Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

Chronicles the fortunes of four sisters as they grow into young ladies in 19^th-century New England.

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.

Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby’s father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.

When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who raised her move from Brooklyn to Wisconsin to work in a diner and become involved in a political campaign against a corrupt mayor.

In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.

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 recalls the incident that damaged his eyesight.

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.

On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot tracks down a

murderer among the passengers, with a voice in the night as his only clue.

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.

Three teenagers’ lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign.

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.

While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up.

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland’s Kent Island.

While trying to prove that he is good enough to play on his high school’s varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents’ divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.

Strong willed Dovey Coe is accused of murdering her sister’s boyfriend – set in 1928 in a North Carolina mountain town.

As a newly arrived freshman at West Point, seventeen-year-old Andi finds herself gaining both confidence and self esteem as she struggles to get through the grueling six weeks of new cadet training known as the Beast.

*Funke, Cornelia Caroline Inkheart

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

Apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the en-

chanted book.

*Funke, Cornelia Caroline The Thief Lord

Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children. (Fantasy)

Story of a beautiful young princess who marries a handsome but less than perfect, prince.

When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor performing horrifying experiments on humans, involving the transfer of animal genes.

Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her obsessive compulsive disorder begins to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.

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.

After her beloved Gran dies, fifteen-year-old Liv goes to California to live with the father she has never known and must adjust to his gruff ways and his life as an abalone diver.

Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.

While twelve-year-old Andrew J. Forrest searches for Mr. Farley, the very unpopular assistant principal at Mt. Mole Middle School, strange things are happening on the town’s namesake hill.

In 1755, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians and struggles to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up and starts to assimilate into the Indian.

A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah, a missionary’s daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins to question whether these "savages" need saving.

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.

Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.

Thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits. He falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.

Danny Walker is crushed when he doesn’t make the Vikings, the seventh-grade basketball team. He is told that he is too short, but he suspects that the real reason has something to do with the bad blood between his divorced father (a former NBA star whose career was cut short by a car accident) and Mr. Ross, the father of the team’s best player. Then Danny’s father announces that he is starting his own youth team, but unexpected setbacks sideline his dad and the team until Danny steps in and coaches the team himself.

As "Fifth Younger Sister," Adeline Yen Mah experiences the harsh life of a stepdaughter at the hands of her father’s new wife.

The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at a carnival that comes to Hattie’s small town.

In 1944 a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.

Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.

Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael Mackenzie’s birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle with disastrous results.

After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers before finally becoming Queen of England.

Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized. Late in life he finds a friend.

A talented young basketball player and his coach are told to lose a tournament and they must decide what to do.

Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. Fantasy.

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

Tritan must stop his evil clone from creating a computer virus that will end the world.

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.

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.

Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants – including Miranda’s mother.

After eleven years as an adopted son of the Delawares, a youth, unwillingly returned to his white family, faces a difficult adjustment.

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy , leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O’Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems presented by freedom.

Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular, the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather’s life.

Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.

Most compelling for readers are the details of Charlie’s long isolation. Here’s a child who has never seen TV or used the telephone. What is Christmas? Halloween? What is school? Then comes the quiet climax, when Charlie finally finds a place.

Two worlds conflict when Lindsay discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from an abandoned subway.

When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he knows that it could save his comatose brother but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

Shusterman, Neal (addition 2006) The Schwa Was Here

A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.

When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences.

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map.

*Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.

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 trying to kill him.

While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.

In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

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.

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan as her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.

Twelve-year-old Jordan is becoming dangerously involved with a street gang when he is suddenly transported through time to become a slave on the plantation of his ancestors.

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness

protection program.

A biography of Benjamin Franklin which emphasizes his many talents as a printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and statesman.

Describes the 1914 Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic and their perilous nine month adventure.

Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author’s childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John

Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John’s ssassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John’s crime on the Booth family for decades afterward.

In an attempt to save his daughter’s life, Eva’s father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

Chronicles the life and struggles of Prudence Crandall who, in the 1830s closed her all-white

Boarding school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, and began admitting African-American

Students; and describes the intense opposition from the townspeople

An illustrated biography of Helen Keller, sharing aspects of her personality and sometimes radical beliefs, and discussing her relationship with her teacher Annie Sullivan and other important people in her life and work.

Factual account of 1888 blizzard that hit northeast, focusing on events in New York City.

Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.

An illustrated biography of boxing great Mohammed Ali that addresses his politics, his fight against Parkinson ’s disease, and boxing’s dangers.

Pfetzer, Mark Within Reach: My Everest Story

The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing mountains in the United States, South America, Africa and Asia with an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest.

Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine, including her relationship with Robert Schumann.

This Italian-American Newberry Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania.