Intermediate+Extreme+Readers

Bibliography for Gifted Readers: Intermediate Grades  // “We read to know we are not alone.” // -C.S. Lewis **__Adults who know the particular child should determine the appropriateness of the material. Be especially judicious with books classified as YA. __**   1. Bertie Kingore, “Gifted Kids, Gifted Characters and Great Books”: //Quality literature involving gifted characters should be available to gifted children and adolescents to encourage reflection about their feelings, concerns and interest. These books can help students gain insights into their own lives and identify with others. //Books were selected based on the following 3 criteria: written by authors of merit, well-developed characters who display gifted behaviors and the stories include thought-provoking problem situations. Suggested age levels are based on the ages of the gifted characters, the complexity of the issues confronting them and the interest to a gifted reader.  2. “One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century”: a compilation by __School Library Journal__ of books that have literary and artistic merit, perennial popularity with young readers, that have blazed new trails and exerted a lasting influence on the world of children’s publishing.  3. Judith Halstead, //Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Preschool to High School// : Halstead states four characteristics are essential in challenging gifted learners’ verbal abilities: 1) Using their full vocabulary and develop it further with intellectual peers; 2) Reading books at an appropriate intellectual and emotional level; 3) Being introduced to books that represent a variety of literacy conventions and styles and that use language gracefully; 4) Expressing ideas verbally and in depth by writing and speaking with others who challenge and thus refine their views and concepts.  4. Fountas & Pinnell, //Leveled Books for Readers: Grades 3 to 6// (2002). “Level Z is an eighth grade reading level, but books suggestions at this level should be complex enough to provide a good discussion about elements of text while still being developmentally appropriate.  5. Jerry Flack, “The Gifted Student Bookshelf”, a regular feature in __Kaleidescope__, the journal of the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented. These titles do not always include a recommended age level, so preview first.  6. Award Winning Books <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 7. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Diana Howard, Principal, Polaris Progragm at Ebert, Denver Public Schools. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 8. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Thomas P. Hébert, Ph.D., University of Alabama, “The Right books for Bright Children at the Right Times”. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 9. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Boston <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Globe, “Classics for Young Readers” <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 10. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sally Reis, Ph.D., University of Connecticut in a NAGC presentation on working with gifted readers, 2002. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 11. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nancy L. Peterson, Ed.D., “Linking Books to Kids: Getting to the Heart”, a presentation at NAGC, 2002. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 12. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Carol Tomlinson, Ed.D., “Jumping Right Off the Page: Learning About Teaching Gifted Kids From Children’s Literature”, a presentation at NAGC, November, 1999. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 13. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hoagies Gifted Education Page, [|www.hoagiesgifted.org/featuring_gifted.htm] <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 14. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century”, __School Library Journal__, [|www.libraryvideo.com/articles/article3.asp] <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 15. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Out of this World Books for Kids Ages 8-13”, compiled by the Arrowhead Library System, [] <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 16. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Books for Children, Featuring Gifted Children”, Linda Silverman, Ph.D., Hoagies Gifted Education Page, [|http://www.haogiesgifted.org] <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 17. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“2004 Summer Reading List for Rising Sixth Graders”, Fairfax County Public Schools. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 18. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Books for Gifted 9 Year Olds”, New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children, [] <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 19. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> “101 Out-Of-This-World Books For Kids Ages 8-13”, Arrrowhead Library System, [] <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 20. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Adams Country School District #12 recommended reading for Middle School Students <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 21. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Denver <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Public Library: Extreme Readers: Precocious Readers <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Some websites that may be of interest: [] NSWAGTC book review database (you can contribute as well) [|http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown] (Uni of Calgary Childrens Literature web guide) [|http://www.carolhurst.com] (Carol Hursts Childrens Literature site) [] <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> Guidelines for selecting books: Selecting for Content <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  To learn which books experts in children’s literature recommend, consult these resources: <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  The librarian at your child’s school. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  Librarians in the children’s and young adult sections of your public library. Encourage your daughter to make friends with at least one librarian, who will gladly recommend appropriate books. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  Books about children’s and young adult literature in the reference section of your public library. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  Journals such as Booklist, School Library Journal , and Hornbook that review juvenile literature. These journals can be found in your public library, but you may have to ask for access to them, since the staff typically uses them to purchase new books. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  The American Library Association Web site. Go to [|www.ala.org], click on “Our Association” and then “Divisions,” and look for ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) and YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association). Both pages have links to books considered suitable for the age ranges given, but you will still want to decide for yourself which ones will challenge your reader. Selecting for Challenge <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  When you examine a book from one of these sources, read several pages or a chapter. Look for special characteristics of language, style, plot, and setting. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  The language should make demands on your child’s vocabulary. Keep an eye out for descriptive words that stimulate visual imagery. If the language patterns are those of another country or another time, so much the better; your child will be challenged to infer meaning from the context. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  Style refers to the use of literary devices such as metaphor, allusion, and symbol. These require the reader to create some of the meaning and will stretch your child’s perception. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  Seek plots structured in thought-provoking ways. Look for flashbacks, narration that switches from one character to another, and stories that end without a definite resolution. These devices cause the reader to examine a situation from different perspectives. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> v  The setting can be anywhere—in the real world or in the imagination—or at any time. By reading books that span a wide range of settings, your child can experience ways of living that she may never encounter in her own life. So encourage her to look for books that branch out beyond contemporary American life at least some of the time. By using these guidelines, you can help your child find appropriate reading material without having to read every book yourself. But I hope that you will occasionally join her in reading the same book, both for your own enjoyment and for the pleasure of the conversation you can have with her afterward. //—Judith Wynn Halsted, MS// **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Audience ** || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Author ** || __ Title __ || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Comments, including source ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12-YA <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Adams <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Watership Down __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lead by Fiver, a rabbit who has a feeling something bad might happen, a band of rabbits sets out to look for a new home. **9** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12-YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Alcott || __ Little Women __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An appealing mosaic about the lives of members of the March family. **9, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Alexander || __ The Book of Three __ __ The Golden Dream of Cario Chuchio __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The first is a series of five fantasy books that chronicles the adventures of Taran, assistant pig keeper and hero in the mythical kingdom of Prydain. **9, 18,** War violence; may frighten younger children **21** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy; Some violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-9 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Almond  || __ Skellig __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Two lonely children form a bond when they secretly take on the care of a crusty, otherworldly old man living in a ramshackled garage. A mystical story of love and friendship. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MS? || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ambrose  || __ The Good fight: How World War II Was One __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Stephen Ambrose is a distinguished historian and this book is an excellent “information” book. Highly involving and well-illustrated. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">T || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Armstrong, Willaim || __ Sounder __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The story of African-American sharecropper, his family, and their dog, Sounder. Then the sharecropper is sent to jail for stealing food for this hungry family, it falls on his oldest son to ryto to find him. **4, 6** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 12 & up   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Avi <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel __ __ The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle __ __ Crispin __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Witty satire of high school politics that invites the reader to question and analyze what they read and hear. **1, 11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7, **<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> **14** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3rd -5th <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Babbitt, Natalie || __ Tuck Everlasting __ __ Jack Plank Tells Tales __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret - a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring. **14, 15, 17, 18, 19** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Humor; minimal piracy violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bagnold || __ National Velvet __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A 14 year old girl with a passion for horses wins a horse in a raffle, trains it to jump, disguises herself as a jockey and rides it in the Grand national Steeplechase. **9** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Balliett, Blue  || __ Chasing Vermeer and others __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Two classmates are determined to help solve the mystery of a missing paintng. Interactive. **4. 21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.5 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Barker, Clive || __ Abarat __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.2 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">X || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Barry, Dave || __ Peter and the Starcatchers __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy; some violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bauer, Marion || __ Sticks __ __ On My Honor __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">With the help of his grandmother, his dead father's best friend, and his own best friend, a math genius, ten-year-old Mickey prepares to compete in the most important pool championship of his life, despite his mother's reservations. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> 11, 12 ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In this short but solid novel, Bauer effectively portrays the dilemma of pre-adolescents, old enough to want to meet their own challenges without adult interference, young enough to want grownup protection and reassurance. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Baum, L. Frank || __ Oz __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy stories of Oz and many. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">? <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-7 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Beatty, Patricia <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Beatty, Patricia, cont’d. || __ Charley Skedaddle __ __ Who Comes with Cannons? __ __ Lupita Manaña __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A young boy from New York City enlists in the Union Army as a drummer boy after his brother his killed at Gettysburg and the “skedaddles” away from the Army and hides in the Blue Ridge Mountains. **17** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Underground Railroad is viewed through the eyes of a young Quaker girl who helps slaves escape. **17** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A girl and her brother must cross the border from Mexico to the US. They work along the way. Great to pair with __Esperanza Rising__. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-6 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bedard, M. || __ Emily __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An insightful vignette of the reclusive life of Emily Dickinson is shared through a young neighbor’s visit. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7.5 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Beddor || __ The Looking Glass Wars __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Apparently more violent than Alice in Wonderland. Death. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Berlin, Eric || __ Puzzling World of Winston Breen __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mystery, bad guys, puzzles kids can do **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Betancourt || __ My Name is Brian __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Brian and his fellow members of the Jokers Club hate school. To make it more fun, they create a secret game, winning points for making other people laugh during the day. Brian wins the first point when he writes his name as ``Brain'' on the blackboard. But it's no joke. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DRA 40 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Birdsall || __ The Penderwicks __ || Every teacher who has looked at this list says, “Oh, I love the Penderwicks.” More appealing to girls || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Birney, Betty || __ The Princess and the Peabodys __ __ The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Contemporary/fantasy; middle school bullying **21** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction; ghosts, some reference to drinking **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bishop, Nic || __ Quest for the Tree Kangaroo and Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-fiction **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Blackwood || __ Shakespeare Stealer __ __ Shakespeare’s Scribe __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Author’s note sets the stage. This is an invitation to talented readers. Not at all “dumbed down”. **10** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bradbury, Ray || __ The Martian Chronicles __ || From “Rocket Summer” to “The Million-Year Picnic”, these stories of colonization on Mars are an eerie of past and future. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th-8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Broach, Elise || __ Shakespeare’s Secret __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mystery; some sophisticated topics, including beheading and affairs in English history; refers to Shakespeare’s plays **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Brooks <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Bruce <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ What Hearts __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How Asa learns to trust the power of his heart as well as his intelligence makes for a poignant story about the pains and pleasures of growing up. **7**, **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Brown || __ Ruth Law Thrills a Nation __ __ Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">One of the earliest American aviator faces prejudice against women pilots. **5** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Courageous English woman explores Africa in the late 19th century. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bruchac, Joseph || __ Sacajawea __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Told in alternating points of view by Sacajawea and Clark, this story includes tales of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. **4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bunting, Eve || __ So Far from the Sea __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The pain of Japanese internment camps is described in this book with a mature theme. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2-6 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-13  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Burnett <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Frances <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Hodgson || __ Sara Crewe __ __ The Secret Garden __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Originally written in 1888, Sara remains courageous and compassionate as she is orphaned and falls from riches to a pauper. **1** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9, 14, 18, 19 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-13  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Burnford, Sheila || __ The Incredible Journey __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9, 14, 19 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th- 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Burns, Loree Griffin || __ Tracking Trash __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-fiction **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-14  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Buss || __ Journey of the Sparrow __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Maria, her brother and sister arrive in the U.S. from El Salvador, jammed inside a nailed crate. Having left their mother and baby sister in Mexico, they are ready to take up the twilight existence of the illegal alien in Chicago. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I-M <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 7-10  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Byars, Betsy <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ The Cartoonist __ __ Summer of the Swans __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Alfie immerses himself in his art to escape the problems caused by other members of his family. **8, 11, 18** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost. **14, 17, 18** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-13  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Caldwell <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, V.M.  || __ The Ocean Within __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When Elizabeth, an eleven-year-old foster child, is adopted by the boisterous, openly affectionate Sheridan family, it is Grandma who decides to use a fresh approach in trying to help her connect with her new family. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Carbone, Elisa || __ Blood on the River __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction; war/violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Card, Orson Scott || __ Ender’s Game __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Earth is under attack from aliens known as "buggers." The only hope is a brilliant general named Ender Wiggin. The only problem is that he is a child. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The information on this was inconsistent. Anywhere from DRA 44 to   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">RL 7.7  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Carman, Patrick || __ Land of Elyon (series) __ __ Atherton (series) __ || “Atherton – The House of Power,” by Patrick Carman is the first book in a science fiction series about a world created by a mad scientist. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Carmi || __ Samir and Yonaton __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Riding his bicycle down the market steps, a young Palestinian falls and smashes his knee so badly that he needs surgery. For the first time in his life, Samir leaves his home in the Occupied Territories to go to a Jewish hospital where an American doctor will operate on him. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Catanese, P.W.  || __ The Thief and the Beanstalk __ __ The Eye of the Warlock __ __ and others __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Christie, Agatha || __ Various __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the mystery lover **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 7 and up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 12 & up    <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cleary, Beverly || __ A Girl From Yamhill & __ __ My Own Two Feet __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Follows the popular children's author through her childhood and then her college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins." **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cleaver, Vera and Bill || __ Where the Lilies Bloom __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8 – 12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level R  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-14 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6 & up || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Clements || __ Frindle __ __ Year of Impossible Goodbyes __ __ The Janitor’s Boy __ __ The Landry News __ __ The School Story __ __ Things Not Seen __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Trying to aggravate a tough language-arts teacher, a fifth-grade boy invents a new word for pen: "frindle." Soon, the whole country is using it. "Dictionary lovers will cotton to this mild classroom fantasy," **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12, 11, 17 ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ever since second grade when he announced to his class that he wanted to grow up and become a janitor like his father, Jack Rankin has been the target of relentless teasing about his dad's work. Now a fifth grader, he learns that the town's century-old high school, where his father is head custodian, will serve as his temporary school while a new elementary building is under construction. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A fifth grader's scathing editorial criticizing her burned-out teacher spurs him to take his duties seriously. A terrific read about free speech, the power of the pen, and the need to temper truth with mercy. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When sixth-grader Natalie Nelson learns that school stories are always in demand at the publishing company where her mother is an editor, she instantly thinks, "Hey, who knows more about school than someone who's right there, five days a week, nine months a year?" **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">With a nod in the direction of H. G. Wells' Invisible Man, Clements allows readers to speculate what it would be like to be invisible. **11, 20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Coburn || __ Triumph on Everest: A Photobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Photos taken by Hillary illustrate this spectacular book. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-7 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Codell, Esme Raji  || __ Sahara Special __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A story about a young firl who has to repeat the 5th grade, but ends up with excellent teachers who see her for who she really its. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.2 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Colfer, Eoin || __ Artemis Fowl (series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy/adventure. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Collier, James || __ My Brother Sam is Dead __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Young Tom is caught between his brother’s patriotism and his father’s Tory sympathies in this classic tale of the American Revolution. ** 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DRA 44 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Collins, Suzanne || __ Gregor the Overlander __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cooney, Caroline || __ Enter Three Witches __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction; violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cooper, Susan  || __ The Dark is Rising Series __ __ Susan series __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Set in modern day England and Wales, the series draws on the legends of King Arthur and other mythology of Great Britainl. **9, 14, 15, 18, 19** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Corcoran, Barbara  || __ I Am the Universe __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The serious, responsible girl of the family has to contend with a number of problems, both funny and not so funny, when her mother has to have an operation. **13, 16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Couloumbis, Audrey || __ Misadventures of Maude March __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical Fiction; some violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cox, Clinton || __ Undying Glory __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This is the story of the courageous men of the 54th regiment of Massachusetts, who fought as Union soldiers to free their brothers and sisters from slavery. **17** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Creech, Sharon || __ Walk Two Moons __ __ Love That Dog __ __ Chasing Redbird __ __ The Castle Corona __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A girl’s tender search for her mother. ** 7** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A boy finds a way to grieve. ( my own addition) <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy; some violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cresswell, Helen || __ The Bagthorpe Saga __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Eleven-year-old Jack, the only "ordinary" member of the talented and eccentric Bagthorpe family, concocts a scheme to distinguish himself as a modern-day prophet. **13, 14** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Curtis || __ Bud, Not Buddy __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This well-crafted novel explores the life and hard times of a resourceful orphan in search of his father during the Depression. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">T  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Curtis, Christopher || __ The Watsons Go To Birmingham __ __ Bud, Not Buddy __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">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. **3, 4, 6, 11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">U <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th-6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cushman, Karen || __ Catherine Called Birdy __ __ The Loud Silence of Francine Green __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the course of her fourteenth year, Catherine keeps a journal of her perceptive observations and longings for adventure and independence in a medieval English manor. ** 4** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction; **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2-6 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dahl || __ Matilda __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Matilda, a genius with selfish dolts for parents, uses her untapped mental ability to punish some hurtful adults and save her nice teacher. **1, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Danziger, Paula || __ The Cat Ate My Gymsuit __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement. **16 **Other books by Dahl are also recommended **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.9 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Davies, David Clement || __ Fire Bringer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">De Saint-Exupery || __ The Little Prince __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DeAngeli || __ Door in the Wall __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A handicapped boy in 14th century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the king. **4, 17, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DeFelice, Cynthia || __ Nowhere to Call Home __ __ Weasel __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This realistic rags-to-riches (and back again) tale set in the time of Hoovervilles and bread lines follows a girl who takes up a hobo’s life. Sheltered, wealthy Frances Barrows world is thrown into chaos when her fathers factories go bankrupt and he kills himself during the Depression. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 7-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 3 & up || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DiCamillo, Kate || __ The Tale of Despereaux (and others) __ __ Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th-8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Divakaruni, Chitra || __ The Conch Bearer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy; mystical, evil wizard, fantasy, uses “damn” **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">44 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">D’Lacey || __ The Fire Within (and others) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Donnelly, Jennifer  || __ A Northern Light __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A story about a young girl who is left as the caregiver of her entire family after her mother dies. She searches for independence and freedom in a time when this was not expected for young women. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan || __ The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holme __ __ The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes __ __ The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the mystery lover **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dubois, William Pene || __ Twenty-One Balloons __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean, but by a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants and incredible balloon inventions. **6, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">DuPrau, Jeane || __ City of Ember (series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA/jFic || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Duncan, Lois || __ A Gift of Magic __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Until she learns to control it, Nancy's gift of extrasensory perception brings her more trouble than she can handle. **16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dunn || __ Ella Minnow Pea __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For students with an advanced vocabulary and willingness to decipher. A town bans the use of letters, one by one, and the story is written using only words without those letters. Challenging. **10** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Eager || __ Half Magic __ __ Other books by this author __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Whatever they wish, they get half. **7, 18** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">There WERE books about magic before Harry Potter. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Upper el + || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ehrenhaft || __ The Last Dog on Earth __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> A boy lacks direction and friends and self-esteem until he adopts Jack, wild and mangy mutt. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Engdahl || __ Enchantress from the Stars __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Three civilizations on earth at once. **7** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Estes, Eleanor || __ The Moffats (series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Farmer || __ The Ear, the Eye, the Arm __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Amazing science fiction set in future Africa. **7** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Farmer, Nancy   || __ A Girl Named Disaster __ __ The Sea of Trolls __ __ The Ear, the Eye and the Arm __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When eleven year-old Nhamo (disaster) flees her native village in Mozambique to search for her father in Zimbabwe, she is lost on the vast Lake Cabora Bassa. A survival story with a glimpse into other cultures. **4** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It’s 793 A.D. and young Jack is kidnapped and thrust into an adventure/quest through Norse mythology and Saxon history. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Three detectives are looking for three children, thought to have been kidnapped from an elite family. The children face new situations in order to survive. Science fiction/survival. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 9 & up || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fenner || __ Yolonda’s Genius __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12, 11 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ferris, Helen || __ Favorite Poems, Old and New __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Collection of 1000 poems by a variety of authors. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Int <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level T || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Firzgerald || __ The Great Brain __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Great Brain, age 10, specializes in solving problems that baffle adults in his life. He uses his resources to help a less fortunate young man. This is the first title of an extensive series. **8, 13, 16, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">1-5 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level T  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">EL -MS <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fitzhugh, Louise || __ Harriet the Spy __ __ The Long Secret __ __ Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Harriet is intelligent and curious. **1, 13, 16, 18** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Through a series of family disagreements over her seven-year-old brother's efforts to become a dancer and her own determination to be a lawyer, eleven-year-old Emma realizes that it is up to children to take the initiative since parents rarely change. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">8, 14 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.6 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Flanagan, John || __ Ranger’s Apprentice __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy, war violence, bullying, fantastical creatures, **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 12 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 8 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Grades 4 & up  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fleischman, Paul || __ Mind’s Eye __ __ Seedfolks __ __ Escape! __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">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. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-fiction **21 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Forbes || __ Johnny Tremain __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Events and drams in pre-Revolutionary Boston are seen and assessed by a young hero. **9** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fox <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Slave Dancer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jessie is appalled when he is pressed into service as a slave dancer and must play his fife to keep captives on a slave ship active and salable. **9, 11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Frank, Anne || __ The Diary of a Young Girl __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Compelling and candid, this diary introduced the world to a girl filled with the motional concerns of a typical teenager, but living in stifling and terrifying circumstances. **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Frederick, Heather || __ The Mother Daughter Book Blub __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Contemporary, **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Freedman, Russell || __ Lincoln: A Photobiography __ __ Franklin Delano Roosevelt __ __ Eleanor Roosevelt, A Life of Discovery __ __ The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A well-researched, eloquently written narrative explains the life and time, person characteristics and political career of Lincoln. Few, if any, of the many books written for children about Lincoln can compare with Freedman's contribution. More than 80 photographs and prints illustrate the crisp and informative text. **9, 14, 17 ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Traces the life of FDR from his birth in 1882, through his youth, early political career and presidency to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945. **4** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Compelling text and contemporary photos trace Eleanor Roosevelt’s life from unhappy childhood to the world’s stage. ** 4** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This nonfiction book uses historical photographs and in-depth information to explain the determination and creativity of the Wright Brothers. **1, 18 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Freymann-Weyr, Garrett || __ My Heartbeat __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">? <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">? || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fritz, Jean <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fritz, et al || __ Around the World in a Hundred Years from Henry the Navigator to Magellan __ __ Early Thunder __ __ The Great Little Madison __ __ The World in 1492 __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This book examines the great wave of European exploration during the 1400s in a way that brings to life the explorers who changed the world map. **17** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Daniel and his widowed father must choose to be either Tory or Whig as growing violence between the groups sets the stage for the Revolutionary War. **17** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This in-depth account of James Madisons’s life fives an interesting picture of life in America before, during and after the American Revolution. **17** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This collection by a number of highly regarded children’s authors contains information about people, places, and events of this time period, from several areas of the world. **17** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Funke, Cornelia || __ Thief Lord __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Action/adventure, law-breaking, kids living on their own, scary adults **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5.9 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5.8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Furlough, Monica || __ Wise Child __ __ Juniper __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 8 & up || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gaskins, Pearl || __ What Are You? Voices of Mixed Race Young People __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Many young people of racially mixed backgrounds discuss their feelings about family relationships, prejudice, dating, personal identity, and other issues. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">EL-M <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-6 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Int-MS || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">George || __ Julie of the Wolves __ __ Also a sequel: Julie __ __ My Side of the Mountain __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Miyax rebels against a home situation that she finds intolerable. She becomes lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food or compass. She survives day to day and is forced to redefine the traditional richness of Eskimo life. **8, 14** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sam’s diary reveals his experiences living alone and off the land. **1, 8, 15, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-7 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Giff, Patricia Reilly  || __ Ellen Foster __ __ Pictures of Hollis Woods __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A young girl is placed in several foster homes, but eventually learns about unconditional love. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gipson, Fred || __ Old Yeller __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This is the story of a special friendship between a 14 year old boy and a big, ugly, yellow dog in a the Texas wilderness. **17, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Glancey || __ The Story of Architecture __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Published by Dorling Kinderly, major producers of information books. Encyclopedic in breadth of information on this topic. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Grandits, John || __ Technically, It’s Not My Fault: Concrete Poems __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Uses inventive chaps and typefaces to hilarious effect. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greenberg and Jordan || __ Frank O. Gehry: Outside In __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Story of architect Frank O. Gehry, designer of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain, perhaps one of the most talk-about building in decades. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MS || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greene, Bette || __ Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Beth Lambert could easily be the best student in her class if she did not let Philip Hall, her first love, have this distinction. **8** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-7?  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level P   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greene, Constance  || __ A Girl Called Al (series) __ __ Isabelle and Little Orphan Frannie __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A seventh-grade girl, her slightly fat girl friend, Al, and the assistant superintendent of their apartment building form a mutually needed friendship with the usual--and a few unusual--joys and sorrows. <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When Isabelle discovers her new protégée can't read, she acquires an unwilling and possibly unteachable pupil. **16** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">EL –Jr.H || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greenwald || __ Will the Real Gertrude Hollings Please Stand Up? __ __ & other books by this author __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gertrude Hollings, labeled learning disabled and an outcast at school, but cherished and loved at home, must spend three weeks with her straight A and very competitive cousin, Albert. To their mutual surprise, they learn from one another. **8, 13, 16** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">? <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gripe, Maria || __ Hugo and Josephine __ __ In the time of the Bells __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Everything changes for the minister's small daughter when she meets and becomes friends with an unusual little boy. **16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Although the astrologers have tried to ignore it, a young king and his whipping boy sense a force that directs their future. **16** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Grove <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Vicki <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Reaching Dustin __ __ The Starplace __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fifth-grader Carly's assignment to interview a reclusive, brooding classmate leads her to discover some of the events that have caused his antisocial and abusive family's negative impact on their Missouri farming community, and Carly's family in particular. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hale, Shannon || __ Princess Academy __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy, kidnapping, bullying **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Age 12-YA <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-7  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5-8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hamilton <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Virginia <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ M.C, Higgins the Great __ __ The House of Dies Drear __ __ The Justice Cycle __ __ The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales __ __ The Planet of Junior Brown __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Higgins have lived in the same place since great-grandmother Sarah escaped from slavery and settled there. When coal miners leave debris on the side of the mountain that threatens to slide down and destroy their home, young Mayo Cornelius finds the courage to stand up to his father and save the house. **9, 14** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. **15, 17, 19** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An eleven-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers. Science Fiction **16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope. **14** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This inner-city story weaves a complex tale about a talented pianist whose weight causes people to ostracize him. **1, 13, 16** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hansberry <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Lorraine <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ A Raisin in the Sun __ || An African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Harness || __ Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Harness observes that the Statue of Liberty would lead one to assume that women have held many positions of greatness in our nation’s history, when in fact, for much of our history women were not allowed to vote, own property or work in many professions. Harness provides a tribute to women from colonial to current time, some well-known, others not. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hayes, Daniel || __ Trouble with Lemons __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Henry, Marguerite || __ Misty of Chincoteague __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A band of wild ponies inhabits an island. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 11-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-10  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-7 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hesse, Karen  || __ Out of the Dust __ __ Witness __ __ Aleutian Sparrow __ __ Music of the Dolphins __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. **4, 11, 14 ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">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. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Told in blank verse, this is the story of Aleutian islanders’ relocation during WWII. Hesse shows the culture, the people and the dislocation and destruction caused by the war. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The writing changes as the main character becomes a more fluent speaker. A demonstration of what is must be like to live in a totally foreign culture. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hiassen, Carl  || __ Hoot __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy’s attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. **6** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hirsch, Robin || __ F*E*G: Ridiculous, Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An unusual book that inspires wordplay in language-loving readers. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6 – 9 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hobbs, Will  || __ The Maze __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7.2 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Holland <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Kevin Crossley || __ Arthur and the Seeing Stone __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">To pre-teen || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Horowitz, Anthony || __ Diamond Brothers Mysteries The Falcon’s Malteser __ __ The French Confection __ __ I Know What You Did Last Wednesday __ __ South by South East __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nick Simple’s life is anything but simple. His parents have moved to Australia, leaving him in the care of his incompetent older brother who is trying to make a living as a private detective. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Horvath, Polly  || __ Everything On a Waffle __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Eleven-year-old Primrose living 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. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hunt, Irene || __ Across Five Aprils __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Through letters, a divided family follows their sons through the five years of the Civil War. **3, 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7.3 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hunter, Erin || __ The Warriors (series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MS || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hunter, Molly || __ A Sound of Chariots __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A young woman’s love of beautiful words and her desire to become a writer causes her conflict with an unappreciative teacher. **8** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">INT || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hurwitz || __ Class President __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Julio Sanchez, a Puerto Rican young man, is a true friend to his peers and has a natural gift of leadership. He is elected 5th grade class president after his friends recognize his ability to help people. **8** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jackson, Percy || __ The Lightning Thief __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y/Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jaques, Brian || __ Martin, the Warrior (and others in the Redwall series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This animal tale is part of the Redwall series, in which Martin journeys to help his people stand against a band of villains. **17, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3rd – 5th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jonell, Lynne || __ Emmy and the Incredible Shinking Rat __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy, bullying, evil nanny **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jones, Charlotte Foltz || __ Fingerprints and Talking Bones __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-fiction on solving crimes **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jordan, Sherryl || __ Time of the Eagle __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Epic, war violence ** 21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Joseph, Lynn || __ The Color of My Words __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better--until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Juster, Norman || __ The Phantom Tollbooth __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom. **14, 15, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kehret, Peg || __ Earthquake Terror __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jonathan and Abby’s parents have just rushed to the emergency room, leaving their children alone when an earthquake strikes the island. The book recounts the children’s survival efforts in the aftermath. **17** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kendall, Carol || __ The Gammage __ __ The Whisper of Glocken __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Minnipins’ world is a colorful, well-detailed world full of adventures, with no shortage of eccentric characters. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kennedy, Caroline || __ A Family of Poems __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">T || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Key, Alexander || __ The Forgotten Door __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A young boy finds a forgotten door that takes him into the past. **4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">King, Casey  || __ Oh Freedom: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with Kids Who Made It Happen __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">King, Laurie || __ The Beekeeper’s Apprentice __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sherlock Holmes takes on a teen female apprentice. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kipling, Rudyard || __ Jungle Book __ __ Just So Stories __ __ Rikki-Tikki- Tavi __ __ The Man Who would Be King __ __ Rudyard Kipling: Complete Verse __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Knight || __ Lassie Come Home __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">One of the best dog stories ever written describes the arduous journey Lassie makes from Scotland to Yorkshire to find her master. **9** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-7 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level S  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-10 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Konigsburg <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler __ __ The View From Saturday __ __ Up from Jericho Tel __ __ Silent to the Bone __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A sister and brother run away from home to hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and decipher the mystery of a statue. **1, 6, 8, 11, 14** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Four gifted students and their teacher form a team for the Academic Bowl and enhance their humanity in the process. **1, 6, 12, 11, 17** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace. **16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bramwell has been silent since the day his half-sister was badly injured and he called 911. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Korman, Gordman <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ No More Dead Dogs __ __ Schooled __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A football player ends up in detention where they are putting together a play for a book he didn’t like. **13,** **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Contemporary; bullying, mild language **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6th – 8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Koslick, Conor || __ Epic __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy/Gaming; video violence, vampires, murder **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2-6 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Krull || __ Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) __ __ Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Biographies of adventurous women. Witty, entertaining and factual approach to biography. **10,** **5** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A simple, but informative biography about overcoming obstacles. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">? || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Krumgold, Joseph  || __ …And Now Miguel __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The story of Miguel, a new Mexican sheepherder and how in one summer’s journey he grows from being a child into a maturing individual. **4, 6** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">L’Engle || __ A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet; Many Waters __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Classic science fiction trilogy about facing the problem of being different, fighting to overcome evil and the power of love. **1, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th -6th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Larson, Kirby || __ Hattie Big Sky __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical Fiction, some violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lawson, Robert || __ Rabbit Hill __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Le Guin || __ Wizard of Earthsea and others in the series __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Unforgettable fantasy series. **7, 13, 14, 16, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Leslie, Robyn || __ Rinny and the Trail of Clues __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Levine || __ Ella Enchanted __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cinderella-based story of a spunky, intelligent heroine struggling to overcome a curse that forces her to obey any command given to her. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-7  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Levine, Gail Carson || __ The Two Princesses of Bamarre __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the the Grey death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure and encounters monsters and other dangers along the way. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-9 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Levitin, Sonia  || __ Dream Freedom __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Marcus and his classmates learn about the terrible problem of slavery in present-day Sudan and raise money to help buy the freedom of some of the slaves. Alternate chapters tell the stories of the slaves. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lindgren, Astrid || __ Pippi Longstocking __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone with a monkey in her wacky hous. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lofting, Hugh || __ Dr. Dolittle (many) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">London <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">London <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Call of the Wild __ __ White Fang __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Buck, a domesticated dog, is beaten and forced to work as a sled dog. He eventually leaves and joins a pack of wolves. **9** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">S || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lord, Bette Bao || __ In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This is the story of Chinese child who comes to live in Brooklyn in the year 1947. It is the year when everyone’s hero is Jackie Robinson, grandson of an ex-slave, who is displaying how everyone has something to contribute to America. **4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lorenz || __ Buried Blueprints: Maps and Sketches of Lost Worlds and Mysterious Places __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Highly imaginative book with oversize, fold-out pages that serve as maps or blueprints to some of the most famed landmarks in history, religion, literature and myths. **5** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">EL-MS <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Q  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">U <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lowry, Lois <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Anastasia on her Own and others __ __ Gathering Blue __ __ The Giver __ __ Number the Stars __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Anastasia Krupnik is left in charge of her very disorganized family. She invents the Krupnik Family Nonsexist Housekeeping Schedule and saves the day! **8, 11, 13, 16, 19** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Science fiction tale of a perfect world with no problems, fears or pain. **1, 6, 12, 11, 14, 19** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ten year-old Anne Marie Johnson is asked to go on a dangerous mission that will take all her strength and courage in order to save her friend from the Nazis. **4, 6** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mackler, Carol || __ The Earth, My Butt and other Big Round Things __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-6 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MacLachlan, Patricia || __ The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt __ __ Baby __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Minna is a talented musician who struggles to learn to appreciate herself and her unique family. **1, 7, 8, 11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A family finds a baby on their doorstep aftern all the summer tourists leave for the winter. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Maguire, Gregory || __ The Good Liar __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">World War II comes alive for 3 girls doing a school report. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Maguire, Gregory || __ Leaping Beauty – and other Animal Fairy Tales __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Eight well-known fairy tales are recast and retold. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2-6 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Martin || __ Snowflake Bentley __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Persistence and family support are embedded in this biography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, a self-taught photographer and scientist. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6 & up || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mazer, Norma Fox || __ After the Rain __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MacHale, J. || __ Pendragon (series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy/adventure || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">McCaffrey, Ann  || __ Dragonsong __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A fantasy about the island of Pern, where periodically, spores fall from the sky and consume all living matter. A musically gifted young girl grows up in place where tradition dictates that women cannot become Harpers. ** 3, 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">McKinley || __ The Blue Sword __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A strong young woman seeks her identity. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">McKinley, Robert || __ The Hero and the Crown __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">McMullan, Kate || __ Myth-O-Mania __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mythology like you have never seen it before. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Meigs, Cornelia || __ Invincible Louisa __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A biography of Louis may Alcott. ** 4, 6** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Y || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Merrill, Jean || __ The Pushcart War __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Unusual in its format (pretending to be an historical document, replete with footnotes and transcribed conversations, this unconventional novel is social satire for children in its finest form. **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6th – 8th ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Meyer, L. A.   ||  __ Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical/adventure; piracy, violence, (almost) sexual attack **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">EL-M || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Miles || __ The Real Me __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Barbara Fischer feels strongly about discrimination against females. She campaigns for an end to this treatment as she fights for girls taking “boys sports” in gym class and having her own paper route. **8** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Miller, Kirsten || __ Kiki Strike __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Action/adventure; some violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Montgomery <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, L. M.  || __ Anne of Green Gables __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. **9, 14, 17, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-14 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-14 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds  || __ Jade Green __ __ Walker’s Crossing __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">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. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nesbit, Edith || __ The Five Children and It and others __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy before Harry Potter **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nixon, Joan Lowery || __ The Orphan Train Adventures __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Orphans from the east coast are sent on the train to the west in hopes that someone will adopt them. Historical fiction. **17, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Norton, Mary || __ The Borrowers and others __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Little people live between the floors. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">O’Dell, Scott || __ Island of the Blue Dolphins __ __ The Black Pearl __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. **14, 18** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ramon’s family is in the pearl business in Baja. While his father is away on a trip, Ramon finds the fabulous Pearl of Heaven, but it earns him powerful enemies. **17** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Orwell, George || __ Animal Farm __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Park <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Barbara <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Mick Harte Was Here __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls her younger brother Mick and his death in a bicycle accident. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Park, Linda Sue  || __ A Single Shard __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">K-5 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Parks and Haskins || __ Rosa Parks: My Story __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rosa Parks tells her story. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level S  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6-8 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level U  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level S   <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Paterson, Katherine <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Bridge to Terabithia __ __ Come Sing, Jimmy Jo __ __ Jacob Have I Loved __ __ Of Nightingales that Weep __ __ The Master Puppeteer __ __ The Great Gilly Hopkins __ __ Park’s Quest __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Two nonconformist friends create their own magical realm and encourage each other’s gifts. **1, 6, 8, 12, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Painful shyness causes self and family conflicts for a gifted eleven-year old boy when he reluctantly joins his family’s musical group. **1, 8, 11, 13, 16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Complex relationships and emotions evolve as a twin feels that her sister has deprived her of parental affection and schooling. **1, 6, 11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Seeking his father, Park discovers himself. **7, 11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4.2 – 5.2 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Patterson, James || __ Maximum Ride (series) __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Paulsen <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Brian’s Winter and others in the Hatchet series __ __ Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Stories __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When the plane crashes, Brian is the sole survivor and must solve unique problems. **1, 11, 14, 19** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson. **11, 15, 13** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Paulson, Gary || __ The Boy __ __ The Cookcamp __ __ The Quilt __ __ Alida’s Song __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A five year old boy is sent to the north woods of Minnesota to live with his grandmother… || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pearce, Philippa || __ Tom’s Midnight Garden __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tom’s friendship with Hattie, the Victorian child who inhabits his garden in the middle of the night, is the quintessential time-slip fantasy, full of impossible possibilities brought on by the needs of two children of different decades. ** 14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Peck, Richard || __ A Long Way from Chicago __ __ Other books by this author __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A boy recounts his annual summer trip to the rural Illinois during the Great Depression. **4** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Perkins, Lynne Rae || __ All Alone in the Universe __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Debbie is dismayed when her best friend Maureen starts spending time with ordinary, boring Glenna. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MS || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pfeffer || __ Dear Dad, Love Laurie __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Laurie is a sixth grader who feels victimized twice: her parents have recently divorced and she has been excluded form the gifted program based on test and grades that were compromised by her parent’s separation. She relates her thoughts and feelings to her father in letters. **8, 13, 16** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 7-10 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pratchett, Terry  || __ The Amazing Mauric and His Educated Rodents __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, with talking cats andrats, rat breeders and fighter, rat kings, an innocent piper and a nosy girl. **20** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.7 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pullman, Phillip || __ The Golden Compass __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Another fantasy/adventure that seem to be so popular currently. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ransome, Arthur || __ Swallows and Amazons __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 3-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Raskin, Ellen || __ The Westing Game __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This mystery challenges the reader to follow sixteen characters and plot line twists. Highly complex. **1, 6,** **14, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rawls || __ Where the Red Fern Grows __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An Ozark farm boy’s adventures with a pair of coon dogs make a memorable story about the bonds between humans and animals. **9** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3-8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Roberts || __ Henry Cisneros: Mexican American Mayor __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Biography of the national government official and former mayor of San Antonio. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">MS || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ryan || __ Frankie’s Run __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mary Frances Courtney proves that she can be grown up without wearing makeup. She organizes a marathon to raise money for the local library and learns a great deal about herself in the process. **8** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-9  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8 – 12  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ryan, Pam Munoz || __ Esperanza Rising __ __ Riding Freedom __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rylant, Cynthia || __ Missing May __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. **4, 11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">EL-M <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sachar || __ Someday Angeline __ __ Holes __ __ Wayside School Stories __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Angeline is an 8 year old who has been accelerated to 6th grade and she must deal with issues of being too smart. **8** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The heir to his family’s curse of bad luck, Stanley is convicted of a crime he did not commit. **4, 6** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Salkeld || __ Mystery on Everest: A Photobiography of George Mallory __ __ The Girl in the Box __ __ Words by Heart __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Use of archival photos is one of the strengths of this book about George Mallory. **5** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7, 16 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Schmidt, Gary || __ The Wednesday Wars __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction, knowledge of Shakespeare increases enjoyment **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Selden, George || __ The Cricket in Times Square __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Selznick, Brian || __ The Invention of Hugo Cabret __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sewell || __ Black Beauty __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Although his life begins and ends in comfort, a horse discovers how difficult and unpredictable life can be. **9** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">V-Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Shan, Darren || __ Cirque du Freak __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Silverstein, Shel || __ Various __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Slepian, Jan || __ The Alfred Summer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat. **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 4-7 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Smith, Doris B.  || __ A Taste of Blackberries __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his best friend. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Smith, Roland || __ Peak __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Adventure, frozen dead bodies **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level V || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Snicket, Lemony || __ The Bad Beginning __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The first book in the //Series of Unfortunate Events//, finds the Baudelaire siblings are magnets for misfortune. ** 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Snicket, Lemony || __ The Series of Unfortunate Events books: __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The first book, __The Bad Beginning,__ does begin badly for Baudelaire children. A bit dark, but tons of fun – great vocabulary. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-7  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-14 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">U || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Snyder || __ Libby on Wednesday __ __ The Egypt Game __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Libby has been home-schooled, but in the 7th grade her mother decides its time for her to “socialize” and attend middle school. **8, 16** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Two girls get involved in an elaborate game that soon leads to strange, inexplicable happenings.** 4, 6** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">T || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Speare, Elizabeth || __ The Sign of the Beaver __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Matt and his father come to Massachusetts to claim the land that his father purchased and find they are the first white family in the area. **3, 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sperry, Armstrong || __ Call It Courage __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mafatu survives an accident that kills his mother, but it leaves him afraid of the sea and considered a coward in his Polynesian world. **3, 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 8-12 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 6-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Spinelli, Jerry  || __ Wringer __ __ Maniac Magee __ __ Loser __ __ Stargirl __ __ Milkweed __ __ There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock __ __ Eggs __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">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. **11** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A boy who can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood and tie a knot no one can under bridges a town’s racial gap. **4, 20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A “loser” gives his all to be a hero. (my own addition) <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A story about a girl that commits random anonymous acts of kindness and how it affects her community. **20. 21** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A boy lives and survives on his own during the Holocaust. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A girls wants to go out for wrestling. **20 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Spyri, Johanna || __ Heidi __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Classic story of an orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 12 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 7-10 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Staples, Suzanne  || __ Shiva’s Fire __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Steinbeck, John || __ The Pearl __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kino, a poor Mexican pearl fisherman, finds a valuable pearl that brings only misfortune. Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folktale. ** 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Stevenson || __ Treasure Island __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Young Jim Hawkin’s adventures with pirates begin at the Admiral Benbow inn. **9, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Stewart, Trenton Lee || __ The Mysterious Benedict Society; The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Jounrey. __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Children respond to an ad for “gifted children looking for special opportunities” and find them. **13, 21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6th grade + || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Stroud, Jonathan || __ The Bartamaeus Trilogy __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy/adventure. Main character is not very appealing – an anti-hero. **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sullivan, George || __ Built to Last __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-fiction **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sutcliff, Rosemary || __ The Lantern Bearers __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes. Challenging readers with mature, complex writing and painstakingly researched facts, Sutcliff is considered by most to be the finest writer of historical novels for young adults. **14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 3-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Taylor <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; __ __ Let the Circle Be Unbroken __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cassie and her brother, children of a black schoolteacher, face subtle and explicit racial prejudice in the early 20th century. **1, 6, 8, 9, 14** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Taylor, Theodore || __ The Cay __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. **15, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tolan, Stephanie  || __ Surviving the Applewhites __ __ Listen __ || 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. <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Linda Silverman **(16)** recommended many books by Stephanie Tolan that were more sophisticated. This one, although not on her list, sounded like a better match for elem. school students. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Award winning story about a girl who loses here mom and finds herself. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tolkien, J.R.R. || __ The Hobbit __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. **14, 18** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Treaster, Joseph || __ Hurricane Force __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-fiction **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Treat, Lawrence || __ You’re the Detective! Twenty-four Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries. __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The clues are in the pictures. **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Twain, Mark || __ Adventures of Tom Sawyer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ullman || __ Banner in the Sky __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rudi dreams of climbing to the summit of the Citadel, the highest mountain in Switzerland. His father was the only man who dared to approach the top and he died in the pursuit. Now Rudi yearns to complete the quest. **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7 ** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Vande Velde,Vivian || __ Heir Apparent __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy/Gaming Medieval violence **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Verne, Jules || __ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Classic tale of Captain Nemo **13** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 3-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level X  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Voight <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ The Homecoming; __ __ Dicey’s Song __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">With determination and creative problem solving, a young girls struggles to keep her family together after their mother abandons them. **1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Whelan, Gloria || __ Homeless Bird __ __ Goodbye Vietnam __ __ Listening Lions __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. **11, 20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mai’s family is fleeing Vietnam with may other refugees only to be detained in Hong Kong. **20** <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction, **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">White, E. B. || __ Charlotte’s Web, __ __ Stuart Little, __ __ Trumpet of the Swan __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">13 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">White, Ruth  || __ Belle Prater’s Boy __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gypsy’s cousin Woodrow comes to live next door in Coal Station, Virginia, brining with him the mystery of his mother’s curious disappearance and, somehow, the key to a secret that Gypsy keeps from herself. ** 3, 4** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">White, T. H.  || __ The Sword in the Stone __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 9-12  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Williams, Carol Lynch || __ If I Forget, You Remember __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Aspiring novelist Elyse's devotion to her grandmother, a victim of Alzheimer's disease, is mixed with embarrassment and sorrow. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3rd – 5th Level S <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wiles, Deborah || __ Each Little Bird that Sings __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Not incredibly challenging, grade level-wise, but a strong recommendation from its supporters. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level W || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wisler, G. Clifton || __ Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">William Johnson is a 11 year-old Vermont farm boy who is determined to serve in Mr. Lincoln’s Army. He becomes the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor as a Civil War drummer boy. **17** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fiction too good to miss || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wojciechowska || __ Shadow of a Bull __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> **7** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">M-Jr.H || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wolff || __ The Mozart Season __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The 6th grade summer of Allegra Shapirto, a young violinist in a statewide competition, is one in which she able to make many significant connections. **8, 12, 11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ages 10-13 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-7 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wolff <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Virginia <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Euwer  || __ Bat 6 __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. **11** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wolff <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, Virginia <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || __ True Believer __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4th – 6th  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Woodruff, Elvira || __ Ravenmaster’s Secret __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Historical fiction; some violence, public hanging **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.5 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5th – 8th || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wrede || __ Searching for Dragons (part of a series) __ __ Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fantasy/historical, innocuous romance, magic **21** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4-8 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Wynne-Jones || __ The Maestro __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Burl’s life is changed in one day when he runs away from his abusive father and stumbles upon an eccentric genius living in a remote cabin. **1** || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5.5 || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yee, Lisa || __ Millicent Min, Girl Genius __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 5-8 ||  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yep, Laurence  || __ Dragon’s Gate __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This is a carefully researched, well-written tale of the lives of the Chinese workers who build the transcontinental railroad. It is also a sensitive portrayal of the relationship between a father and a son. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">YA <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gr. 7 & up  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Level Z  || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Zindel, Paul || __ Pigman __ || <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man. **14** || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || Scott Westerfeld Cornelia Funke Margaret Peterson Haddix Tamora Pierce* Neil Giaman TA Baron Angie Sage Philip Pullman* Roland Smith Rick Riordan Christopher Paolini <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> || || Peter Saxton at Carson recommends these authors in addition to some already on the list. *Joined in his opinion by Annie Witwer || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">
 * __<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sources __**
 * <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Note: As I have added to this (5/09) I have gotten recommendations from various other teachers/gt specialists in Denver Public Schools. Where there are no comments or no numbers referencing the list above, that means those were teacher recommendations. Sometimes I knew nothing about the book but its title. I used a Scholastic website to find reading levels, but I note that there is not great alignment in every case between DRA levels, guided reading levels, grade levels, etc. **
 * <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Although it may impossible to pre-read every book you have in your classroom library, there are many websites that will provide a summary and some that note the inclusions of violence, etc. (rather like a movie rating). Some of these sites are more objective than others. As you look at some of the books listed, bear in mind that many of the fantasy/adventure books have some level of violence (Lord of the Rings?). **
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 * <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">13 **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> ||
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