Bibliography 2009-2010

Sorted by Call Number / Author.

810.8 GUY

Guys write for guys read. New York : Viking, 2005.

Contains a collection of short stories, drawings, poems, and memoirs from well-known writers
of "guy" fiction, written by boys, for boys. Includes pieces by Daniel Pinkwater, Neil Gaiman,
Will Hobbs, Stephen King, Gary Paulsen, among other.

940.54 NEL

Nelson, Peter. Left for dead : a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2002.
Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the Navy cover-up
and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the
record straight fifty-five years later.

B NORTH

North, Sterling, 1906-. Rascal. New York : Puffin, 1990, c1963.

The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I,
and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.

F APPELT

Appelt, Kathi, 1954-. The underneath. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
c2008.
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens
born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their
quest to be reunited and free.

F AVI

Avi, 1937-. Never mind! : a twin novel. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2005,
c2004.
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.

F AVI

Avi, 1937-. Wolf rider : a tale of terror. New York : Bradbury Press, c1986.
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteenyear-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make
everyone believe him.

F BASKIN

Baskin, Nora Raleigh. Anything but typical. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, c2009.
Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like
as he tries to make sense of his world.

F BAUER

Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Stand tall. New York : Putnams, c2002.

Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his
failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie,
a new girl at school.

F BAUER

Bauer, Joan, 1951-. Thwonk. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, c1995.
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer
suffering from unrequited love.

F BERLIN

Berlin, Eric. The puzzling world of Winston Breen. New York : Putnam, c2007.
Winston Breen loves solving puzzles; and when his sister uncovers a twenty-five-year-old
scavenger hunt--which leads to a ring worth thousands of dollars--he and his family jump at
the opportunity to solve it.

F BLOOR

Bloor, Edward, 1950-. Tangerine. New York : Scholastic, [1998], c1997.

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the
right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that
damaged his eyesight.

F BOYNE

Boyne, John, 1971-. The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable. 1st American ed. Oxford ; : David
Fickling Books, 2006.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942,
Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire
fence.

F BROACH

Broach, Elise. Masterpiece. 1st ed. New York : Holt/Christy Ottaviano Books, 2008.
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a

human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a
Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
F BROOKS

Brooks, Bruce. The moves make the man : a novel. 1st HarperTrophy ed. New York :
HarperTrophy, 1987, c1984.
An African-American boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a
precarious friendship.

F CASHORE

Cashore, Kristin. Fire. New York : Dial Books, c2009.

In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable
beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she
cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

F
CHOLDENKO

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-. Al Capone does my shirts. New York : Putnam's, c2004.
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families
were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to
life with his autistic sister.

F CLAYTON

Clayton, Emma. The roar. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2009.
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been
erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his
twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the
dangers he faces in doing so.

F CLEMENTS

Clements, Andrew, 1949-. Things not seen. New York : Philomel Books, c2002.
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his
new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.

F COHN

Cohn, Rachel. The Steps. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his
new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.

F COLE

Cole, Brock. The goats. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an
uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear
without a trace.

F COLLINS

Collins, Suzanne. Catching fire. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta
Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because
they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

F COLLINS

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger
Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted
against one another in a televised fight to the death.

F COMAN

Coman, Carolyn. What Jamie saw. 1st ed. Arden, N.C. : Front Street, 1995.
Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his
baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of
uncertainty and fear.

F CONNOR

Connor, Leslie. Waiting for normal. 1st ed. New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2008.
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated
from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small
trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.

F COONEY

Cooney, Caroline B. The terrorist. New York : Scholastic, [1999], c1997.

Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for
the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.

F COOPER

Cooper, Ilene. Sam I am. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2004.
Twelve-year-old Sam, the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, struggles to understand
religion and its role in his family's life during the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays.

F CORMIER

Cormier, Robert. The rag and bone shop : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press, c2001.
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted
twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

F COTTRELL
BOYCE

Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Framed. 1st American ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2005.
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a
more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of
Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning
to crime.

F COTTRELL
BOYCE

Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Millions. 1st American ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
The Cunningham brothers literally have money drop in their laps when a bag of cash falls from
the sky; however, the crooks who initially stole the loot are hot on the trail to retrieve it.

F CURTIS

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel. New York : Bantam
Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1997], c1995.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family
living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in
the summer of 1963.

