AUTHOR	TITLE	SUMMARY	CLASS
Adams, Douglas	Last Chance to See	An author and a zoologist travel around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.	Nonfiction
Albom, Mitch	Tuesdays with Morrie	The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor.	Biography8
Almond, David	The Fire-Eaters	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, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.	Fic             8
Almond, David	Skellig	Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.	Fic             6
Ambrose, Stephen	This Vast Land	Recounts the 1803 expedition of Lewis and Clark through the words of a young boy who is forced to choose between a woman he meets on the expedition and the life he left behind.	Fic               8
Anderson, Laurie Halse	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.	Fic             7
Anderson, Laurie Halse	Catalyst	Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.	Fic             7
Anderson, Laurie Halse	Speak	A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.	Fic               8
Anderson, M. T	The Game of Sunken Places	When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.	Fic               6
Anderson, M. T.	Feed	In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.	Fic               8
Angelou, Maya	A Song Flung Up To Heaven	The sixth in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, beginning in 1964 when she returned to the U.S. from Africa to work with Malcolm X, discussing her reaction to his assassination, her view of the Watts riots, her work with Martin Luther King Jr., and the impact of his death on her life and career.	Biography8
Appelt, Kathi	My Father's Summers	A series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond.	Fic               8
Armstrong, Jennifer	Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World	Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and seas to reach inhabited land.	Nonfiction   6
Armstrong, Lance	It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life	Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong describes his triumph over cancer.	Biography     6
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia	In the Forests of the Night	Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.	Fic               7
Augarde, Steve	The Various	While staying on her uncle's rundown farm in the Somerset countryside, twelve-year-old Midge discovers that she has a special connection to the Various, a tribe of "strange, wild--and sometimes deadly" fairies struggling to maintain their existence in the nearby woods.	Fic                 6
Avi	The Book without Words : a Fable of Medieval Magic	Thorston, an alchemist who has spent his life trying to decipher the secret to immortality contained in the Book Without Words, is on the brink of realizing his dream when he drops dead, leaving Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a servant who was about to be sacrificed to Thorston's plan, to reap the rewards of his work.	Fic                6
Avi	Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.	Fic             6
Bagdasarian, Adam	Forgotten Fire	The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.	Fic               8
Balliett, Blue	Chasing Vermeer	When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.	Fic               6
Balliett, Blue	The Wright 3	In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.	Fic              6
Barker, Clive	Abarat	Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, journeys to the Abarat, an archipelago filled with strange wonders, and has a curious revelation: she has been here before, and it is her responsibility to save this mysterious place from the evil forces that threaten it.	Fic               7
Barrett, Tracy	Anna of Byzantium	In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.	Fic             7
Bass, L. G	Sign of the Qin	In long-ago China, Prince Zong, the mortal young Starlord chosen to save humankind from destruction, joins the twin outlaws, White Streak and Black Whirlwind, to fight the Lord of the Dead and his demon hordes.	Fic               8
Bat-Ami, Miriam	Two Suns in the Sky	In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager named Christine meets and falls in love with Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents' conviction that they do not belong together.	Fic             7
Bauer, Joan	Hope was Here	When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.	Fic             7
Bauer, Joan	Backwater	While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.	Fic             7
Beals, Melba	Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High	Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism against the black students.	Biography  8
Bechard, Margaret	Hanging On to Max	When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.	Fic               8
Bell, Hilari	A Matter of Profit	Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.	Fic               8
Bell, Hilari	The Goblin Wood	A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical creatures.	Fic               8
Bennett, Cherie	Anne Frank & Me	After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.	Fic             7
Bennett, Cherie	Life in the Fat Lane	Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.	Fic             7
Billingsley, Franny	Folk Keeper	Orphan Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea.	Fic             7
Bitton-Jackson, Livia	I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust	The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.	Nonfiction   7
Brashares, Ann	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.	Fic               7
Bray, Libba	A Great and Terrible Beauty	After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.	Fic               8
Breashears, David	High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest & Unforgiving Places	True story of the film maker & mountain climber, David Breashears. While he was on Everest filming the IMAX movie, tragedy strikes.	Biography8
Broach, Elise	Shakespeare's Secret	Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.	Fic             6
Brooks, Bruce	The Moves Make the Man	An African-American boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.	Fic               8
Brooks, Kevin	Lucas	On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.	Fic               8
Bunting, Eve	Blackwater	When a boy and a girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.	Fic             7
Burch, Jennings Michael	They Cage the Animals at Night	A personal account of the author's experiences living in New York City orphanages and foster homes from 1949 until his reunion with his friend and guardian three years later.	Biography8
Cabot, Meg	All-American Girl	Sophomore Samantha Madison stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed teen ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.	Fic               8
Calabro, Marian	The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party	Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.	Nonfiction   6
Calhoun, Dia	Firegold	Ousted by the brown-eyed Valley folk because he is different, thirteen-year-old Jonathon Brae sets out on a dangerous journey to learn his true identity among the Dalriada people of the Red Mountains.	Fic             6
Calhoun, Dia	White Midnight	While barbarians threaten the land, mysterious visions help guide fifteen-year-old Rose when she is given the chance to free her family from servitude, if only she will provide a wicked old man an heir fathered by his deformed grandson, "the Thing", locked in the attic.	Fic               8
Cameron, Ann	Colibri	Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.	Fic             6
Capuzzo, Michael	Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916	In 1916, mass hysteria grips the Jersey coast when a shark terrorizes the shoreline in this account of one of the first documented shark attacks.	Nonfiction    7
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Game	Ender Wiggin is a six-year-old genius who is the Earth's only hope for victory over invading "bugger" aliens. He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet?	Fic               6
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Shadow	Bean must overcome his past and prove to the recruiters at the Battle School that he can help save the planet from an alien invasion.	Fic               7
Carvell, Marlene	Sweetgrass Basket	In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.	Fic             7
Choldenko, Gennifer	Al Capone Does My Shirts	A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.	Fic             6
Clancy, Tom	The Teeth of the Tiger	Three men from the armed forces are approached by a small firm named Handley Associates to become their newest agents in fighting terrorism, using whatever means possible.	Fic               8
Clark, Mary Higgins	The Second Time Around	Reporter Carley DeCarlo uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she sets out to investigate the disappearance of Nicholas Spencer, the head of the medical research company.	Fic               8
Codell, Esme Raji	Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year	Presents the diary of teacher Esme Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city school.	Nonfiction      6
Cofer, Judith Ortiz	The Meaning of Consuelo	A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture.	Fic               8
Colfer, Eoin	Artemis Fowl	When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.	Fic             6
Coman, Carolyn	Many Stones	After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.	Fic               8
Cooney, Caroline	Burning Up	When a girl she had met at an inner city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.	Fic             6
Cooney, Caroline	The Ransom of Mercy Carter	In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.	Fic             6