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Anthony,
Piers
Bearing an Hourglass
(27 copies)
When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as
the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from
present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of
Immortality—Death, Fate, War, and Nature—made him welcome. Even
Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts
were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of
the Evil One to destroy all that was good....
Bradley,
Marion Zimmer
Darkover Landfall
(22 copies)
Book one in the saga of Darkover
Brooks,
Terry
Black Unicorn
(29 copies)
A year had passed since Ben Holiday bought the Magic Kingdon from the
wizard, Meeks. But unbeknownst to him, he has been the victim of a
trap by Meeks, who has succeeded in stealing the Paladin and
appropriating his face. Suddenly none of Ben's friends know him, but
all of his enemies do. He must win it all back again--only this time
on his own!
Colfer,
Eoin
Artemis Fowl
(53 copies)
Twelve-year old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius-----and, above
all, a criminal mastermind. But
even Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a
fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.
These aren’t fairies of bedtime stories---they’re
dangerous!
Creech,
Sharon
Walk Two Moons
(35 copies)
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her
grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the
way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has
also left.
Curtis,
Christopher Paul
Bud, Not
Buddy
(50
copies)
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during
the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search
of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E.
Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Danzinger,
Paula
This Place Has No Atmosphere
(57 copies)Aurora loves her life on Earth in the twenty-first
century, until she learns that her family is moving to the colony on
the moon.
Duane,
Diane
So You Want to be a Wizard
(25 copies)
Thirteen-year-old 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.
Eliot,
George
Silas Marner
(29 copies)
Disappointed in friendship and love and embittered by a false
accusation, weaver Silas Marner retreats from the world with his loom,
but soon finds his monastic existence disturbed by the arrival of a
golden-haired child.
Fast,
Howard
April Morning
(21 copies)
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in
colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his
father shot down by the British.
Foster,
Alan Dean
For Love of Mother Not
(21 copies)
Flinx, who is smarter and shorter for his age, has to help save
his foster mother from interplanetary bad guys.
Gurasich,
Mari
Letters to Oma
(23 copies)
After her family moves from Germany to Texas, Tina chronicles in
letters their struggle to survive in a strange new place while
preserving their traditional German ways.
Hesser,
Terry
Kissing Doorknobs
(21 copies)
Despite recent media attention, obsessive-compulsive disorder
remains perplexing to those who haven't experienced the illness
firsthand. In her compassionate debut novel, Terry Spencer Hesser
skillfully and credibly explains exactly what OCD feels like, as well
as the effects it has on surrounding friends and family.
Hobbs,
William
The Big Wander
(62 copies)
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon
country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of
Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
Hunt, Irene
Across
Five Aprils
(23 copies)
Young Jethro
Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of
the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil
War.
Lawrence,
Jerome
Inherit the Wind
(21 copies)
A drama based on the Scopes Trial of July, 1925, in Dayton, Tenn.
Lee,
Marie
Finding My Voice
(23 copies)
In her small Minnesota town, Ellen Sung is the only Asian student in
her high school.
Levine,
Gail Carson
Ella Enchanted
(51 copies)
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles
against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to
her.
Lewis,
C.S.
The Horse and His Boy
(28 copies)
During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named
Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Calormene
fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North--to Narnia. When
he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he
really is and even finds his real father.
Mazer,
Norma Fox
When She was Good
(24 copies)
Em Thurkill spent the first 14 years of her life suffering her
father's alcoholic rages and her mother's silences, and the next three
trapped with an abusive older sister. Heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and
ultimately uplifting, this story of a teenage survivor is a tribute to
the resilience of the human spirit.
McKinley,
Robin
The Outlaws of Sherwood
(20 copies)
The author retells the adventures of Robin Hood and his band of
outlaws who live in Sherwood Forest in twelfth-century England.
Mitchell,
Margaret
Gone With the Wind
(29 copies)
A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the
greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War
saga.
Montgomery,
L.M.
Anne of Avonlea
(23 copies)
16-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea
to teach in the village school where she herself was taught.
Montgomery,
L.M.
Anne of Green Gables
(37 copies)
When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green
Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims,
"But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's
not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could
ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original
reasons they sought an orphan.
Myers,
Walter Dean
Darnell Rock Reporting
(44 copies)
Thirteen-year-old Darnell's twin sister and the other members of
the Corner Crew have doubts about his work on the school newspaper,
but the article he writes about a homeless man changes his attitude
about school.
Napoli,
Donna Jo
Magic Circle
(23 copies)
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is
turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until
her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
Nye,
Naomi Shihab
Habibi
(24 copies)
Liyana Abboud, 14, and her family make a tremendous adjustment when
they move to Jerusalem from St. Louis.
Paulsen,
Gary
Brian's Winter
(50 copies)
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's
book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian
had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his
survival pack and hatchet.
Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet
(34 copies)
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days
in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet
given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents'
divorce.
Peck,
Robert Newton
(25 copies)
A Day no Pigs Would Die
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters
pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing
what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who
cannot produce a litter.
Pfeffer,
Susan
The Year Without Michael
(22 copies)
The remaining members of the Chapman family try to cope with the
disappearance of fourteen-year-old Michael.
Southgate,
Martha
Another Way to Dance
(23 copies)
Black ballet dancer Vicki is certain she loves to dance; but can
she contend with racism and doubt surrounding her talents? Her summer
at a famous ballet school not only trains her more in dance, but
teaches her valuable lessons about self esteem and racial
stereotyping.
Speare,
Elizabeth
Witch of Blackbird Pond
(52 copies)
Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut
Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the
river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor
named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back
up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her
aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her.
Sweeney,
Joyce
Tiger Orchard
(23 copies)
Zack has always felt like an outsider in his family but doesn't
quite know why until he begins having nightmares which reach back for
long-hidden childhood memories.
Taylor,
Mildred
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(20 copies)
A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced
with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't
understand.
Taylor,
Theodore
The Cay
(37 copies)
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a
German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy,
blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a
small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind
of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Voight,
Cynthia
Izzy, Willy Nilly
(22 copies)
A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and
face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.
Wells,
H. G.
War of the Worlds
(22 copies)
Four Martian space ships land in England, forcing people to flee from
the aliens and their weapons of death and destruction.
Zahn, Timothy
Specter of the past
(27 copies)
The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they have saved
their most heinous plan for last. First a plot is hatched that could
destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war.
Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawn--the most
cunning and ruthless warlord in history--has apparently returned from
the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesied victory.
(Star Wars)
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