Unless otherwise noted, all books may be found in
the juvenile fiction section under the author’s last name.

KIDS LIKE ME

Squashed / Joan Bauer
Love & pumpkin-growing in the life of a 16-year-old girl.

A crooked kind of perfect / Linda Urban
Ten-year-old Zoe finds that learning to play the organ has a positive impact on her family and social life.

Al Capone does my shirts / Gennifer Choldenko
A 12-year-old boy moves with his family to Alcatraz Island where his father is a prison guard.

My Louisiana sky / Kimberly Willis Holt
The lives of a 12 year-old Louisiana girl and her loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her friend.

Alabama Moon / Watt Key
Having lived in the woods al his life, 10-year-old Moon
decides to head for Alaska after his father dies.

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place/E.L. Konigsburg
A 12 year old girl tries to save three unique towers built by her beloved grand uncles.

The Schwa was here / Neal Shusterman
Eighth-grader Antsy befriends the Schwa, a boy who
Feels invisible and seems unnoticed by nearly everyone.

Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
An eccentric student changes her high school forever.

Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree / Lauren Tarshis
A quirky 7th-grade girl gets involved in the everyday problems of her peers with interesting results.

Flipped / Wendelin Van Draanen
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe their changing feelings towards each other.
 
Each Little Bird That Sings / Deborah Wiles
Comfort Snowberger grows up surrounded by death and a loving family in her father’s funeral home.
 
HISTORICAL FICTION

Crispin : the cross of lead / Avi
During the Middle Ages, an English boy falsely accused of murder runs away only to encounter more danger.
 
The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
A Michigan African-American family’s life is changed when they take a trip to Alabama in 1963.

The Midwife’s Apprentice / Karen Cushman
In medieval England, a homeless girl is taken in by a short-tempered midwife.

Our Only May Amelia / Jennifer L. Holm
A Finnish American girl and her 7 brothers grow up in Washington State in 1899.

How I found the Strong / Margaret McMullan
With the help of the family slave, a boy grows up after his father and brother go to fight in the Civil War.

Miss Spitfire:reaching Helen Keller/Sarah Miller
At age 21, partially-blind Annie Sullivan travels to Alabama to teach six-year-old Helen Keller.

The invention of Hugo Cabret / Brian Selznick
An orphan living within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter. (“a novel in words and pictures.”)

POETRY

Black stars in a white night sky / JonArno Lawson (j 811 Law)

This is just to say : poems of apology and forgiveness / Joyce Sidman (j 811 Sid)

If the shoe fits: voices from Cinderella / Laura Whipple ( j 811 Whi)

Locomotion / Jacqueline Woodson (j WOODSON)
Through poems, 11-year-old Lonnie writes about life, the death of his parents, and living in a foster home.

HUMOROUS

Surviving the Applewhites / Stephanie S. Tolan
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent to school at the eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy.

Millions / Frank Cottrell Boyce
Two brothers must find a way to quickly spend a small fortune they find.

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
Two new friends try to save endangered owls from a proposed construction site.

Everything on a Waffle / Polly Horvath
Primrose learns about the unpredictability of life after her parents are presumed lost at sea.

Harris and Me /Gary Paulsen
A city boy spends a memorable summer on his cousin’s farm.

A Long Way from Chicago / Richard Peck
During the Great Depression two siblings visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

MYSTERIES & ADVENTURES

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase / Joan Aiken
Wicked wolves, evil governesses & 2 brave girls.

The London Eye mystery / Siobhan Dowd
Two siblings try to solve the mystery of their cousin’s disappearance from the London Eye ferris wheel.

Dovey Coe / Frances O’Roark Dowell
A 12 year-old girl is accused of murder in her small North Carolina town in 1928.

The Star of Kazan / Eva Ibbotson
In 19th-century Vienna, Annika’s surprise inheritance causes a woman claiming to be her mother to take her away to a decrepit mansion in Germany.

The Young Man and the Sea / Rodman Philbrick
A 12 year old boy sails alone on a dangerous ocean trip to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.

The case of the missing marquess /Nancy Springer
The sister of detective Sherlock Holmes goes to London to investigate her mother’s disappearance.

The mysterious Benedict Society/Trent Lee Stewart
Four kids selected for a secret mission go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.

Leepike Ridge / N. D. Wilson
Eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead, is actually trapped in a series of underground caves.

SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY

The Dark is Rising / Susan Cooper
Will Stanton must keep the world safe from evil.

Stoneheart / Charlie Fletcher
When 12 year old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, he falls into another time where he must battle ancient “live” statues .

Into the woods / Lyn Gardner
Three special sisters seek refuge in the woods when they try to escape the sinister Dr. DeWilde.

The Pinhoe egg / Diana Wynne Jones
A fun fantasy about a witch who is discovering her powers.

Skulduggery Pleasant / Derek Landy
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant to save the world from the Faceless Ones.  

Midnight for Charlie Bone / Jenny Nimmo
Charlie discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking and is sent to an academy “for gifted children.”

The Wee Free Men / Terry Pratchett
A young witch teams up a clan of 6-inch-high blue men to rescue her brother and ward off a sinister invasion.

KIDS IN OTHER LANDS

The Breadwinner / Deborah Ellis
Under the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to help earn money for her family after her father is arrested.

The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child / Francisco Jiménez
A small boy and his family move from Mexico to California in hopes of finding a better life.

The Shadows of Ghadames / Joëlle Stolz
In 19th century in Libya, the narrow world of women in which Malika lives is disrupted when an injured stranger finds refuge in her home.

Homeless Bird / Gloria Whelan
In India, 13 year-old Koly fights against her ill-fated arranged marriage.

OUR FAVORITES

Seedfolks / Paul Fleischman
A group of people transform a vacant city lot into a beautiful garden and in so doing transform themselves.

Sun and Spoon / Kevin Henkes
Ten year-old Spoon and his grandfather deal with the death of a beloved grandmother.

Savvy / Ingrid Law
At 13 Mibs Beaumont receives her "savvy"-a unique magical power-just as her father is injured in an accident

Heat / Mike Lupica
A pitching prodigy is banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only 12 years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.

The witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare
In 1687 Connecticut, Kit befriends an old woman considered a witch and then finds herself standing trial for witchcraft too

TRUE STORIES

Marooned / Robert Kraske
Recounts the story of a sailor marooned for 5 years on a Pacific island in 1704. (j 92S SELKIRK Kra) 
 
Team Moon : how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon / Catherine Thimmesh (j 629.454 Thi)
The whole story of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing.

Tracking trash : flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion / Loree Griffin Burns
A man tracks trash as it travels great distances by way of ocean currents. ( j 551.46 Bur)

Escape!: the story of the great Houdini /Sid Fleischman
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists. (j 92H HOUDINI Fle)

Who was first? : discovering the Americas / Russell Freedman ( j 970.01 Fre )
We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, but who was first?

The house of a million pets /Ann Hodgman( j 639.9 Hod)
Visit this author’s basement, home to 3 guinea pigs, birds, rabbits, a prairie dog, a bulbul, a hamster, 26 pygmy mice (and 2 dogs and 3 cats).