FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan,. Best foot forwardsequel to Rules of the road
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
FIC BAU
Bauer, Joan, Hope was here.
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
FIC BRA
Bradley, Kimberly. Leap of Faith
Forced to attend a Catholic middle school because of her conduct, Abigail discovers a talent for theater and develops a true religious faith.
FIC CHO
Choldenko, Gennifer. If a tree falls at lunch time author of Notes from a liar and her dog
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, describe how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Burning up : a novel.
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Hit the road
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.
FIC COR
Cormier, Robert. The rag and bone shop : a novel
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
FIC COU
Couloumbis, Audrey. Say yes
In her efforts to hang on following the disappearance of her stepmother, Casey, 12 year old girl, resorts to anything, including robbery.
FIC COU
Couloumbis, Audrey. Summer's end
Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers--the one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of their absence on the four generations gathered at the family farm in the summer of 1965
FIC CRE
Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer Newbery Honor book
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
FIC CRO
Cross, Gillian. Tightrope
When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.
FIC CUM
Cummings, Priscilla,. A face first.
Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island.
FIC CUR
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bucking the Sarge
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
FIC CUS
Cushman, Karen. The loud silence of Francince Green
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
FIC DEA
Deans, Sis Boulos. Racing the past.
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.
FIC DEU
Deuker, Carl High Heat and others
When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
FIC DEU
Deuker, Carl. Painting the black.
When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Ryan Ward doesn't realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle's Crown Hill High.
FIC DEU
Deuker, Carl. Night hoops.
While try to prove that he is good enough to play on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
FIC DEU
Deuker, Carl. Runner.
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
FIC ELI
Elish,Dan Born too short:confessions of an 8^th grade basket case
Thirteen-year-old Matt is so envious of his best friend Keith that he wishes things would go badly for him, and when Keith's fortune changes while at the same time Matt finds his first true girlfriend, Matt is overcome with guilt.
FIC FLA
Flake, Sharon Money Hungry and it’s sequel Begging for Change
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
FIC FRI
Friesen, Gayle. Janey's girl.
Fourteen-year old Claire spends August on the family farm and learns her family's secrets.
FIC HAU
Hautman, Pete, Invisible ALA Best Book for YA
Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
FIC HEN
Henkes, Kevin. Olive's Ocean Newbery Honor Book
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
FIC HES
Hesser, Terry Spencer. Kissing doorknobs.
Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.
FIC HIA
Hiaason, Carl. Flush ALA Best Book for YA
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home..
FIC HIN
Hinton, S. E. The outsiders
Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders.".
FIC HOL
Holt, Kimberly Willis. When Zachary Beaver came to town.
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
FIC HOW
Howe, James, The Misfits
Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.
FIC HOW
Howe, James, The watcher.
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the
beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.
FIC HUG
Hughes, Mark Peter. I am the wallpaper.
Thirteen-year-old Floey Packer, jealous of her attractive and popular older sister, shares her home with two younger cousins and experiences a summer vacation filled with embarrassing events, with herself as the star.
FIC JOH
Johnston, Julie. In spite of killer bees.
Fourteen-year-old Aggie and her older sisters cause quite a stir when the move to a small town that had been their father's childhood home to claim the legacy that their grandfather left them.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Maureen. The key to the golden firebird
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.
FIC KIM
Kimmel, Elizabeth. Lily B. on the brink of Paris also Lily B. on the brink of cool, also on the brink of love
On a class trip to France, fourteen-year-old Lily is determined to gather material for her great Parisian novel, but her daydreaming and lack of attention get her into trouble when she becomes separated from her group.
FIC KON
Konigsburg, E. L. The outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have been building in their back yard for over forty years.
FIC KOR
Korman, Gordon. Juvie Three Young Readers choice 2011
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
FIC KOR
Korman, Gordon. Schooled Young Readers choice 2010
Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school, where he becomes 8th grade, eighth grade class president, but bullied by the in group.
FIC KOS
Koss, Amy Goldman, The cheat ...also see, The girls and also Poison Ivy
When Sarah gets her hands on the answers to the eighth-grade geography midterm and decides to share them with some other students, consequences are far ranging.
FIC LAW
Lawrence, Ian. Ghost boy
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
FIC LOR
Lord, Cynthia Rules Newbery Honor Book 2006
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
FIC LUB
Lubar, David. Dunk.
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
FIC LUB
Lubar, David Sleeping freshman never lie
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
FIC MAC
Mack, Tracy. Drawing lessons.
Twelve-year-old Rory begins to lose the passion for making art that she shares with her father after she finds him kissing his female model and fears for the safety of her parents' marriage.
FIC MAR
Martin, Ann. A Corner of the Universe.
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
FIC McK
McKay, Saffy's angel / Indigo Star / Permanent Rose / Caddy / Forever Rose
After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.
FIC MIK
Mikaelsen, Ben, Petey.
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
FIC MIK
Mikaelsen, Ben,. Touching Spirit Bear - and latest The Ghost of Spirit Bear
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean. Shooter --see also others by author
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
FIC NOL
Nolan, Han. Dancing on the edge
A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality.
FIC OAT
Oates, Joyce Carol,. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl.
When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
FIC ORR
Orr, Wendy. Peeling the onion.
Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family.
FIC PER
Perkins, Lynne. Criss Cross - Newbery WINNER 2006 ALA Best Book for YA
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
FIC POT
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Two Jewish boys living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn struggle through the joys and problems of growing up.
FIC SHE
Sheldon, Dyan. Confessions of a teenage drama queen
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola," sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
FIC SCH
Schmidt, . The Wednesday wars Newbery Honor Book
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
FIC SHU
Shusterman, Neal Antsy does time Best books for YA 2009
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
FIC SHU
Shusterman, Neal The Schwa was here
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone
FIC SIM
Simmons, Michael. Pool boy
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.
FIC SIN
Singer, Nicky. Feather Boy
A timid, unpopular boy learns about courage, love, and luck through a school project involving a strong-willed elderly woman, the abandoned house where her son died, and the legend of the Firebird.
FIC SMI
Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Rain is not my Indian name.
Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp.
FIC SMI
Smith, Sherri L. Lucy the giant
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
FIC TAS
Tashjian, Janet. The gospel according to Larry -- also Vote for Larry
Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention against consumerism.
FIC TAS
Tashjian, Janet. Multiple choice
Monica, a fourteen-year-old perfectionist and word game expert, tries to break free from all of the suffocating rules in her life by creating a game for living called Multiple Choice.
FIC TOM
Tomey, Ingrid. Nobody else has to know
Fifteen-year-old Webber must either live with guilt or tell the truth about who was driving his grandfather's car when it struck and seriously injured a little girl.
FIC WES
Westerfeld, Scott. So yesterday : a novel.
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.
FIC WIL
Wilhelm, Doug. The revealers
Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School
FIC WIL
Wilson, Jacqueline. Candyfloss
When her mother plans to move to Australia with her new husband and baby, Floss must decide whether her loyalties lie with her mother or her father, while at the same time, her best friend begins to make fun of her and reject her
FIC WIL
Wilson, Jacqueline. Feathers Newbery Honor Book
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
FIC WOL
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True believer. ( in Make Lemonade series) National Book Award
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
FIC WOO
Woodson, Jacqueline Behind you
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
FIC ZIN
Zindel, Paul. The pigman; : a novel
A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.
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FIC ALP
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Ghost soldier.
Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains National Book Award Young Readers choice 2011 and latest Forge
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
FIC AUC
Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses ALA Young Adult best book 2003
Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister.
FIC AVI
Avi, Crispin : the cross of lead. Newbery WINNER and latest Crispin and the End of Time
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
FIC AVI
Avi. Traitor's Gate Edgar Allan Poe mystery award nominee
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
FIC BAR
Barrett, Tracy. Anna of Byzantium
In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.
FIC BEL
Bell, Ted. The time pirate : a Nick McIver time adventure.
Unwilling to let the Germans occupy his islands unopposed, young Nick takes to the skies in a restored WWI fighter plane. Determined to learn to fly, he is soon photographing German patrol boats by day and flying by night.
FIC BRA
Bradley, Kimberly. Lacemaker and the Princess.
Eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles in 1788, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
FIC CAD
Cadnum, Michael. Dragon Throne -sequel to Book of the lion and The Leopard Sword - and also King's Arrow
At the request of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the newly-knighted Edmund and Hubert accompany a young noblewoman on her dangerous pilgrimage from England to Rome.
FIC CAD
Cadnum, Michael. Forbidden forest : the story of Little John and Robin Hood. also In a dark wood
Profiles Little John, from his quiet life before joining Robin Hood through his adventures
protecting a beautiful lady when she is wrongfully accused of murdering her husband.
FIC CHO
Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone does my shirts Newbery honor book and Al Capone shines my shoes
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
FIC CRO
Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The seeing stone and it’s sequel At the Crossing Place
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.
FIC DUB
Dubb, Kathleen. The sacrifice
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
FIC ELL
Elliott, Laura. Give me liberty
In 1775, Nathaniel Dunn, a thirteen-year-old indentured servant in Virginia, befriends an elderly schoolmaster and soon finds himself torn between the two sides in the American Revolution.
FIC FAR
Farmer, Nancy. The sea of trolls
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
FIC GRE
Grant, K. M. Blaze of Silversequel to Green Jasper and Blood Red Horse and a new series starting with Blue Flame
Using principles of their shared Muslim faith to persuade him, an agent of the Old Man of the Mountain convinces Kamil to lead Will and Ellie into a trap, but Kamil repents and seeks a way to save his friends and redeem himself.
FIC GRE
Greene, Bette, 1934-. Summer of my German soldier
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.
FIC HAH
Hahn, Mary Downing Hear the wind blow
With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War.
FIC HAL
Hale, Marian Dark Water Rising
While salvaging and rebuilding in the aftermath of the Galveston flood of 1900, sixteen-year-old Seth proves himself in a way that his previous efforts never could, but he still must face his father man-to-man.
FIC HAR
Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Midnight rider.
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meeting disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.
FIC HOB
Hobbs, Will. Down the Yukon. (also Jason's Gold, and Downriver)
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
FIC HOL
Holeman, Linda. Search for the Moon King's daughter Young Reader's Choice nominee 2005
In order to have money for the drams of opiate that take away the pain of her injured hand and of poverty, Emmaline Rote's mother sells her young son, Tommy, to a master chimney sweep. Emmaline is determined to find her brother and to save him from the short life of a chimney sweep.
FIC HOL
Holm, Jennifer. Penny from heaven. Newbery Honor Book 2007
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death in an internment camp.
FIC HUN
Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils
Jethro, who is nine years old when the first April blooms, must run the farm in southern Illinois almost alone during the Civil War. Dangers on the home front prove as exciting as those in battle.
FIC KAD
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
FIC KLA
Klages, Ellen. the green glass sea Scott O'Dell Historical Fictional winner 2007 and sequel White Sands, Red Menace
While her father works on the Manhattan Project, eleven-year-old gadget lover and outcast Dewey Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes friends with Suze, another young girl who is shunned by her peers.
FIC LAR
Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky Newbery Honor Book 2007
Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe
FIC LEE
Lee, Tanith. Piratica : being a daing tale of a singular girl's adventure upon the high seas
Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy."
FIC LES
Lester, Julius. Pharaoh's daughter : a novel of ancient Egypt.
A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.
FIC LIS
Lisle, Janet Taylor. The art of keeping cool
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.
FIC LIS
Lisle, Janet Taylor,. Black Duck
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
FIC McC
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The kite rider : a novel.
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from ahorrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
FIC McC
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Stop the train.
Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.
FIC McK
McKernan, Victoria. Devil's paintbox. ALA Best Book YA 2010
In 1866, fifteen-year-old Aidan and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
FIC MEY
Meyer, Carolyn, Beware, Princess Elizabeth.
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later. ALSO Mary Bloody Mary
FIC MEY
Meyer, Carolyn, Duchessina: a novel of Catherine D'Medici
While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
FIC MEY
Meyer, Carolyn, Bad Queen: Marie Antoinette
In eighteenth-century France, Marie Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she finds diversion in spending money on clothing, parties, and gambling despite her family's warnings and the whispers of courtiers.
FIC PAT
Paterson, Katherine. Bread and roses, too.
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
FIC PAT
Patneaude, David. Thin Wood Walls
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face grwoing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
FIC PAU
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : a novel of the Civil War
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
FIC PEC
Peck, Richard. The River between us
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
FIC PEC
Peck, Robert Newton. Horse thief : a novel
In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
FIC REE
Rees, Celia. Witch child. and its sequel Sorceress and her latest Pirates!
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
FIC RIN
Rinaldi, Ann. Redheaded Princess- see also others by author
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.
FIC SCH
Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy. Newbery honor / Printz award
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
FIC SHU
Shusterman, Neal. The Schwa was here
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
FIC SMI
Smith, Betty, A tree grows in Brooklyn
Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn, New York slum, early 20^th century New York.
FIC SMI
Smith, Roland. Elephant Run ALA Best Book for YA 2009
Nick's father and others are taken prisoner when his plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, leaving Nick and his friend Mya to risk their lives in order to free them from the POW camp.
FIC SPI
Spillebeen, Geert. Kipling's choice.
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
FIC TAY
Taylor, Mildred D. The land. prequel to Roll of Thunder, hear my cry
Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War.
FIC TIN
Tingle, Rebecca. The edge on the sword
In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old girl Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West
Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes
FIC WIL
Williams, Laura E. The executioner's daughter
Thirteen-year-old Lily, daughter of the town's executioner living in fifteenth-century Europe, decides whether to fight against her destiny or to rise above her fate.
FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane Girl in a cage
As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.
FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Queen's own fool : a novel of Mary Queen of Scots.
When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland.
FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Sword of the rightful king : a novel of King Arthur.
Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first.
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FIC ALM
Almond, David, . Kit's wilderness
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
FIC ASH
Ashley, Bernard. Little Soldier
Taken from Africa to a foster home in London after his family is killed by an enemy tribe, Kaninda discovers the meaning of hate and the value of not hating.
FIC BAG
Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten fire.
The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.
FIC BRA
Bray, Libba. Great and terrible beauty and her next book Rebel Angels and now Sweet Far thing
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
FIC CAM
Cameron, Ann. Colibri
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
FIC CHE (author of China’s Son)
Chen, Da. Wandering warrior.
Eleven-year-old Luka, destined to become the future emperor of China, is trained in the ways of the kung fu wandering warriors by the wise monk Atami.
FIC COM
Coman, Carolyn. Many stones.
After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.
FIC CRE
Crew, Linda. Children of the river..
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
FIC ELL
Ellis, Deborah. Parvana's Journey and now Mud City sequels to The Breadwinner
With Kabul in ruins from the Taliban's control, Parvana dresses as a boy and sets out to leave Afghanistan in search of her family.
FIC FAM
Fama, Elizabeth. Overboard
Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.
FIC FLE
Fletcher, Susan. Alphabet of Dreams
Exiled from their home country because of their father's plot against King Phraates, fourteen-year-old Mitra and five-year-old Babak, who are of royal descent, live as beggars until it is discovered that the boy can tell the future through his dreams, and the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests take the children with them to Bethlehem to witness the coming of a new king.
FIC FUN
Funke,Cornelia Thief Lord
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.
FIC GAL
Gallego Garcia, Laura Legend of the Wandering King
Motivated by jealousy and the desire to receive acclaim as a great poet, Walid ibn Huyr, a prince of ancient Arabia, commits acts which completely change the course of his life.
FIC HOL
Holt, Kimberly Willis. Keeper of the night (author of When Zachary Beaver came to town)
Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl living on the island of Guam, and her family try to cope with the death of Isabel's mother who committed suicide.
FIC IBB
Ibbotson, Eva. Journey to the river sea
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.
FIC JAR
Jaramillo, Ann. La Linea
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.
FIC KAS
Kass, Pnina. Real time : a novel.ALA Best Book for YA 2006
Sixteen-year-old Tomas Wanninger persuades his mother to let him leave Germany to volunteer at a kibbutz in Israel, where he experiences a violent political attack and finds answers about his own past.
FIC LAW
Lawrence, Iain, Lord of the nutcracker men
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.
FIC McK
McKay, Hilary. Caddy Ever after -author of Saffy's angel. Young Readers' Choice nominees 2005 and Permanent Rose
The four eccentric Casson siblings each contribute written accounts of the events--which include a Valentine's Day dance, the appearance of a sinister balloon, and the breakdown of a car--that lead to Caddy's wedding day.
FIC MOS
Mosher, Richard. Zazoo.
Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.
FIC NAI
Naidoo, Beverley. The other side of truth
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
FIC NAM
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that bind, ties that break. .
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper-class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.
FIC NAM
Namioka, Lensey. An ocean apart, a world away : a novel.
Yanyan, having always wanted to be a doctor, makes a difficult decision to leave the exciting Liang Baoshu behind in China and moves to New York to attend medical school.
FIC NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo. Daughter of Venice.
Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.
FIC NYE
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi.
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and to Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
FIC PR
Preus, Margi. Heart of a samurai: based on the true stroy of Nakahama Manjiro Newbery honor book 2010
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

FIC SMI
Smith, Dodie, I capture the castle. (original novel of the movie)
A reprint of the 1949 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
FIC SPI
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
FIC STA
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the persimmon treeALA Best Book for YA 2006
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to located their missing loved ones after the war ends. (author of Shabanu, Havei, and Shiva's Fire about life for a girl in Pakistan)
FIC THA
Thal, Lilli. MimusALA Best Book for YA 2006
As Prince Florin of Moltovia races to join his father at a banquet to celebrate the war's end, he encounters a devastating betrayal that separates him from his father and loyal followers, placing him as a lowly apprentice to the spiteful and wily court jester, Mimus
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FIC ADA
Adams, Douglas The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel City of the Beasts
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
FIC ALE
Alexander, Lloyd Book of Three – Chronicles of Prydain
Taran, the Assistant Pig Keeper in the mythical kingdom of Prydain, sets out with the warrior Gwydion to save his country from evil.
