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Behind the Curtain
2006
by
Peter Abrahams
Book 2 of the Echo Falls series. Things are amiss in Echo Falls. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, eighth-grader Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car.
352 pages,
Grades 6-8
related subjects:
Detectives
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Down the Rabbit Hole
2005
by
Peter Abrahams
Like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.
375 pages,
Grades 6-8
related subjects:
Murder Mysteries, Detectives
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The Iron Ring
1997
by
Lloyd Alexander
Driven by his sense of "dharma," or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine, during which he meets talking animals, villainous and noble kings, demons, and the love of his life.
304 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Magic, Talking Animals, India
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George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War
2004
by
Thomas B. Allen, illus. by Cheryl Harness
The true story of Washington's use of espionage in gathering intelligence to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War.
192 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
18th Century, Spies
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Remember Pearl Harbor: Japanese and American Survivors Tell Their Stories
2001
by
Thomas B. Allen
*Video Booktalk*
First-person accounts from both American and Japanese survivors combines with dramatic archival images to paint a vivid portrait of what it was like to have witnessed, participated in, and lived through the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
64 pages,
Grades 4-8
related subjects:
World War II
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Fever 1793
2000
by
Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
256 pages,
Grades 6 and up
related subjects:
18th Century, Disease Epidemics
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Juicy Secrets
2006
by
Victoria Ashton
Book 3 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series.
208 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
High School, Best Friends, Popularity
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Jenny and the Cat Club
1973, 2003 reissue
by
Ester Averill
Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Trinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
160 pages,
Grades 3-4
related subjects:
Cats
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Captains of the City Streets
1972, 2005 reissue
by
Ester Averill
Two tramp cats searching for a place of their own discover the members of the Cat Club but are not easily induced to join them.
176 pages,
Grades 3-4
related subjects:
Cats
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The Hotel Cat
1969, 2005 reissue
by
Ester Averill
Relates the rise of Tom, the hotel cat, from catcher of mice in the cellar to successful upstairs cat in charge of the hotel's guest cats.
176 pages,
Grades 3-4
related subjects:
Cats
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Jenny Goes to Sea
1957, 2005 reissue
by
Ester Averill
The little black cat named Jenny, along with her brothers and their owner Captain Tinker, sails around the world on a ship called the Sea Queen.
128 pages,
Grades 3-4
related subjects:
Cats
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Never Mind: A Twin Novel
2004
by
Avi and Rachel Vail
*Video Booktalk*
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
208 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Twins, Funny, Popularity
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
1990
by
Avi
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself accused of murder.
240 pages,
Grades 5-7
related subjects:
Sea Adventures, 19th Century, Murder Mysteries
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The Calder Game
2008
by
Blue Balliett, illus. by Brett Helquist
When Calder Pillay travels with his father to England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery, including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place, and then they dissapear!
379 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries
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The Wright 3
2006
by
Blue Balliett
*Video Booktalk*
Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Together with Calder's friend Tommy the kids hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright.
318 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes
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Chasing Vermeer
2004
by
Blue Balliett
When strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, 11-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
272 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Burglaries & Heists, Museum Mysteries
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The Squad: Killer Spirit
2008
by
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Book 2 of the Squad series.
324 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
High School, Spies
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The Squad: Perfect Cover
2008
by
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Bayport High's Varsity cheer squad is actually a cover for the most highly trained secret group of underage government operatives the United States has ever assembled.
288 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
High School, Spies
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Peter and the Shadow Thieves
2006
by
Dave Barry
Prequel to Peter Pan. Sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers. On the journey across the sea to London, Peter and Tinkerbell discover the deadly part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. When Peter reaches London, he and Molly must combat Ombras' forces to protect the Starcatchers and the starstuff, and to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil.
576 pages
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Orphans, Sea Adventures, Pirates, Flying People, Monsters
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Peter and the Starcatchers
2004
by
Dave Barry
*Video Booktalk*
Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People
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The Bully Blockers Club
2004
by
Teresa Bateman, illus. by Jackie Urbanovic
Lottie Raccoon is tired of being bullied by Grant and so is everyone else, so she gathers everyone together and they form a club, The Bully Blockers Club. Now when Grant tries to bully someone, the other kids speak up. That gets an adult's attention, and Grant stops his bullying!
