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Abel's island
By Steig, William, 1907- Dewey: -Fic-
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his
resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive
and return to his home.
____#05198B4 1976 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.60
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Across the blue Pacific : a World War II story
By Borden, Louise. Dewey: -Fic-
A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter
writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.
____#16118S0 2006 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $14.45
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Adam Canfield of the Slash
By Winerip, Michael (Michael C.), 1951- Dewey: -Fic-
While serving as co-editors of their school newspaper, middle-schoolers
Adam and Jennifer uncover fraud and corruption in their school and in the
city's government.
____#39182N1 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $13.59
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The agony of Alice
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model
who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class
she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside
that counts.
____#08557J2 1985 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $15.26
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Alice
in-between
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
When motherless Alice
turns thirteen she feels in-between, no longer a child but not yet a woman,
and discovers that growing up can be both frustrating and wonderful.
____#19315E9 1994 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.40
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Alice
in Blunderland
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
Fourth-grader Alice tries unsuccessfully to avoid embarrassing mistakes and
to establish better relations with her older brother Lester.
____#25735P9 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5 $13.56
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All about Sam
By Lowry, Lois. Dewey: -Fic-
The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first
day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
____#00136H8 1988 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $13.60
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All alone in the universe
By Perkins, Lynne Rae. Dewey: -Fic-
Debbie is dismayed when her best friend Maureen starts spending time with
ordinary, boring Glenna.
____#28516J7 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.44
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Almost forever
By Testa, Maria. Dewey: -Fic-
A young girl describes what she, her brother, and their mother do during
the year that her doctor father is serving in the Army in Vietnam.
____#17784P9 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $12.74
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The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents
By Pratchett, Terry. Dewey: -Fic-
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied
Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a
deadly evil rat king.
____#33570J2 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $15.29
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The Amulet of Samarkand
By Stroud, Jonathan. Dewey: -Fic-
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of
magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni
Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the
powerful magician Simon Loveland.
____#12721P6 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $15.26
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The Anybodies
By Bode, N. E. Dewey: -Fic-
After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and
Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and
finally finds "a place that feels like home."
____#39001L1 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.59
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Ark angel
By Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider
embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging
the launch of the first outer space hotel.
____#32042Q3 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.29
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The arrow over the door
By Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a
memorable meeting.
____#23617E6 1998 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.59
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At the crossing-places
By Crossley-Holland, Kevin. Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Arthur, now serving as a squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle, turns his attention to
fulfilling some of his other dreams, such as meeting his birth mother,
marrying the beautiful Winnie, and most of all, becoming a Crusader.
____#27260N7 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $15.26
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Bad girls in love
By Voigt, Cynthia. Dewey: -Fic-
Now in the eighth grade, best friends Mikey and Margalo try to figure out
boys, crushes, and falling in love.
____#27558M7 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $13.56
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The ballad of Lucy Whipple
By Cushman, Karen. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself
Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to
a rough California mining town.
____#24341A7 1996 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.60
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The bamboozlers
By De Guzman, Michael. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Albert Rosegarden meets his grandfather for the first time
as they travel to Seattle,
Washington, where Albert
becomes a partner in his grandfather's elaborate scheme to "con a con
man."
____#27746R8 2005 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $13.60
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A band of angels : a story inspired by the jubilee
singers
By Hopkinson, Deborah. Dewey: -Fic-
The daughter of a slave forms a gospel singing group and goes on tour to
raise money to save Fisk
University.
____#22985H2 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $14.40
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Because of Winn-Dixie
By DiCamillo, Kate. Dewey: -Fic-
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida,
and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog
Winn-Dixie.
____#13903K2 2000 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.59
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Begging for change
By Flake, Sharon. Dewey:
-Fic-
African-American teenager Raspberry Hill, off the streets after years of
homelessness with her mother, inexplicably steals money from one of her
best friends and wonders if she is no different than her recently returned,
drug-addicted, thieving father.
____#17764NX 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.59
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Belle Prater's boy
By White, Ruth, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#15787J2 1996 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.88
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Belle Teal
By Martin, Ann M., 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
Belle Teal Harper's entrance into fifth-grade in the early 1960s brings
many changes and challenges as her Gran's memory begins to slip, her mom
spends long hours away at work, and her class gets two new students,
including an African-American boy.
____#10783L7 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.40
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The berry-picking man
By Buchanan, Jane, 1956- Dewey: -Fic-
Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man
who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him
in the hospital she knows what she must do.
____#04721N5 2003 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $13.60
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The best Halloween ever
By Robinson, Barbara, 1927- Dewey: -Fic-
The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween.
____#23816Q8 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $15.89
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Beyond the Deepwoods
By Stewart, Paul, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his
woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his
Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
____#32403M4 1998 IL:5-8 RL:5 $10.96
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The big nothing
By Fogelin, Adrian. Dewey: -Fic-
A middle-schooler struggles to cope with major family problems, including a
brother who might be heading for the Persian Gulf,
but finds an escape in piano lessons and the dream of a romance with a
popular girl.
____#27382Q4 2004 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $12.70
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Big Red
By Kjelgaard, Jim. Dewey: -Fic-
A trapper's son and a champion Irish Setter roam wilderness areas and grow
to maturity together.
____#04105B0 1973 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $17.05
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The birchbark house
By Erdrich, Louise. Dewey: -Fic-
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives
through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
____#25568H3 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $15.29
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Bird
By Johnson, Angela, 1961- Dewey: -Fic-
Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows
her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come
home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.
____#36429L0 2004 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $13.59
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The birthday room
By Henkes, Kevin. Dewey: -Fic-
When twelve-year-old Ben visits his uncle in Oregon, he feels caught in the strained
relationship between his mother and her brother while he also begins to
accept himself as an artist.
____#27325J0 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $16.99
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The black room
By Cross, Gillian. Dewey: -Fic-
Tom, his friend Robert, and Robert's sister Emma attempt to rescue a
strange girl Robert believes is the counterpart of Lorn, a tiny person he
met during his own ordeal as a miniature copy of himself.
____#28818S1 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $14.44
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Blister
By Shreve, Susan Richards. Dewey: -Fic-
When a family tragedy occurs, ten-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed
changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her
father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells
her she is "elastic" and can handle it all.
____#12422L4 2001 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $13.56
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Blue jasmine
By Sheth, Kashmira. Dewey: -Fic-
When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger
sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but
gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
____#28597P4 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $13.59
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Bluish : a novel
By Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. Dewey: -Fic-
Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks
about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and
causing her to use a wheelchair.
____#26539J2 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.40
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A book of coupons
By Morgenstern, Susie Hoch. Dewey: -Fic-
Elderly Monsieur Noel, the very unconventional new eighth-grade teacher,
gives coupon books for such things as dancing in class and sleeping late,
which are bound to get him in trouble with the military discipline of
Principal Incarnation Perez.
____#29208LX 2001 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $11.89
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Bound
By Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948- Dewey: -Fic-
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild
Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother
cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
____#16484Q6 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $14.40
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The boy who ate stars
By Kochka, 1964- Dewey: -Fic-
Upon moving to a new apartment, twelve-year-old Lucy befriends an autistic
boy who lives upstairs and, along with her friend Theo and a pampered
pooch, takes Matthew on neighborhood adventures hoping to open him up to
the world around them.
____#19978R8 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $10.96
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Brian's hunt
By Paulsen, Gary. Dewey: -Fic-
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness,
a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a
rogue bear.
____#36260AX 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $12.70
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Brian's return
By Paulsen, Gary. Dewey: -Fic-
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness,
sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal
high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he
feels he really belongs.
____#22544H8 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.56
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Bud, not Buddy
By Curtis, Christopher Paul. Dewey: -Fic-
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint,
Michigan, during the Great Depression,
escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to
be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
____#14820J4 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $14.40
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Burying the sun
By Whelan, Gloria. Dewey: -Fic-
In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia
and Germany
are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city
during the terrible siege.
____#38338NX 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.59
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Calliope Day falls-- in love?
By Haddad, Charles (Charles Harold) Dewey: -Fic-
While trying to discover who left a love poem in Noreen's ice cream during
a blackout at the roller rink, fourth-grader Calliope Day learns some very
interesting facts about boys.