F DICKINSON

Dickinson, Peter, 1927-. Eva. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1990,
c1988.
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of
a chimpanzee.

F DOWELL

Dowell, Frances O'Roark. Shooting the moon. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c2008.
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the
army world that she has grown up in.

F DUPRAU

DuPrau, Jeanne. The city of Ember. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2003.
In the city of Ember, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger
to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown
Regions.

F GLENN

Glenn, Mel. Who killed Mr. Chippendale? : a mystery in poems. 1st ed. New York : Lodestar,
c1996.
A murder mystery told in free verse poems, describing the reactions of students, colleagues,
and others when high school teacher Mr. Chippendale, loved by some, hated by others, is shot
as the school day begins.

F GRANT

Grant, Michael, 1954-. Gone. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2008.
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly
disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a
local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform
supernatural feats and those who do not.

F HADDIX

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the hidden. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin
Paperbacks, 2000, c1998.
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children,
Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another
"third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

F HADDIX

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the impostors. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin
Paperbacks, 2002, c2001.
In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in
hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed
name and is forced to face his fears.

F HADDIX

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
c2008.
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on
a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that
they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to
repair the fabric of time.

F HADDON

Haddon, Mark, 1962-. Boom! : (or 70,000 light years). Oxford : David Fickling, 2009.
From the moment that Jim and his best friend Charlie bug the staffroom and overhear two of
their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know there's an adventure on its
way. But what does 'spudvetch' mean, and why do Mr Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue
light when Charlie says it to him?.

F HENKES

Henkes, Kevin. Olive's ocean. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2003.
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains
perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her
feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.

F HERLONG

Herlong, Madaline. The great wide sea. New York : Viking, 2008.
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended
sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea.

F HIAASEN

Hiaasen, Carl. Scat. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2009.

Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch,
disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that
nothing is wrong.

F HOLM

Holm, Jennifer L. Middle school is worse than meatloaf : a year told through stuff. 1st ed. New York
: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Ginny makes a to do list for her seventh grade year, which includes landing a role in the school
play, trying to make friends, ignoring her horoscope, and going to see her grandpa Joe in
Florida; but she always seems to come up short in accomplishing any of it.

F HOOBLER

Hoobler, Dorothy. The ghost in the Tokaido Inn. New York : Philomel Books, c1999.
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to
be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

F HOROWITZ

Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Stormbreaker. New York : Speak, 2008, c2000.

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is
coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

F HORVATH

Horvath, Polly. Everything on a waffle. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001.
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts
her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in
the months after her parents are lost at sea.

F HOWE

Howe, James, 1946-. The misfits. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001.
Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party
for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.

F HULME

Hulme, John, 1970-. The glitch in sleep. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books :,
2007.
When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs
everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that
threatens the ability of everyone to fall asleep.

F KADOHATA

Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam. New York : Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c2007.
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.

F KELLY

Kelly, Jacqueline. The evolution of Calpurnia Tate. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her
mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world
with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.

F KEY

Key, Watt. Alabama moon. 1st Square Fish ed. New York : Square Fish, 2008, c2006.
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon Blake is removed from the Alabama forest
where he was raised and sent to a boy's home, where, for the first time, he has contact with the
outside world and learns about friendship, love, and humanity.

F KINDL

Kindl, Patrice. Goose chase. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl
endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly
who she is.

F KLASS

Klass, David. California Blue. New York : Scholastic, c1994.

When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may
necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite
sides of an environmental conflict.

F KLASS

Klass, David. You don't know me : a novel. 1st HarperTempest ed. New York : HarperTempest,
2002, c2001.

Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his
mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems
at school.
F
KONIGSBURG

Konigsburg, E. L. Silent to the bone. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
c2000.
Thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech after being wrongly accused of gravely
injuring his baby half-sister, and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the
truth about what happened.

F
KONIGSBURG

Konigsburg, E. L. The view from Saturday. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c1996.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the
attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in
the Academic Bowl competition.

F KORMAN

Korman, Gordon. No more dead dogs. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2000.
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of
the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and
begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

F KORMAN

Korman, Gordon. Schooled. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2007.
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and
breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public
school.

F LANDY

Landy, Derek. Skulduggery Pleasant. 1st American ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with
Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

F LOCKHART

Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel. New York : Hyperion,
c2008.
Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep
school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected
consequences that could change her life forever.

F LORD

Lord, Cynthia. Rules. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2006.
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal
existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.

F LOWRY

Lowry, Lois. The giver. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of
memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the
society in which he lives.

F MARTIN

Martin, Rafe, 1946-. Birdwing. New York : Scholastic, [2007], c2005.

Prince Ardwin, known as Birdwing, the youngest of six brothers turned into swans by their
stepmother, is unable to complete the transformation back into human form, so he undertakes a
journey to discover whether his feathered arm will be a curse or a blessing to him.

F MASS

Mass, Wendy, 1967-. Every soul a star : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, to watch a total eclipse
of the sun; but soon they begin to learn a great deal about themselves, each other, and the
universe.

F MASS

Mass, Wendy, 1967-. Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his
father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

F
MCCORMICK

McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. My brother's keeper. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York :
Hyperion Paperbacks, 2006, c2005.
Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone struggles to keep his family together after his father leaves;
however, hiding his older brother Jake's drug habit from their mother is getting harder and
harder.

F MCKERNAN

McKernan, Victoria. Shackleton's stowaway. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, c2005.
A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed
away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed

by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly
two-year return journey across sea and ice.
F MIKAELSEN

Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-. Touching Spirit Bear. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison,
agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice,
and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes
his life.

F MURPHY

Murphy, Pat, 1955-. The wild girls. New York : Speak, 2008, c2007.
Twelve-year-old Joan, worried that she will not have any friends when her family moves from
Connecticut to California, bonds right away with Sarah, a girl who prefers to be called Fox,
and the two spend a joyous summer playing outside, making up stories, and attending a writing
class.

F MYERS

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Monster. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his
experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to
terms with the course his life has taken.

F NA

Na, An, 1972-. A step from heaven. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2001.
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in
America.

F NIXON

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Whispers from the dead. New York : Delacorte Press, 1989.
After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to
Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in
her house.

F OAKS

Oaks, J. Adams (Jeffrey Adams). Why I fight : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, c2009.
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the
two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until
Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.

F OCONNOR

O'Connor, Barbara. How to steal a dog : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2007.
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them
virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her
overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an
elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners
are bound to offer.

F PARK

Park, Linda Sue. A single shard. New York : Clarion Books, c2001.
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters'
village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

F PAULSEN

Paulsen, Gary. Harris and me : a summer remembered. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993.
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old
city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

F PHILBRICK

Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman). The last book in the universe. New York : Scholastic Signature,
[2001], c2000.
After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz
begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

F PLUM-UCCI

Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. The body of Christopher Creed. 1st Volo ed. New York : Volo/Hyperion,
2001, c2000.
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and
questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.

F PRATCHETT

Pratchett, Terry. The Bromeliad trilogy. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2003, c1998.
Truckers -- Diggers -- Wings. After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group
of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square
called the Thing.

F PRATCHETT

Pratchett, Terry. Nation. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.

A tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an island boy, Daphne, an aristocratic English

girl, and a small group of refugees responsible for rebuilding their village and their lives.
F PRATCHETT

Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2003.
Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams up with the Wee Free Men, a
clan of six-inch-high blue toughs, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion
from Fairyland.

F RASKIN

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing game. New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2003, c1978.
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of
heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

F REEVE

Reeve, Philip. Larklight, or, The revenge of the white spiders!, or, To Saturn's rings and back! : a
rousing tale of dauntless pluck in the farthest reaches of space. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
Bloomsbury Children's Books:, 2006.
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a
floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy
the solar system.

F RIORDAN

Riordan, Rick. The lightning thief. 1st ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for
Children, c2005.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-yearold Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a
quest to prevent a war between the gods.

F RITTER

Ritter, John H., 1951-. The boy who saved baseball. New York : Philomel Books, c2003.
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom
Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante
Del Gato.

F SCH

Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday wars. New York : Clarion Books, c2007.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either
Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's
classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value
about the world he lives in.

F SCHRODER

Schrder, Monika, 1965-. The dog in the wood. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Front Street, 2009.
As World War II draws to an end, Russian soldiers occupy Schwartz, Germany, bringing both
friendship and hardship to the family of ten-year-old Fritz, whose grandfather was a Nazi
sympathizer, eventually forcing them to leave their farm, then arresting Fritz's mother and her
hired hand.

F SELZNICK

Selznick, Brian. The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures. 1st ed. New York :
Scholastic Press, 2007.
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris
train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and
his biggest secret are jeopardized.

