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Par Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers. 2005
Childhood friends Jesse and Rise are growing apart. While fifteen-year-old Jesse develops his interest in art, Rise turns to the…
Harlem streets under pressure to be cool. When their long-established neighborhood social group becomes a gang, more violence enters their community. Violence. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Par Rudyard Kipling, Jerry Pinkney. 1995
Eight stories about the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves in a jungle in India.…
Presented in Kipling's preferred arrangement. Includes a ninth non-Mowgli tale "Rikki-tikki-tavi," about a valiant mongoose. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1894Par Laurie Halse Anderson, Lori Earley. 2000
Philadelphia, 1793. Fourteen-year-old Matilda works in her widowed mother's busy coffeehouse along with her grandfather and their cook, Eliza--a freed…
slave. When a yellow fever epidemic hits the city, people panic and flee, and Matilda's life turns upside down. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2000Par Robert McCloskey. 1941
Five helpful Boston policemen stop busy city traffic so that Mrs. Mallard can move her family of eight ducklings from…
their island in the Charles River to their new home in the Public Garden. For grades K-3. Caldecott Medal 1942Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2006
Merlin sends Jack and Annie to the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, France. Their mission is to find four new…
magicians in the crowds at the Eiffel Tower and protect them from an evil sorcerer. For grades 2-4. 2006Par Donna L Washington. 2004
Six folktales from West Africa. "The Boy Who Wanted the Moon" is a pourquoi tale from the Congo that explains…
why there are monkeys in the world. It tells about "a spoiled child, his doting father, and a great deal of foolishness." For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2004Par Ebele Oseye, Ellease Southerland. 2004
Young African American Abeba Williams moves from rural North Carolina to Brooklyn to live with her mother, who dreams of…
a better life. Abeba begins to develop a promising musical talent but soon becomes distracted by marriage and children. Despite economic and social hardships, Abeba perseveres with dignity. 1979British teenager Georgia Nicolson continues to list all her madcap adventures in her journal. When the family goes to Memphis,…
Hamburger-a-gogo land (U.S.A.), Georgia and her best friend try to track down Georgia's current crush, Masimo, who's visiting relatives in New York. For senior high readers. 2005Par Richard Peck. 2004
Rural Indiana, 1904. After Miss Myrt Arbuckle, the mean old teacher, "hauled off and died" in August, fifteen-year-old Russell figures…
the one-room schoolhouse will close. His dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat-threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister fills the vacancy. For grades 6-9. 2004Par Gennifer Choldenko. 2004
1935. Twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan moves to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a job at the maximum-security prison there. Moose…
struggles to make friends and cares for his older autistic sister while their mother applies for the girl's acceptance to a special school. Newbery honor winner. For grades 6-9. 2004Par Ruth White. 2005
Virginia, 1950s. Seventh-graders Woodrow, his cousin Gypsy, and their new friend Cassie, who is gifted with second sight, set off…
to find Woodrow's missing mother. They encounter some unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way. Sequel to Belle Prater's Boy (DB 45802). For grades 5-8. 2005Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2005
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century…
Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster. For grades 2-4. 2005Par Anthony Horowitz. 2005
Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider goes to Venice, Italy, determined to track down Scorpia because of the organization's connection to his deceased…
father. But the for-hire terrorist group planning to kill thousands of British schoolchildren ensnares Alex for its own purposes. For grades 6-9. 2004Par Cecil Castellucci. 2005
Hollywood. Nerdy high school senior Victoria Jurgen, called Egg after her favorite science fiction movie character, is a loner. But…
when Max Carter, a gifted new student, invades her space, she is not as boy-proof as she thought. Strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2005Par Hilary McKay. 2005
At the end of a steamy English summer, Rose, the youngest member of the artistic Casson family, still longs to…
locate her American friend Tom. Other problems--Caddy's half-hearted engagement and David's new friendliness--vie for her attention. Sequel to Indigo's Star (DB 59536). For grades 4-7. 2005Par Terry McMillan. 2005
Bored African American forty-something Marilyn Grimes deals with a husband's midlife crisis, kids in college, a live-in mother-in-law, and her…
own mother showing signs of dementia. Marilyn, with the help and support of her friends, faces decisions about her future, including a possible pregnancy. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2005Par Susan Juby. 2005
In this sequel to Miss Smithers (BR 15805), sixteen-year-old aspiring screenwriter Alice continues a journal describing her latest challenges: her…
boyfriend leaves for Scotland, her environmental activist mom goes on trial, and her depressed dad is out of work. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005Par Philip Roth. 2004
In this alternative history, a young man--called Philip Roth--recounts his Jewish family's fears and humiliations when aviation hero Charles Lindbergh…
is victorious in the 1940 presidential election. The New Jersey Roths struggle as America, caught up in anti-Semitic fervor, descends into fascism. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2004Par Brenda Woods. 2004
Los Angeles. African American classmates Monterey, Jamal, and Eddie remember their friend Emako who was accidentally shot and killed. Having…
bonded with her through a mutual interest in singing, they reminisce about the talented vocalist. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2004Par Deborah Wiles. 2005
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in Snapfinger, Mississippi. But it affects…
her differently when her own relatives die and she has to make a life-and-death choice during a flash flood. For grades 4-7. 2005