____#02162N6 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $18.35
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Captain Underpants and the invasion of the incredibly
naughty cafeteria ladies from outer space (and the subsequent assault of
the equally evil lunchroom zombie nerds) : the third epic novel
By Pilkey, Dav, 1966- Dewey: -Fic-
Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have
invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom
zombie nerds.
____#22587J1 1999 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $14.40
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Carbonel : the king of cats
By Sleigh, Barbara, 1906- Dewey: -Fic-
Rosemary wants to clean houses during summer break in order to earn some
extra money, but her plans take a dramatic turn when an old woman talks her
into buying a second-rate broom and an arrogant cat who enlists her help in
freeing him from a witch's spell.
____#01951Q6 1955 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $14.40
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Charlie and the chocolate factory
By Dahl, Roald. Dewey: -Fic-
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr.
Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation
in his own way.
____#23756Q8 1964 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $19.50
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Chasing Vermeer
By Balliett, Blue, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#08322Q3 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $14.40
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Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and me
By Tocher, Timothy. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1919, fifteen-year-old Hank escapes an abusive father and goes looking
for a chance to become a baseball player, accompanied by a man who calls
himself Chief Sunrise and claims to be a full-blooded Seminole.
____#22790Q5 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $13.56
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Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
By Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937- Dewey: -Fic-
During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian
is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts
group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle
against the Japanese invaders.
____#30775Q3 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.59
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A Christmas memory
By Capote, Truman, 1924- Dewey: -Fic-
A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a
childlike older woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
____#04095D9 1989 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $16.15
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Christopher Mouse : the tale of a small traveler
By Wise, William, 1923- Dewey: -Fic-
After being sold to an unscrupulous pet store owner, a young mouse lives
with several owners and has many adventures, before ending up with an
appreciative family.
____#27285P2 2004 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $15.95
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Chu Ju's
house
By Whelan, Gloria. Dewey: -Fic-
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural
home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan,
tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she
will ever see her family again.
____#38780B7 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.59
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Circle of doom
By Kennemore, Tim. Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie uses ingredients both ordinary and not so ordinary
to make a series of magic potions, to the growing astonishment of her
younger brothers.
____#16955N7 2001 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.60
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The circuit : stories from the life of a migrant
child
By Jimenez, Francisco, 1943- Dewey: -Fic-
Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing
poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith,
hope, and back-breaking work.
____#25527J7 1997 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.60
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The city of Ember
By DuPrau, Jeanne. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#33975L7 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.56
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Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of
World War Two
By Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a
useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the
Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in
their native tongue.
____#37938A1 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $14.44
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The coffin quilt : the feud between the Hatfields and
the McCoys
By Rinaldi, Ann. Dewey: -Fic-
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and
violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields,
complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
____#27982JX 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.60
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Cold Tom : a novel
By Prue, Sally. Dewey: -Fic-
Struggling to find a place for himself, Tom flees the elven parents who
hunt to kill him and becomes involved with human "demons" in the
nearby city.
____#10595N3 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $13.56
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The color of fire : a novel
By Rinaldi, Ann. Dewey: -Fic-
Phoebe, a slave in the Philipse household in colonial New York, must decide on the right
course of action when her friend Cuffee is implicated in a reputed slave
uprising.
____#14747QX 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.59
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Coolies
By Yin. Dewey: -E-
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his
brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves
helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
____#17751L5 2001 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $14.44
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Corydon & the island of monsters
By Druitt, Tobias. Dewey: -Fic-
Corydon, an outcast Greek boy with the leg of a goat, learns that he is
part of an old prophecy and joins forces with Medusa and other
"monsters" known in Greek mythology in a confrontation with
mortal heroes fighting for the Olympian gods.
____#24119R4 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $19.42
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Cousins
By Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. Dewey: -Fic-
Concerned that her grandmother may die, Cammy is unprepared for the
accidental death of another relative.
____#19962B7 1990 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $15.29
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Crazy lady!
By Conly, Jane Leslie. Dewey: -Fic-
As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing
relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded
son.
____#06164D7 1993 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $17.89
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Crispin : the cross of lead
By Avi, 1937- Dewey: -Fic-
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in
fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life
juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
____#30954K5 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.59
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Criss cross
By Perkins, Lynne Rae. Dewey: -Fic-
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and
feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search
for the meaning of life and love.
____#25278R5 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $17.89
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The Crow-girl : the children of Crow Cove
By Bredsdorff, Bodil. Dewey: -Fic-
After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house
by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences
that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her.
____#05974P0 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $13.60
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The dark ground
By Cross, Gillian. Dewey: -Fic-
Robert wakes up scratched and naked in a dark forest, remembering only that
he had been on an airplane returning from vacation with his parents, and
soon realizes he is not far from home, but that he has somehow become very
small--shorter than a blade of grass--and the distance to his house seems
impossible to travel.
____#04047Q8 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.59
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The dark portal
By Jarvis, Robin, 1963- Dewey: -Fic-
While on a rescue mission, a few daring mice journey below to the sewers to
an evil world populated by rats who peel mice before eating them and
worship the Dark Lord.
____#05116L0 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $15.26
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Dark sons
By Grimes, Nikki. Dewey: -Fic-
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael,
son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as
they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with
the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
____#07935R8 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.59
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Daughter of Madrugada
By Wood, Frances M. Dewey:
-Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Cesa de Haro's beloved way of life on the beautiful
Rancho del Valle de la Madrugada is threatened by Mexico's loss of Upper California to the United States
in 1846 and the arrival of gold seekers from the east.
____#22733M6 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $19.42
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Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies
By Lyons, Mary E. Dewey: -Fic-
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of
the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her
family, sent her north from Richmond
to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on
the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
____#12342L1 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.26
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Defiance
By Hobbs,
Valerie. Dewey: -Fic-
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient,
learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet
and her cow.
____#27215R4 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.60
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Deliver us from Normal
By Klise, Kate. Dewey: -Fic-
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who
describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life
for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal,
Illinois.
____#20108Q4 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $14.40
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Dillon Dillon
By Banks, Kate, 1960- Dewey: -Fic-
During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the
surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three
loons, living on the lake near his family's New Hampshire cabin, that help
him make sense of his life.
____#15945N6 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $13.60
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Disabled fables : Aesop's fables
Dewey: 700
Presents retellings of fourteen tales by Aesop, selected and illustrated by
artists with developmental disabilities.
____#13342Q7 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $19.95
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The doll with the yellow star
By McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Dewey: -Fic-
When France falls to Germany
at the start of World War II, nine-year-old Claudine must leave her beloved
parents and friends to stay with relatives in America, accompanied by her
doll, Violette.
____#22065R2 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $15.26
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Dragon keeper
By Wilkinson, Carole. Dewey: 813
In ancient China
during the Han Dynasty, a nameless orphan is hopeless and lonely until she
comes to the aid of an aging dragon, and together they journey to protect a
mysterious stone.
____#21238Q3 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.44
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Dragon rider
By Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Dewey: -Fic-
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a
silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find
the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and
unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless
pursuit of an old enemy.
____#19496Q0 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.74
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The dream bearer
By Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Dewey: -Fic-
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend
and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his
father's outbursts and unstable behavior.
____#36380B6 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.59
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Dreaming in black & white
By Jung, Reinhardt, 1949- Dewey: -Fic-
A boy dreams that he is a student during the period of the Nazi Third Reich
in Germany,
where he is persecuted for being physically handicapped.
____#21763P5 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.59
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Drita, my homegirl
By Lombard, Jenny. Dewey: -Fic-
When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New
York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular
student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for
teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.
____#22990S2 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.59
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Dust
By Slade, Arthur G. (Arthur Gregory) Dewey: -Fic-
Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious
stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the
same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the
1930s.
____#32941L4 2003 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $13.56
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Emil and Karl
By Glatstein, Jacob, 1896-1971. Dewey: -Fic-
In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one
Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation
draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape
together.
____#20287SX 2006 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $15.26
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Eric Knight's original 1938 classic Lassie come-home
: in a new picture-book edition
By Wells, Rosemary. Dewey: -Fic-
Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile
journey in order to be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.
