St. Luke’s School Reading List For Students Entering Grade 6 and Grade 7

healer. When her healing powers fail to Fantasy save her mother from death, Cerinthe travels to attend the yearly Trial at the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy School of Royal Dancers. (series) Adams Firegold Seconds before the Earth is demolished Calhoun for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is Jonathon is haunted by his difference saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for from everyone else in the Valley. Even the revised Guide. Together they stick his father won’t listen to questions out their thumbs to the stars and begin about his heritage. Could Jonathon be a a wild journey through time and space. Dalriada — one of the mountain people who have magnificent horses, mystical The Arkadians powers, and blue eyes like his? Alexander To escape the wrath of the king and his Artemis Fowl (series) wicked soothsayers, an honest young Colfer man joins with a poet-turned-jackass Artemis Fowl is a one of the greatest and a girl with mystical powers on a criminal minds the world has ever seen. series of epic adventures. He is a twelve-year-old evil genius trying to restore his family fortune by The Merlin Effect (series) capturing a fairy and demanding a T.A. Barron ransom in gold; the fairies fight back Even if you don't like "present-day" with magic, technology, and a fantasy, this series is engulfed in particularly nasty troll. enough ancient mystery and magic to satisfy anyone. The Dark Is Rising (series) Cooper The Last Unicorn On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton Beagle discovers that he is the last of the Old Aided by a bumbling magician and an Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping indomitable spinster, the protagonist the world from domination by the sets out to learn the truth. But even forces of evil. He is plunged into a quest immortal wisdom means nothing in a for the six magical signs that will one world where a mad king's curse and day aid the Old Ones in the final battle terror incarnate live only to stalk the between the Dark and the Light. last unicorn to her doom.

Songs of Power Bell In this intriguing eco-mystery, the author imagines a watery future where humans move into the sea after a devastating crop virus renders most So You Want To Be a Wizard (series) earth-grown food inedible. Duane Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry that guides her into Aria of the Sea another dimension. As two young Calhoun wizards embark on a mission to Her mother always dreamed that preserve the universe, they encounter Cerinthe would become a dancer. an eerie version of Manhattan. Cerinthe chose instead to train as a The Neverending Story the mystery and adventure that unfolds Ende in these tales of Redwall, a land of Small and insignificant Bastian talking mice and warring rats and Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a badgers. hero, least of all his own. Then, through the pages of an ancient, mysterious The Volumes of Chrestomanci book, he discovers the enchanted world Volumes 1&2 of Fantastica, and only Bastian himself Jones can save the fairy people who live there. In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an Lost In Time enchanter with nine lives is powerful Enzensberger enough to control the rampant misuse When Robert blinks, he is pulled into of magic and to hold the title the place and time of whatever he Chrestomanci. happens to be looking at. A television documentary leaves him shivering in The Dark Lord of Derkholm Siberia in 1956, a movie drops him into The Year of the Griffin (sequel) the opal mines of post-war Australia, a Jones photo on a mantle zips him off to When Elda, the griffin daughter of the impoverished Weimar Germany—and great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling that's only the beginning. at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, Dragon’s Milk (series) assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, Fletcher and magic misused. Kaeldra, an outsider adopted by an Elythian family as a baby, possesses the Red Unicorn (series) power to understand dragons and uses Lee this power to try to save her younger Feeling neglected because her sorceress sister who needs dragon's milk to mother is enamored with a flamboyant recover from an illness. magician and her sister, Emperess Lizra, is infatuated with her own true love, Wise Child Tanaquil is drawn into another world in Juniper (sequel) which her mirror self is plotting to Furlong murder her sister. This prequel to Wise Child recounts the childhood and spiritual initiation of Juniper, who will in turn pass down the secret teachings (herb-gathering, spell- casting, and mystic rituals) of the dorans to Wise Child. Wolf Tower City In Winter Lee Helprin All her life Claidi has endured hardship Destiny propels a daring young heroine in the house where she must obey a to avenge the murder of her royal spoiled princess. Then a golden parents and reclaim her lost kingdom. stranger arrives, living proof of a world beyond the House walls. Claidi risks all Salamandastron (series) to free the charming prisoner and Jacques accompanies him across the Waste Brian Jacques uses the full force of his stunning storytelling talent to unravel toward his faraway home… the Wolf revealing an important secret about his Tower. own true identity.

The Wizard of Earthsea (series) Zel Le Guin Napoli Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the Earthsea. Once he was called story is told in alternating chapters Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth hungry from the point of view of Zel, her for power and knowledge, who mother, and the nobleman who pursues tampered with long-held secrets and her, and delves into the psychological loosed a terrible shadow upon the motivations of each of the world. This is the tale of his testing, characters. how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and The Wind Singer (series) crossed death's threshold to restore the Nicholson balance. After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is Dragonsong (series) forced to flee, she, along with her twin McCaffery brother and a tag-along classmate, Forbidden by her father to indulge in follows an ancient map in quest of the music in any way, a girl on the planet legendary silver voice of the wind Pern runs away, taking shelter with the singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth planet's fire lizards who, along with her and its people. music, open a new life for her. Sabriel The Forgotten Beasts of Eld Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr(sequel) McKillip Nix After the death of her wizard father, Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Sybel's only friends are part of a Abhorsen, must journey into the magical menagerie—a dragon, black mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to swan, lion, falcon, and boar—until an rescue her father from the Land of the infant child is put into her charge. Dead.

The Outlaws of Sherwood Shade’s Children McKinley Nix This dazzling retelling of Robin Hood In a savage post-nuclear world, four incorporates traditional tales and young fugitives attempt to overthrow familiar characters with exciting new the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords adventures. with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.

The Squire’s Tale (series) Morris Alanna: The First Adventure (series) In medieval England, Terence finds his Pierce tranquil existence suddenly changed Alanna finds a way to switch places when he becomes the squire of the with her twin, Thom, and take his place young Gawain of Orkney and as a knight in training at the palace of accompanies him on a long quest, King Roald. Disguising herself as a boy, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and Alanna begins her training as a page in the royal court. Soon, she is garnering the admiration of all around her, children, beginning on her eleventh including the crown prince, with her birthday. strong work ethic and her thirst for knowledge. Song Quest Roberts Protector of the Small: The First Test From the Isle of Echoes, the forces of (series) good and evil are held in harmony by Pierce those who hear and sing. When a Ogres and strange creatures threaten mainlander's ship is wrecked and the the Kingdom of Tortall. It has been Merlee half-creatures are heard crying decided that girls should be allowed to across the waves, the lives of three become knights. Ten-year-old Keladry novice Singers are changed forever. wishes to pursue the arduous training toward knighthood. What follows is a Spellfall sort of medieval boot camp, replete Roberts with rugged training, ruthless In this gripping story of kidnapping and instructors, and hazing pages. sorcery that spans two worlds, the captured Natalie discovers her own The Golden Compass extraordinary powers. Is she strong (His Dark Materials trilogy, #1) enough to win back her own freedom? Pullman Is she capable of saving Earthaven, the Lyra Belacqua is a precocious orphan enchanted realm beyond the growing up within the precincts of Thrallstone Gateway, where giant Oxford University. But hers is a soultrees weave a new kind of magic? different world from ours, where each person has a daemon, the manifestation Harry Potter and the Prisioner of of the soul in animal form, and where Azkaban science, theology, and magic are closely (series) allied. Rowling A few people think these are good Princess Nevermore books. Regan Princess Nevermore lives in the Court Duel (series) underground world that is below our Smith own. Should she choose not to return Brought to court by a mysterious letter, underground, she will not be a princess. teenage Countess Meliara finds herself Should she return to her own world, she the subject of all sorts of courtly will lose the friends she has made in the intrigues and attentions, including world of light, and in all probability her those of the deposed king's sister and world will be destroyed. an ardent, secret suitor.

