P2843Br 1996 Brian's Winter / Gary Paulsen. Instead of being rescued from a
plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have
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Fiction PZ 7 .A3683 Lan 1997 A Lantern in Her Hand / Bess Streeter Aldrich After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the ambitions that were once her own. PZ 7 .A4451 Un 1995 Under the Domim Tree / Gila Almagor Three teenage girls learn to become women in 1953 Isreal PZ7.A953 So 1995 Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name / Avi. The story of a 13 year old boy who tries to understand his parents PS 3552 .A45 I4 1988 If Beale Street Could Talk / James Baldwin The story of a young black American family. A man is in jail, but he did not do anything wrong. A sad love story PR 6052 .A54 1992 The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes / Nick Bantock The Griffin & Sabine concludes as the mystery of the two artists deepens and the content of each letter or postcard ultimately reveals the secrets behind their spirited, imaginative union. PZ7 .B43989 Sq 2002 The Squared Circle / James Bennett. Sonny, a university freshman and star basketball player, finds that the pressures of college life, NCAA competition, and an unsettling relationship with his feminist cousin bring up painful memories that he must face before he can decide what is important in his life. PZ7.B6236 Tan 1998, Tangerine / Edward Bloor. A legally blind 7th grader wins acceptance in his new Florida school while his older brother self-destructs. PS 3552 .L843 F67 1975 Forever / Judy Blume The famous story of teenage love. The question is, Can you love two people at the same time?
PS 3503.R81936 A64 2002 Paper Moon / Joe David Brown Narrated by 11-year-old Addie Loggins, the story follows her adventures with Long Boy, who may or may not be her father, as they con suckers out of their money in the Depression-era South. PZ7.B653 Sis 2001 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares. Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants. PZ7 .B91527 Scad 1996 SOS Titanic / Eve Bunting A young man tries to rescue his friends as the ship Titanic sinks into the cold sea PZ 10.3 .B935 In The Incredible Journey/ Sheila Burnford Two dogs and a cat travel many miles to return to their home PS3553.H2835 W5 1998 Wiregrass Country / Herb & Muncy Chapman Treff Ballowe and his adopted family, the Dovers, are struggling to keep Three Springs Ranch thriving under threat of rustlers and renegade Indians. (Florida focus) PZ7 .M462 Md 1983 Me, Too / Vera & Bill Cleaver A twelve year old girl tries to help her twin sister PZ7 .C57926 Wh 1989 Where the Lilies Bloom / Vera & Bill Cleaver A young girl keeps her brothers and sisters together after both their parents die. Set in the Great Smokey Mountains in the American South PZ7 .C86815Ch 1991 Children of the River / Linda Crew Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-yearold Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. E444 .L47a , To Be A Slave. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. A compilation selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. PZ7.F599233 Wh 1998 Whirligig / Paul Fleischman. While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement. PZ 7 .F838 Sl The Slave Dancer / Paula Fox Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. PZ7.F599233 Bu 1993 Bull Run / Paul Fleischman Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
PZ 7.G8283 Mo 1993 Morning is a Long Time Coming / Bette Greene En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair. PZ7 .G987 Fr Friends / Rosa Guy Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother’s death and her father’s tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend. PZ7 .H1828 Sw 1982 , Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems. PZ7 .H31415 Tr 1991. The Trouble with Lemons / Daniel Hayes Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it. PZ7.H4364 Ph 1995, Phoenix Rising / Karen Hesse. Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. PZ7.H52 Ho 2002 Hoot / Carl Hiaasen. 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. PZ 7 .H5976 Ou 1982 Outsiders / S.E. Hinton The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent’s death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. PZ7.H5976 Ru 1989 Rumblefish / S.E. Hinton Rusty-James wants to be as tough a teen as his older brother, Motorcycle Boy, who has always helped him out of tough spots. But one day, when Rusty-James faces danger, Motorcycle Boy is not around. PZ 7 .H5976 Th That Was Then, This Is Now / S.E. Hinton Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate. PZ7.H79224 Ev 2000, Everything on a Waffle / Peggy Horvath 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. PZ 7 .K46825 Ge 1978 Gentlehands / M.E. Kerr A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
PZ7 .K46825 Ni 1986, Night Kites / M.E. Kerr. Seventeen-year-old Erick's comfortable and well-ordered life begins to fall apart when he is forced to keep two secrets: the identity of his new girlfriend and the nature of his brother's debilitating disease. PZ7.K67813 Cal 1994 , California Blue / David Klass. When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict. PZ7 .G8619 Ear 1994, Earthquake at Dawn / Kristiana Gregory A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine’s experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-yearold Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. PS3562 .E42 L4 1976 , The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin. Genly Ai, an envoy from The Ekumen, is assigned the task of getting the planet Gethen to join with this consortium of planets. PZ7.L9673 Gi 1993, The Giver / Lois Lowry Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. PZ7.L9673 S95 1993, A Summer to Die / Lois Lowry ; illustrated by Jenni Oliver Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death PZ 8 .M1793 Be 1978, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast / Robin McKinley Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast. PZ 7 .M47868 Bl 1982, The Blue Sword / Robin McKinley Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. PZ 7 .M1988 He 1984, The Hero and the Crown / Robin McKinley 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. PZ 7 .M47398 Af 1987, After the Rain / Norma Fox Mazer After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet. PZ7.M826725 Sh 1993, Shizuko's Daughter / Kyoko Mori After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.