FIC ASI
Asimov, Isaac, Foundation and the others in the Trilogy
As the Galactic Empire declines, psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to form the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation.
FIC ATW
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Hawksong.
In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other. and it's sequel Snakecharm and latest Wolfcry
FIC BAR
Barron, T. A. Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the dark Prophecy
In accordance with prophecy, Avalon's existence is threatened in the year that stars stop shining and at the time when both the dark child and Merlin's heir are to be revealed.
FIC BAS
Bass, L. G. Sign of the qin : Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh
In long-ago China, Prince Zong, the mortal young Starlord chosen to save humankind from destruction, joins the twin outlaws, White Streak and Black Whirlwind, to fight the Lord of the Dead and his demon horde
FIC BEA
Beagle, Peter S. The last unicorn
With the assistance of Schmendrick the Magician, an immortal, beautiful unicorn searches for her lost fellows.
FIC BAR
Barker, Clive. Abarat and now it's sequel Magic Days
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, journeys to the Arabat, an archipelago filled with strange wonders, and has a curious revelation: she has been here before, and it is her responsibility to save this mysterious place from the evil forces that threaten it.
FIC BEL
Bell, Hilari. A matter of profit
Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.
FIC BEL
Bell, Hilari. Rise of a hero. . sequel to Flame
Although the Hrum believe their war against Farsala is nearly over, Soraya has strategic information that will help if she can reach Jiaan and Kavi and their separate resistance movements, but discord and Time's Wheel weem destined to keep them apart.
FIC BAC
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
FIC BRA
Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
In a future time when government policy decrees that all books must be burned, a few courageous individuals memorize as many books as possible.
FIC BUJ
Bujor, Flavia. Prophecy of the Stones
Three girls, known as the Stones of Prophecy, are drawn to a land called Fairytale, where they and a man called the Chosen One seek Oonagh, a magical creature who explains their role in a battle between Good and Evil.
FIC CAL
Calhoun, Dia. Avielle of Rhia also author of Aria of the Sea and The Phoenix Dance
Taught to hate and fear the heritage that sets her apart from most people of the kingdom, fifteen-year-old Princess Avielle of Rhia must finally embrace the magic of her Dredonian ancestors to save the very people who scorn her.
FIC CAL
Calhoun, Dia. Firegold (author of Aria of the Sea)
Thirteen-year-old Jonathon, feared and hated by the brown-eyed Valley people because of his blue eyes, tries to find answers to his true identity in the Red Mountains, home of the Dalriada, a mountain people with magnificent horses, mystical powers, and blue eyes like his.
FIC CAR
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's game (and others in series)
Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.
FIC CAR
Card, Orson Scott. Pathfinder.
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
FIC CAR
Carey, Janet Lee. The beast of Noor
Fifteen-year-old Miles Ferrell uses the rare and special gift he is given to break the curse of the Shriker, a murderous creature reportedly brought to Shalem Wood by his family's clan centuries before.
FIC CAR
Carey, Janet Lee. Dragon's keep
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw on her finger she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets and that of a dragon.
FIC CAT
Catanese, P. W. Happenstance Found. Young Readers Choice 2012
Twelve-year-old Happenstance wakes up in a cave with no idea how he got there, or who he is, but merchant and royal advisor Lord Umber helps Hap and his two friends escape from the caverns.
FIC CHA
Charbon, Michael. Summerland
The Ferishers, little creatures who ensure perfect weather for Summerland, are aided by one of history's worst baseball players in their struggle to save Summerland from giants, goblins, and other legendary, terrible creatures.
FIC CLE
Clement-Davies, David, 1961-. Fire bringer (also Sight)
Rannoch, born with a fawn mark the shape of an oak leaf on his forehead, is destined to lead the deer out of the Lord of the Herd's tyranny, but he must first complete a journey through the Great Land.
FIC CLE
Clements, Andrew Things not seen. - also Things hoped for
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
FIC COL
Collins, Suzanne. Gregor and the mask of secrets latest - Gregor the Overlander book
Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
FIC COL
Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games and sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay ALA Best Book YA
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
FIC CON
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Matched. and latest Crossed
Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.
FIC COO
Cooney, Caroline B. Out of time
Strat, the wealthy boy with whom Annie fell in love during her first time trip to the 1890s, needs her help when he reveals her real origin and finds himself confined in a mental asylum.
FIC COO
Cooper, Susan. The dark is rising cycle, beginning with Over Sea, Under Stone
Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous ques for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver on the Tree)
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, Timeline.