After Hamlin Richardson The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: This surrealistic tale begins 90 years The Fellowship of the Ring after the Pied Piper of Hamelin's story The Two Towers ends. Penelope, at age 101, is the only Return of the King villager old enough to remember the Tolkien events, and she records her account of This epic is the tale of hobbits, staid what really happened to her town's folk who rise to meet the challenges of a dark age, and the extraordinary escape lies in Phaze, a world totally characters of Middle Earth who are ruled by magic. Soon he learns that his swept up in the struggle for the Ring. alternate self has already been Tolkien’s vast world is richly detailed, murdered, and that he is next. On deepening the humanity of the Proton, his fate depended on winning characters, good and evil, and the the great Games. On Phaze, he must realism of the narrative. master magic to survive.

Twelve Impossible Things Before The Halloween Tree Breakfast Bradbury Yolen Eight boys set out on a Halloween night These twelve stories, set in various and are led into the depths of the past places and times, are definitely by a tall, mysterious character named "curiouser and curiouser." They are not Moundshroud. They ride on a black for the very young, nor for the faint of wind to autumn scenes in distant lands heart, but they are marvelous tales in and times, where they witness other Yolen's inimitable style. ways of celebrating this holiday about the dark time of year. Dragon’s Blood (series) Yolen Ender’s Game (series) Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Card Keeper in a dragon nursery on the To make sure humans win the next planet Austar IV, secretly trains a encounter with aliens, the world fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes government has taken to breeding of winning his freedom. military geniuses and training them in the arts of war. The early training takes A Plague of Sorcerers (series) the form of “games.” Ender Wiggin Zambreno wins all the games, but is he smart What kind of wizard's apprentice has a enough to save the planet? skunk for a familiar? Certainly not an ordinary one; Jermyn Graves is clearly When the Tripods Came an extraordinary young man. If only he Christopher could control his spells instead of Three alien Tripods (60-foot-high spattering the Weather Master with metallic domes, walking on stilt-like exploding fish bits. legs) land on earth and use their tentacles to explore and demolish the countryside. Laurie and Andy, not only watch the first Tripod, but also observe the resultant Tripod cult that arises, waiting to greet the next Tripod invasion. Starbright and the Dream Eater Science Fiction Cowley Spindle Sickness, a mysterious plague Split Infinity (series) that begins with nightmares and ends in Anthony death, has struck several of Starbright On the technological, decadent world of Connor's schoolmates. A widely Proton, someone tries to destroy Stile, ridiculed message purportedly sent serf and master Gamesman. His only through time and space by the "Guardians of the Universe, has warned of an all-devouring danger that can be immortality is to make a genetic copy of countered only by a "Bright Star" who is herself. without fear. Alien Secrets Eva Klause Dickinson On her journey to the distant planet Set in a future age when the planet is where her parents are working, Puck vastly overpopulated and wilderness befriends a troubled alien and becomes areas have disappeared, Eva, the involved in a dangerous mystery daughter of zoologists working with involving a precious artifact. laboratory chimpanzees, has been in a terrible car accident. Will implanting Gathering Blue her own 'neuron memory' into the brain Lowry and body of a now-dead female chimp Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is regenerate Eva's own functions? mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Enchantress From the Stars Edifice, where she is expected to use Engdahl her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding Young Elana becomes an integral part of the all-powerful Guardians. of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one The Giver centered on the third planet from the Lowry star in its own solar system. Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm given his life assignment does he begin Nancy Farmer to understand the dark secrets behind Three mutant detectives use their this fragile community. special powers to search for the kidnapped children of General Matsika Z for Zachariah in 2194 Zimbabwe. O'Brien When he learns that he and his father Maphead must soon leave Earth, eleven-year-old Maphead: The Return Thomas Derwent is upset, but a terrible Howarth accident that separates the two of them Maphead and his father, Powers, live in makes Thomas's situation much worse. a parallel universe called the Subtle World, a world that exists alongside and within ordinary reality, invisible to all but a few people. To gain his full power, Maphead must meet his mother—a mortal—during his twelfth year. Blueprint The White Fox Chronicles Kerner Paulsen It's the not too distant future and the The year is 2057. Americans are world has its first human clone. Her enslaved to the Confederation of name is Siri, which is the backward Consolidated Republics. Growing up in spelling of Iris, Siri's mother/twin. Iris, the wasteland of war has made Cody a thirty-year-old concert pianist, is Pierce (the White Fox) wise in survival diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She skills and rebel leader of the children's decides that the only way to ensure her barracks in a CCR prison camp. Eyes of the Amaryllis The Last Book In the Universe Babbitt Philbreck The ship Amaryllis sinks in a hurricane, In a world where most people are but for 30 years the captain's widow plugged into brain-drain entertainment waits for him to send her a message systems, epileptic teenager Spaz is a from the bottom of the sea. Her rare human being who can see life for granddaughter waits with her, what it really is. When he meets an old reminding us that the line between man called Ryter, he begins to learn reality and imagination is indefinable. about earth and its past. Hope Was Here The Night the Heads Came Bauer Sleator When sixteen-year-old Hope and the When aliens abduct both Leo and his aunt who raised her move from artist friend Tim, Leo tries to determine Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to why these creatures from outer space work as waitress and cook in the want particularly to use his friend's Welcome Stairways diner, they become talent. involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt Space Race mayor. Waugh When he learns that he and his father Squashed must soon leave Earth, eleven-year-old Bauer Thomas Derwent is upset, but a terrible As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her accident that separates the two of them two goals—growing the biggest makes Thomas's situation much worse. pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself—she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a Realistic Fiction young man with interests similar to her own. Kit’s Wilderness Almond Rules of the Road The drama unfolds as the haunted John Bauer Askew draws Kit and other classmates Jenna gets a job driving the elderly into the game of Death, a spin-the-knife, owner of a chain of successful shoe pretend-to-die game that he hosts in a stores from Chicago to Texas to deep hole dug in the earth, with confront the son who is trying to force candles, bones, and carved pictures of her to retire. Along the way, Jenna the children of the old families of hones her talents as a saleswoman and Stoneygate. finds the strength to face her alcoholic Nothing But the Truth father. Avi Students, teachers, parents, and the Am I Blue? national media become involved when Bauer ninth-grader Philip Malloy is suspended This collection of 16 original short from school for singing "The Star stories won the 1995 ALA Gay, Lesbian, Spangled Banner." A remarkable novel, and Bisexual Task Force (GLBTF) book told in documentary style. award for literature. The diverse settings, characters, and styles will entertain a wide range of readers. especially for sister Rachel, a gifted McKendree seventh grader juggling friendships and Belton school activities. In 1948, while spending the summer with her aunt in West Virginia to find The Princess Diaries her family roots, Tilara begins visiting Cabot the "colored" old folks' home called In a series of humorous diary entries, a McKendree, makes new friends, and New York City ninth grader agonizes learns to love herself. over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia. China Garden Berry Samir and Yonatan After college Clare moves with her Carmi mother from London to a rural home Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for where her psychic ability helps unravel surgery to an Israeli hospital where he the past. has two otherworldly experiences: making friends with an Israeli boy, Circle of Friends Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars Binchy where Samir finds peace about his Loyal friends Benny and Eve, young brother's death in the war. women who grew up together in an Irish village, find their relationship The Goats tested by the new friendships, Cole romances, and opportunities that A boy and a girl are stripped and develop at a Dublin university. marooned on a small island for the night. They are the "goats." The kids at Tangerine camp think it is a great joke; it's an old Bloor tradition. No harm is intended, but the A season with the toughest soccer team goats don't see it that way. They want in the county gives a teen the to disappear and they do, much to confidence to stand up to his wicked everyone's surprise. brother. Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. Celine Deenie Cole Blume Sixteen-year-old Celine has been A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly charged by her father to "show a little destined for a modeling career finds maturity, " so she can spend the she has a deformation of the spine summer in Italy--a visit from which she called scoliosis. secretly plans not to return until events begin to conspire against her. Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson (series) Blume Many Stones Expelled from boarding school, Charles' Coman presence at home proves disruptive, After her sister Laura is murdered in Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, South Africa, Berry and her estranged a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns father travel there to participate in the organized sports and the gung-ho dedication of a memorial in her name. athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less Rag and Bone Shop popular students. Cormier Trent, an ace interrogator from The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Vermont, works to procure a confession Danziger from an introverted twelve-year-old Marcy Lewis is bored by school, resents accused of murdering his young friend her tyrannical father, despairs of ever in Monument, Massachusetts. being thin, and is certain that she'll never have a date. Then along comes Getting Near to Baby Ms. Finney, a remarkable teacher with Couloumbis unconventional ways, and things begin Although Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty to change. seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo Remember Me to Herald Square and her younger sister come to terms (series) with the death of their family's baby. Danziger Kendra has just discovered that Frank Bloomability Lee, a fifteen-year-old stranger from Creech Wisconsin, will be living with her family Dinnie is accustomed to change but this summer, in NYC. Her attitude when her aunt and uncle whisk her far abruptly changes, however, when her away to an international school in parents issue them a challenge- Switzerland, she's not sure she's ready successfully complete a scavenger hunt to face this "opportunity" alone. that will force them to visit cultural and historical sites in New York City. The Walk Two Moons (series) prize is a trip to London for the Kaye Creech and Lee families. As Sal entertains her grandparents with her friend Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—that of a girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.

