Author

Call #

Title

Almond, David

ALM

The Fire-Eaters

In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.

Anderson, Laurie Halse

AND

Fever 1793

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Auch, Mary Jane

AUC

Ashes of Roses

Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister.

Blackwood, Gary

BLA

The Year of the Hangman

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

Chevalier, Tracy

CHE

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

A sixteen-year-old girl models for the famous Dutch painter Vermeer.

Crow, Chris

CRO

Mississippi Trial

In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African-American from Chicago.

Frost, Helen

FRO

The Braid

Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.

Giff, Patricia Reilly

GIF

Willow Run

Eleven-year-old Meggie Dillon shares her feelings and experiences on the homefront during World War II after her family moves from Rockaway, New York to Willow Run, Michigan.

Hearn, Julie

HEA

The Minister’s Daugher

In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.

Hesse, Karen

HES

Witness

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.

Holm, Jennifer L.

HOL

Boston Jane:  An Adventure

Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Jordan, Sherryl

JOR

The Raging Quiet

Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.

­Kadohata, Cynthia

KAD

Kira-kira

Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

Krisher, Trudy

KRI

Uncommon Faith

In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith.

Lawrence, Iain

LAW

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.

McCaughrean, Geraldine

MCC

The Kite Rider

In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

Morgan, Nicola

MOR

Fleshmarket

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

Namioka, Lensey

NAM

Den of the White Fox

In medieval Japan, two out-of-work samurai warriors must use their fighting skills when they join a group of local boys, led by the mysterious White Fox, in resistance to a cruel occupying force.

O’Brien, Tim

OBR

Going After Cacciato

An American soldier in the Viet Nam War decides to desert and walk to Paris, France.

Park, Linda Sue

PAR

The Single Shard

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.  Winner of the Newbery Medal.

Paulsen, Gary

PAU

The Rifle

A priceless, handcrafted rifle, carried throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

Peck, Richard

PEC

A Year Down Yonder

During the recession of 1937, fifteen year -old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

Rees, Celia

REE

Pirates! :  The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Ryan, Pam Munoz

RYA

Experanza Rising

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.

Santana, Patricia

SAN

Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility

Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait for her brother, Chuy, to return from Vietnam, but as soon as he arrives, the entire family realizes how much the war has changed him, and they must all readjust to his new attitude.

Sheppard, Mary C.

SHE

Seven for a Secret

"Rebecca, Kate and Melinda spend every summer in their small Newfoundland village. But now they are exposed to outside possibilities and the chance to fulfill their dreams".

Skurzynski, Gloria

SKU

Spider’s Voice

Because he is a young mute person who can hear, Aran becomes involved in the adventures of Eloise and Abelard, France’s most famous lovers, who lived during the twelfth century.

Taylor, Mildred

TAY

The Land

After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.

Vidal, Gore

VID

Burr

A fictional memoir based on actual facts describing the early struggles and intrigues of the United States and of Aaron Burr.