Y/FICTION/ALEXANDER,L
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.

2009 Margaret Edwards Award Winner

Y/FICTION/ANDERSON,L
In 1793 the Cook Coffeehouse outside of Philadelphia is a haven for those fleeing from the fever sweeping across the mosquito-infested city. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook loses her childhood playmate to the fever and struggles to keep her family and its business alive.

Y/FICTION/AVI
This 1992 Newbery Honor Book, ALA Notable Children's Book, and "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year is available once again. Avi tells the story of an outspoken teen who finds himself on an unexpected trial.

Y/FICTION/AVI
A 1991 Newbery Honor Book designation tops the list of awards and honors bestowed upon this spellbinding tale of intrigue and murder on the high seas.

Y/FICTION/BAUER,J
After moving to Wisconsin to run a diner with her aunt, 16-year-old Hope finds herself involved in the small town's mayoral race, where the G.T., owner of the diner, enters the race against the undefeated longtime mayor. G.T. has leukemia, but Hope sees the goodness and power in him.

Y/FICTION/BROOKS,B
A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship. .....

2008 Grand Canyon Reader Award- Tween Nominee
2007 Virginia Readers' Choice

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/BRUCHAC,J
Bruchac brings to life for young adults the stories of some of the unsung heroes of World War II--the young Navajo men who were a crucial part of the American effort in sending and receiving messages that used their native language.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/BUDHOS,M
The author of "Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers" pens a moving story about two teenage sisters, originally from Bangladesh, whose family lives illegally in New York City. After 9/11, immigration regulations change, forcing the family to seek asylum.

Y/SF/CHRISTOPHER,J
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/CLEMENTS,A
Fifteen-year-old Bobby thinks he knows what it's like to be invisible-he's used to being ignored by the popular kids at school (especially the girls). Even his parents hardly seem to notice whether he's home or not. Then one morning, Bobby wakes up to find that he IS invisible. For real. He can't stop wondering if he'll ever reappear-especially when his parents wreck their car and wind up in the hospital. Now Bobby is all alone. How can he survive in a world where he can't be seen? One thing's for sure: Bobby's not going to just wait around to see if his body will decide to show up again on its own. He's got to take action. Fast.

Y/FICTION/COLLIER,J
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/COONEY,C
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

Y/FICTION/COOPER,S
On his 11th birthday, Will Stanton learns that he is the last born of the Old Ones. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid in the final battle between the Dark and Light.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/CREECH,S
Jack hates poetry, but he can't avoid Ms. Stretchberry's assignments. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns he does have something to say.

Winner - 1995 Newbery Award

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/CREECH,S
On her journey by car from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, 13-year-old Salamanca Hiddle tells the story of her friend Phoebe, who receives a message from a "lunatic" and who must cope with the disappearance of her mother. But beneath this story is Sal's own story, and that of her mother, who left home one day and never returned.

2000 Newbery Award Winner
1999 Mitten Award Winner
2002 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen

Y/FICTION & Y/BOOK/DISCUSSION/FICTION/CURTIS,P
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.
2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!
Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/CURTIS,C
A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up.

Y/SF/DICKINSON,P
The picnic on the beach is Eva's last memory. As she lies in the hospital bed while her mother explains about the accident and the coma, Eva senses there is something they are not telling her--a price she must pay to be alive.

Y/FICTION/ELLIS,D
In Afghanistan, a country controlled by the Taliban, a radical religious faction that allows only men to work and forbids women to go to school, work, or even outside their homes without a male escort, a courageous young woman pretends to be a boy in war-torn Kabul in order to support her family.

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2006-2007 Virginia Readers' Choice Award- Middle School Winner

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/FARMER,N
The three-time Newbery Honor-winning author and National Book Award recipient pens a new adventure set in A.D. 793 in the land of the Vikings, where two children are soon swept up in a quest on which they encounter a dragon, a giant spider, and trolls.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/FORBES,E
A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent passionate times in Boston just after the Revolutionary War. Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with James Otis, John Hancock, and John and Samuel Adams in the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington; and finally, a touching resolution of Johnny's personal life.

