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Crispin: at the edge of the world (Crispin)
Par Avi. 2006
Fourteenth-century England. This sequel to Crispin: The Cross of Lead (DB 55295) finds Crispin and the enormous red-haired juggler, Bear,…
fleeing for their lives from a rebel brotherhood. When Bear is wounded, Crispin relies on an ancient healer and a disfigured girl for help. For grades 6-9. 2006Mr. Docker is off his rocker! (My Weird School Ser. #10)
Par Dan Gutman. 2006
Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up and uses potatoes for power. He…
has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever. For grades 2-4. 2006Attack of the 50-ft. Cupid (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Ser. #2)
Par Jim Benton. 2004
It's almost Valentine's Day. Franny's new lab assistant Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally brings to life a picture…
of Cupid and then enlarges Cupid to gigantic proportions. Now Franny has to deal with the problem. For grades 2-4. 2004Heir apparent
Par Vivian Vande Velde. 2002
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game full of medieval kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators protesting…
such pastimes have damaged the equipment she's connected to. She must win the game quickly or face brain damage. For grades 6-9. 2002The prophet of Yonwood: The Third Book of Ember (Books of Ember #Bk. 3)
Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2006
Yonwood, North Carolina. Eleven-year-old Nickie figures out how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions…
to the apocalyptic visions of their neighbor, Althea Tower. Prequel to City of Ember (RC 59907) and People of Sparks (DB 60098). For grades 5-8. 2006Halfway to the sky
Par Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. 2003
Twelve-year-old Dani runs away from her mother after the death of her brother Springer and her parents' divorce. Dani plans…
to hike the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine on her own, but is unexpectedly joined by her mother. For grades 5-8. 2002The Fran that time forgot (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Ser. #4)
Par Jim Benton. 2005
When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at the school science fair, mad scientist Franny K. Stein goes back in…
time to change the name. Unfortunately, Franny's experiment does not go as planned. For grades 2-4. 2005Escaping the giant wave
Par Peg Kehret. 2004
When an earthquake creates a tsunami at a Pacific coastal resort, thirteen-year-old Kyle tries to save himself, his sister and…
a boy who has bullied him for years. For grades 4-7The boy who spoke dog
Par Clay Morgan. 2003
After a big storm at sea, Jack, a cabin boy, is marooned on an island near New Zealand. Without human…
company, Jack bonds with a border collie, Moxie, and her group of dogs that protect local sheep from wild dogs. For grades 5-8. 2003The rise of Lubchenko
Par Michael Simmons. 2006
Sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister, from Finding Lubchenko (BR 16399), learns that his father's business partner is flying abroad to sell a…
smallpox virus to terrorists. Evan takes friends Erika and Ruben back to Europe to find freedom fighter Lubchenko and foil the plot. For senior high readers. 2006Ethan of Athos (Vorkosigan Ser.)
Par Lois McMaster Bujold. 2003
Doctor Ethan Urquhart is chief of reproductive biology on Athos, a planet where women are forbidden. Athos's male population is…
spawned in artificial wombs using ovarian cultures brought by the founding fathers. But a genetic crisis forces Ethan to face women for the first time. 1986Blindsight
Par Peter Watts. 2006
It is 2082. Thousands of luminous alien probes surrounding Earth intercept a radio signal from an unknown source. Aboard the…
spaceship Theseus a misfit crew of explorers--a bionic biologist, a linguist with multiple personalities, a pacifist warrior, and their vampire leader--prepares for first contact. Strong language and some violence. 2006Boston, 1805. Jacky Faber and her classmates are kidnapped while on a school outing to the harbor. Transported in the…
hold of the Bloodhound bound for the slave markets of North Africa, Jacky plots escape. Sequel to Under the Jolly Roger (BR 16476). For junior and senior high readers. 2006The plains of passage: Earth's Children, Book Four (Earth's Children Ser. #4)
Par Jean M Auel. 1990
Ayla and Jondalar journey back to his people--the Zelandonii--with two horses Ayla has trained and a wolf she has reared.…
During their travels they encounter friends and enemies and enlighten each other with their histories and survival skills. Sequel to The Mammoth Hunters (BR 16855). Explicit descriptions of sex. 1990Blizzard of the blue moon (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #No. 8)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2006
Merlin the magician sends Jack and Annie to New York during the Great Depression in 1938 when a blizzard is…
burying the city. Their mission is to find an ancient fantasy creature--the last unicorn. For grades 2-4. 2006The island of Doctor Moreau (Penguin classics)
Par H. G Wells. 2005
Late Victorian fantasy classic in which scientific arrogance leads to horrifying consequences. In 1887 Edward Prendick is shipwrecked, rescued, and…
later abandoned on a mysterious island inhabited by grotesque creatures under the control of Dr. Moreau. Includes 2005 introduction by Margaret Atwood. Some violence. 1896The new kid at school (Dragon Slayers' Academy Ser. #1)
Par Kate McMullan. 1997
Although small and tenderhearted, Wiglaf's destiny is to become a hero. So he heads off to the Dragon Slayers' Academy…
not expecting to be sent out to slay the dragon Gorzil on the very first day of school. For grades 2-4. 1997Frantastic voyage (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Ser. #5)
Par Jim Benton. 2006
When Franny's dog Igor accidentally swallows her Doomsday Device, she must act quickly before the contraption explodes inside him. She…
activates her shrinkerizer to make herself small enough to go up Igor's nostril and races against time to bring out the bomb. For grades 2-4. 2005Everlost (Skinjacker Trilogy, The)
Par Neal Shusterman. 2006
After a fatal car accident, teens Nick and Allie end up in an afterlife called Everlost, where only the young…
can go. Together they discover other children and teens, an author named Mary Hightower, and a monster called the McGill. For senior high readers. 2006Chasing the Falconers (On The Run)
Par Gordon Korman. 2005
Knowing their parents face life in prison as enemies of the state, Meg and Aiden Falconer set out to prove…
their innocence. The siblings escape from a juvenile detention center and cross the country to gather evidence. But eluding the authorities and a sinister assailant proves difficult. For grades 4-7. 2005