-old Martin J.
Miller takes off in his Jeep and settles in Red Rock, Idaho, where he finds a
job, enrolls in school, and suffers from loneliness.
Tender - Hobbs,
Valerie., 2001., 245p, AR: 4.0
After her beloved Gran dies, fifteen-year-old Liv goes to California to live
with the father she has never known and must adjust to his gruff ways and his
life as an abalone diver, so different from her life in New York City.
Touching Spirit Bear
- Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952, 241p, RL 6.7, AR: 5.3
After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid
going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the
Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where
an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
What Janie Found
- Cooney, Caroline B., c2000., 181p, AR: 4.8
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family
and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old
Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
When Dad Killed Mom
- Lester, Julius., c2001., 183p, AR: 4.8
After their college psychologist father kills their artist mother, young Jenna
and Jeremy struggle with the secret each of them keeps.