Children of the River Crew There’s a Bat in Bunk Five Having fled Cambodia four years earlier Danziger to escape the Khmer Rouge army, On her own for the first time, Marcy Sundara is torn between remaining tries to cope with the new people and faithful to her own people and enjoying situations she encounters while working life in her Oregon high school as a as a counselor. Marcy and the girls learn "regular" American. a bit about each other and there is plenty of humor to ease the angst in Whale Talk this coming-of-age story. Crutcher Sex Education Davis When Parnell turns up dead, and As a project for an unusually open class Dovey's in the room where his body is in sex education, Livvie and her discovered, she soon finds herself on boyfriend David learn to care for a trial for murder. Can the outspoken pregnant young neighbor, and as they Dovey sit still and trust a city slicker become deeply involved with her and lawyer who's still wet behind the ears to with each other, they learn about love get her out of the biggest mess of her and caring and eventually about pain life? and courage. In Lane Three, Alex Archer Night Hoops Alex In Rome (sequel) Deuker Duder While trying to prove that he is good As a member of the New Zealand enough to be on his high school's swimming team, Alex gets her first varsity basketball team, Nick must also taste of independence as she faces the deal with his parents' divorce and the challenges of competition in the 1960 erratic behavior of a troubled classmate Olympic Games in Rome. who lives across the street. Tulip Touch Say Good-Night Gracie Fine Deaver Natalie and her parents know that Morgan and Jimmy have grown up Tulip, who lives on the impoverished together and are close, loving friends. farm next door, is a compulsive liar. When Jimmy is killed in an automobile Still, they are spellbound by the odd, accident, Morgan falls apart and slowly imaginative details of her. Even though begins a desperate spiral into Tulip tries to hide the abuse she suffers depression. This wrenching first novel from her own father, her anger and combines a teenager’s emotional humiliation reverberate during the trauma with a love story in the best years she is best friends with Natalie. modern tradition. Seedfolks Tiger Rising Fleischman DiCamillo One by one, a number of people of After Rob's mother dies, he and his varying ages and backgrounds father move to a new town to get a transform a trash-filled inner-city lot fresh start where he discovers a caged into a productive and beautiful garden, tiger in the woods. and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.

AK I Am An Artichoke (series) Dickinson Frank Paul, of the mythical African nation of Fifteen-year old Sarah takes a summer Nagala, is one of a group of homeless job as companion to twelve-year-old boys trained in warfare by the National Emily. Emily's family is dysfunctional to Liberation Army. As the civil war the max, and Emily is protesting with subsides, Paul faces a life with no skills her only weapon—anorexia. Sarah must except the ones he learned for battle. test herself and her own self-image in the process of trying to help. Dovey Coe Dowell Joey Pigza Loses Control (series) Gantos look at the sights, sounds, dangers, and Joey, who is still taking medication to desires that await her. keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard- The Friends drinking father he has never known and Guy tries to help the baseball team he Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her coaches win the championship. own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's The Fat Man tyrannical behavior created the gulf Gee between her and her best friend. In this engrossing psychological thriller, a devious man, embittered by the The Music of Dolphins taunts he endured as a child, returns to Hesse his hometown to seek revenge on the After rescuing an adolescent girl from family of one of his tormentors. the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins, and they attempt to Thicker Than Water (short stories) rehabilitate her to the human world. Gordon Twelve remarkable coming-of-age Phoenix Rising stories capture both the "old," beguiling Hesse Ireland and its new energy today. Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about Stories tell of a love so strong it makes relationships and death when fifteen- the stars shine in daylight; how Catholic year-old Ezra, who was exposed to and Protestant hostilities burn away a radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear new romance; the hidden longing of a plant, comes to stay at her past summer; a waitressing job in Texas grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. that offers a glimpse of the harsh "dream" of immigrant life. Witness Hesse Mary Wolf This is the poetic tale about friendship, Grant fanaticism, and the deadly Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her undercurrents of racial prejudice in a family together as they aimlessly travel small Vermont town in the year 1924, the country after her father's business revealing the devastating impact of the fails and he starts to change. Ku Klux Klan on this pastoral, insular community.

