The Schwa Was Here / Neal Shusterman POETRY The London Eye mystery / Siobhan Dowd Eighth-grader Antsy befriends the Schwa, a boy who Inside Out & Back Again / Thanhha Lai Two siblings try to solve the mystery of their cousin’s feels invisible and seems unnoticed by nearly everyone. A young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, disappearance from the London Eye ferris wheel.
when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam Flipped / Wendelin Van Draanen and resettle in Alabama. Dovey Coe / Frances O’Roark Dowell In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe their A 12 year-old girl is accused of murder in her small changing feelings towards each other. Black Stars in a White Night Sky / North Carolina town in 1928.
JonArno Lawson (j 811 Law) HISTORICAL FICTION Star of Kazan / Eva Ibbotson Crispin : The Cross of Lead / Avi Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night / In 19th-century Vienna, Annika’s surprise inheritance During the Middle Ages, an English boy falsely accused Joyce Sidman causes a woman claiming to be her mother to take her of murder runs away only to encounter more danger. Poems that celebrate the night’s wonder and danger. away to a decrepit mansion in Germany.
The Watsons Go To Birmingham- 1963 / If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella / The Young Man and the Sea / Rodman Philbrick Christopher Paul Curtis Laura Whipple ( j 811 Whi) A 12 year old boy sails alone on a dangerous ocean trip A Michigan African-American family’s life is changed to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna. when they take a trip to Alabama in 1963. FUNNY STORIES
Surviving the Applewhites / Stephanie S. Tolan The Case of the Deadly Desperados / Caroline The Midwife’s Apprentice / Karen Cushman Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent to school at Lawrence In medieval England, a homeless girl is taken in by a the eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy. In 1862 Nevada Territory, twelve-year-old Pinky short-tempered midwife. Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux
Cosmic / Frank Cottrell Boyce Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale / 12-year old Liam, who looks like he's thirty, cons his dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados. Carmen Agra Deedy & Randall Wright way into being the adult chaperone on a space flight. A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an The Mysterious Benedict Society/ unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn Everything on a Waffle / Polly Horvath Trent Lee Stewart where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Primrose learns about the unpredictability of life after Four kids selected for a secret mission go undercover at Victoria makes an unexpected appearance. her parents are presumed lost at sea. the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.
One Crazy Summer / Rita Williams-Garcia I Funny: A Middle School Story / James Patterson The Crowfield Curse / Pat Walsh In 1968, 2 sisters visit California to see their mother Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up In 1347, an orphan finds a magical creature caught in a and find that instead of visits to Disneyland, they will comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his trap and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery spend their summer at a Black Panther summer camp. life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie involving Old Magic, a bitter feud, and ancient secrets.
Grimm enters a local comedy contest. Our Only May Amelia / Jennifer L. Holm Leepike Ridge / N. D. Wilson A Finnish American girl and her 7 brothers grow up Harris and Me /Gary Paulsen Eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead, is actually in Washington State in 1899. A city boy spends a memorable summer on his cousin’s trapped in a series of underground caves.
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larger-than-life grandmother. The Invention of Hugo Cabret / Brian Selznick The Vengekeep Prophecies / Brian Farrey An orphan living within the walls of a Paris train A magical tapestry prophesies doom for the town of station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his MYSTERIES & ADVENTURES Vengekeep, and to everyone's surprise twelve-year-old goddaughter. (“a novel in words and pictures.”) The Wolves of Willoughby Chase / Joan Aiken Jaxter Grimjinx and his family of con artists appear to Wicked wolves, evil governesses & 2 brave girls. be the town's saviors.
Stoneheart / Charlie Fletcher Heat / Mike Lupica When 12 year old George accidentally decapitates a A pitching prodigy is banned from playing Little League stone statue in London, he falls into another time. baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only 12 years old
and he has no parents to offer them proof. Into the Woods / Lyn Gardner Three special sisters seek refuge in the woods when they Liar & Spy / Rebecca Stead try to escape the sinister Dr. DeWilde. Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment and meets Safer, an unconventional boy who The Lost Conspiracy / Frances Hardinge wants his help spying on another resident of their building. Reading suggestions from When a lie is exposed and their island tribe turns against Mt. Lebanon Public Library them, Hathin must find a way to save her sister Arilou-- Moon over Manifest / Clare Vanderpool Grades 5 & 6 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania once considered the tribe's oracle--and herself. In 1936, 12-year-old Abilene is sent by her father to stay with www.mtlebanonlibrary.org an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and The Pinhoe Egg / Diana Wynne Jones where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Unless otherwise noted, all books may be found in A fun fantasy about a witch who is discovering her the juvenile fiction section under the author’s last name. powers. TRUE STORIES
The Notorious Benedict Arnold / Steve Sheinkin Skulduggery Pleasant / Derek Landy KIDS LIKE ME Introduces not only the traitorous actions that made Twelve-year-old Stephanie joins forces with A Crooked Kind of Perfect / Linda Urban Benedict Arnold infamous, but also his heroic involvement in Skulduggery Pleasant to save the world from the Ten-year-old Zoe finds that learning to play the organ the American Revolution. (j 92A ARNOLD) Faceless Ones. has a positive impact on her family and social life. Marooned / Robert Kraske Magyk / Angie Sage Recounts the story of a sailor marooned for 5 years on a Al Capone Does My Shirts / Gennifer Choldenko A foundling girl with a noble heritage is raised by the Pacific island in 1704. (j 92S SELKIRK Kra) A 12-year-old boy moves with his family to Alcatraz wizarding Heap family. Island where his father is a prison guard.
KIDS IN OTHER LANDS Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 Turtle in Paradise / Jennifer L. Holm Little White Duck: A Childhood in China on the Moon / Catherine Thimmesh (j 629.454 Thi) In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a A young girl describes her experiences growing up in The whole story of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing. woman who does not like children, 11-year-old Turtle is China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in The Year of Goodbyes : A True Story of Friendship, sent to stay with relatives in far away Key West, Florida. 1976. (j GRAPHIC Liu) Family and Farewells / Debbie Levy ( j 940.5318 Lev )
The Breadwinner / Deborah Ellis A collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany My Louisiana Sky / Kimberly Willis Holt Under the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, 11-year-old for a Jewish family trying to escape. The lives of a 12 year-old Louisiana girl and her loving
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