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The gold-bug: and other tales and poems
Par Edgar Allan Poe. 1963
Siege: how General Washington kicked the British out of Boston and launched a revolution
Par Roxane Orgill. 2018
A novel in verse. Story of the siege of Boston that launched the war to defeat the British. Follows the…
events from the summer of 1775 to the spring of 1776, and gives voice to the soldiers and civilians of that time. For grades 6-9. 2018Jazz owls: a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
Par Margarita Engle, Rudy Gutierrez. 2018
A novel in verse. In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day, then…
jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot-suit wearing younger brother, Ray. But one night, racial violence leads to murder. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2018White Rose
Par Kip Wilson. 2019
A novel in verse. Sophie Scholl, a young German college student, challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as…
part of the White Rose, a nonviolent resistance group. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2019It rained warm bread: Moishe Moskowitz's story of hope
Par Hope Anita Smith, Lea Lyon, Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet. 2019
A novel in verse and fictionalized account of the experiences of a Polish Jew, Moishe, who, with his parents, brother,…
and a sister, struggles to survive the Nazi invasion and the Holocaust. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2019Rescue: a novel
Par Anita Shreve. 2010
Young EMT Webster's strong attraction to drunken car-crash victim Sheila quickly leads to dating, pregnancy, marriage, and the birth of…
Rowan. When Sheila's drinking becomes dangerous, Webster sends her away and raises Rowan alone. Now seventeen-year-old Rowan is drinking and Sheila reappears. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010All the broken pieces: a novel in verse
Par Ann E. Burg. 2009
Matt Pin was nine when he was airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975 and adopted by an American couple. Two…
years later Matt is still haunted by a terrible secret from his war-torn past, one that his new parents and Vietnam veterans help him confront. For grades 5-8. 2009T4: a novel in verse
Par Ann Clare LeZotte. 2008
Paula Becker, who is deaf, is thirteen years old when the Nazi party takes control of Germany. It is a…
time when people with disabilities are ordered to be killed in Hitler's Tiergartenstrasse 4, nicknamed T4. She escapes a raid, but her new world is one of fear, desperation, and uncertainty as she struggles to survive. Her stories are told in free verse. For grades 6-9Bruiser
Par Neal Shusterman. 2011
Award-winning author Shusterman delivers a suspenseful and chilling psychological thriller about friendship, family, and the sacrifices we make for the…
people we love. Some violence. For high school and adult readersFathers and children: Introduction by John Bayley (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
Par Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Avril Pyman. 1991
Classic nineteenth-century Russian novel portraying the conflicting points of view of two generations. The protagonist, Bazarov, is a young, radical…
intellectual who tries in vain to convert his aristocratic father and his friend's uncle to his theories of a new social orderLifeboat 12: based on a true story
Par Susan Hood. 2018
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the…
ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. For grades 4-7Death coming Up the Hill
Par Chris Crowe. 2020
Ashe Douglas keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the…
escalating war in Vietnam; assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend; his parents' sepration' and a longed-for sister. UnratedBetter with Butter
Par Victoria Piontek. 2021
"Afraid of absolutely everything, 12-year-old Marvel momentarily forgets her anxiety when she rescues a fainting goat named Butter and must…
fight for her new friend when she is told she might have to give Butter up forever." -- Provided by publisherLiberty (Dogs Of World War Ii Ser.)
Par Kirby Larson. 2016
New Orleans, 1940s. Polio-survivor Fish Elliot and his neighbor Olympia team up in order to save a starving stray dog…
they call Liberty, and they find other unlikely allies willing to help. For grades 3-6. 2016Dash (Dogs Of World War Ii Ser.)
Par Kirby Larson. 2014
When her family is forced into a Japanese internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and…
her beloved dog, Dash. Heartbroken, Mitsi clings to her one connection to Dash: the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for him. For grades 3-6. 2014The missing girl
Par Norma Fox Mazer. 2008
A middle-aged man secretly stalks the Herbert family's five sisters, ages eleven to seventeen, as they carry out their everyday…
activities in the small town of Mallory, New York. Then the stranger makes his move, luring Autumn, the youngest girl, into his house. For junior and senior high readers. 2008The war of Jenkins' ear
Par Michael Morpurgo. 1995
Autumn 1952. Toby Jenkins is not looking forward to another year at Redlands Preparatory School in Sussex, England. But beginning…
with dinner the first night, Toby and his schoolmates know things will be different because of the new boy, Simon Christopher, who before long claims to be Jesus. For grades 6-9Creep
Par Eireann Corrigan. 2019
"Teenager Olivia Danvers knows that the previous residents at 16 Olcott Place moved out in the middle of the night,…
but nobody really knows why; the new family, the Donahues, have three children including a daughter, Janie, Olivia's age, and the two become close friends--but when the threatening letters start arriving from the "Sentry of Glennon Heights" the two girls realize that the house and town are hiding sinister secrets, which could tear their whole world apart."--Provided by publisherHigh score
Par Destiny Howell. 2022
"We do this my way. No one gets hurt. And if I call it off, it's off. Got it? My…
name's Darius James--but everyone calls me DJ. At my old school, I was the go-to guy for all kinds of tricky problems that needed creative solutions. But at my new school, Ella Fitzgerald Middle, I'm just trying to blend in. Well, I was, anyway, until my best friend, Conor, got himself transferred to the Fitz too. Now Conor owes 100,000 arcade tickets to the biggest bully around--and he only has two weeks to make it happen. Impossible? Not with my head in the game." -- Provided by publisherThe butter battle book
Par Dr Seuss. 1984
A fable about the Yooks and the Zooks, hostile neighbours very much alike except that they butter their bread differently.…
Engaged in a long-running battle, they develop more and more sophisticated weapons as they attempt to outdo each other. Grades K-3 and older readers. Bestseller 1984.