Jazmin’s Notebook The Outsiders (series) Grimes Hinton Jazmin, a fourteen-year-old girl living in The ruthlessly realistic and violent story Harlem with her sister Ce-Ce, has found of the Greasers and the Socs, rival an outlet for her emotions: she writes gangs from very different sides of the about everything she sees, hears, and railroad tracks, is narrated by Ponyboy experiences in her daily life. Recorded Curtis, a smart, sensitive kid who has in her notebook as prose or poetry, grown to become one of the most Jazmin sits on the stoop of her recognizable figures in the history of apartment in the heart of the ghetto young adult literature. providing readers with an introspective a small village in the Dominican My Louisiana Sky Republic, she can depend on her older Holt brother to make her feel better until the Tiger Ann struggles living with a life-changing events on her thirteenth mentally disabled mother, a "slow" birthday. father, and classmates who taunt her. The sudden revelation of a dark family The Boxer secret prompts Tiger to make a decision Karr that will ultimately change her life. He is a natural-born fighter, with street smarts, determination, and an explosive When Zachary Beaver Came to Town uppercut. Although boxing is illegal in Holt 1885 New York, Johnny powers his way A humdrum Texas summer is through every obstacle, believing he has transformed when Toby and Cal found the means to raise himself and befriend a surly sideshow star, arguably his family out of poverty. "the fattest boy in the world." Holt deftly fleshes out her characters and Owl in Love expands their worldview beyond the Kindl borders of their small town. Birds of prey have run in fourteen-year- old Owl Tycho's family for hundreds of The Watcher years. Every generation or so produces Howe a shape-shifter, an apparently normal As she sits watching a seemingly human being who can change into an perfect family and a handsome owl at will. lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the T-Backs, T-Shirts, Coat, and Suit fantasy lives she has created for them. Konigsburg Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a The Color of My Words "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Joseph Chloèe and her aunt become involved in When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a a controversy surrounding the wearing twelve-year-old would-be writer living in of T-back bathing suits. able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.

A Ring of Endless Light (series) L’Engle Called upon to be dependable, stable, and wise, Vicky is exhilarated but often overwhelmed. Forces of darkness and light, tragedy and joy, hover about her, Silent to the Bone and at times she doesn't know which Konigsburg will prevail. When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen- The Contender year-old Branwell loses his power of Lipsyte speech and only his friend Connor is After a successful start in a boxing In Nueva York career, a Harlem high school dropout Mohr decides that competing in the ring isn't The author crafts stories of New York's enough in life and resolves to aim for Puerto Rican barrio. different goals. Night Flying The Art of Keeping Cool Murphy Lisle They fly at night, when the world In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot sleeps, for no one must discover their uncover long-hidden family secrets secret. Georgia will soon turn 16 and while staying in their grandparents' make her first solo flight, taking up her Rhode Island town, where they also birthright with a special ceremony to become involved with a German artist mark the occasion. But her anticipation who is suspected of being a spy. is disrupted with the arrival of her rebellious Aunt Carmen. A Summer To Die Lowry Earthshine Meg envies her sister's beauty and Nelson popularity. Her feelings don't make it Slim watches over her father, a any easier for her to cope with Molly's disarmingly charismatic man, as his strange illness and eventual death. struggle with AIDS reaches a climax. Freewill Lynch Scorpions The voice of the narrator is in the mind Myers of Will, a boy in therapeutic After reluctantly taking on the wordworking class at “Hopeless High,” leadership of the Harlem gang the who is moving in stunned bewilderment Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies through a life leeched of meaning by treat him with respect when he acquires the death of his father and stepmother a gun—until a tragedy occurs. in what may have been a suicide and murder. Jacob Have I Loved Paterson Letters From The Inside Feeling deprived all her life of Marsden schooling, friends, mother, and even When Tracey and Mandy first became her name by her twin sister, Louise pen pals, they never guess that they will finally begins to find her identity. soon discover the darkest secrets of each other's troubled lives. So Much To Tell You A Day No Pigs Would Die Marsden Peck Marina, who lives at a boarding school To a Vermont farm boy whose father in Australia, has been facially disfigured slaughters pigs for a living, maturity under circumstances that are gradually comes early as he learns "doing what's revealed. Since that terrible event, she got to be done," especially regarding his has not spoken. An English teacher pet pig who cannot produce a litter. makes diary-writing a class assignment; the diary, this novel, becomes Marina's Stop Pretending: What Happened voice. When My Big Sister Went Crazy Sones A younger sister has a difficult time wishes; in the next book, Shabanu is adjusting to life after her older sister now the victim of a blood feud and the has a mental breakdown. malice of other wives.

Baseball In April and Other Stories Shiva’s Fire Soto Staples In this unique collection of short From her childhood, Parvati is known in stories, the small events of daily life her village for the extraordinary events reveal big themes-love and friendship, that seem to spring from her dancing youth and growing up, success and feet, and which set her and her family failure. The smart, tough, vulnerable apart. One day a great guru, a master of kids in these stories are Latinos, but Indian classical dance, comes to see their dreams and desires belong to all. Parvati. He invites her to study with him, and she commits herself to a Crash rigorous program of dance, study, and Spinelli devotion. Then she meets a gentle-eyed Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan boy who turns her life upside down, has always been comfortable with his and she learns that destiny can be tough, aggressive behavior, until his elusive. relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make Tango's Baby him consider the meaning of friendship Waddell and the importance of family. Even though friends struggle to help him, seventeen-year-old Tango has little Maniac Magee hope of supporting fifteen-year-old Spinelli Crystal and their baby son. After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he Homeless Bird accomplishes athletic and other feats Whelan which awe his contemporaries. In India, it's not so strange for a girl Koly's age to be getting married—even if she is only 13. She leaves home forever full of courage and hope until she discovers there's been a terrible mistake: the husband chosen for her is too young and he's very ill.

Shabanu Belle Prater’s Boy Havelli (sequel) White Staples When Woodrow's mother suddenly When eleven-year old Shabanu, the disappears, he moves to his daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan grandparents' home in a small Virginia Desert of present-day Pakistan, is town where he befriends his cousin. pledged in marriage to an older man Together they find the strength to face whose money will bring prestige to the the terrible losses and fears in their family, she must either accept the lives. decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's Carolina Autumn Williams the truth — no matter how many people As she begins high school, Carolina it shocks or hurts. tries to come to terms with the death of her father and older sister while dealing with difficult relationships with her Humor mother and best friend and a budding romance with the boy next door. Barrel of Laughs: A Vale of Tears Feiffer From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Prince Roger is sent on a quest, the Woodson purpose of which is to turn the carefree Melanin Sun's comfortable, quiet life is young prince into a sober man and shattered when his mother reveals she worthy monarch. Roger gets everything has fallen in love with a woman. wrong—except for the meaning of life.

Last Summer With Maizon (series) No More Dead Dogs Woodson Korman Maizon and Margaret know how lucky Wallace does not understand it—why do they are; they live on the same block on dogs die at the end of every classic Madison Street in Brooklyn, and they're story? When Wallace gives his book always together. The summer they are report, he can't bring himself to lie eleven, though, Margaret's father dies. about his feelings—the book stinks! His Maizon is offered a scholarship to a teacher feels the opposite and forces boarding school, where, she's afraid, Wallace to attend and participate in the she might be the only black student. town's play based on the book.