32 pages,
Grade 3
related subjects:
Boy Bullies
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Thwonk
1995
by
Joan Bauer
*Video Booktalk*
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
224 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
High School, Funny, Love, Mythology
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The Folk Keeper
1999
by
Franny Billingsley
Orphaned Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea.
162 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Mermaids & Selkies, Orphans
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
2005
by
Jeanne Birdsall
This summer the Penderwick sisters go on vacation to a beautiful estate called Arundel where they discover sprawling gardens, a treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and other creatures. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey, son of Arundel's owner, who is the perfect companion for their adventures.
272 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Sisters
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Nic Bishop Spiders
2007
by
Nic Bishop
Amazing images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders. Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about spiders as well as cool and quirky facts.
48 pages
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Insects & Spiders
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Tangerine
1997
by
Edward Bloor
Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see that his parents' praise of his brother, Erik, the football star, is to cover up something terribly wrong. But no one listens--until his family moves to Tangerine where weird is normal: lightning strikes at the same time every day, a sinkhole swallows the school, and Paul finds himself adopted into the toughest group around: the soccer team at his middle school.
324 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Brothers, Soccer
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Soupy Saturdays With the Pain and the Great One
2007
by
Judy Blume, illus. by James Stevenson
Alternating chapters told from the point of view of Jacob AKA "first grade pain" and his sister AKA "the great one".
107 pages,
Grades 3-4
related subjects:
Funny, Brothers, Sisters
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The Children of Green Knowe
1954
by
L. M. Boston, illus. Peter Boston
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
192 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Ghosts, Grandparents
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The Sweet Far Thing
2007
by
Libba Bray
Sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels.
448 pages,
Grades 8 and up
related subjects:
19th Century, ESP
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Rebel Angels
2005
by
Libba Bray
Sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty.
560 pages,
Grades 8 and up
related subjects:
19th Century, ESP
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
2003
by
Libba Bray
After the mysterious suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off to boarding school in England where she discovers her own unexplainable power.
416 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Mean Girls, 19th Century, ESP
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Masterpiece
2008
by
Elise Broach, illus. by Kelly Murphy
*Video Booktalk*
11-year-old James and Marvin, a beetle who lives under James' sink, form an unlikely friendship and help to solve the case of some missing artwork from the Metropolitan Museum.
304 pages
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Insects & Spiders, Museum Mysteries, Burglaries & Heists
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
2005
by
Joseph Bruchac
As a Navajo boy at American school, Ned Begay was punished for speaking Navajo, but when war broke out with Japan, the navajo language formed an unbreakbale code that saved many American lives.
240 pages,
Grades 6 and up
related subjects:
World War II, Racism
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The Big Wave
1948, 1986 reprint
by
Pearl S. Buck
The story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave that destroyed his family and village.
64 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Tsunamis
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A Curse Dark as Gold
2008
by
Elizabeth C. Bunce
A mysterious stranger who can spin straw into gold promises to make Charlotte's money problems disappear, but what does he want in return?
400 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Fairy Tales, 18th Century, Ghosts
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The Secret Garden
1911, 1998 reprint
by
Frances Hodgson Burnett
When orphaned Mary comes to live at her uncle's house, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the corridors. Outside she meets a boy who can charm animals. Then, with the help of a friendly robin, Mary discovers a secret garden which has been forgotten for years.
384 pages,
Grades 5-8
related subjects:
19th Century
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Tornado
1996
by
Betsy Byars, illus. by Doron Ben-Ami
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
64 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Dogs, Tornadoes
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Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun
2004
by
Michael Cadnum
Phaeton is the natural offspring of Apollo, god of the Sun, but no one in his village believes him. So he undertakes a long journey to find and confront his father and prove his worth.
128 pages,
Grades 5-7
related subjects:
Ancient Greece, Mythology
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
2003
by
Michael Capuzzo
*Video Booktalk*
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
144 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Sharks
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Samir and Yonatan
2002
by
Daniella Carmi
Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he makes friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and travels with him to Mars where Samir finds peace over his younger brother's death in the war.
160 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Middle East
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Summerland
2002
by
Michael Chabon
Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
500 pages,
Grades 6 and up
related subjects:
Baseball, Fairies
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Imitate the Tiger
1998
by
Jan Cheripko
A high school football player struggles with alcohol dependency and ends up at a rehab school for teenagers.