The classic text of the diary Anne Frank kept during the two years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic is a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. …More

2004 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen
Winner - 2003 Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Y/FICTION/GEORGE,J
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Y/FICTION/GREENE,B
This 1973 National Book Award finalist tells of a 12-year-old girl who befriends a Nazi soldier, who is imprisoned in a World War II camp in her small hometown in Arkansas.

2002 Nutmeg Intermediate Award Winner

Y/SF & Y/PAPERBACK/HADDIX,M
Following the futuristic storylines of "1984" and "Brave New World" comes "Among the Hidden". Luke is a third child in a family with already two boys. This is breaking a decree established by the government. He's successfully hidden in his parent's home without discovery for 12 years, but a stray glimpse through an air vent reveals his prohibited existence. Does this spell freedom from secrecy?

Winner - 1998 Newbery Award

2007 Nutmeg Teen Award Winner
2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award Winner

Winner - 2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/HINTON,S
When it was first published in 1967, "The Outsiders" defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world.

Y/FICTION/HOBBS,W
"We've got millions!" the prospectors roared to the throng at Seattle's docks. "The Klondike is the richest goldfield in the world!"

Y/FICTION/HUNT,I
The Newbery Award-winning author of "Up a Road Slowly" presents the unforgettable story of a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.

Y/FICTION/JACQUES,B
The book that kicked off the phenomenon is now reissued with brand-new jacket art in honor of its 20th anniversary. Readers will delight anew in the thrilling adventures of young Matthias as he discovers the hero within.

Y/PAPERBACK/KERR,M
Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Then he meets Skye Pennington, who spends the summers nearby on a lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock.

Y/FICTION/LASKY,K
In this deeply moving companion to "The Night Journey," it is now 1897 and Reuven Bloom is 15 years old. When his parents and older sister are murdered by the Tsar's army, Reuven decides to escape to America with his baby sister.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/LEVINE,G
At birth, Ella of Frell was given the gift of obedience by a fairy. Ella soon realizes that this gift is little better than a curse, for how can she truly be herself if at any time anyone can order her to hop on one foot, or cut off her hand, or betray her kingdom--and she'll have to obey? Ella's quest to break the curse and discover who she really is, is both funny and poignant.

2007 Margaret Edwards Award Winner
Winner - 1994 Newbery Award
Winner - 1996 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award
1995 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen

Y/SF & Y/PAPERBACK/LOWRY,L
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her. …More

Y/FICTION/MCKERNAN,V
On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton's Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires to cross of the Antarctic continent. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/MCKINLEY,R
Twenty years ago Robin McKinley enthralled readers with the power of "Beauty". Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist retells the story of Beauty and the Beast but in a totally new way, with fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight. A compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/MIKAELSEN,B
This gripping, graphic survival story from an award-winning writer paints an unsparing picture of one violent teen and offers a poignant testimony to the power of pain that can destroy and may also heal.

Y/FICTION/NIXON,J
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

2005 ALA Young Adult Top Ten Selection
2006-2007Texas Lone Star Reading List
2005 Beehive Award- Teen Winner
2005 Thumbs Up! Award Winner

Y/FICTION/OPPEL,K
A swashbuckling new fantasy by the bestselling author of the Silverwing trilogy. In the early 20th century, a young orphan serves as a cabin boy aboard an airship and is witness to life-and-death battles in the sea and above land.

Y/FICTION/OPPEL,K
Former cabin boy Matt Cruse, now a student at the prestigious Airship Academy, is first to identify the Hyperion, the private airship of a reclusive and fabulously wealthy inventor that disappeared forty years ago with its owner. Armed with the Hyperion's coordinates, which only he possesses, Matt, heiress Kate de Vries, and a mysterious young gypsy board the Sagarmatha, an airship fitted with the new skybreaker engines that will allow them to reach the Hyperion, 20,000 feet above the earth's surface. Pursued by others who want the Hyperion and will stop at nothing to get it, and surrounded by dangerous high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions are soon fighting not only for the Hyperion but for their very lives.