A Piece of Heaven Unreal! Eight Surprising Stories Wyeth (series) Haley holds her life together with the Jennings help of good people after her mother This collection of weird, chilling, and suffers a nervous breakdown and her wacky stories is sure to please. brother is arrested.

Bad Girls Voigt Margalo and Mikey help each other in and out of trouble as they try to maintain a friendship while each asserts her independence. The Pigman Zindel Meet Mr. Pignati, a lonely old man with Letters From a Nut a beer belly and an awful secret. He's Nancy the Pigman, and he's got a great big The author sends patently ridiculous twinkling smile. When John and letters and queries to corporate Lorraine, two high school sophomores, honchos, entertainment conglomerates, meet Mr. Pignati, they learn his whole national publications, politicians, sad, zany story. They tell it right here in celebrities and heads of state. Letters this book — the truth, and nothing but From a Nut is an insanely inspired, truly madcap collection of correspondence, a laugh-out-loud-in-public- places aggregation of official—and officially Adventure certifiable—requests, complaints, fan mail and questions that could not Spirit of the Endurance: The True possibly have been taken seriously but, Story of the Shackleton Expedition to amazingly, were! the Antarctic Armstrong A Year Down Yonder Trapped in pack ice in January 1915, A Long Way From Chicago Shackleton and his crew survived for Peck nearly a year in the frozen polar These two books contain thoroughly wasteland, then traveled 100 miles by entertaining stories featuring Grandma open lifeboat to an uninhabited islet. Dowdel, whose un-grandmotherly ways are a constant source of surprise and The True Confessions of Charlotte often shock to her grandchildren. Doyle Avi Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal In 1832, the only female aboard a Snogging: Confessions of Georgia sailing ship bound from England to Nicolson (series) Rhode Island is drawn into danger when Rennison she joins the crew in a revolt against This British author has perfectly the captain. captured the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager in The Shakespeare Stealer this wildly funny journal. Shakespeare’s Scribe (sequel) Blackwood Holes A young orphan boy is ordered by his Sachar master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting This one-of-a-kind, darkly humorous troupe in order to steal the script of tale of crime and punishment is one "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the you will never forget. meaning of friendship and loyalty; in plague-ridden 1602 England.

After the First Death Cormier Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.

The Wanderer The Girl Who Owned the City Creech Nelson Sophie and her cousin Cody record When a plague sweeps over the earth their transatlantic crossing aboard the killing everyone except children under Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a which, along with uncles and another group to rebuild a new way of life. cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England. The Transall Saga Paulsen Tom Cringle: Battle on the High Seas While backpacking in the desert, Mark Hausman falls into a tube of blue light and is During the War of 1812, a thirteen-year- transported into a more primitive world old officer in the British navy records in where he must use his knowledge and his logbook his capture by pirates off skills to survive. the coast of Jamaica. The Swiss Family Robinson Far North Wyss Hobbs After surviving a shipwreck, a family, After the destruction of their through ingenuity and cooperation, floatplane, Gabe and his friend, build a paradise on an island populated Raymond, struggle to survive a winter by an impossibly rich array of plants in the wilderness of the Northwest and animals. Read the book and find Territories. out what that tree house in Disney World is all about Jason’s Gold Hobbs When news of the discovery of gold in Mystery Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches Jason, he embarks on a 10,000- Heaven’s Eyes mile journey to strike it rich. Almond Having escaped from their orphanage The Arm of the Starfish (series) on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float L’Engle down into another world of abandoned When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine warehouses and factories. There they biology student, makes the meet a strange old man and an even acquaintance of blond and beautiful stranger girl with webbed fingers and Kali Cutter at Kennedy International little memory of her past. Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned Melusine scientist Dr. O'Keefe, he has no idea Banks that this seemingly chance meeting will A teenaged boy becomes embroiled in set into motion a chain of events he will the mysterious life of a farm girl while be unable to stop. on vacation in the south of France.

And Then There Were None McGregor Christie While Lansa visit his father who is the Ten strangers are gathered together on tribal police chief on the Hopi an isolated island by a mysterious host. reservation in northern Arizona, he They share the darkest secrets of their learns about sacred Hopi traditions pasts, and then, one by one, they die. while helping to investigate several murders. The Face On the Milk Carton (series) Cooney Ruby in the Smoke (series) A photograph of a missing girl on a Pullman milk carton leads Janie on a search for In nineteenth-century London, Sally, a her real identity. recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. Gallows Hill Duncan The Westing Game When Sarah works in the fortune-telling Raskin booth at a school carnival, she finds The mysterious death of an eccentric that sometimes she can really see the millionaire brings together an unlikely future in the crystal ball, a talent that assortment of heirs who must uncover disturbs some of the other students the circumstances of his death before and makes them suspect her of being a they can claim their inheritance. witch. The Kidnapping of Suzie Q Summer of Fear Waddell Duncan Kidnapped by amateur thieves and Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, taken to a remote shed, Suzie Quinn insidious occurrences begin that makes a brave effort to escape. convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected. Biography &

Stranger With My Face Autobiography Duncan Have you ever been haunted by the The Education of Little Tree feeling that someone is spying on you, Carter lurking around your house and yard, This super-seller memoir of a Cherokee even entering your bedroom? Are your boyhood in the 1930s is a sensitive and friends plotting against you when they evocative autobiographical account of say they've seen you do things you the Cherokee way as seen through the know you haven't done? What's going eyes of a young boy in Appalachia. on—and does Laurie really want to find out? Boy

Dahl The House of Dies Drear Can this book explain all of those Mystery of Drear House (sequel) terrible grown-ups in Roald Dahl’s Hamilton fiction? A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Prophecy Rock (series) The Longitude Prize The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Dash Myers Longitude was a mystery, and many Presented is the amazing story of disoriented ships sank until, in the 18th Muhammad Ali's childhood, his rise as century, an English clockmaker a champion, his politics, and his battles developed a series of instruments to against Parkinson's disease. Packed with establish a ship's east-west position. dramatic black-and-white photos, this critically acclaimed biography is the When I Was Your Age: Original Stories perfect choice. About Growing Up Ehrlich Ties That Bind Ties That Break Ten award-winning authors create a Namioka bond of intimacy and excitement as Ailin's life takes a different turn when they reach across their own childhoods she defies the traditions of upper class to those of their readers. Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound. The Diary of a Young Girl Frank Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the Dorothea Lange horrors of Nazi occupation, hide in the Partridge back of an Amsterdam warehouse for A biography of Dorothea Lange whose two years. photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural Cheaper by the Dozen poverty helped bring about important Gilbreth social reforms. This heartwarming and hilarious family story finds thousands of new fans every My Life In Dog Years year. Paulsen The author describes some of the dogs Red Scarf Girl that have had special places in his life, Jiang including his first dog, Snowball, in the When China's Communist Party detains Phillippines; Dirk, who protected him Ji-li's father, the 12-year-old is faced from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his with the most difficult choice of her life. life: she can denounce her father and break with her family, or she can refuse The Environmental Movement: From to testify and sacrifice her future in her Its Roots to the Challenges of a New beloved Communist Party. Century Pringle Double Luck This work chronicles the history, key Lu players, and future challenges of the The author tells the story of his environmental movement. struggles after being orphaned at the age of three and how he holds on to his Knots In My Yo-Yo String: The dream of coming to the United States as Autobiography of a Kid he passes from one relative to another Spinelli and is even sold to a Communist This Italian-American Newbery Medalist couple. presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania. With Every Drop of Blood Historical Fiction Collier Johnny is a Rebel boy whose father died The $66 Summer for the South, who is captured by a Armistead runaway slave, a Yankee soldier. The An unusual trio in 1950s Alabama boy's natural enmity grows into an roams the countryside together, but as unlikely bond as they struggle to currents of racism and bigotry come to survive the last days of the war the town's surface, one of them must together. reassess his priorities and learn a lesson about sacrifice. The Jazz Kid Collier Anna of Byzantium Playing the cornet is the first thing that Barrett Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but In the eleventh century the teenage his obsession with becoming a jazz princess Anna Comnena fights for her musician leads him into conflict with birthright, the throne to the Byzantine his parents and into the tough Empire, which she fears will be taken underworld of Chicago in the 1920s. from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy. Prairie Songs Conrad Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family and the Lewis and Clark Expedition on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the Bruchac arrival of a new doctor and his Sacajawea, and William Clark alternate beautiful, tragically frail wife. in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of Northwest. 1911(non-fiction) De Angelis The Playmaker In addition to a discussion of the details Cheaney of the fire and its aftermath, a history While working as an apprentice in a of the labor movement and women in London theater company in 1597, labor unions is carefully woven into this Richard uncovers a mystery involving narrative. the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Breadwinner Elizabeth. Ellis Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Year of Impossible Goodbyes Afghanistan, impose strict limitations Echo of the White Giraffe (sequel) on women's freedom and behavior, Choi eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise A young Korean girl survives the herself as a boy so that her family can oppressive Japanese and Russian survive after her father's arrest. occupation of North Korea during the 1940s to later escape to freedom in South Korea. Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.

Slave Dancer Stowaway Fox Hesse Jessie Bollier often plays his fife to earn A fictionalized journal relates the a few pennies down by the New Orleans experiences of a young stowaway from docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor. to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie is kidnapped and dumped aboard The Our Only May Ameila Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful Holms duty awaits him. May Amelia is too busy chasing sheep, fishing for salmon, and keeping pace Dove and Sword with her seven Finnish brothers to Garden bother wearing a dress or scrubbing This is a story of the Hundred Years' behind her ears. Unfortunately, she's War and its great heroine, Joan of Arc. being pressured to clean up her act. When Joan sets out to lead an army against the British, her friend Gabrielle A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver stays loyally by her side until the Konigsburg wrenching finish. Three contemporaries paint a rich portrait of an extraordinary woman, Stepping On the Cracks Eleanor of Acquitaine, who is front and Hahn center in a remarkable period in history In 1944, while her brother is overseas and whose accomplishments have an fighting in World War II, Margaret gets a important influence on society through new view of the school bully Gordy the ages. when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides Beyond the Burning Time to help him. Lasky When, in the winter of 1691, Out of the Dust accusations of witchcraft surface in her Hesse small New England village, Mary Chase In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old fights to save her mother from Billie Jo relates the hardships of living execution. on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Marie Antionette Depression. Lasky In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.

Pharaoh’s Daughter: A Novel of Stones in Water Ancient Egypt Napoli Lester After being taken by German soldiers In this fictionalized account of the from a local movie theater along with Biblical tale, a Hebrew infant, rescued other Italian boys including his Jewish by the daughter of the Pharaoh, passes friend, Roberto is forced to work in through a turbulent adolescence to Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian eventually become a prophet of his winter, then desperately tries to make people while his sister finds her true his way back home to Venice. self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods. The Kite Fighters Back Home Park Magorian Tradition and family loyalty come into Rusty Dickinson was sent to the United question in this book set in Seoul, States from England at the age of seven Korea, in 1473. Two brothers anticipate in 1940 to survive the war. When she the annual New Year's Kite competition, returns in 1945, she finds a country and wondering how to balance convention a family she neither understands nor and love for one's talent. likes, and vice versa. The Education of Mary Goodnight Mr. Tom Rinaldi Magorian Through the eyes of Mary Harris, A battered child learns to embrace life servant, confidante, and student of when he is adopted by an old man in Headmistress Prudence Crandall, the English countryside during the readers see Canterbury Female Second World War. Seminary change from a finishing school for daughters of wealthy white Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of families into an institution educating the Women Who Lived the Trojan War twenty "young ladies and little misses McLauren of color." The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the The Staircase Trojans are told from the points of view Rinaldi of two women, the beautiful Helen and In 1878, after her mother's death on the the prophetic Cassandra. way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent Mary, Bloody Mary school in Sante Fe, where she must deal Meyer with being the only non-Catholic Mary Tudor, who reigns briefly as student and where she plays a part in Queen of England during the mid- what some consider a miracle. sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Esperanza Rising Henry VIII. Ryan Esperanza and her mother are forced to Waiting For Anya leave their life of wealth and privilege in Morpurgo Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Jo places his life in danger when he Southern California, where they must helps protect a growing number of adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Jewish children who have sought refuge Mexican farm workers on the eve of the at a reclusive widow's farm. Great Depression.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (series) Animal Stories Taylor A black family living in Mississippi Watership Down during the Depression of the 1930’s is Adams faced with prejudice and discrimination Driven by their dream of creating a that its children do not understand. perfect society in a mysterious promised land known to them as Molly Donelly Watership Down, a band of rabbits flees Thesman the intrusion of man and the Molly, who lives next door to a destruction of their ancestral home. If Japanese-American family and whose you liked The Hobbit or Alice in cousin is a nurse in the Philippines, Wonderland, read this! experiences many changes in her life when World War II breaks out. Firebringer Clement-Davies The Ornament Tree In a Scotland beset by Norse invaders, Thesman the deer—the Herla—are fighting their When Bonnie moves to her cousin's own war. This grand fantasy, with its boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she echoes of myth, legend, and gospel, is a learns about life from the boarders and classic hero tale set in a society that is progressive women who live and work at once convincingly animal and a sharp there. reflection of our own.

The Executioner’s Daughter Born Free Williams Adamson A medieval executioner's daughter This is the acclaimed story of Elsa the discovers that she can make choices lion, her cubs and their return to the about her own future, though the wild. rewards may be equaled by the risks. All Creatures Great and Small (series) Dream Soul Herriot Yep Dr. James Herriot, a country A teen and her younger siblings itch to veterinarian of courage, warmth, and accept their neighbor's invitation to a natural storytelling ability, delightfully Christmas party; their parents, however recounts and reflects on his think they should be celebrating experiences. Chinese holidays, "not American ones." The Wildlife Detectives: How Forensic The Devil’s Arithmetic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature Yolen (non-fiction) Hannah resents the traditions of her Jackson Jewish heritage until time travel places This book describes how the wildlife her in the middle of a small Jewish detectives at the National Fish and village in Nazi-occupied Poland Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, analyze clues to catch and convict people responsible for crimes against animals.

