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Par Louise Fitzhugh. 1992
Harriet M. Welsch, eleven, is a spy. She wears a sleuthing outfit and records in a secret notebook her observations--both…
good and bad--of her friends and neighbors. When her classmates discover the journal, many feelings are hurt and Harriet is in trouble. For grades 3-6. 1964Par Lesley Choyce. 2002
Greg and his mother move to Newfoundland, where he learns to sail in the ocean. Alone on a sailing trip,…
he finds a lifeboat full of illegal refugees and brings them home. They later flee into a storm when the police arrive. Uncontracted braille. For senior high readers. 2002Par Grace Lin. 2006
While Pacy's Taiwanese American family prepares the Chinese New Year feast, Pacy hopes the Year of the Dog will be…
lucky for her. She does make a new best friend at school but "finding herself"--discovering her own talent--takes longer. For grades 3-6. 2006Par Nancy Springer. 2005
Rowan Hood learns who murdered her mother, Celandine, and hunts for the killers with her outlaw band. When Rowan loses…
her gift for healing on the path of revenge, she must decide the kind of person she wants to be. Sequel to Wild Boy (BR 16573). For grades 4-7. 2005Par Theodore Taylor. 2005
Arizona, 1881. Young orphan Billy Bonney is persuaded to take part in his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin…
and best friend Willie Monroe is now the sheriff. Soon Billy's two-timing partners and Willie are chasing him down. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2005Par Laura Ruby. 2006
In a wacky, futuristic New York, Gurl can't fly like most other people but she can become invisible. Her orphanage…
matron, a reclusive professor, a rat man, and a gangster, all figure in Gurl's adventures as she and her friend Bug team up on a quest. For grades 5-8. 2006Par Ronald Kidd. 2006
Tennessee, 1925. Frances is fifteen when her father hatches a publicity stunt by arresting a young bachelor high school teacher,…
John Thomas Scopes, for teaching evolution. As the trial progresses, Frances reevaluates her religious beliefs, concepts of truth, and feelings about her father. For junior and senior high readers. 2006Par Robert Newton Peck. 2004
Florida, 1933. Witnessing his grandfather's brutality six years ago left Tug Dockery unable to speak. Now, after his parents' deaths,…
the nine-year-old must go live on the grandfather's cattle ranch. Tug's beloved brother, Broda, escapes imprisonment to try to rescue Tug. Some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 2004Par Walter Dean Myers. 2006
College-bound Harlem teen Damien falls in love with sixteen-year-old Junice. But when Junice's mother is sent to prison, Junice struggles…
to keep her younger sister with her. Meanwhile Damien fights with a rival who belittles their love. For senior high readers. 2006Par Hilary McKay. 2006
Casson siblings Rose, Indigo, Saffy, and Caddy present individual accounts of events leading up to Caddy's wedding, including a helium…
balloon stalking and a Ghost Club accident. Rose, upset that the groom is not darling Michael, intervenes. Sequel to Permanent Rose (DB 61209, BR 16274). For grades 4-7. 2006Par Ron Roy. 2003
Washington, D.C. When Leonard Fisher claims to be the long-lost heir to the Smithsonian fortune, KC and Marshall set out…
to prove that he is a phony. For grades 2-4. 2003Par Jane Resh Thomas. 2005
England. Vowing revenge when her parents are executed in 1553 by the duke of Northumberland, teenaged Iris becomes a messenger,…
a spy, and a stand-in for Princess Elizabeth during the volatile political events surrounding young King Edward VI's death. For grades 6-9. 2005Par Jane Vejjajiva. 2003
Thailand. After living for several years with her grandparents, nine-year-old Kati spends some precious time with her mother, who is…
dying from Lou Gehrig's disease. One of the mother's last gifts to Kati allows her to make an important decision for herself. For grades 3-6. 2003Par Graham Salisbury. 2006
In this sequel to Under the Blood-Red Sun (DB 44654), Tomi and his family are still battling anti-Japanese feeling in…
1943 Hawaii. Tomi and his friends try to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat, but Keet Wilson, a white teen, wants to stop him. For grades 5-8. 2006Par Jacob Glatstein. 2006
Vienna, Austria; 1940. Two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one not, remain best friends despite the Nazi occupation's policy of…
racial hatred. After being orphaned, they rely on each other and the help of strangers while trying to escape the city. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1940Par Audrey Shafer. 2006
Rural Virginia. When twelve-year-old Gabe comes home after school, he discovers his guardian, Uncle Vernon, dead on the floor. Frightened,…
he tells no one, so he is surprised the next day to find the body gone and a note from an anonymous writer in the mailbox. For grades 5-8. 2006Par Sherri L Smith. 2006
After her beloved grandmother dies, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans in search of her only living relative,…
her aunt Janet. Instead, she finds Janet's neighbors--sixteen-year-old Evie, who has muscular dystrophy and a beautiful singing voice, and Evie's overburdened mother, Clare Morreal. For senior high readers. 2006Par John H Ritter. 2006
Fifteen-year-old California trumpeter Andy Ramos and softball pitcher Glory Martinez pursue their dreams together. When Andy plays at her games,…
Glory excels and Andy gets publicity. Their success is threatened after Andy makes a deal with a mysterious stranger promising fame and fortune--for a price. For senior high readers. 2006Par Andrea White. 2005
By 2083 a deteriorating American civilization is dominated by "reality" television programs. Five fourteen-year-olds reenact Scott's 1910 failed expedition to…
the South Pole as contestants on the Historical Survivor series. They overcome obstacles with the covert help of a Department of Entertainment employee. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Par Justina Chen Headley. 2006
Washington state. Fifteen-year-old Patty Ho, half-Taiwanese and half-white, feels like she never fits in. However, when her strict mother sends…
her to summer math camp at Stanford, Patty begins to accept her biracial heritage and has her first brush with romance. For senior high readers. 2006