A group of scientists, having learned how to travel through time, enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.
FID DAS
Dashner, James. Maze Runner Young Readers choice 2012 and Scorch Trials
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
FIC DIC
Dickinson, Peter. Eva
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
FIC DIC
Dickinson, Peter, The ropemaker. Printz (YA) award honor book 2002
When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
FIC DIX
Dixon, Heather, Entwined.
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
FIC DOL
Dolamore, Jaclyn. Magic under glass
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton (an automation) leads seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.
FIC DUA
Duane, Diane. So you want to be a wizard (1^st in series)
Thirteen-year-old girl Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
FIC DuP
DuPrau, Jeanne. Diamond of Darkhold latest sequel to People of Sparks and City of Ember and Prophet of Yonwood
When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
FIC FAL
Falls, Kat. Dark Life
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat
FIC FAR
Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion National Book Award and Newbery Honor Book
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States
FIC FAR
Farmer, Nancy, . The Sea of Trolls.and latest Land of Silver Apples
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. Fantasy
FIC FIS
Fisher, Catherine. The Oracle betrayed and it's sequel Sphere of Secrets
After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon.
FIC FLA
Flanagan. Battle for Skandia (book 4) - also Ruins of Gorlan, Burning Bridge, and Icebound Land
After escaping slavery, Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior, leaving Will to use his Ranger training to find her, despite being outnumbered by an enemy scouting party and the entire Temujai army.
FIC FLE
Fletcher, Susan. Shadow spinner
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
FIC FUN
Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart - also Inkspell and soon Inkdeath
As Meggie's father, Mo, reads aloud from Inkheart, and evil ruler named Capricorn escapes from the pages of fiction and lands in their living room. How can Meggie and Mo learn to harness the magic?
FIC FUR
Furlong, Monica, Colman- sequel to Wise Child and Juniper
After Juniper and her companions find that the Cornwall, England, castle where she was raised as a princess has been destroyed, they devise a plan to use magic to oppose the evil Meroot and the Gray Knight and to restore the authority of Prince Brangwyn.
FIC GAR
Gardner, Sally. I, Coriander
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
FIC GAR
Gardner, Lyn. Into the woods
Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters--Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, the elder Aurora, and the baby Any--flee into the woods and begin a treacherous journey filled with many dangers as they try to find a way to defeat their pursuer and keep him from taking the pipe and control of the entire land
FIC GEO
George, Jessica Day. Princess of the Midnight Ball. ALA Best Book YA 2010 Young Readers choice 2012
When the decade long war ends, professional solider Galen finds work as a gardener in the king’s garden, only to help solve the puzzle involving twelve dancing princesses.
FIC GRU
Gruber, Michael, The witch's boy.ALA Best Book for YA 2006
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
FIC HAD
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Turnabout
In 2000 when both Melly and Anny Beth are old and ready to die they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and given an injection to make them grow younger -- but the unaging process doesn't stop -- and now it is 2085 and they are getting younger all the time -- time is running out.
FIC HAL
Hale, Shannon. Book of one thousand days. Young Readers choice 2010
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
FIC HAL
Hale, Shannon. River Secrets.sequel to Goose Girl and Enna Burning
Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
FIC HAL
Hale, Shannon.Princess Academy (Newbery honor 2005)
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
FIC HER
Herbert, Frank. Dune.
Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire.
FIC HOF
Hoffman, Mary Stravaganza : City of Masks and City of Stars and City of Flowers
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
FIC HUL
Hulme,John The glitch in Sleep (Seems series)
When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens the ability of everyone to fall asleep.
FIC JAC
Jacques, Brian. Sable Quaenand others in the Redwall series
Zwilt the Shade is no match for his rival Vilaya the Sable Quean when each devises a plan to conquer Redwall Abbey.
FIC JOH
Jones, Diana Wynne. The Pinhoe egg: a Chrestomanci novel
Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
FIC JON
Jones, Diana Wynne. Year of the griffin (and prequel Dark Lord of Derkholm)
When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.
FIC KER
Kerr, Philip. Cobra King of Kathmandu sequel to Blue Djinn of Babylon- and The Akhenaten adventure
Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John and their friend Dybbuk have further adventures as they travel the world in search of a priceless talisman.
FIC KIN
Kindl, Patrice. Goose chase
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
FIC KLA
Kladstrup, Kristin. The book of story beginnings
After moving with her parents to Iowa, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers a mysterious notebook that can bring stories to life and which has a link to the 1914 disappearance of her great uncle.
FIC KLA
Klass, David. Stuck on Earth.
On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.