Spider Sparrow Where the Red Fern Grows King-Smith Rawls Spider, a baby abandoned on an English A young boy living in the Ozarks farm, grows up to be mentally slower achieves his heart's desire when he than other children but manifests a becomes the owner of two redbone remarkable talent for communicating hounds and teaches them to be with animals as he comes of age during champion hunters. World War II. Blitzcat The Call of the Wild Westall London During World War II a black cat In this story, filled with the excitement journeys all across war-ravaged England of raw Alaska during the Gold Rush, in an effort to track down her beloved real men in a bigger-than-real world master. answer “the call of the wild.”

Never Cry Wolf Poetry & Plays Mowat Never Cry Wolf is one of the brilliant I, Too, Sing America narratives on the myth and magic of Clinton wild wolves and man's true place This anthology chronicles three among the creatures of nature. centuries of African American poetry.

My Friend Flicka The Miracle Worker O'Hara Gibson Through his intense devotion to the colt One of the most beautiful and heartfelt Flicka, a young boy, living on a dramas of our time, this is the inspiring Wyoming ranch, begins to learn about story of Helen Keller and her teacher, responsibility and gains a better Anne Sullivan, “the miracle worker.” understanding of his brusque father. Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sunwing (series) Sister Kate Oppel Giovanni Shade, a young Silverwing bat in search This anthology includes poems by such of his father, discovers a mysterious authors as Paul Dunbar, Langston Human building containing a vast Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn forest. Could his father be there? Before Brooks, and Amiri Baraka with long Shade and his friend Marina are on commentary and a discussion of the a perilous journey to the far southern development of African-American arts jungle, where the Vampire bat Goth known as the Harlem Renaissance. rules as king of all the cannibal bats. Cool Melons—Turn to Frogs! Summer of the Monkeys Gollub Rawls This biography is an introduction to the In the late 1800’s, an Ozark mountain work of the Japanese haiku poet Issa boy spends the summer trying to whose love for nature finds expression recapture monkeys escaped from a in the more than thirty poems included traveling circus. in this book.

Movin’: Teen Poets Take Voice One Hundred Poems From the Chinese Johnson Rexroth Teens who were gathered around The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the libraries in New York City one summer greatest in all world literature. Although were encouraged to come and join in Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty, his the creation of poetry. The result is an poems come through to us with an inspiring look into the voices of immediacy that is breathtaking. teenagers. Earth-Shattering Poems Beat Voices Rosenberg Kherdian This collection of poems captures This collection of American poetry by intense experiences and emotions by and about the beat generation includes such authors as Sappho, John Keats, such poets as Gregory Corso, Jack Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Kerouac, Diane di Prima, and Allen Olds, and J. E. Wei. Ginsberg. The Invisible Ladder I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You Rosenberg Nye This anthology features such poets as This collection of 190 modern poems Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki celebrates women and men's varying Giovanni, and Galway Kinnell by points of view on a wide variety of including photos, selections of their topics. work, and comments on their poetry.

Salting The Ocean Light-Gathering Poems Nye Rosenberg There are 100 poems in this book by This anthology offers poems that heal 100 poets who wrote their poems when and inspire. they were in grades one through 12. These poets are not famous; you have A Midsummer Night’s Dream not read their poems before. They are Shakespeare now dentists and dancers and teachers One of his most popular comedies, this and students and construction workers play brilliantly confronts the power of who wrote with fire. infatuation and romantic desire.

Poetry In Motion Peacock Classics This rich gathering emanates from the immensely popular placards displayed Little Women in the subways and buses of New York Alcott City. Meet the March sisters: the talented and tomboyish Jo, the beautiful Meg, the It’s a Woman’s World frail Beth, and the spoiled Amy, as they Phillip pass through the years between th 60 poems by 55 different 20 century girlhood and womanhood. This novel is women poets have been selected in this a lively portrait of growing up in the remarkable anthology celebrating the 19th century. power and strength of women.

Emma The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Austen Doyle Charming, willful Emma Woodehouse In this first collection of Holmes' amuses herself by planning other stories, the beloved detective uses his peoples’ lives. When her interfering uncanny skills to rescue a king from backfires, she learns a bitter lesson: blackmail, to capture an ingenious bank well-intentioned busybodies are as robber, and to save an innocent son resented as those motivated by ill will, accused of patricide. and everyone should learn to respect the individuality of others. Rebecca Du Maurier Alice In Wondereland When a new bride accompanies her Carroll seemingly devoted husband to his One of the most beloved classics in isolated home on the Cornish coast, she children's literature, Lewis Carroll's tale meets the sinister housekeeper who is follows Alice into the nonsensical world devoted to her employer’s first wife and of Wonderland where she attends the soon must face a lingering evil that tea party of the Mad Hatter and plays threatens to destroy them all from croquet in the court of the Queen of beyond the grave. Hearts. The Three Musketeers Robinson Crusoe Dumas Defoe Dramatic, stirring, and romantic, the A shipwrecked survivor is washed up story of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, on a deserted island where he lives and Aramis—and their famous code of alone until he rescues a savage. Naming "one for all and all for one"—remains an the man Friday, the two continue their unsurpassed tale of 17th century lonely existence until they leave for adventure and heroism. England. Crusoe's tale spans 28 years and is probably based on the true story Lord of the Flies of Alexander Selkirk, who lived on a Golding deserted island for five years. The classic tale of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on an Oliver Twist unpopulated island must confront not Dickens only the defects of their society but also This classic morality tale of a starving the flaws of their own natures. orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful Flowers for Algernon indictment of Victorian England's Poor Keyes Laws. Filled with dark humor and an When we first meet Charlie he is about unforgettable cast of characters, to embark on a dangerous journey from Dickens's second novel is a compelling retardation to genius. He has only a social satire that has remained popular vague understanding of what will since it was first serialized in 1837-39. happen, but he doesn't hesitate to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key—he hopes—to being valued and loved.

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings The Once and Future King Poe T.H. White Suspense, fear, and the supernatural This work is the magical epic of King provide the center for these mysterious Arthur and his shining Camelot, of tales by the master prose writer. Merlin and Owl and Guinevere, of beasts who talk and men who fly, and The Yearling of wizardry and war. Rawlings A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate Awards for of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. Children's

The Little Prince Literature Saint-Exupery An aviator whose plane is forced down announced January 27, 2003 in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates Newbery Award For the most his adventures in seeking the secret of distinguished contribution to what is important in life. American literature for children: The 2003 winner is Crispin: The A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Cross of Lead by Avi Smith (Hyperion). This is an action- This American classic is about a young filled page-turner set in 14th- girl's coming of age at the turn of the century England. “Asta’s son” is a century. 13-year-old who is suddenly orphaned and stripped of home Of Mice and Men and possessions. Accused of murder Steinbeck and wanted dead or alive, Crispin flees This tragic story describes the complex his village and falls in with a juggler, bond between two migrant laborers in Bear, who becomes his protector and Central California. teacher. Relentlessly pursued by Crispin’s enemies, the pair flees to solve Treasure Island the mystery of his identity and fight the Stevenson injustices of feudalism. While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them 2003 Newbery Honor money, the mistress of an inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them Books: to a pirate's fortune. The House of the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Scorpion by Nancy Twain Farmer (Atheneum) This is a well-loved story of a Farmer tackles the mischievous young boy and his friends provocative topics of in a Mississippi River town in the 19th cloning, the value of life, illegal century. immigration and the drug trade in a coming-of-age novel set in a desolate futuristic desert.

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia be solved; rather, they are part of the Reilly Giff (Random House) story's texture, neither more nor less 12-year-old Hollis unfolds her story of significant than the precarious joy of foster care and a search for family in investigating a new city and a foreign images from her sketchbook, which culture. reveal both her memories and her Printz Honors: Hole in My Life artistic soul. by Jack Gantos, My Heartbeat by

Garett Freymann-Wyer, The House of

the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf) Hiaasen’s wildly funny satire features the new kid, Roy, joining forces with tough Beatrice and the elusive Mullet Fingers to defeat a bully, thwart an avaricious Mildred L BatchelderAward: corporation, and save a Recognizing the most outstanding colony of burrowing owls. children's book translated into English. 2003 Winner: The A Corner of the Universe by Thief Lord by Cornelia Ann M. Martin (Scholastic) Funke Prosper and Bo With the surprising arrival of a are orphans on the run mentally disabled uncle, 12-year- who hide out in Venice, old Hattie Owen’s world is where they meet a turned upside down. mysterious character who calls himself the Surviving the Applewhites by "Thief Lord." The Thief Stephanie S. Tolan Lord has secrets of his (HarperCollins) own and soon the boys are thrust into Pierced and spike-haired Jake, circumstances that will lead them to a has been expelled from every fantastic, spellbinding conclusion. possible public school before his unwilling arrival at Wit’s End, N.C. and the homeschool run by the Coretta Scott King Award: chaotic Applewhite family. Honoring African- American authors and illustrators of outstanding Michael L. Printz Award books written or illustrated Recognizing excellence in for children and young literature written for adults. 2003 Winner: young adults. 2003 Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes Winner: Postcards from When Wesley Boone writes a poem for No Man's Land by his high school English class, some of Aidan Chambers his classmates clamor to read their Two narratives unwind, poems aloud too. Soon they're having parallels and differences between two weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, eras emerge. Along with literature, art the eighteen students are opening up and love, topics dealt with here include and taking on the risky challenge of euthanasia, adultery and bisexuality. self-revelation. Honors: The Red These issues never become problems to Rose Box by Brenda Woods Robert F. Sibert Award: Scott O’Dell Award for Recognizing excellence in non-fiction Historical Fiction: literature. 2003 Winner: 2003 Winner: Trouble Don’t Last The Life and Death of Adolf by Shelley Pearsall This Hitler by James Cross action-packed novel presents Giblin In a straightforward a quest for freedom on the and non-sensational manner, Underground Railroad that Giblin explores the forces that shaped realistically blends kindness the man as well as the social conditions and cruelty. This is a memorable that furthered his rapid rise to power. portrayal of a pair of slaves’ haphazard, He traces the arc of Hitler's life from his serendipitous and dangerous escape to childhood in Austria and his youthful freedom that proves gripping from ambition to be an artist to his final days beginning to end. in an embattled bunker under Berlin. What emerges is a portrait of a charismatic leader as well as a deeply Margaret Edwards Award disturbed man—a combination that has Recognizing lifetime contribution to proved deadly time and time again literature for young adults. throughout history. 2003 Winner: Nancy Garden author of Annie on My Sibert Honor Books: Mind. Six Days in October by Karen Blumenthal and “Now I write as close to Hole In My Life by Jack full time as possible, Gantos teach a correspondence school course in writing, visit schools to Sydney Taylor Book talk about books and Award for Older Readers: writing, and make speeches about (Sponsored by the Association of writing and about censorship. My books Jewish Libraries) 2003 Winner: have appeared on many lists of "best" Hana’s Suitcase and recommended books, and in 2001, I (second story) by was surprised and honored to receive Karen Levine the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Alternating chapters Freedom Award for my work defending successfully tell two my novel Annie On My Mind from an stories: a bleak story of a young girl's attempt to ban it from libraries in a pointless suffering and death, the other Kansas school district, and for my anti- a hopeful one from today’s children censorship efforts in general. I got who vow to prevent a repeat of history. another wonderful surprise in January Honors: One Candle by Eve Bunting, 2003 when I learned that the Young A Picture of Grandmother by Esther Adult Library Services Association of Hautzig, and Smoke and Ashes by the American Library Association had Barbara Rogasky. given me the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing books for teens!

For information about the First Amendment court case involving Annie on My Mind, please contact me directly at [email protected] Annie on My Mind 2002 Awards

Newbery Medal For the most distinguished High school senior Liza falls contribution to American literature for children: A deeply in love with Annie, Single Shard (Clarion) by Linda Sue Park whose school is as rough as Newbery Honor Books: Everything on a Waffle (Farrar) Liza's is sheltered. Not only by Polly Horvath; Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street) does Liza have to come to by Marilyn Nelson terms with her own feelings, Coretta Scott King Award for Writing: The Land but she also has to deal with the (Penguin Putnam/Phyllis Fogelman Bks.) by Mildred D. reactions of her parents and her Taylor school's administration. Annie, King Writing Honor Books: Money-Hungry considered a breakthrough book when (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun) by Sharon G. Flake; Carver: it was published in 1982, is still in A Life in Poems (Front Street) by Marilyn Nelson print. Although it was initially very well Michael L. Printz Award (for outstanding book for received, in 1993 it was burned in young adults): A Step from Heaven (Front Street) by An Kansas City and removed from school Na libraries in several districts. Finally, it Printz Honor Books: Heart to Heart: New Poems was the subject of a First Amendment Inspired by Twentieth-Century Art (Abrams), edited by Jan Greenberg; Freewill (HarperCollins) by Chris Lynch; lawsuit when a group of courageous The Ropemaker (Delacorte) by Peter Dickinson; True teens sued to have it returned to school Believer (S & S/ Atheneum) by Virginia Euwer Wolff library shelves. After a trial in 1995, a Robert F. Sibert Award (for outstanding nonfiction): federal district court judge ruled in the Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, book's favor. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; for 1845–1850 (Houghton) by Susan Campbell Bartoletti teens. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults; Sibert Honor Books: Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi ALA/YALSA Best of the Best; Booklist Best; Death Camps (HarperCollins) by Andrea Warren; Booksellers' Choice; one of ALA/YALSA 100 Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist (Delacorte) by Best Books for YAs, etc.) Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Brooklyn Bridge (S & From: S/Atheneum) by Jan Curlee http://members.aol.com/nancygarden/aboutme.html Pura Belpré Award for Writing: Esperanza Rising (Scholastic) by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Belpré Writing Honor Books: Iguanas in the Snow (Children's Book Press) by Francisco X. Alarcon; Breaking Through (Houghton) by Francisco Jimenez

Mildred L. Batchelder Award (for best books for young people in translation): How I Became an American (Cricket/Marcato) by Karin Gündisch

Batchelder Honor Book: A Book of Coupons (Viking) by Susie Morgenstern

Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers (sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries): Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind (Clarion) by Catherine Reef Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction: The Land (Penguin Putnam/Phyllis Fogelman Bks.) by Mildred Taylor