F
SHUSTERMAN

Shusterman, Neal. The dark side of nowhere : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1997.
Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens
who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.

F SMITH

Smith, Roland, 1951-. Peak. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.

A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

F SPINELLI

Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2003.
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a
band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.

F STEAD

Stead, Rebecca. When you reach me. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2009.
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000
Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious
notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

F STEWART

Stewart, Trenton Lee. The mysterious Benedict Society. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
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requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the
only rule is that there are no rules.

F STRASSER

Strasser, Todd. Give a boy a gun. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2002, c2000.

Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of
various people involved.
F STRATTON

Stratton, Allan. Chanda's secrets. Toronto ; : Annick Press ;, c2004.

Chandra Kabelo, a sixteen-year-old in a small South African town, faces down shame and
stigma in her efforts to help friends and family members who are dying of AIDS.

F TARSHIS

Tarshis, Lauren. Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers,
c2007.
A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some
interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.

F TRUEMAN

Trueman, Terry. Stuck in neutral. 1st Harper Tempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2001, c2000.
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot
function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he
believes his father is planning to kill him.

F VAN
DRAANEN

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In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other,
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F WEAVER

Weaver, Will. Memory boy : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life
in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions
in their city.

F WHITE

White, Andrea, 1953-. Radiant girl. Houston, Tex. : Bright Sky Press, c2008.
In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, a Ukrainian girl named
Katya comes to understand the things most important about her homeland, and in combining
the mythological strength of her ancestors with a newly acquired comprehension of the
scientific truth of the event, Katya fulfills a promise she made to herself many years before.

F WHITE

White, Ruth, 1942-. Belle Prater's boy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.
When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small
Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the
terrible losses and fears in their lives.

F WOODSON

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Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which
they live.

F WOODSON

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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie,
also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his
own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq
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F ZINDEL

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fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

SC BRO

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1990.
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SC GAL

Galloway, Priscilla, 1930-. Truly grim tales. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, c1995.
The name -- Blood and bone -- A bed of peas -- The voice of love -- The good mother -- A
taste for beauty -- The woodcutter's wife -- The prince. A guilt-ridden prince with a foot fetish
seeking his glass-slippered dance partner and a beauty contest winner as Snow White's
murderous stepmother are featured in two of the original "grim" plots in this young adult
collection loosely based on eight traditional fairy tales.

SC ONT

On the fringe. New York : Dial, c2001.

Geeks bearing gifts / Ron Koertge -- Mrs. Noonan / Graham Salisbury -- Shortcut / Nancy
Werlin -- Standing on the roof naked / Francess Lantz -- Through a window / Angela Johnson
-- Muzak for Prozac / Jack Gantos -- WWJD / Will Weaver -- Satyagraha / Alden R. Carter -A letter from the fringe / Joan Bauer -- Guns for geeks / Chris Crutcher. A collection of eleven

stories by various authors that explore the experiences of social outsiders in high school.
SC RIC

Rice, David, 1964-. Crazy loco : stories. New York : Dial Books, c2001.
A collection of nine stories about Mexican American kids growing up in the Rio Grande
Valley of southern Texas.

SC SLE

Sleator, William. Oddballs : stories. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1993.
A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an
unusual assortment of family and friends.

SC STI

Stine, R. L. Nightmare hour. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999.

Pumpkinhead -- Alien candy -- Most evil sorcerer -- Nightmare inn -- I'm not Martin -- Black
mask -- Afraid of clowns -- Dead body -- Make me a witch -- Ghostly stare. Presents ten
illustrated horror stories, with comments by author R.L. Stine on where he got the idea for
each scary tale.

TC 028.55 LES

Lesesne, Teri S. Making the match : the right book for the right reader at the right time, grades 412. Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers, c2003.
Explains how teachers and librarians can steer students to the literature they love by focusing
on three key areas: knowing the readers, knowing the books, and knowing the strategies to
motivate students to read.
Hunter, Erin. Warriors. 1st Avon ed. New York : Avon, 2004-2006.
Into the wild -- Fire and ice -- Forest of secrets -- Rising storm -- A dangerous path -- The
darkest hour. A collection of six books featuring the adventures of four clans of wild cats that
roam a forest governed by rules set down by their feline warrior ancestors and begin to fulfill a
string of prophecies that will change their lives forever.

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