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Multiple Award Winner

Y/FICTION/PAOLINI,C
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy--until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save--or destroy--the Empire.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/PAULSEN,G
Paulsens Newbery Honor Book tells the story of 13-year-old Brian Robeson, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/PECK,R
Newbery winner Peck carries readers back to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago in a tour de force that combines real people of the time with a new fictional family that all spin together into a whirlwind of humor, misadventure and charm. Period photos.

Y/FICTION/PECK,R
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.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/PHILBRICK,W
Two boys--a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny genius in leg braces--forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force.

Y/FICTION/PIERCE,T
Alan of Trebond, the best warrior in the palace, is harboring a big secret: he is really a she--Alanna. But when her prince is felled by an illness, Alanna has no choice but to use her healing magic--even if it means ruining her career.

Y/FICTION/PIERCE,T
Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic.

Y/MYSTERY & Y/PAPERBACK/RASKIN,E
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/RAWLS,W
Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs...
A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too.

Y/FICTION/RICHTER,C
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.

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2008 Nutmeg Teen and Intermediate Award Winner

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/RIORDAN,R
Classic Greek mythology is mixed with modern adventure in this brand-new, action-packed series. After learning he is a demigod, Percy Jackson is sent to a summer camp on Long Island, where he meets the father he never knew--Poseidon, God of the Sea.

2002-2003 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2002 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award Winner
2001 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen
2001 Mark Twain Award Winner
2001 Qequoyah Children's Winner
2001 Sequoyah Young Adult Winner
1999-2000 Maine Student Book Award Winner
1998 CCBC Choices
1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner
1999 Newbery Award Winner

Y/FICTION/SACHAR,L
A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake.

Y/FICTION/SALISBURY,G
From the award-winning author of Blue Skin of the Sea--a dramatic story of a Japanese-American boy in Hawaii and the impact of the attack on Pearl Harbor on his family and friends.

Y/SF/SLEATOR,W
When Laura finds her homework in her locker with its writing reversed, she's baffled until she learns an unbelievable secret--her weird neighbor, Omar, has the ability to travel to the fourth dimension. Laura forces him to take her there and then, a novice in "four-space", she goes out there on her own. There's only one problem--she doesn't know how to get back.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/SPEARE,E
Brought to new life by Barry Moser's stunning watercolor art, "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" is truly an American classic. Elizabeth George Speare's Newbery Award-winning novel portrays the life of a girl uprooted from her birthplace to live in colonial Connecticut in 1687. Full color.

Winner - 1991 Newbery Award
Winner - 1993 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award

2003 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen
Iowa Teen Award - 2003 Winner
CCBC Choices - 2001
YHBA Winner - 2003

J/PAPERBACK/SPINELLI,J
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/STROUD,J
Set in modern-day London, this first book in a gripping new trilogy introduces young magician's apprentice Nathaniel. Humiliated by a hotshot wizard, Nathaniel summons the not-so-tame djinni, Bartimaeus, and sends him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/TAYLOR,M
Winner of the 1977 Newbery Medal, this moving novel has remained in the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice.

Y/FICTION/TOLKIEN,J
From J.R.R. Tolkien's own description for the original edition:
"If you care for journeys there and back, out of the comfortable Western world, over the edge of the Wild, and home again, and can take an interest in a humble hero (blessed with a little wisdom and a little courage and considerable good luck), here is a record of such a journey and such a traveler. . . . In following the path of this humble adventurer, you will learn by the way (as he did)--if you do not already know all about these things--much about trolls, goblins, dwarves, and elves, and get some glimpses into the history and politics of a neglected but important period."

Y/FICTION/TWAIN,M
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

Y/FICTION/VOIGT,C
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

Y/FICTION/VOIGT,C
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Y/FICTION/WISLER,G
Thirteen-year-old Ransom (later dubbed "Red Cap") thought fighting in the Civil War would be an adventure--until the day of his first battle.

