Grade 8

Sequel to The Hunger Games coming in September 2009!!!!
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Dystopia, Survival, Poverty

Nick and Marta get involved in an environmental who-dunnit when their Biology teacher goes missing in the Black Vine Swamp.
384 pages Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Endangered Animals, Detectives, High School

This edition has been specially adapted for younger readers to tell the remarkable true story of an American man who pledges to build a school for children in Pakistan.
205 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Middle East

Book 5 of The 39 Clues.
176 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 4 of The 39 Clues.
192 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 3 of The 39 Clues. Amy and Dan follow the trail of clues to Tokyo.
160 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Book 2 of The 39 Clues. Amy and Dan travel to Vienna to find Mozart's diary in search of the next clue.
160 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

Amy and Dan Cahill just found out that they are members of the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but Amy and Dan have to compete against every other Cahill to assemble them.
220 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Secret Codes

On a visit to Florence, 13-year-old Elisabetta catches the eye of the great Leonardo da Vinci, and falls for a boy named Giuliano de Medici, but it is a dangerous time for the Medici's. As tragedy and chaos threaten their happiness, "Monna Lisa" faces the bittersweet truth of love.
272 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  14th-15th Century, Love

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. When she first meets Prince Po, another Graceling, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change as they discover a terrible secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms.
480 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Warriors, Love

Book 2 of the Squad series.
324 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Spies

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

In this retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Prince Sigismund dreams of an enchanted castle that has been alseep for almost 200 years, and learns that he is destined to awaken the sleeping princess.
309 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Witches

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

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

When a polar bear promises that her family will become rich if the Lass accompanies him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the bear is not what he seems, nor is his castle, which is made of ice and inhabited by a silent staff of servants. The bear is really a prince who's been enchanted by a troll queen.
336 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Trolls, Fairy Tales

Katie and Michaela are sisters and best friends, but their relationship changes when they move from the city to a small town in upstate New York.
384 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Popularity, Sisters

13-year-old Cap has been homeschooled his whole life, but now he is going to public middle school for the first time. He is not prepared for the kids there, and they are not prepared for him!
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Popularity

This wordless graphic novel powerfully captures the immigrant experience.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Refugees

Book 8 of the Pendragon series. The leaders of Ibara are keeping a devastating secret from their people, one that gives Saint Dane all the opportunity he needs to launch his final assault on Halla.
560 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 3 in the Twilight series. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger.
Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Love, Vampires

In Gandhi-era India, 12-year-old Leela's life changes dramatically when she becomes a widow and must renounce the happy life she knew, and prepare for a life of mourning a husband she barely knew.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  India

When eighth-grader San Lee moves to a new town and a new school, he doesn't try to make new friends or be cool. Instead he devises a plan to be totally different.
272 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Popularity

Elaine, the Lady of Shalott tells her version of the King Arthur legend.
394 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  King Arthur

Thirteen-year-old Azad, a Kurdish boy living in Iran, tries desperately to cling to the life he has known, but the political situation in Iran during the war with Iraq, and Saddam Hussein's persecution of the Kurds forces his family to flee.
152 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Refugees, Middle East

A retelling of the Shakespeare play Macbeth, told from the perspective of a teenaged girl living in Macbeth's castle when the King is murdered.
281 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Witches, 9th-13th Century

The lives of two girls, one a slave and the other her beautiful master, change forever when Mt. Vesuvius erupts.
160 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

15-year-old J.J. disappears into the fairy world to plug a time leak caused 150 years ago when his great-grandfather disappeared.
448 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ireland, Fairies, Parallel Universe

Sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels.
448 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, ESP

Book 2 of the Chronus Chronicles. Sequel to The Shadow Thieves.
448 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology

When an asteroid knocks the moon closer to the earth, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic ash which blocks out the sun, Miranda and her family must subsist on stockpiled food and limited water with no heat or electricity.
360 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Dystopia, Survival, Famine

Meet the amazing Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
80 pages Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Endangered Animals

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

11-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper, a clock that controls time, and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use it for their own evil ends.
415 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Evil Scientists, Parallel Universe, Time Travel

Sequel to Twilight. Edward is afraid that his vampire lust for blood is putting his human girlfriend in danger.
576 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Love, Vampires

The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.
358 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century

Book 1 of the Chronus Chronicles. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her cousin Zee must set out to save humankind from denizens of the Underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
424 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology, Zombies, Evil Scientists

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old Hattie travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself, and describes her difficult new life in letters to her old friend fighting the war in Europe.
289 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  World War I, Wild West Pioneers

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

Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting The Last Supper while also trying to discover who his real parents are in fifteenth-century Milan, Italy.
390 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  14th-15th Century

Fourteen-year-old Clara is invited to Mexico to meet her grandparents for the first time. When she gets there, she's stunned by their life: they live in a simple shack in a small mountain village, very different from suburban Maryland.
272 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mexico, Grandparents

Book 7 of the Pendragon series. Bobby must save the people of Quillan from being pawns in a cruel game.
496 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 6 of the Pendragon series. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu on Zadaa where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane's efforts to destroy Zadaa.
416 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 1 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. While trying to find their missing parents, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 6 of the Alex Rider series. Shot outside the offices of MI6 and left for dead by Scorpia, Alex Rider awakens in a top-secret hospital, glad simply to be alive. But when the boy in the next room is the victim of a kidnapping attempt, it is Alex who saves him, only to be kidnapped himself.
362 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Book 5 of the Artemis Fowl series.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Spies

In ancient Persia, Mitra and her little brother, Babak, scratch out a living by begging and stealing food, but Mitra knows they are exiled royals if they could only rejoin the rest of their family. Then they discover that Babak has a strange power, he can dream other people's dreams. They use this gift to gain money until they attract the attention of the wrong person.
304 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Homelessness, Middle East

A retelling of the Snow White story.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Fairy Tales, Love, Singing

Book 3 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

Book 2 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series. Two teen nannies in New York City learn the dangers of losing old boyfriends and gaining new ones in the glamorous but deceptive world of the rich and powerful.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

In a government class, three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.
176 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  High School, Mean girls, Popularity

Liesel is a foster girl living outside of Munich during World War II. With the help of her foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
560 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, World War II

Three teens and a curator of unclassifiable artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, Museum Mysteries, Zombies, Evil Scientists

Michael Arroyo has a dream of pitching in the Little League World Series, and an arm that throws serious heat. But, orphaned after his family fled from Cuba, Michael has no one to watch out for him except his older brother, who is only 17, and if Social Services hears of the boys' situation, they will be separated in the foster care system-or even worse, sent back to Cuba.
220 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Baseball

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

Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced between desire and danger.
512 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Love, Vampires

On August 24, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt. Within twenty-four hours, the entire city of Pompeii had been utterly annihilated. It was not until hundreds of years later that archaeological excavations began to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble.
48 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

When his father lands in debtors' prison, Tom, 14, tries to survive on the rough streets of early-nineteenth-century London.
208 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  19th Century, Boy Bullies

Sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty.
560 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  19th Century, ESP

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

When Paul Faustino of LA NACION goes to interview El Gato, the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup, the reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordinary story. Instead, the legendary El Gato ("The Cat") tells a tale of the South American rain forest, where a ghostly mentor, the Keeper, teaches him the secrets of the game.
240 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Soccer

As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.
246 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Popularity, Mean Girls

Nell is a wild child: friend of fairies and piskies...and, some say, a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
263 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Fairies, Mean girls, Witches

Book 18 of the Redwall series. The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity until the day their savior will arrive—the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lead them in battle and a return to glory.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

High school senior, Laura Sweeney has never had a date. She needs a proven "get the guy" strategy. Luckily she knows exactly the expert to call. He's a matchmaking mastermind who actually has the bow and arrow to prove it. Let's just call him...Cupid.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Funny, Love, Mythology

While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
250 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Love, Singing

Hermes, Prince of Thieves and son of Zeus, relates why the seasons change, the history of the Trojan War, his friendship with Pegasus, and many more adventures.
229 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and then disappeared. Shortly thereafter, her family moved away from their seaside home and Gwen never saw the boy again. Now seventeen, Gwen is returning to her childhood home. Perhaps the memory of the boy and his haunting words are drawing her back to the place they met. Perhaps it's time for her to face her destiny.
288 pages , Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies, Love

During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Afghanaistan, and Nustrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Pakistan.
288 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Middle East, Refugees

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thriteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into returning to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
208 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  East Africa, Orphans

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

Book 5 of the Alex Rider series. When Alex learns that his father may have been an assassin for the most lethal and powerful terrorist organization in the world, Scorpia, his world shatters. Now Scorpia wants Alex on their side, and Alex no longer has the strength to fight them.
312 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow stows away on board Shakleton's ship bound to explore the Antarctic continent. Within months, the ship, trapped and crushed by ice, sank with no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own.
336 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

Steven has won a coveted press pass for the Final Four. But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. Steven and his fellow winner, Susan, overhear a threat to throw the championship game. Now they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU’s star players . . . and why.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, Detectives

Sofia's tales of growing up in Texas, full of family traditions: Easter cascarones, her best friend's quinceanera, the Christmas nacimiento, and eating the tequila worm. When Sofia receives a scholarship to boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family for a strange world of rich kids.
199 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Mexico