FIC LAC
Lackey, Mercedes. Owlflight and others in series
Darian, a thirteen-year-old orphan with an untrained talent for magic, flees to the Pelagiris Forest when his village is attacked by barbarians, and encounters the Hawkbrothers, a magical elflike race, who are trying to reestablish the network through which magic used to flow before it was disrupted by the mage-storms.
FIC LAN
Landy, Derek. Skulduggery Pleasant Young Readers Choice nominee 2011
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.
FIC LEE
Lee, Tanith. Wolf Tower and others in series
When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
FIC LeG
Le Guin, Ursula K., The other wind and other books in Earthsea series
Alder, a sorcerer and pot mender who is being haunted by dreams in which his dead wife breaches the barrier between the living and the dead, joins with Tenar and Tenahu in an effort to mend and save Earthsea.
FIC LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. Ever -- and other books by this author
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois. The messenger
In this novel that unites characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue, Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
FIC MAG
Maguire, Gregory. Mirror, mirror
Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand by Cesare Borgia, leaving her in the care of Borgia's sister Lucrezia, a decadent woman who orders the child killed. see also Confessions of an Ugly stepsister and Wicked
FIC MAR
Marillier, Juliet. Wildwood dancing
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
FIC McC
McCaffrey, Laura Williams. Alia waking.
Alia and her best friend Kay long to join the Keentens, a sisterhood of warrior women, but after a punishment caring for captives, Alia begins to question everything that once was certain in her life.
FIC McC
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Peter Pan in scarlet
Nightmares are leaking out of Neverland making time start to move, and, in order to save Peter Pan's life, Wendy and the Lost Boys must find a way to stop it.
FIC McC
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The stones are hatching
Eleven-year-old Phelim and his companions, a Maiden, a Fool, and a strange black Horse, journey to the Stoor Worm's lair to destroy the long-forgotten Worm and its Hatchlings, who have been roused from their slumber by the sounds of war.
FIC McK
McKinley, Robin. Blue Sword Newbery Honor book
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.
FIC McK
McKinley, Robin. Spindle's End
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
FIC MEY
Meyer, Kai. The water mirror and The Flowing queen
Merle and Sarafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, and set out to rescue her and save Venice from the Egyptian mummy warriors threatening the city.
FIC MIE
Mieville, Chinn. Un Lun dun
Twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba discover an entrance to a strange world where they encounter killer giraffes, animated umbrellas, ghost children, and flying double-decker buses.
FIC MOR
Morris, Gerald. The Quest of the Fair Unkown
Having grown up in an isolated forest, Beaufils sets off for Camelot to find his father and winds up undertaking quests with Sirs Gawain and Galahad, visiting various hermits, and traveling to the fairy world.
FIC MURMurdock, Catherine. Princess Ben
Princess Benevolence discovers an enchanted room while locked in the castle's highest tower by the conniving Queen Sophia and begins learning the magical arts, which may help her save her kingdom from a mortal threat.
FIC MUR
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Princess Ben
Princess Benevolence discovers an enchanted room while locked in the castle's highest tower by the conniving Queen Sophia and begins learning the magical arts, which may help her save her kingdom from a mortal threat.
FIC NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo, Beast.
Elaborate on the tale of Beauty and the Beast told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.
FIC NIC
Nicholson, William. The wind singer : an adventure
After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people. First in a trilogy - Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong
FIC NIX
Nix, Garth. Sabriel
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. Sequel is Lirael
FIC NIX
Nix, Garth. Shade's children.
In a savage future world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.
FIC OBR
O'Brien, Robert. Z for Zachariah Winner of an Edgar Allan Poe mystery award
Seemingly the only person left alive after nuclear doomsday, the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
FIC OPP
Oppell, Kenneth. Skybreaker ALA Best Book for YA 2006 sequel to Airborn Printz (YA) award honor book and latest StarClimber
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
FIC PAO
Paolini, Christopher Eragon and his latest Eldest and latest Brisinger
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters
FIC PAT
Patou, Edith. East
A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James. Final Warning.latest in the Maximum Ride series
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
FIC PEA
Pearson, Mary E. David v. God
Certain that his death was a mistake, wise guy David James finds himself teamed up with the "Queen of the Nerds" from his high school in preparation for a debate with God.
FIC PFE
Pfeffer, Susan. Life as we knew it Young Readers Choice nominee 2009
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
FIC PHI
Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman). The last book in the universe. ALA Best Book for YA
After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.
FIC PIE
Pierce, Meredith Ann. Treasure at the heart of the Tanglewood
Hannah, a healer with unusual powers, leaves the wizard she has always served and, along with her animal companions, begins a journey which uncovers the truth about her real nature.
FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. Terrier. new series on Beka Cooper/ prequel to Alanna books
When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City..
FIC PRA
Pratchett, Terry. Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king
FIC PRA
Pratchett, Terry. Carpe jugulum : a Discworld novel.
King Verence unwittingly invites trouble when he opens the doors of the castle to Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, to celebrate the birth of his daughter.
FIC PRA
Pratchett, Terry. Wee Free Men
Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
FIC PRI
Price, Susan. The Sterkarm handshake Carnegie award
Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live.
FIC PRI
Prineas, Sarah. The Magic Thief -- also in series Lost and Found
Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply.
FIC PUL
Pullmann, Philip. Golden Compass – 1^st in the Dark Materials trilogy
Accompanied by her demon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
FIC REE
Reeves, Philip. Mortal Engines and its sequel Predator's gold and latest Infernal Devices and now Darkling Plain
Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon
FIC REX
Rex, Adam. True meaning of Smekday.
FIC RIO
Riordan, Rick. Battle of the Labyrinth, sequel to The sea of monsters -and The lightning thief ALA Best Book for YA 2006 and Titan's Curse
When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Katherine, Spellfall
After twelve-year-old Natalie, unaware of her own powers, is kidnapped by a wizard, she, her stepbrother, and their friends are caught up in the sorcerer's attempt to cross an invisible boundary in order to invade another world.
FIC SAG
Sage, Angie. Queste sequel to Magyk and Flyte andPhysik
Nicki and Snorri are trapped in Time, and Septimus Heap goes on a quest to find the House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets.
FIC SCO
Scott, Michael Dyland. The Alchemyst: :secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel Young Readers choice 2010 and The Magician also Sorcerer and Necromancer
Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
FIC SED
Sedgwick, Marcus. The dark horse
Having risen to power as chief of his people, the Storn, sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and makes a shocking discovery about his foster sister Mouse
FIC SHA
Shan, Darren. Sons of Destiny 12^th book in the series - Cirque du Freak
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
FIC SKE
Skelton, Matthew. Endymion Spring Young Reader's Choice Award nominee, 2009
Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.
FIC SHU
Shulman, Polly. The Grimm Legacy
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
FIC SHU
Shusterman, Neal. Downsiders : a novel.
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.
FIC SHU
Shusterman, Neal. Full tilt : a novel.
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
FIC SLA
Slade, Arthur. Hunchback assignments. Young Readers Choice 2012
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
FIC SLE
Sleator,William Interstellar Pig and it’s new sequel Parasite Pig
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."
FIC STE
Stewart, Trenton. Mysterious Benedict Society. and latest And the Perilous Journey
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
FIC STR
Stroud, Jonathan. Amulet of Samarkind and his latest Golem's eye and latest Ptolemy's Gate
Eleven year old Nathan, a magician's apprentice wants revenge for being humiliated by Simon Lovelace, a ruthless magician, and summons up Barimaeus, a 5000 year old dginni or geni to help him.
FIC THO
Thompston, Kate. The new policeman
Fifteen-year-old musician J.J. Liddy leaves his small, Irish town and travels to the land of the fairies to search for time so he can give it to his busy mother, but when he gets there, he discovers that the inhabitants are in trouble and learns about his family's secret history.
FIC TOL
Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings series
FIC TOM
Tomlinson. Heather. Swan Maiden
Raised as a chastelaine-in-training unlike her sisters who are learning the arts of sorcery, Doucette discovers when she is sixteen years old that she too has magic in her blood, and she must brave her mother's wrath--and the loss of the man she loves--in order to follow her birthright.
FIC TUR
Turner, Megan Whelan Queen of Attolia and The thief and King of Attolia and latest Conspiracy of KingsSLJ Best Book 2006
Forsaken by the gods and left to his own devices, Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.
FIC VAN
Vande Velde, Vivian Heir Apparent Young Reader's Choice nominee 2005
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
FIC VER
Verne, Jules. 20,000 leagues under the sea
An American frigate tracks down a ship sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo
FIC WES
Westerfeld , Scott. Leviathan. Young Readers choice 2012 ALA Best Book for YA 2010 and Behemouth and soon Goliath
Steampunk novel that is a strange mixture of Victorian times with mechanical inventions. Bio-society countries are at war with mechanical countries in this extremely fresh novel.
FIC WES
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies.ALA Best Book for YA 2006 and now Pretties and also Specials and Extras
Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation (cosmetic surgery) that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Sword of the rightful king : a novel of King Arthur.
Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first.
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