____#13958H6 1995 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $15.26
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Everything on a waffle
By Horvath, Polly. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#10752L0 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $13.60
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The facts and fictions of Minna Pratt
By MacLachlan, Patricia. Dewey: -Fic-
An eleven-year-old cellist learns about life from her eccentric family, her
first boyfriend, and Mozart.
____#04077E9 1988 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $15.89
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A fairy called Hilary
By Strauss, Linda Leopold. Dewey: -Fic-
A fairy named Hilary comes to stay with Caroline and uses her magic to
enliven trick-or-treating on Halloween, the making of a giant snowman, a
friend's party, an airplane trip, and a garden show.
____#24557H5 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $15.15
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The fairy's mistake
By Levine, Gail Carson. Dewey: 398.2
In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards
one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to
discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward.
____#35692B9 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $8.49
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Falcon's egg
By Gray, Luli. Dewey: -Fic-
Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has made
Falcon very responsible for an eleven-year-old, but she needs the help of
her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist when she
finds a unusual egg in Central Park.
____#13359H0 1995 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $13.60
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Fame and glory in Freedom, Georgia
By O'Connor, Barbara. Dewey: -Fic-
Unpopular sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver persuades the new
boy at school, whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her partner for
a spelling bee that might win her everything she's ever wanted.
____#06584N3 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.60
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Fever, 1793
By Anderson, Laurie Halse. Dewey: -Fic-
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 the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
in 1793.
____#21364L8 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $14.40
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The field guide
By DiTerlizzi, Tony. Dewey: -Fic-
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian
house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin
to have some unusual experiences.
____#06582N9 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $8.46
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Figuring out Frances
By Willner-Pardo, Gina. Dewey: -Fic-
Ten-year-old Abigail's neighbor Travis, her best friend although he is at a
different school, upsets her when he transfers to her school, ignores her,
and laughs at her grandmother's Alzheimer's along with his new friends.
____#11568J8 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $11.90
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The final reckoning
By Jarvis, Robin, 1963- Dewey: -Fic-
The Deptford Mice and their allies rush once again into battle with old
enemies, grown much more powerful, as a devastatingly cold winter threatens
to keep the Green Mouse from returning in the spring.
____#24096N5 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $15.26
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Finding my hat
By Son, John. Dewey: -Fic-
Jin-Han struggles to find his place growing up in Americaas the son of
Korean immigrant parents.
____#17473P9 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $14.40
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Fire and wings : dragon tales from East and West
Dewey: -Fic-
A collection of stories about all kinds of dragons, by such authors as Jane
Yolen, Patricia MacLaughlin, Eric Kimmel, Vida Chu, and E. Nesbit.
____#23962N1 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $15.26
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Fish
By Matthews, L. S. (Laura S.) Dewey: -Fic-
As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been
working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult
journey to safety.
____#23748P8 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $18.35
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Flipped
By Van Draanen, Wendelin. Dewey: -Fic-
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about
themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
____#28515M4 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $18.35
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Flying solo
By Fletcher, Ralph J. Dewey: -Fic-
Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate,
shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report
that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
____#26164G9 1998 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $12.75
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Foundling
By Cornish, D. M. 1972- Dewey: -Fic-
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name,
Rossamund sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has
several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are
more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.
____#11321S4 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $16.14
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Francie
By English, Karen. Dewey: -Fic-
When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of
attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble
for her efforts at friendship.
____#26356J2 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.45
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The friendship
By Taylor, Mildred D. Dewey: -Fic-
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a
white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
____#20829G0 1987 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $14.44
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The gadget
By Zindel, Paul. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other
scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old
Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
____#11858L4 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $16.89
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Galen : my life in imperial Rome
By Moss, Marissa. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Galen describes his life as a slave in Rome under the
Emperor Augustus. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal notes.
____#07051NX 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $12.75
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The game of silence
By Erdrich, Louise. Dewey: -Fic-
Nine-year-old Omakayas and her family, members of the Ojibwa tribe, are
forced to leave their island on Lake Superior in 1850 when white settlers
move into the territory, and comes to realize that the things most
important to her are her home and way of life.
____#04235Q8 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $16.89
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The Gawgon and The Boy
By Alexander, Lloyd. Dewey: -Fic-
In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to
attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie,
whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life.
____#19733L6 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.29
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Gender blender
By Nelson, Blake, 1960- Dewey: -Fic-
When the students in health class at George Wilson Middle School are
assigned girl/boy partners to discuss gender issues, no one could imagine
that two students would actually switch bodies.
____#14975R3 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $19.42
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Getting near to baby
By Couloumbis, Audrey. Dewey: -Fic-
Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty seem to be
constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her
younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby.
____#18464J5 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $15.29
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Ghost girl : a Blue Ridge Mountain story
By Ray, Delia. Dewey: -Fic-
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a
school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty,
grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean
that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
____#09522P0 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $12.75
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The Giant Rat of Sumatra, or, Pirates galore
By Fleischman, Sid, 1920- Dewey: -Fic-
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war
breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
____#10120Q5 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $16.89
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A girl named Disaster
By Farmer, Nancy, 1941- Dewey: -Fic-
While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape
drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of
the African spirits.
____#26128A3 1996 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $16.96
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The Goblin Wood
By Bell, Hilari. Dewey: -Fic-
A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins
fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all
magical creatures.
____#36770B1 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $15.29
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The gold-threaded dress
By Marsden, Carolyn. Dewey: -Fic-
When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade
classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.
____#22185MX 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $12.74
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The good liar
By Maguire, Gregory. Dewey: -Fic-
Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in
German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother
Rene befriended a young German soldier.
____#24940HX 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $12.75
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Good night, Maman
By Mazer, Norma Fox, 1931- Dewey: -Fic-
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe,
twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a
refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
____#22384H2 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.60
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Gooney Bird and the room mother
By Lowry, Lois. Dewey: -Fic-
Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces
challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories,
finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving
pageant.
____#11422Q0 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.75
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Gossamer
By Lowry, Lois. Dewey: -Fic-
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an
eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the
nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
____#28443S2 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $13.60
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Grandad's prayers of the earth
By Wood, Douglas, 1951- Dewey: -Fic-
Because Grandad has explained how all things in the natural world pray and
make a gift to the beauty of life, his grandson is comforted when Grandad
dies.
____#16254K7 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5 $15.29
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Grape thief
By Franklin, Kristine L. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1925, in a small Washington State community made up of families from
different ethnic backgrounds, twelve-year-old Cuss tries to stay in school
as he watches those around him struggle with various financial
difficulties.
____#10787P9 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.44
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Grasslands
By Seely, Debra. Dewey: -Fic-
In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic
Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father
he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.
____#09266M4 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $16.10
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The great good thing : a novel
By Townley, Rod. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really is a storybook,
where nothing ever changes, even the character's mad scramble to reach
their places whenever the book is opened, until Sylvie discovers she can
enter new worlds with the Reader, and find new adventures.
____#10167L0 2001 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $14.45
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The great whale of Kansas
By Jennings, Richard W. (Richard Walker), 1945- Dewey: -Fic-
While digging a hole in his back yard, an eleven-year-old Kansas boy finds
the fossilized remains of a gigantic prehistoric animal, a discovery that
brings both fame and controversy.
____#23007L4 2001 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $12.75
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The greatest skating race : a World War II story from
the Netherlands
By Borden, Louise. Dewey: -Fic-
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of
skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium
by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.
____#16692Q9 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $16.10
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Green angel
By Hoffman, Alice. Dewey: -Fic-
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old
Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive
emotionally and physically on her own.
____#28812N7 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $14.40
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Green boy
By Cooper, Susan, 1935- Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not
speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the
Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring
the natural environment in both places.
____#27029M8 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.60
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The green dog : a mostly true story
By Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Dewey: -Fic-
During the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who
likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion.
Based on the author's childhood in northeastern Pennsylvania.
____#10950PX 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $13.60
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Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
By Collins, Suzanne. Dewey: -Fic-
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath
New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy
that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders
who populate the underworld.