Book 1 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and the rest of her "family", all 98% human and 2% bird as a result of a genetic experiment, must rescue the youngest member, Angel, who has been abducted by a group of mutant wolf-men.
480 pages Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor, which has made the local beach into toilet. He canÕt prove it though, so he decides to sink the boat. But the boat is pumped out and back in business within days and NoahÕs dad is stuck in jail. Now Noah is determined to prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally.
272 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fathers, Pollution

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

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

Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s, and the despair felt when one sister becomes terminally ill.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Sisters

Twelve-year-old Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by two kind servants in a professor's house. They took her in and loved her. Then one day a glamorous stranger arrives, claiming to be Annika's mother. Annika is no servant, she learns, but an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at crumbling Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family.
416 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Foundlings, 19th Century

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

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

Book 4 of the Alex Rider series. Alex investigates pop star Damian Cray whose new video game hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
256 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Book 5 of the Pendragon series. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. But if Bobby chooses to save Eelong he could endanger himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla.
448 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

The true story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose arm was bitten off by a shark while she was surfing in Hawaii.
213 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Sharks

In a society where boys are more valuable than girls, and parents are only allowed to have two children, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju decides to run away from home in order to prevent her parents from selling her baby sister. Now she has to find a way to support herself alone.
240 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home in Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright, a girl from a from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers want to change to a tourist spot.
224 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Best Friends, Racism

British teen, Jess, has a hopeless crush on Prince William look-alike, Ben Jones, but she thinks he likes her perfect and beautiful best friend, Flora.
240 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Funny

This book documents the true story of Long, a Vietnam War orphan, his struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family.
128 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Vietnam, Refugees

A California teenager in India spends the summer in India and learns about love, friendship, and herself.
224 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  India

Jack and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivan the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a quest to Jotenheim, the home of the Trolls.
480 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Dragons, Trolls

Book 17 of the Redwall series. Rakkety Tam, the roguish Highlander squirrel, sets off for Mossflower Wood and must defend Redwall Abbey against Gulo the Savage: a vicious beast-eating wolverine who descends upon the Abbey in search of a relic called the Walking Stone.
384 pages , Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

In 17th century England, Susanna, a young Quaker servant girl, falls in love with seventeen-year-old Will, an apprentice from a wealthy family. With Quakers being persecuted and imprisoned, can their bond survive, no matter what?
304 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Love

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

The Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing without a care, but their world is about to be destroyed, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. Springs are failing for the first time in generations, and by the time Marcus discovers why, it is too late.
368 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

1793, Philadelphia. The largest city in North America is devastated by an incurable disease, cause unknown. This true story describes the illness and the toll it took on the city's residents.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Disease Epidemics

Book 1 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, but when a hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates him, Nathaniel decides to show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all: summoning the all-powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things!
464 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Genies (or Djinn), Magic

Rose has always felt out of place in her family, a wanderer in a bunch of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away with him--in exchange for health and prosperity for her family--she agrees. The bear takes Rose to an enchanted castle, where each night she is confronted with a mystery. A retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon."
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love, Witches

Book 16 of the Redwall series. Martha Braebuck, a young hare-maid, wheelchair bound since infancy, wonders about an old poem relating to the ancient abbey of Loamhedge--and whether it may hold the key to her cure.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and claim the crown that is rightfully hers.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Mean Girls

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

Book 4 of the Pendragon series. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox -- because it's deserted. The inhabitants have discovered a way to enter their own personal dream worlds, where they can be whoever they want, wherever they want.
384 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 3 of the Pendragon series. Bobby finds himself thrust beyond the boundaries of time and space into a place that seems somewhat familiar: First Earth. Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral, Spader, have flumed to New York City, 1937. Against a backdrop of gangsters, swing music, and the distant sound of a brewing war, the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plot.
352 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 2 of the Pendragon series. Can Bobby -- suburban basketball star and all-around nice guy -- help rid the area of marauders, and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival?
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

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

Book 3 of the Alex Rider series. Teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
240 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

It is two hundred thousand years ago. A group of children are cut off from their Kin when they are driven from their Good Place by violent strangers. While searching for a new Good Place, they face the desert, a volcano, a canyon flood, man-eating lions, and other Kin they have never seen before.
640 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Prehistoric Times, Survival, Volcanoes

It doesn't take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don't like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. These kids are vampires! As Cody struggles to fit in, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious and some funny consequences.
240 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Funny, High School, Vampires

Sequel to Hatchet. Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
112 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Sequel to Hatchet. After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, sixteen-year-old Brian finds that he can't seem to fit into "civilization" but must return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live on her family's plantation in Jamaica. Disgusted by the treatment of the slaves and her brother's willingness to marry her off, she and one of the slaves, Minerva, run away and join a band of pirates.
340 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 2 of the Alex Rider series. Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
215 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Spies