224 pages,
Grades 8 and up
related subjects:
Football, High School
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Room One: A Mystery or Two
2006
by
Andrew Clements
Ted loves to read mysteries, but when he sees a face in the window of the abandoned Anderson house, he becomes involved in a real-life mystery.
176 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Detectives, Homelessness
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Diary of a Fairy Godmother
2005
by
Esme Raji Codell
*Video Booktalk*
Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. Her family hopes she will be "the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow", but Hunky is shocked to discover that she might want to be a fairy godmother instead.
176 pages,
Grades 4-6
related subjects:
Fairies, Fairy Tales, Funny, Witches
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Half-Moon Investigations
2006
by
Eoin Colfer
Fletcher Moon is the youngest qualified private detective in the world. Things are going pretty well until he is caught up in an investigation involving the town's biggest crime family. Grievous bodily harm, arson, dangerous undercover work ensue as Fletcher is framed for several crimes he did not commit.
304 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Detectives
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Artemis Fowl
2001
by
Eoin Colfer
Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl series. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
304 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies
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Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
2002
by
Eoin Colfer
Book 2 of the Artemis Fowl series. In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
288 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Fairies, Spies
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Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
2003
by
Eoin Colfer
Book 3 of the Artemis Fowl series. Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete.
320 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies
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Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
2006
by
Eoin Colfer
Book 5 of the Artemis Fowl series.
400 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Fairies, Spies
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Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
2005
by
Eoin Colfer
Book 4 of the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She's left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put her there, including Artemis.
400 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
Cloning, Fairies, Spies
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Catching Fire
2009
by
Suzanne Collins
Sequel to The Hunger Games.
400 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Dystopia, Survival, Poverty
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The Hunger Games
2008
by
Suzanne Collins
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl who must compete in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.
384 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Dystopia, Survival, Poverty
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R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIHM
1990
by
Jane Leslie Conly
Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, and Rasco and the Rats of NIHM. When Margaret and her younger brother, Artie, get lost in the woods on a family camping trip, they are rescued by the superintelligent rats of NIMH.
240 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Mutants, Talking Animals
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Rasco and the Rats of NIHM
1986
by
Jane Leslie Conly
Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM. Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
240 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Mutants, Talking Animals
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Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth
2007
by
Caroline B. Cooney
A retelling of the Shakespeare play Macbeth.
281 pages,
Grades 8 and up
related subjects:
Murder Mysteries, Witches, 9th-13th Century
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Goddess of Yesterday
2002
by
Caroline B. Cooney
Anaxandra lives in the castle with King Menelaus and his wife Helen, until Trojan prince Paris comes and has an affair with Helen that starts the Trojan War.
264 pages,
Grades 6 and up
related subjects:
Ancient Greece, Mythology
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Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930's
2004
by
Michael L. Cooper
The 1930s in America will be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. This book documents this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash and continuing with the severe drought in the Midwest, chronicling the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California on Route 66.
96 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Great Depression, Poverty, Drought
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Armageddon Summer
1998
by
Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.
272 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Dystopia
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Children of the River
1989
by
Linda Crew
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
224 pages,
Grades 7 and up
related subjects:
Cambodia, High School, Love
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Elijah of Buxton
2007
by
Christopher Paul Curtis
In 1859, 11-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the South, uses his wits to try to bring justice to the lying preacher who stole money that was saved to buy a family's freedom.
288 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
19th Century, Funny, Slavery
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
1996
by
Karen Cushman
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
352 pages,
Grades 4-6
related subjects:
19th Century, Wild West Pioneers
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The Midwife's Apprentice
1995
by
Karen Cushman
In 14th Century England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
128 pages,
Grade 4-7
related subjects:
14th-15th Century, Homelessness
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Catherine, Called Birdy
1994
by
Karen Cushman
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
224 pages,
Grades 5-7
related subjects:
9th-13th Century
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The Witches
1983, 1998 reissue
by
Roald Dahl, illus. by Quentin Blake
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
208 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Funny, Witches
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The Lost Feather
2006
by
Mary Lou DeCaprio, illus. by Katherine Megrue-Smith
Eyes-of-a-Hawk has lost the special feather that his father gave him as a reward for his bravery, so he calls on his animal friends to help him find it.
28 pages,
Grade 3
related subjects:
Talking Animals
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Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii
2005
by
James M. Deem
On August 24, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt. Hundreds of years later, archaeological excavations began to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble.
48 pages,
Grades 4-8
related subjects:
Ancient Rome, Volcanoes
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The Last Dragon
2006
by
Silvana de Mari
Yorsh, a young elf orphan, discovers he is part of a powerful prophecy connecting the last dragon and the last elf.
361 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Dragons, Warriors
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
2003
by
Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Timothy B. Ering
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
272 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Princesses, Talking Animals
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Because of Winn Dixie
2000
by
Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
184 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
Dogs
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The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming
2005
by
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sequel to The Conch Bearer. Anand journeys back to ancient India where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil djinns.
336 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
India, Magic, Genies (or Djinn)
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The Conch Bearer
2003
by
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
In India, twelve-year-old Anand must journey to return a magical conch shell to its rightful home in the Himalayan mountains while enemies try to steal it from him.
272 pages,
Grades 3-6
related subjects:
India, Magic
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Grk and the Pelotti Gang
2007
by
Josh Doder
Book 2 of the Grk series.
208 pages,
Grades 4-6
related subjects:
Dogs, Spies
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A Dog Called Grk
2007
by
Josh Doder
Book 1 of the Grk series. A British schoolboy finds adventure when he travels to a dangerous foreign country to return a small dog to its rightful owner.
241 pages,
Grades 4-6
related subjects:
Dogs, Spies
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The London Eye Mystery
2008
by
Siobhan Dowd
*Video Booktalk*
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped offÐexcept Salim. Where could he have gone? Ted and his older sister, Kat, follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin.
336 pages,
Grades 4-8
related subjects:
Detectives
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Dovey Coe
2001
by
Frances O'Roark Dowell
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
192 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Murder Mysteries, Hearing Impaired
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Remember D-Day: the Plan, the Invasion, Survivor Stories
2004
by
Ronald J. Drez
Discusses the events and personalities involved in the momentous Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
61 pages,
Grades 4 and up
related subjects:
Survival, World War II
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The Sacrifice
2005
by
Kathleen Benner Duble
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachussetts in 1692, and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
211 pages,
Grades 5 and up
related subjects:
17th century, Sisters, Witches
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The Third Eye
1984
by
Lois Duncan
High school senior Karen is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her psychic powers to help the police locate missing children.
224 pages,
Grades 6 and up
related subjects:
ESP, Detectives
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Killing Mr. Griffin
1978
by
Lois Duncan
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?
224 pages,
Grades 6 and up
related subjects:
Murder Mysteries, High School
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Ingo
2006
by
Helen Dunmore
When the sea called to Sapphy's father, he vanished from her life. When the sea called to her brother, he started disappearing for hours on end. And now the sea is calling to Sapphy, and she feels its pull more strongly than she's ever felt anything in her life.
336 pages,
Grades 5-8
related subjects:
Mermaids & Selkies
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Half Magic
1954
by
Edward Eager
When Jane finds a magic charm that grants exactly half of any wish, her brother Mark and her sisters Katharine and Martha take turns making double wishes, leading to results that are twice as unpredictable and hilarious.
192 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Funny
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Mud City
2003
by
Deborah Ellis
Sequel to Parvana's Journey. Fourteen-year-old Shauzia dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France, but it is hard to reconcile that dream with the terrible conditions of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives.
176 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Homelessness, Middle East, Refugees
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Parvana's Journey
2002
by
Deborah Ellis
Sequel to The Breadwinner. Kabul, Afghanistan is in ruins. Parvana, separated from the rest of her family, sets out alone to find them. She meets other victims of war: an infant boy in a bombed-out village, a nine-year-old girl who thinks she has magic powers over landmines, and a boy with one leg. The strength of their bond helps them to survive the most desperate conditions.
176 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Homelessness, Middle East, Refugees
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The Breadwinner
2000
by
Deborah Ellis
11-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest in Afghanistan.
170 pages,
Grades 4-7
related subjects:
Middle East
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Miranda the Great
1967, 2005 reissue
by
Eleanor Estes, illus. by Edward Ardizzone
When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda and her daughter must find a safe place to hide from the chaos. They make their way through the burning city, collecting motherless kittens as they go.
Grades 3-4
related subjects:
Ancient Rome, Cats
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The Hundred Dresses
1944, reissue 2004
by
Eleanor Estes
Wanda Petronski is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all.
96 pages,
Grades 3-5
related subjects:
Mean Girls
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