____#06892Q6 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $14.40
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Gulliver in Lilliput
By Hodges, Margaret, 1911- Dewey: -Fic-
On a voyage in the South Seas, an Englishman finds himself shipwrecked in
Lilliput, a land of people only six inches high.
____#10146GX 1995 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $17.05
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Half-moon investigations
By Colfer, Eoin. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Fletcher Moon, the youngest qualified private detective in
the world, receives a diploma and gold-plated detective's shield after
completing an Internet course, and sets out to solve petty crimes at
school, but he forced to go on the run when, while investigating the town's
biggest crime family, his badge is stolen and he is framed for several
crimes he did not commit.
____#11910S3 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.40
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Harris and me : a summer remembered
By Paulsen, Gary. Dewey: 813
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.
____#06020E5 1993 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.45
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
By Rowling, J. K. Dewey: -Fic-
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with
a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry.
____#27790F8 1998 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $19.54
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Hattie on her way
By Clark, Clara Gillow. Dewey: -Fic-
In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of
her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother
in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite
society, and, while there, discovers the fate of her missing grandfather.
____#20065Q5 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.59
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Heads or tails : stories from the sixth grade
By Gantos, Jack. Dewey: -Fic-
Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating
alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps
breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird.
____#10831F7 1994 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $13.60
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Heartbeat
By Creech, Sharon. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her
mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best
friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
____#07665P4 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $16.89
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The heroic adventure of Hercules Amsterdam
By Haber, Melissa Glenn. Dewey: -Fic-
A human boy, just three inches tall, finds a home and happiness in a mouse
city until he learns of an ancient threat and goes on a dangerous quest to
save the city, assisted by old friends and new.
____#14668P6 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $14.44
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The homework machine
By Gutman, Dan. Dewey: -Fic-
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a
slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events
surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.
____#12495RX 2006 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.56
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The horse and his boy
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to
Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
____#15331G0 1994 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $17.89
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Horse tales
Dewey: -Fic-
Presents a collection of fourteen stories which draw upon tales from
ancient Greece, fourteenth-century Mongolia, France in the Middle Ages, and
selections from Russia and Native America.
____#21130QX 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $16.14
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A house of tailors
By Giff, Patricia Reilly. Dewey: -Fic-
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her
only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and
she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young
wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
____#06859Q1 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $19.42
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Hush
By Woodson, Jacqueline. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the
witness protection program.
____#13453M3 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.59
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I am the wallpaper
By Hughes, Mark Peter. Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Floey Packer, jealous of her attractive and popular older
sister, shares her home with two younger cousins and experiences a summer
vacation filled with embarrassing events, with herself as the star.
____#31606Q5 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.56
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I was a rat!
By Pullman, Philip, 1946- Dewey: -Fic-
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house
of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
____#33039G0 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $13.56
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I wonder as I wander
By Swain, Gwenyth, 1961- Dewey: -Fic-
In this fictional account of the folk song's origin, a girl writes a song
that expresses her feelings about Jesus while dealing with the loss of her
mother and life on the roads of Appalachia after her father becomes an
itinerant preacher.
____#14576P2 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.60
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Indigo's star
By McKay, Hilary. Dewey: -Fic-
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up
for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target
of the school bullies.
____#15212Q1 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $14.40
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Inkspell
By Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Dewey: -Fic-
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to
Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind; but Farid seeks out Meggie
and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
____#16692R7 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $16.99
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Into the wild
By Hunter, Erin. Dewey: -Fic-
Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must
struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by the enemy
ShadowClan.
____#28390N6 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.59
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Iqbal : a novel
By D'Adamo, Francesco. Dewey: -Fic-
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in
a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him
before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
____#17410P9 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.56
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Jack's new power : stories from a Caribbean year
By Gantos, Jack. Dewey: -Fic-
When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns
that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.
____#18644H7 1995 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.60
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James and the giant peach : a children's story
By Dahl, Roald. Dewey: -Fic-
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of
adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
____#32654G5 1996 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $13.60
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The janitor's boy
By Clements, Andrew, 1949- Dewey: -Fic-
Fifth grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it
becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his
anger onto his father.
____#26402K5 2000 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $13.56
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Jim Ugly
By Fleischman, Sid, 1920- Dewey: -Fic-
The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's
part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to
find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.
____#17630D4 1992 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $15.29
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Joey Pigza loses control
By Gantos, Jack. Dewey: -Fic-
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired,
goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known
and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
____#27109K4 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $13.60
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Joey Pigza swallowed the key
By Gantos, Jack. Dewey: -Fic-
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has
trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his
prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting
wired.
____#26697G7 1998 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.60
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Journey to Cahokia : a boy's visit to the great mound
city
By Lorenz, Albert, 1941- Dewey: -Fic-
In ca. 1300, Little Hawk and his family take a trip to trade with the
Indians of Cahokia, the great city along the Mississippi River.
____#11921Q0 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5 $15.26
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Journey to Jo'burg : a South African story
By Naidoo, Beverley. Dewey: -Fic-
Separated from their mother by the harsh social and economic conditions
prevalent among blacks in South Africa, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her
younger brother make a journey of over 300 kilometers to find her in
Johannesburg.
____#13432DX 1985 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $16.89
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Judy Moody gets famous!
By McDonald, Megan. Dewey: -Fic-
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a
spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
____#17912M6 2001 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $13.59
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Julia's kitchen
By Ferber, Brenda A. Dewey: -Fic-
When her mother and younger sister are killed in a house fire,
eleven-year-old Cara struggles to find a way to deal with her emotions and
to reach out to her grieving father.
____#10488R6 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.60
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Keeper
By Peet, Mal. Dewey: -Fic-
South American journalist Paul Faustino begins his interview with World Cup
Soccer star El Gato and learns a fantastic story of a young, lonely boy
growing up in the middle of a rain forest who wandered upon a mysterious
soccer field and an apparition that appeared to him daily.
____#10036R8 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.59
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Keeper of the doves
By Byars, Betsy Cromer. Dewey: -Fic-
In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and
torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father
continues to provide for his needs.
____#05818M1 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $12.74
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The king of dragons
By Fenner, Carol. Dewey: -Fic-
Having lost access to the old railroad station where they had been staying,
homeless Ian and his father move into an unused city courthouse and try to
avoid being discovered by the authorities.
____#25732G3 1998 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $14.45
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Kira-kira
By Kadohata, Cynthia. Dewey: -Fic-
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters
growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the
despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
____#21201P5 2004 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $14.41
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Knights of the kitchen table
By Scieszka, Jon. Dewey: -Fic-
One minute they're looking at pictures of knights in the book, a birthday
gift from Joe's magician uncle, the next minute they're battling
fire-breathing dragons. Will Joe, Fred, and Sam escape death?
____#17365D3 1991 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $12.74
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Lady Lollipop
By King-Smith, Dick. Dewey: -Fic-
A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are royally rewarded
after they reform a spoiled princess.
____#15004L8 2000 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.59
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The last battle
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last
battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
____#21899GX 1956 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $17.89
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The Last Resort
By Lewis, J. Patrick. Dewey: 813
A writer who can't find anything to write about goes for a drive and meets
literary figures of the past who inspire him.
____#22316N1 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $17.96
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The last treasure
By Anderson, Janet, 1946- Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has
never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to
uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
____#13487NX 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $15.29
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Leaping Beauty : and other animal fairy tales
By Maguire, Gregory. Dewey: -Fic-
Retells eight beloved fairy tales, giving them animal protagonists;
includes such stories as "Cinder-Elephant," "Hamster and
Gerbil," and "Leaping Beauty."
____#11477Q9 2004 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $16.89
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The legacy of Gloria Russell
By Gilbert, Sheri L. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Billy James tries to come to terms with the sudden death of
his best friend and learns about himself, his own family history, and life
in his small hometown in the Ozark mountains.
____#04572PX 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $19.42
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The legend of Sleepy Hollow
By Moses, Will. Dewey: -Fic-
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has
a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
____#21709H5 1995 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $16.14
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Letters from Rifka
By Hesse, Karen. Dewey: -Fic-
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's
flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in
Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
____#20026C2 1992 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $15.26
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The liberation of Gabriel King
By Going, K. L. (Kelly L.) Dewey: -Fic-
Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African-American
girl facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they
enter fifth grade in Georgia in 1976.
____#09192RX 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.59
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The lightning thief
By Riordan, Rick. Dewey: -Fic-
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper,
learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon,
and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the
demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to
retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
____#05792Q6 2005 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $15.26
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The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe
into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph
over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
____#19768R0 1950 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.44
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The lioness & her knight
By Morris, Gerald, 1963- Dewey: -Fic-
Headstrong sixteen-year-old Lady Luneta and her distant cousin, Sir Ywain,
travel to Camelot and beyond finding more adventure than they hoped for
until, with the help of a fool, Luneta discovers what she really wants from
life.
____#08194RX 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $13.60
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The little mermaid
By Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Dewey: -Fic-
A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for
legs, hoping to win the love of a prince and earn an immortal soul for herself.
____#14645QX 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $13.59
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Loamhedge
By Jacques, Brian. Dewey: -Fic-
A group of adventurers from Redwall seeks out the ancient abbey of
Loamhedge in hopes of curing a young haremaid's paralysis; meanwhile, the
vengeful badger Lonna Bowstripe tracks the Searat Raga Bol and cohorts all
the way to Redwall's gates and finds himself face to face with several
protective Abbeybeasts.
____#18031P1 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $20.39
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Lord of the nutcracker men
By Lawrence, Iain, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he
enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the
front.
____#18443MX 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $19.42
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Loser
By Spinelli, Jerry. Dewey: -Fic-
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange
and a loser, Donald Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of
his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
____#05776MX 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $16.89
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Lost in cyberspace
By Peck, Richard, 1934- Dewey: -Fic-
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend Aaron
use the computer at their New York prep school to travel through time,
learning some secrets from the school's past and improving Josh's home
situation.
____#09871H6 1995 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $14.44
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The lost thing
By Tan, Shaun. Dewey: -Fic-
A boy must decide what to do with a lost thing he finds while hunting for
bottle caps.
____#03326R8 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $14.40
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Lucy Rose, here's the thing about me
By Kelly, Katy, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
Eight-year-old Lucy Rose keeps a diary of her first year in Washington,
D.C., her home since her parents separation, where she spends time with her
grandparents, makes new friends, and longs to convince her teacher to let
her take care of the class pet during a holiday.
____#21940QX 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $16.19
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Lucy the giant
By Smith, Sherri L. Dewey: -Fic-
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small
Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and
friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
____#32146K9 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $14.40
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Maggie's door
By Giff, Patricia Reilly. Dewey: -Fic-
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out
separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to
reach a better life in America.
____#35838C3 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.56
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The magician's nephew
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own
world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they
witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
____#22284E2 1994 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.44
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Maniac Magee : a novel
By Spinelli, Jerry. Dewey: -Fic-
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he
accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
____#21657AX 1990 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $14.44
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Mara's stories : glimmers in the darkness
By Schmidt, Gary D. Dewey: -Fic-
Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares
stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the
women and children who listen.
____#18053M4 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.26
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Marika
By Cheng, Andrea. Dewey: -Fic-
Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to
be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II.
____#02894MX 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $14.40
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Matilda
By Dahl, Roald. Dewey: -Fic-
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil,
child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher,
Miss Honey, to financial security.
____#16267B1 1988 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $14.44
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The mayor of Central Park
By Avi, 1937- Dewey: -Fic-
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals,
fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move
uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his
animal friends from their homes.
____#26506P0 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $16.89
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The meanest doll in the world
By Martin, Ann M., 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer
house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are
carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess
Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.
____#05991P1 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.59
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Memories of summer
By White, Ruth, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
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 and her older
sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.
____#20393K7 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.45
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Midnight magic
By Avi, 1937- Dewey: -Fic-
In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to
the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being
haunted by a ghost.
____#24816J5 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.56
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Midwinter nightingale
By Aiken, Joan, 1924- Dewey: -Fic-
The Wolves Chronicles continue as Dido and her friend Simon, Duke of
Battersea, have many perilous adventures trying to protect the ailing King
James from the plotting of the evil Baron Magnus who is determined that his
brutish son Lothar will be the next king of England.
____#17621N7 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $19.42
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Millicent Min, girl genius
By Yee, Lisa. Dewey: -Fic-
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min
records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal
with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a
tumultuous summer.
____#11274P8 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $14.40
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Millions
By Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#38085K9 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $13.59
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Miracle's boys
By Woodson, Jacqueline. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother
Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames
Lafayette for the death of their mother.
____#28311K8 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.59
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Molly Moon's incredible book of hypnotism
By Byng, Georgia. Dewey: -Fic-
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small
English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her
way to stardom in New York City.
____#15403N9 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $17.89
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Moon over Tennessee : a boy's Civil War journal
By Crist-Evans, Craig. Dewey: -Fic-
A thirteen-year-old boy sets off with his father from their farm in
Tennessee to join the Confederate forces on their way to fight at
Gettysburg. Told in the form of diary entries.
____#28542H0 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.75
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Morgy makes his move
By Lewis, Maggie. Dewey: -Fic-
When third-grader Morgy MacDougal-MacDuff moves from California to
Massachusetts with his parents, he has a lot of new things to get used to
before he feels comfortable.
____#22476J2 1999 IL:3-6 RL:5 $12.75
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Mount Olympus basketball
By O'Malley, Kevin, 1961- Dewey: -Fic-
Zeus, Hera, Athena, Poseidon, and Hades pull some dirty tricks as they face
off against Hercules, Jason, Odysseus, Achilles, and Theseus in this gods
versus mortals basketball game in ancient Greece.
____#36810A0 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $13.56
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Mountain pose
By Wilson, Nancy Hope. Dewey: -Fic-
When twelve-year-old Ellie inherits an old Vermont farm from her cruel and
heartless grandmother Aurelia, she reads a set of diaries written by an
ancestor and discovers secrets from the past.
____#11877LX 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.45
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My 13th season
By Roberts, Kristi. Dewey: -Fic-
Already downhearted due to the loss of her mother and her father's
overwhelming grief, thirteen-year-old Fran decides to give up her dream of
becoming the first female in professional baseball after a coach attacks
her just for being a girl.
____#18988Q1 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.36
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My last skirt : the story of Jennie Hodgers, Union
soldier
By Durrant, Lynda, 1956- Dewey: -Fic-
Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn
higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th
Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the
American Civil War.
____#01011S8 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.60
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My life of crime
By Jennings, Richard W. (Richard Walker), 1945- Dewey: -Fic-
A sixth-grader's discovery of a bedraggled classroom pet parrot sets him on
an adventure with real ethical and legal implications.
____#16084NX 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $12.75
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My Louisiana sky
By Holt, Kimberly Willis. Dewey: -Fic-
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann
struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her
mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
____#27118F2 1998 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.26
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My name is not Angelica
By O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Dewey: -Fic-
Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to
the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the
slave revolt of 1733-1734.
____#36963E2 1989 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $4.68
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New found land : a novel
By Wolf, Allan. Dewey: -Fic-
The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery,
their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of
the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific
Ocean.
____#12984Q5 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $16.14
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Nory Ryan's song
By Giff, Patricia Reilly. Dewey: -Fic-
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845,
twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity helps her family and
neighbors survive.
____#23231K2 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.56
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The not-so-jolly Roger
By Scieszka, Jon. Dewey: -Fic-
Blackbeard, the meanest pirate ever, has our accidental time travelers
cornered. Should Fred, Sam, and Joe the Time Warp Trio join his pirate
crew, or become shark munchies?
____#17362D1 1991 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.74
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The Old African
By Lester, Julius. Dewey: -Fic-
An elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of other
slaves and eventually leads them back to Africa.
____#19159R9 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $16.99
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Olivia Kidney
By Potter, Ellen, 1963- Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new apartment building and finds a
psychic, talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts,
and other unusual characters.
____#24742P9 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.59
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The other side of truth
By Naidoo, Beverley. Dewey: -Fic-
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger
brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the
airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have
happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
____#27339M0 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $17.89
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Otto and the flying twins
By Haptie, Charlotte. Dewey: -Fic-
Young Otto comes to the rescue when he discovers that his family and city
are the last remnants of an ancient magical world now under threat from the
Normal Police.
____#10736PX 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $17.05
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Our secret, Siri Aang
By Kessler, Cristina. Dewey: -Fic-
Namelok, a Masai girl, tries to persuade her traditionalist father to delay
her initiation and marriage because they will restrict her freedom and keep
her from the black rhino mother and baby she is protecting from poachers.
____#18458Q5 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $14.44
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The outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
By Konigsburg, E. L. Dewey: -Fic-
Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane
spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have
been building in their back yard for over forty years.
____#22920P3 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $14.40
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Patiently Alice
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
Alice experiences a lot of changes during the summer of her freshmen year
when she gets to work as an assistant camp counselor for three weeks, and
then returns home to find the orderly world she left behind in turmoil.
____#06692N0 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.56
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The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two
rabbits, and a very interesting boy
By Birdsall, Jeanne. Dewey: -Fic-
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains,
four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a
local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
____#37567Q2 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $13.56
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The people of Sparks
By DuPrau, Jeanne. Dewey: -Fic-
Lina and Doon are thrilled to see their people join them above ground in
the vibrant village of Sparks, but suspicion and prejudice soon turn the
villagers and newcomers against each other.
____#15062P4 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $19.42
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Prairie whispers
By Arrington, Frances. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#14529P2 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $15.29
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Preacher's boy
By Paterson, Katherine. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town,
gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being
Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the
world.
____#25715J7 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $12.75
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The President's daughter
By Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Dewey: -Fic-
A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences
in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president
in 1901.
____#02163Q8 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $19.42
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Prince across the water
By Yolen, Jane. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their
exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny,
fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run
away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war.
____#25067Q2 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $16.14
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Prince Caspian : the return to Narnia
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia
from evil.
____#21546GX 1994 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $17.89
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The puppeteer's apprentice
By Love, D. Anne. Dewey: -Fic-
A medieval orphan girl called Mouse gains the courage she needs to follow
her dreams of becoming a puppeteer's apprentice.
____#29193N1 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $14.40
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Quake! : disaster in San Francisco, 1906
By Karwoski, Gail, 1949- Dewey: -Fic-
Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as seen through the
eyes of Jacob, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who lives in a boarding house
with his father and younger sister.
____#24882Q8 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.56
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Quid pro quo
By Grant, Vicki. Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Cyril MacIntyre has to use every legal skill at his
disposal in order to find his mother, a law student who has been kidnapped.
____#29158R5 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $14.40
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The quilt
By Paulsen, Gary. Dewey: -Fic-
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother
is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his
grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on
events from the author's life.
____#13940P7 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $19.42
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Rachel's journal : the story of a pioneer girl
By Moss, Marissa. Dewey: -Fic-
In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by
covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.
____#24058G7 1998 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.75
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Raven's gate
By Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a
troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving
witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
____#28456Q4 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $15.26
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The real Plato Jones
By Bawden, Nina, 1925- Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Plato Jones tries to come to terms with his mixed
heritage while visiting Greece, as he finds out more about his Welsh
grandfather, a World War II hero, and his Greek grandfather, a supposed
traitor.
____#04076C5 1993 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $12.75
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The reluctant dragon
By Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. Dewey: -Fic-
In this illustrated, abridged version of the original, the boy who finds
the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he
convince the frightened villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon
killer that there is no cause for concern?
____#11289Q9 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $15.29
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Replay : a new book
By Creech, Sharon. Dewey: -Fic-
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. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
____#02383RX 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $16.89
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The reptile room
By Snicket, Lemony. Dewey: -Fic-
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf,
the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with
whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
____#22768J7 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $15.89
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
By Pinkney, Jerry. Dewey: -Fic-
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big
black cobras who live in the garden.
____#10447L4 1997 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $14.44
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Rodzina
By Cushman, Karen. Dewey: -Fic-
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in
Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid
slavery.
____#21142N6 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $13.60
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Rome antics
By Macaulay, David. Dewey: -Fic-
A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour
which includes both ancient and modern parts of the city of Rome.
____#22895D0 1997 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $15.30
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A room with a zoo
By Feiffer, Jules. Dewey: -Fic-
The author presents a fact-based novel about his daughter, Julie, and her
compulsion to take in any and all unfortunate pets including a sick cat,
hamster, a big ugly fish, a hermit crab, and the classroom rabbit.
____#06895R6 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $14.40
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The rope trick
By Alexander, Lloyd. Dewey: -Fic-
Motivated by her quest to learn a legendary rope trick, the magician
Princess Lidi and her troupe embark on a journey through Renaissance Italy
that intertwines adventure, love, and mystery.
____#20778M9 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $14.44
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Roxie and the hooligans
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot's
advice on how to survive any crisis when she becomes stranded on an island
with a gang of school bullies and a pair of murderous bank robbers.
____#17785R2 2006 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.56
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The ruins of Gorlan
By Flanagan, John (John Anthony) Dewey: -Fic-
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the
reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting
the kingdom from danger.
____#05924R5 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.59
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Running with the Reservoir Pups
By Bateman, Colin, 1962- Dewey: -Fic-
When his parents divorce and his mother moves with him to Belfast, Northern
Ireland, twelve-year-old Eddie contends with the Reservoir Pups, a gang of
children who rule his neighborhood.
____#36500N4 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.56
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Runt
By Bauer, Marion Dane. Dewey: -Fic-
Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his
father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name.
____#15510N9 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $11.90
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The sacrifice
By Duble, Kathleen Benner. Dewey: -Fic-
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover,
Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their
mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
____#01180R2 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.56
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The same stuff as stars
By Paterson, Katherine. Dewey: -Fic-
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with
their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only
about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but
also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the
stars.
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Sammy Keyes and the search for Snake Eyes
By Van Draanen, Wendelin. Dewey: -Fic-
When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her
hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and
accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.
____#09781M8 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5 $19.42
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Scorpia
By Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Dewey: -Fic-
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal
organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and
becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
____#10923Q0 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $15.29
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The scrambled states of America
By Keller, Laurie. Dewey: -Fic-
The states become bored with their positions on the map and decide to
change places for a while. Also includes facts about the states.
____#22655G9 1998 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $15.26
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The search for Belle Prater
By White, Ruth, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh
grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find
Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences
along the way.
____#14028Q6 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.60
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Seedfolks
By Fleischman, Paul. Dewey: -Fic-
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled
inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so,
the gardeners are themselves transformed.
____#23978C1 1997 IL:5-8 RL:5 $15.89
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The seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
By Birney, Betty. Dewey: -Fic-
Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything
comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.
____#10217R3 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.1 $14.41
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Shadow boxer
By Lynch, Chris. Dewey: -Fic-
After their father dies of boxing injuries, George is determined to prevent
his younger brother, who sees boxing as his legacy, from pursuing a career
in the sport.
____#35821F0 1993 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $23.22
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The Shakespeare stealer
By Blackwood, Gary L. Dewey: -Fic-
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's
acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he
discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
____#27026F9 1998 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.59
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The Shamer's daughter
By Kaaberbol, Lene. Dewey: -Fic-
After her mother, a Shamer, is summoned to Dunark for a mission,
ten-year-old Dina is forced to use her own special powers as she is caught
up in an adventure of political intrigue and survival.
____#17583P0 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $15.26
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Shaper
By Haas, Jessie. Dewey: -Fic-
While recovering from the loss of his dog Shep, fourteen-year-old Chad
tries to learn how to control the family dog Queenie with the help of a
friendly new neighbor, an animal trainer.
____#11685M9 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $17.89
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The silver chair
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search
and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in
the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
____#27906F5 1994 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $14.44
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The silver spoon of Solomon Snow
By Umansky, Kaye. Dewey: -Fic-
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 performer, and several orphans.
____#19861R5 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.74
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Simply Alice
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
In her freshman year, fourteen-year-old Alice experiences changes and
challenges with friends, family, and school activities, which leave her
feeling better about herself than ever before.
____#08117MX 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $13.60
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Sir Thursday
By Nix, Garth. Dewey: -Fic-
When Arthur is drafted into the Glorious Army of the Architect by Sir
Thursday, he must survive basic training, avoid getting posted to the
Front, and figure out how to free Part Four of the Will, while Leaf tries
to banish Arthur's doppleganger on Earth.
____#26826R6 2006 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $14.44
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Skeleton man
By Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange
"great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk
story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
____#03258M5 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $16.89
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Slaves of the mastery : an adventure
By Nicholson, William. Dewey: -Fic-
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his
twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the
"beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
____#27445M3 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.29
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The slightly true story of Cedar B. Hartley : (who
planned to live an unusual life)
By Murray, Martine. Dewey: -Fic-
When twelve-year-old Cedar loses her dog, it sets off a chain of events
leading her to find a new friend, become an acrobat, and learn some
bitter-sweet truths about family, community, and herself.
____#07755N7 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.56
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A small tall tale from the far far North
By Sis, Peter, 1949- Dewey: -E-
With the help of Eskimos, Jan Welzl survives a perilous journey from
central Europe to the Arctic regions in the late 1800s.
____#28330L1 2001 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $14.45
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Snap : a novel
By McGhee, Alison, 1960- Dewey: -Fic-
Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime
best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised
her.
____#11042P3 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.59
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So B. It : a novel
By Weeks, Sarah. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#17019Q0 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $16.89
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Some friend
By Bradby, Marie. Dewey: -Fic-
Fifth grader Pearl Jordan learns some difficult lessons about friendship
when she befriends the odd, but artistically talented Artemesia, then shuns
her in favor of the popular Lenore.
____#14119P4 2004 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $13.56
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Sonny's house of spies
By Lyon, George Ella, 1949- Dewey: -Fic-
In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his
father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the
family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
____#05890Q7 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $14.40
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Soul moon soup
By Johnson, Lindsay Lee. Dewey: -Fic-
After her father leaves and Phoebe and her mother struggle to survive in
the city, Phoebe finally goes to the country to live with her grandmother,
where she learns family secrets and hopes her mother will return for her.
____#31188L2 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $13.56
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Sparrow Hawk Red
By Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952- Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug
Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing
over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.
____#27328C5 1993 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.59
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Spinning through the universe : a novel in poems from
room 214
By Frost, Helen, 1949- Dewey: -Fic-
A collection of poems written in the voices of Mrs. Williams of room 214,
her students, and a custodian about their interactions with each other,
their families, and the world around them. Includes notes on the poetic
forms represented.
____#17984PX 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $13.60
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The spoon in the bathroom wall
By Johnston, Tony, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
Living in the boiler room of the school where her father is janitor seems
normal to fourth grader Martha Snapdragon, until she has experiences with
an evil principal, the class bully, and a mysterious giant spoon, all
reminiscent of the Arthurian legends.
____#11553Q2 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $13.60
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The squire, his knight, & his lady
By Morris, Gerald, 1963- Dewey: -Fic-
After several years at King Arthur's court, Terence, as Sir Gawain's squire
and friend, accompanies him on a perilous quest that tests all their skills
and whose successful completion could mean certain death for Gawain.
____#27858H2 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.60
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The squire's tale
By Morris, Gerald. Dewey: -Fic-
In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence
suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney
and accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and
revealing an important secret about his own true identity.
____#27514F5 1998 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $13.60
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Stanford Wong flunks big-time
By Yee, Lisa. Dewey: -Fic-
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must
struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from
his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
____#24737R5 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $14.44
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A step from heaven
By Na, An, 1972- Dewey: -Fic-
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and
adjust to life in America.
____#26665K6 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.40
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The Steps
By Cohn, Rachel. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#10956N7 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $13.56
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The storyteller's beads
By Kurtz, Jane. Dewey: -Fic-
During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls,
one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many
difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the
dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.
____#27511F3 1998 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $13.60
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Stowaway
By Hesse, Karen. Dewey: -Fic-
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from
1768 to 1771 aboard the "Endeavor" which sailed around the world
under Captain James Cook.
____#25564L7 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $15.26
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Strider
By Cleary, Beverly. Dewey: -Fic-
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his
parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the
track team at school.
____#01829G8 1991 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $16.89
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The summer Sherman loved me
By St. Anthony, Jane. Dewey: -Fic-
In addition to coping with her changing relationship with her mother,
twelve-year-old Margaret spends her summer trying to sort out her feelings
for the boy next door who claims to love her.
____#16726R7 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.60
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Summerland
By Chabon, Michael. Dewey: -Fic-
The ferishers, little creatures who ensure perfect weather for Summerland,
recruit Ethan Feld, one of history's worst baseball players, to help them
in their struggle to save Summerland, and ultimately the world, from
giants, goblins, and other legendary, terrible creatures.
____#15981N2 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $19.50
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Sun & Spoon
By Henkes, Kevin. Dewey: -Fic-
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon observes the changes
in his grandfather and tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his
memories of her.
____#22267D3 1997 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $13.59
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Surviving Jamestown : the adventures of young Sam
Collier
By Karwoski, Gail, 1949- Dewey: -Fic-
Sam Collier, a twelve-year-old, serves as page to John Smith during the
relentless hardship experienced by the founders at the first permanent
English settlement in the New World.
____#06104L4 2001 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $12.70
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Surviving the Applewhites
By Tolan, Stephanie S. Dewey: -Fic-
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty
and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers
talents and interests he never knew he had.
____#31392K8 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $13.59
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Swear to howdy
By Van Draanen, Wendelin. Dewey: -Fic-
Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about
their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together
in a special friendship.
____#14942Q4 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.6 $13.56
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Tadpole
By White, Ruth, 1942- Dewey: -Fic-
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively
girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
____#20321N2 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $13.60
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The teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts
By Peck, Richard, 1934- Dewey: -Fic-
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting
school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older
sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old
Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
____#17671Q3 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.44
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Teenage mermaid
By Schreiber, Ellen. Dewey: -Fic-
Fifteen-year-old Spencer falls in love with Lilly, a mermaid who rescues
him from drowning and who returns to land to find him.
____#37109H3 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $13.59
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The thief
By Turner, Megan Whalen. Dewey: -Fic-
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes
him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a
precious stone.
____#26375A4 1996 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $15.29
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Thimble summer
By Enright, Elizabeth, 1909-1968. Dewey: -Fic-
A few hours after Garnet Linden found a silver thimble in the dried-up
river bed, the rains came to end the long drought on the Wisconsin farm.
____#25695C5 1966 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $17.96
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Through the lock
By Hurst, Carol Otis. Dewey: -Fic-
Etta, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century Connecticut, meets a
boy living in an abandoned cabin on the New Haven and Northampton Canal and
has adventures with him while trying to be reunited with her siblings.
____#25258L3 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $12.75
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Thunder from the sea
By Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Dewey: -Fic-
Just when his dreams of being part of a family and having a dog seem to be
coming true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new island home
and the impending birth of a new baby will change everything. Set in
Newfoundland in 1929.
____#25669QX 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $12.70
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Toby Scudder, ultimate warrior
By Gifaldi, David. Dewey: -Fic-
Priding himself on not doing homework and on never losing a fight, Toby
starts sixth grade planning to rule the school but sixth grade has some definite
surprises in store for him.
____#04160J8 1993 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $12.75
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The treasure of Savage Island
By Hart, Lenore. Dewey: -Fic-
Runaway slave, Rafe, is helped by thirteen-year-old Molly after the ship on
which Rafe has stowed away runs aground near the Eastern Shore, and the
pair share an adventure involving pirates, spies, and lost treasure.
____#20493RX 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $15.29
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Trembling earth
By Siegelson, Kim L. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to
collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's
Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by
the war, had passed on to him in happier times.
____#27958Q1 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $15.29
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Trickster's queen
By Pierce, Tamora. Dewey: -Fic-
Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to
safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her
thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the
colonial rulers are defeated.
____#30806Q1 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $15.26
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The trouble begins
By Himelblau, Linda. Dewey: -Fic-
Reunited with his family for the first time since he was a baby, fifth
grader Du struggles to adapt to his new home in the United States.
____#02040R6 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $18.35
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Trouble don't last
By Pearsall, Shelley. Dewey: -Fic-
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave
who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground
Railroad.
____#17391M7 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $18.35
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Tru confessions
By Tashjian, Janet. Dewey: -Fic-
Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she
documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to create
a television show.
____#25499D1 1997 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $14.36
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The vacation
By Horvath, Polly. Dewey: -Fic-
When his parents go to Africa to work as missionaries, twelve-year-old Henry's
eccentric aunts, Pigg and Mag, take him on a cross-country car trip,
allowing him to gain insight into his family and himself.
____#27735R4 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5 $13.60
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The voyage of the Dawn Treader
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: -Fic-
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the
land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon
because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
____#24856EX 1980 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.44
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Walk across the sea
By Fletcher, Susan, 1951- Dewey: -Fic-
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being
driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites,
fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her
lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
____#17242M7 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.40
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Walker's Crossing
By Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Dewey: -Fic-
While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be
a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved
in a militia movement.
____#28935J4 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $13.60
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Walking to the bus-rider blues
By Robinet, Harriette. Dewey: -Fic-
Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother
struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the
Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
____#15318K1 2000 IL:3-6 RL:4.9 $13.60
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The Wanderer
By Creech, Sharon. Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic
crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with
uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in
England.
____#18686K1 2000 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $17.89
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Water : tales of elemental spirits
By McKinley, Robin. Dewey: -Fic-
Presents six fantasy stories about mermaids, sea serpents, and other
fabulous creatures associated with the element of water.
____#04582M1 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $16.14
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel
By Curtis, Christopher Paul. Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#15053HX 1995 IL:5-8 RL:5 $14.40
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The wee Christmas cabin of Carn-na-ween
By Sawyer, Ruth, 1880-1970. Dewey: -Fic-
Oona Hegerty, a poor woman, has always longed for her own cabin, and on Christmas
Eve, after being trapped in the snow with no shelter, she finds a group of
wee people who work to grant her wish.
____#28724R5 2005 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $12.74
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Weedflower
By Kadohata, Cynthia. Dewey: -Fic-
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated
from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a
Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors,
becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream
of owning a flower shop.
____#28320R4 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $14.41
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Welcome home or someplace like it
By Agell, Charlotte. Dewey: -Fic-
Thirteen-year-old Aggie Wing documents the events of her summer in Ludwig,
Maine, where she and her brother stay with their ninety-one-year-old
grandfather while their mother, a writer of romance novels, is away doing
research.
____#28706P0 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $15.26
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What I call life
By Wolfson, Jill. Dewey: -Fic-
Placed in a group foster home, eleven-year-old Cal Lavender learns how to
cope with life from the four other girls who live there and from their
storytelling guardian, the Knitting Lady.
____#21301R7 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $15.26
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When I was older
By Weyr, Garret. Dewey: -Fic-
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps
fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother
Erhard, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and
her distant father.
____#24437K1 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $12.75
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When my name was Keoko
By Park, Linda Sue. Dewey: -Fic-
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the
increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II,
which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
____#27564M4 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.7 $13.60
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When pirates came to Brooklyn
By Shalant, Phyllis. Dewey: -Fic-
Lee Bloom is drawn into a high-energy friendship with her new neighbor that
is built around their exuberant imaginations, but their mothers' bigotry
soon threatens to destroy their friendship.
____#13660M9 2002 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $14.44
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When the circus came to town
By Yep, Laurence. Dewey: -Fic-
An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old girl
at a Montana stage coach station to regain her confidence after smallpox
scars her face.
____#13414M5 2002 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $15.89
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When Zachary Beaver came to town
By Holt, Kimberly Willis. Dewey: -Fic-
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and
his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the
fattest boy in the world.
____#28249J1 1999 IL:5-8 RL:5 $15.26
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Where in the world
By French, Simon, 1957- Dewey: -Fic-
When Ari and his mother leave their home in Germany for a new life and
family in Australia, he parts from the grandfather who taught him to play
violin, but finds that his music and memories are intertwined.
____#12852P8 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $12.70
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Whispering to witches
By Dale, Anna, 1971- Dewey: -Fic-
On his way to spend Christmas at his mother's house in Canterbury, England,
Joe meets a young witch named Twiggy and becomes part of a mystery
involving a missing page from an ancient book of magic.
____#19753QX 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.8 $16.95
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The widow's broom
By Van Allsburg, Chris. Dewey: -Fic-
A witch's worn-out broom serves a widow well, until her neighbors decide
the thing is wicked and dangerous.
____#26100B0 1992 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $16.10
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The will of the empress
By Pierce, Tamora. Dewey: -Fic-
On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin,
Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry must rely on her childhood
friends and fellow mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that
has grown between them.
____#22104R2 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.9 $15.29
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
By Coville, Bruce. Dewey: 822.3
Retells, in simplified prose, William Shakespeare's play about a prince of
Denmark who seeks revenge for his father's murder.
____#11363PX 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5.3 $14.44
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Willow Run
By Giff, Patricia Reilly. Dewey: -Fic-
Eleven-year-old Meggie Dillon shares her feelings and experiences on the
homefront during World War II after her family moves from Rockaway, New
York to Willow Run, Michigan.
____#21935R8 2005 IL:5-8 RL:4.9 $19.42
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A wind in the door
By L'Engle, Madeleine. Dewey: -Fic-
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the
vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and
death.
____#02061B5 1973 IL:5-8 RL:5.3 $14.45
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Winter danger
By Steele, William O., 1917- Dewey: -Fic-
A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father
leaves him with relatives during a particularly hard winter and returns to
the woods.
____#17237QX 1954 IL:3-6 RL:5.7 $14.45
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Witness
By Hesse, Karen. Dewey: -Fic-
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont
town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the
early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
____#16097L1 2001 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $14.40
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Wizard at work : a novel in stories
By Vande Velde, Vivian. Dewey: -Fic-
A young wizard, who runs a school to teach wizards, looks forward to a
quiet summer off but is drawn into adventures with princesses, unicorns,
and ghosts instead.
____#23076N8 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.4 $13.60
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Wizard's holiday
By Duane, Diane. Dewey: -Fic-
While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage
wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an
exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of
their nemesis, the Lone Power.
____#25908P2 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.8 $14.45
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The wolves in the walls
By Gaiman, Neil. Dewey: -Fic-
Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of her house, although
others in her family disagree, and when the wolves come out, the adventure
begins.
____#15805P1 2003 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $14.44
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Words of stone
By Henkes, Kevin. Dewey: -Fic-
Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his
dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the
boisterous and irresistible Joselle.
____#12271KX 1992 IL:3-6 RL:5.9 $16.99
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Worlds apart
By Karr, Kathleen. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists
from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee
Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and
friendship.
____#12901Q2 2005 IL:5-8 RL:5.4 $13.56
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Worth
By LaFaye, A. Dewey: -Fic-
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he
cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his
father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even
worse.
____#18750Q3 2004 IL:3-6 RL:5 $13.56
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Wringer
By Spinelli, Jerry. Dewey: -Fic-
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a
wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
____#33572F4 1997 IL:5-8 RL:5.5 $14.44
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A year down yonder
By Peck, Richard, 1934- Dewey: -Fic-
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live
with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes
to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
____#20304L5 2000 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.44
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Year of no rain
By Mead, Alice. Dewey: -Fic-
In 1999, when rebel soldiers come to their village in southern Sudan,
Stephen and his friends escape but hope to be able to return again.
____#10737N0 2003 IL:5-8 RL:5.1 $13.60
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The year of the dog : a novel
By Lin, Grace. Dewey: -Fic-
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese
American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog,
those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
____#09952R8 2006 IL:3-6 RL:5.5 $12.74
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Yellow star
By Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967- Dewey: -Fic-
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has
just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in
Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
____#11366R8 2006 IL:5-8 RL:5.2 $14.40
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The young man and the sea
By Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman) Dewey: -Fic-
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is
up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he
undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine
to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna.
____#19055P8 2004 IL:5-8 RL:5.6 $14.40
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Your mother was a Neanderthal
By Scieszka, Jon. Dewey: -Fic-
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in
prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and
"rock" music takes on a whole new meaning.
____#05576L0 1993 IL:3-6 RL:5.2 $12.74
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