Y/FICTION/YEP,L
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Y/FICTION/YOLEN,J
Hannah is tired of hearing about the Nazis during the Holocaust, but when she opens the door for Elijah at the Passover Seder, she is transported in time to 1940s Poland, where she is captured and put in a death camp. A girl named Rivka befriends her, teaching her how to fight the dehumanization of the camp and hold onto her identity.

Y/FICTION & Y/PAPERBACK/ZINDEL,P
Zindel's groundbreaking, bestselling tour de force is the unforgettable tale of two disillusioned high school students who have their faith in humanity restored by lonely, eccentric Mr. Pignati, whom they dub the Pigman.

J/FICTION & J/PAPERBACK/BABBITT,N
Ten-year-old Winifred Foster's accidental encounter with the uncommon Tuck family, their hidden spring, and their extraordinary secret transforms her life and leads her to make a noteworthy decision.

Y/FICTION/BLUME,J
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

J/FICTION/BOSTON,L
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

J/FICTION/CARROLL,L
Alison Jay brings a new perspective to the story. Now she shows readers an exhilarating Wonderland, where Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, and all the rest are playfully quirky and adorably fanciful. Full color.

J/FICTION & J/PAPERBACK/FLEISCHMAN,P
An old man seeking renewal, a young girl connecting to a father she never knew, a pregnant teenager dreading motherhood, are just a few of the 13 voices that tell one story of the flowering of a vacant city lot into a neighborhood garden.

J/BOOK/DISCUSSION/SF/L'ENGLE,M
It was a wild, stormy night when the unearthly visitor arrived to change the lives of Meg, her small brother, Charles, and their scientist mother. 1963 Newbery Medal winner.

2008 Buckeye Children's Book Award- Winner 6-8
2008-2009 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Master List Grades 3-5
2008-2009 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Master List Grades 6-8
2007 ALA Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School
2006 Mitten Award Winner
2007-2008 Maine Student Book Award Winner

J/FICTION/LORD,C
Frustrated by her life with an autistic brother, Catherine longs for a normal existence; however, her life is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.  200p

J/FICTION/MONTGOMERY,L
This beloved novel about an 11-year-old orphan finding her place in the world has been adapted for a new generation. Readers will delight in Anne's adventures as they join this spirited and timeless heroine, described by Mark Twain as "the sweetest creation of child life yet written", on her journey to finding a true home.

J/FICTION/NAYLOR,P
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. ....

J/FICTION/NESBIT,E
When their father is taken away, three children move to the country, where they stay busy saving the train from accidents, befriending a nice Old Gentleman, and trying not to quarrel

J/FICTION & J/PAPERBACK/O'BRIEN,R
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

J/FICTION/O'DELL,S
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

J/FICTION & J/PAPERBACK/PATERSON,K
Join Jess and Leslie as they form an unlikely friendship and create the imaginary land of Terabithia. There they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs that helps Jess understand just how much he has learned from Leslie.

J/FICTION/ROWLING,J
What did Harry Potter know about magic? He was stuck with the decidedly un-magical Dursleys, who hated him. He slept in a closet and ate their leftovers. But an owl messenger changes all that, with an invitation to attend the Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches, where it turns out Harry is already famous.

2008 Caldecott Medal Winner

J/FICTION/SELZNICK,B
Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel form to create an entirely new reading experience in this intricate, tender and spellbinding mystery.

J/FICTION & J/PAPERBACK/SPEARE,E
Until the day his father returns to their cabin in the Maine wilderness, 12-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. During an attack by swarming bees, Matt is rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson. A Newbery Honor Book.

J/FICTION/WHITE,T
Since its publication in 1938, White's Arthurian classic has delighted generations of readers of all ages. Now, the classic tale of the boy who would be king is brilliantly captured in glowing, luminous paintings by an award-winning illustrator.