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

KIDS LIKE ME

Rules / Cynthia Lord
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, 12 year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her life is also complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.

Hope was here / Joan Bauer
Hope and her aunt become involved with a diner owner's campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Waiting for normal / Leslie Connor
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with life in a small trailer, her mother's erratic behavior, and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters.

Getting Near to Baby / Audrey Couloumbis
Willa Jo and her sister come to terms with a tragedy when they stay for a while with their loving, but misunderstood, aunt and uncle.

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
During the Vietnam War, two Texas boys befriend the “fattest boy in the world.”

Silent to the Bone / E. L. Konigsburg
When a boy loses the ability to speak after he is accused of injuring his infant half-sister, his friend sets out to discover the truth.

A Fine White Dust / Cynthia Rylant
Thirteen year old Pete falls under the spell of a travelling Preacher Man.

The Wednesday Wars / Gary D. Schmidt
A 7th-grade boy learns about Shakespeare and life in this funny novel set in 1967.

Antsy does time / Neal Shusterman
"Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness.

So B. It / Sarah Weeks
Raised by her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, a 12-year-old girl decides to find the truth about her past.

HISTORICAL FICTION

The boy who dared / Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In October, 1942, a 17 year-old boy is imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac
In World War II, a Navajo boy enlists in the Marines where his native language is used as a secret code.

Carrie’s War / Nina Bawden
In World War II Carrie and her brother are evacuated from London.

Revolution is not a dinner party/ Ying Chang Compestine
In 1972 9 year-old Ling, the daughter of two doctors, grows up during China’s Cultural Revolution, which changes everyone’s life.

Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson
In 1917, after inheriting a homesteading claim in Montana, 16-year-old orphan Hattie tries to make a home for herself .

Good Night, Mr. Tom / Michelle Magorian
During World War II an abused London boy is sent to live with an old man in the country.

Playing Beatie Bow / Ruth Park
A lonely Australian girl is transported to another family in the 1880s.

The Perilous Gard / Elizabeth Pope
Kate is imprisoned in a remote English castle inhabited by practitioners of druidic magic.

Here lies Arthur / Philip Reeve
In 5th century Britain, a homeless girl is protected by a bard who wants to use her in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy / Gary Schmidt
In 1911 Maine, a minister’s son befriends a girl from a poor community founded by former slaves.

A True and faithful narrative / Katherine Sturtevant
In 1680s London, Meg tries to choose between 2 men: one of whom was kidnapped and enslaved in North Africa and the other who helped win his release.

MYSTERIES / ADVENTURES

Vanishing act / John Feinstein
Eighth-grade sports reporters investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Russian tennis player.

The diamond of Drury Lane / Julia Golding
An orphaned girl living at a theater in 1790s London, tries to find a hidden diamond which involves her with street gangs as well as the world of nobility.

Downriver / Will Hobbs
Rebellious teenagers daringly run the white water in the heart of the Grand Canyon.

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn/ Dorothy Hoobler
In the 1700s, a Japanese boy who longs to be a samurai becomes an actor to solve a mystery.

The Wreckers / Ian Lawrence
A boy discovers an evil secret about the town he is stranded in after being shipwrecked.

Princess Ben / Catherine Gilbert Murdock
A girl is transformed from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence.

Airborn / Kenneth Oppel
Aboard a huge airship, 2 kids search for mysterious winged creatures that are said to share the sky.

A drowned maiden's hair / Laura Amy Schlitz
Eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters who moonlight as mediums.

SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY

Book of a thousand days / Shannon Hale
A princess and her maid spend years locked in a tower as punishment, only to escape and be at the mercy of an evil prince .

Skellig / David Almond
In the garage of his new house, Michael finds a mysterious stranger.

The city of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau
In this fantasy, a 12 year-old wants to see new places in her decaying city.

The house of the scorpion / Nancy Farmer
A young clone of the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt empire learns of the fate of other clones like himself.

The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised the inhabitants of the graveyard.

Rapunzel's revenge / Shannon Hale and Dean Hale (GRAPHIC j HALE)
An Old West retelling of the traditional fairy tale.

House of many ways / Diana Wynne Jones
When Charmain house-sits for her wizarding uncle she finds that his house is much more than it seems.

Fairest / Gail Carson Levine
In this version of Snow White, a plain girl with a beautiful voice discovers the real value of outer and inner beauty.

Coraline / Neil Gaiman; adapted and illustrated by
P. Craig Russell (GRAPHIC j CORALINE)
A mysterious door leads Coraline into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own.

Magyk / Angie Sage
A foundling girl with a noble heritage is raised by the wizarding Heap family.

The new policeman / Kate Thompson
An Irish teenager discovers that time is leaking from his world into the land of the fairies.

KIDS IN OTHER LANDS

Kampung boy / Lat
A boy’s childhood growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia. (GRAPHIC j LAT)

The Other Side of Truth / Beverly Naidoo
After their mother’s murder, a brother and sister are smuggled into London, where they become lost.

Shabanu : daughter of the wind / Suzanne Staples
In Pakistan, an 11-year-old girl is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will help her family.

The arrival / Shaun Tan
A man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family. (GRAPHIC j TAN)

NON-FICTION

Tasting the sky : a Palestinian childhood /
Ibtisam Barakat (j 92B BARAKAT Bar )
The author recounts how, as a child, her world was shattered by the Six-Day War.

What the world eats / Faith D'Aluisio (j 641.3 Men )
A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of families from 21 countries surrounded by a week's worth of food.

The Road from Home / David Kherdian
Author’s moving biography of his Armenian mother’s childhood in Turkey. (j 92K KHERDIAN Khe)

Snow falling in spring : coming of age in China during the cultural revolution / Moying Li
The story of one girl's difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution. (j 92 LI Li)

Good masters! Sweet Ladies!: voices from a medieval village / Laura Amy Schlitz ( j 940.1 Sch)
A collection of short one-person plays featuring teen-aged characters who live in or near a 13th-century English manor.

The wall / Peter Sís
The author’s illustrated memoir of growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Communist Czechoslovakia. (j 92S SIS Sis)

To dance / Siena Cherson Siegel ; with artwork by Mark Siegel (GRAPHIC j SIEGEL)
The author describes how her dreams of being a ballerina carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet.

POETRY

America at war / poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
A collection of poems about America at war from the Revolution to the Iraq war. (j811.08 Hop)

19 varieties of gazelle : poems of the Middle East / Naomi Shihab Nye (j 811 Nye )

Keeping the night watch / Hope Anita Smith (j 811 Smi)
A father returns home to his African American family and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope,
abandonment, and fear.