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

Book 1 of the Pendragon series. Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and a new girlfriend. But before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.
372 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Best Friends, Parallel Universe, Warriors

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
304 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Owls

These new and collected poems of Naomi Shihab Nye describe the Middle East, Jerusalem, the West Bank, family, and being Arab-American.
160 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Middle East

With national pride and also fear, a brother and sister face the oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Japan, Korea, World War II

Book 15 of the Redwall series. Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurdah, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.
192 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Atalanta, Andromeda, and Psyche, three female characters in Greek mythology, tell the stories of their marriages.
200 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half-brother, the Minotaur, at the hands of the Athenian prince, Theseus, who is aided by Icarus, Daedalus, and her sister Ariadne.
194 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

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

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

Sequel to Witch Child. Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a 17th century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
352 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.
275 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  16th Century

Book 3 of the High Seas Trilogy. Sixteen-year-old John sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, storms, fever, and a strange man who may be cursed.
256 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Free-verse poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
272 pages, Grades 4-8
related subjects:  Racism

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

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
261 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

Book 14 of the Redwall series. A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own.
448 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a a deadly evil rat king.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
Cats, Fairy Tales, Talking Animals

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

Book 1 of the Alex Rider series. Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
2224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

A thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" falls in love for the first time, and discovers old family secrets from World War II.
224 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  World War II, Love, Grandparents

In 1968, 11-year-old Jaynell's life in Texas is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family.
176 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Grandparents, Poverty

Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.
352 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Love, Mythology, Sisters

When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
192 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Sewing, India

In India, a young girl is outcast from her village because of the incredible power she has when she dances.
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Dancing, India

The infant princess Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) is cursed an evil fairy, Pernicia, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Book 13 of the Redwall series. The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 12 of the Redwall series. When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Presents the story of Odysseus's epic journey through the eyes of his faithful wife Penelope, the sorceress Circe, the goddess Athena, and his old nanny Eurycleia.
160 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

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

Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.
48 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  South America

Book 2 of the High Seas Trilogy. In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
208 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper-class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.
160 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  China

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
144 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Survival, World War II

Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.
245 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Baseball

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

Book 1 of the High Seas Trilogy. Shipwrecked after a storm, fourteen-year-old John attempts to save his father and himself from the murderous community who lure storm-tossed ships to crash on rocks of their shore so they can steal their loot.
224 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.
176 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Baseball, Fathers

Book 11 of the Redwall series. When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 10 of the Redwall series. Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde.
336 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.
210 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Love, Mermaids & Selkies, Mythology

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

Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
128 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Civil War

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

A retelling of "Beauty and the Beast".
320 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

Book 9 of the Redwall series. Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at the same time the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for himself.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, the year which would prove to be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. This is his definitive account of that day when five of his team were killed, and the sixth was so horribly frostbitten that his right hand had to be amputated.
320 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Survival

After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, Survival, World War II

When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
272 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Middle East

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

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
240 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Great Depression, Drought

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
399 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Evil Scientists, Parallel Universe, Talking Animals

Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the nobleman who pursues her, and delves into the psychological motivations of each of the characters.
227 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love, Mothers, Witches

Book 8 of the Redwall series. The destinies of the badger lord Sunflash, and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen and the prophetic Cassandra.
208 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. 272 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, High School

A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.
119 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

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

Book 7 of the Redwall series. Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru.
416 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
64 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons, World War II

A true account of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871.
144 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fires, 19th Century

In 1299 in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain.
310 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  9th-13th Century

Sequel to Mountain Light. When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.
352 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers, Racism

Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but soon discover that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Loch Ness Monster, Monsters

Book 6 of the Redwall series. Captured and enslaved by the corsair stoat Badrang, young mouse warrior Martin vows to end the evil beast's plundering and killing.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.
151 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Book 5 of the Redwall series. Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Teenage girl by day, and owl by night, Owl Tycho's life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.
208 pages Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Owls

In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
320 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Detectives, Future, Mutants, Zimbabwe

Sequel to Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.
336 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Middle East

After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Mothers, Witches

Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
128 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Civil War

A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion.
224 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Earthquakes

Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
144 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Vietnam, Refugees

Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Refugees, Middle East

Book 4 of the Redwall series. The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Sequel to Hatchet. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
144 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Book 3 of the Redwall series. Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders.
448 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

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

Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel.
192 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ethiopia, Middle East, Refugees

Book 2 of the Redwall series. Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 1 of the Redwall series. When the peaceful life of Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

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

A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
192 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, High School

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

Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love, releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
256 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

Bill Bradley was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.
144 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Basketball

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
256 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. Told through the memories of survivors, this book tells what happened on that day.
160 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons, World War II

The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
272 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

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