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

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie try to find a missing valentine and track down the winning ticket for the biggest, chocolatiest, most gut-busting dessert ever, the Malted Falcon.
132 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

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

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 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

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

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

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

Book 2 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and her flock fly south on a quest to find their parents, after having rescued Angel and recovered secret documents about their origins. But just when they've finally escaped the claws of evil Erasers, they're discovered by an FBI agent and forced to face an even worse nightmare: going to school.
480 pages Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a 10-year-old with a knack for getting into trouble, has problems including hiding his pet snake from his mom, and coming up with an invention for the school science contest.
210 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny

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

Jackie Mitchell loved baseball. And before long she could outplay anyone in her neighborhood -- even the boys. But no seventeen-year-old girl could pitch against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then on April 2, 1931, the New York Yankees stopped in Tennessee for an exhibition game. And on that day, Jackie Mitchell made baseball history.
32 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Baseball

A tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, Survival, World War II, Homelessness

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

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Molly learns that her father is a basketball star for the Boston Celtics.
246 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Fathers, Basketball

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

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)

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

Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
256 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Fairies

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

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

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

Right in the middle of a run-of-the-mill case, the powers that be finger Chet's fine-feathered partner, Natalie Attired, as a no-goodnik blackmailer and boot her out of Emerson Hicky quicker than you can say, "Boot her out of Emerson Hicky."
136 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Ken spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds. Then one day, Ken's life is filled with new purpose when he finds Flicka, a magnificent filly as wild as she is fast.
304 pages Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Horses

When the principal of his school begins acting nice to him, Chet Gecko realizes that he is an imposter and so sets out to find the real one.
120 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

On San Francisco Bay in 1866, when a mysterious shipwreck survivor - a young, feverish boy who claims to be a pirate - washes into their cove, secrets that have been tranquilly hidden across generations are suddenly threatened.
207 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Pirates, 19th Century

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

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

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

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

Dylan's Scout troop goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes

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

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

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  19th Century, Famine, Ireland

Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
144 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, World War II

The adventures of Odysseus, including his encounters with the evil Cyclops, the monsters Scylla and Charybdis, the beautiful sorceress Circe, and the vengeful god of the sea, Poseidon.
128 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Oggie Cooder has an unusual talent: charving. (Charving is carving a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) When he is chosen to be in a nationally televised talent contest, suddenly he's the star of the school, but he's not sure that he wants to shine that way.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Popularity

Twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts , Murder Mysteries

A young man leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father the king.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny, Love, Princesses

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

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

The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee. When Owen was stranded after the 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazement, the motherless hippo and the elderly tortoise adopted each other. Now they are inseparable, swimming, eating, and playing together.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Best Friends, Tsunamis

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

Violet's paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V, and Violet is certain the disturbing letter is intended for her.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Earthquakes, Ghosts, Sisters

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

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

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

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 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 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

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 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

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 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 Percy Jackson series. Twelve-year-old Perseus 'Percy' Jackson, whose mother is mortal and whose father is Poseidon the God of the Sea, lives in the 21st century where the Greek gods are still very much around.
384 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology, Monsters

Book 2 of the Percy Jackson series. After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 3 of the Percy Jackson series.
320 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

The wars between Iraq and the US are explained through a history of the region along with descriptions of the conflict, weapons, soldiers, key leaders, major events,a nd challenges in establishing peace.
96 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

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

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

Book 1 of the Wave Walkers series. Jolly and Munk, two "polliwogs" who have the ability to walk on water, running for their lives from an evil sea creature, end up on a mysterious pirate ship run by a crew of ghosts.
336 pages Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates, Ghosts

Book 2 of the Wave Walkers series.
240 pages Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates

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

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

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

This book shows the destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, the rediscovery of the ruins nearly 1,700 years later, and what daily life was like in this prosperous Roman town in the year 79 A.D. before the explosion.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Rome, Volcanoes

Oliver is miserable in his new home in the sticks, until he finds a magical amulet that allows him to talk to animals and transform into animals.
284 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Talking Animals

Someone is sending school council candidates ominous threats, and a certain not-so-smooth-talking fox is hitting the hallways to drum up fanatic support for his flashy campaign. This presidential race is getting fishy. Could it be that someone is trying to rig the election?
128 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Detectives, Funny

Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Funny, Talking Animals

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

Three stories in one volume: The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, and Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Three stories in one volume: Cinderellis and the Glass Slipper, For Biddle's Sake, and The Fairy's Return.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

While working on a project, Julia, a Korean-American, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, and patience.
240 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Racism

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

When Tracy, her brother, and the new animal care volunteer at the Jefferson Science Center travel by boat to feed a dog stranded by flooding, their dangerous adventures give them new perspectives on themselves and on each other.
128 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Floods

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

Cassie and her brothers do not understand the racism and discrimination they face as a black family living in Mississippi in the 1930s.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Great Depression, Poverty, Racism

Book 1 of the Roman Mysteries series. In Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog -- and why.
160 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ancient Rome

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

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

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

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
80 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Japan, Nuclear Weapons

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

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

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

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
64 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mothers, Wild West Pioneers

Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series.
192 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball, Racism

A scarecrow is truck by lightning and comes to life. He hires a young orphan, Jack, to be his servant, and Scarecrow plunges them into terrifying dangers: battles, brigands, broken hearts, and treasure islands.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny

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

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

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

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

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

Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins a wizard, a fey, and an ogre on a quest from their magical kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

Book 1 of the Seems series. 12-year-old Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems, a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running and sticks to The Plan that's been made for it. But a Glitch in the Sleep Department could ruin everything if Becker can't Fix it.
288 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Funny

Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
112 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Korea, 17th Century

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

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

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

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

Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day, only because he wants to hear more stories. But after one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. Thirteen-year-old Marjan must undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, and learn new stories for Shahrazade.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East

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

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

Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Detectives

Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus star, and several Orphans.
289 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Korea, Pottery, Homelessness

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

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

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

Sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall. When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
87 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mothers, Wild West Pioneers, Drought

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

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

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

In the winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter's tiny Norwegian village and held it and its treasure captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated, but Peter and the other children risked their lives and outwitted the Nazis, sending all the town's gold to America.
156 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  World War II

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

Book 2 of the Solomon Snow series.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Foundlings, Funny, 19th Century

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

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

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

After moving to New Jersey following his parents divorce, Jimmy tries out for the 7th grade baseball team, and has to prove himself as a pitcher in a new town.
105 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Baseball

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

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

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

Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

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

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, Mothers, 19th Century

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

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

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

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

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

After a mean collector cons him out of a valuable baseball card, Griffin must put together a band of misfits to recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way, a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his.
256 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Burglaries & Heists