PZ7.M992 Fal 1988, Fallen Angels / Walter Dean Myers Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. PZ7.M992 Mon 1999, Monster / Walter Dean Myers While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken PZ7.M992 Mot 1984, Motown and Didi: A Love Story / Walter Dean Myers A love story set against the background of junkies, threats, danger and death in Harlem. PZ7.M992 Sc 1988, Scorpions / Walter Dean Myers After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. PZ7.N1243 St 2001, A Step From Heaven / An Na A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. PZ7.N647 Ab 2003, Abhorsen / Garth Nix Abhorsen-In-Waiting Lirael and Prince Sameth, a Wallmaker, must confront and bind the evil spirit Oranis before it can destroy all life. Third in a trilogy. PZ7.N647 Li 2001, Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr / Garth Nix When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies. Second in a trilogy. PZ7.N647 Sab 1995, Sabriel / Garth Nix Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. First in a trilogy. PZ7.P22115 Si 2001, A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park 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. PZ7.P273 Br 1977, Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. PZ 7 .P273 Jac 1980, Jacob Have I Loved / Katherine Paterson Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. PS3566 .A834 Z4644 2000, The Beet Fields: Memoirs of a Sixteenth Summer / Gary Paulsen The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen.
PZ7 .Ps843 Bp 1999 Brian’s Return / Gary Paulsen After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs. PZ7 .P2843Br 1996 Brian’s Winter / Gary Paulsen Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author’s book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. PZ7.P2843 Hat 1996, Hatchet / Gary Paulsen After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. PZ7 .P2843 Nj 1993 Nightjohn / Gary Paulsen Twelve-year-old Sarny’s brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. PZ 7 .P338 Ar, Are You In the House Alone? / Richard Peck As the recipient of threatening notes and phone calls, a high school girl becomes aware that she is under constant observation. PZ 7 .P968 Go 1996, The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. First in a trilogy. PZ3.R417 Li 1991 A Light in the Forest / Conrad Richter A white boy is raised by American Indians in Pennsylvania. This book tells about early life in the United States. PZ7.R79835 Har 1998, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone / J.K. Rowling Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. PZ7.R79835 Har 1999 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / J.K. Rowling When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. PZ7 .R982 Mj 1992 Missing May / Cynthia Rylant 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. PZ7.S1185 Ho 1998, Holes / Louis Sachar As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself PZ7.S6795 Bad 1999, The Bad Beginning / Lemony Snicket After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each
other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. PZ 7 .S79346 Sh 1989, Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind / Suzanne Fisher Staples When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. PZ 7 .T21723 Le, Let the Circle Be Unbroken / Mildred D. Taylor Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. PZ7.T21723 Rm 1992, The Road to Memphis / Mildred D. Taylor In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. PZ7.T244 Ram 1995, The Ramsay Scallop / Frances Temple At the turn of the fourteenth century in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain. PS 3570 .O533 G86 1994 Guns of the Palmetto Plains / Rick Tonyan Tree Hooker will take on anything—man, animal, or force of nature—that stands in the way of his cattle drives during the Civil War. (Florida Focus) PZ7 .V874 Di 1982, Dicey's Song / Cynthia Voigt Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. PZ7 .V874 Ho 1981, Homecoming / Cynthia Voigt Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity. PZ7 .V874 Iz 1986, Izzy, Willy-Nilly / Cynthia Voigt A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee. PZ7.V874 Sp 1996x Sons From Afar / Cynthia Voigt Six years after coming to live with their grandmother, James and Sammy Tillerman go in search of their long-lost father. PZ7 .W82129 Mak 1994, Make Lemonade / Virginia Euwer Wolff In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother. PZ7.W15877 Wr 1997 Wrestling Sturbridge / Wallace Rich Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can’t let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.
PS3573.A7845 B6 1981 A Boat to Nowhere / Maureen Crane Wartski Fleeing from agents of the new communist government in Vietnam, an old man and three children begin an endless and seemingly hopeless struggle for survival as boat people. PZ7.W3235 My 1996 My Brother, My Sister, and I / Yoko Kawashima Watkins Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-yearold Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder. PZ7.W868 Mi 2000, Miracle's Boys / Jacqueline Woodson Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother. PZ7.Y44 Dr, Dragonwings / Laurence Yep In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. PZ7.Y78 Br 1993, Briar Rose / Jane Yolen A modern-day telling of Sleeping Beauty that takes place during the Holocaust. PZ 7 .Y78 Ow 1987, Owl Moon / by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by John Schoenherr On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Non-Fiction JUV PR6054.A35 Z47 1984, Boy / Roald Dahl This famous writer tells about his childhood and his unhappy experiences in school in England PZ 7 .F919 Hn 1987, Homesick / Jean Fritz The true story of her early years in China and how her family had to leave suddenly because of the war DS 778.7 .J53 1997, Red Scarf Girl / Ji-Li Jiang Ji-Li remembers when she was a girl during the Cultural Revolution in China F 334 .M753 P37, Rosa Parks: My Story / Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins On December 11, 1953, Mrs. Parks was on a bus in the U.S. South. She refused to give up her seat to a white man. As a result, the U.S. civil rights movement began.
