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Shadows on the Wall (The York Trilogy #1)
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1980
Sang Spell
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1998
When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler Josh decides to hitchhike across the country, and finds himself…
trapped in a mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a group of people who call themselves Melungeons.The Beast
By Walter Dean Myers. 2003
Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon is returning to Harlem after 7 months at an exclusive prep school. He never wanted to leave…
the city in the first place - especially not to walk the hallowed halls of a mostly white New England school.Dear Willie Rudd,
By Libba Moore Gray. 1993
Fifty years have passed since Miss Elizabeth was a girl, but she still remembers Willie Rudd, the black housekeeper who…
helped raise her. She remembers the feel of sitting in Willie Rudd's lap while the housekeeper sang to her. And she remembers how Willie Rudd scrubbed the floor on her hands and knees. What would Miss Elizabeth say to Willie Rudd if she were alive today? She decides to write her a letter telling her how things would be different. Now Willie Rudd would come in the front door -- not the back. She would ride in the front of the bus with Miss Elizabeth, and they could sit together at the movies. The two of them would have a wonderful time. And in her heartfelt letter, Miss Elizabeth has the chance to tell Willie Rudd something she never told her while she was alive -- that she loved her.The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time-Travel Adventure
By Elvira Woodruff. 1997
Miss Popularity (Candy Apple Book #3)
By Francesco Sedita. 2007
Meet Cassie Knight. Bubbly, stylish, and super-friendly, she's the fashion queen at her Texas school. But when her father's job…
moves the family to cold, snowy Maine, Cassie's in for a huge culture shock.PeeWee’s Tale
By Johanna Hurwitz. 2000
John's Story, 1775
By Joan Lowery Nixon. 2001
The year 1775 is an explosive one -- both for the colony of Virginia and 11-year-old John Nicholas's family. The…
tensions are rising between England and the colonies, and Virginians disagree on how to act. Like many, John's father, Robert Carter Nicholas, hopes to find a peaceful solution, but John's older brother George and his company of the Williamsburg militia think Virginians need to fight for their rights. John feels caught in the middle between the two people he admires most. Can they both be right?Beige
By Cecil Castellucci. 2007
Dad's an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter's a buttoned-up neat freak who'd rather be anywhere else.…
Can this summer be saved? Now that she's exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she'll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she's spending two weeks with her father -- punk name: the Rat -- a recovering addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn't want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat's place is a mess and he's not like anything she'd call a father, Katy won't make a fuss. After all, she is a nice girl, a girl who is quiet and polite, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. Or is she? From the author of BOY PROOF and THE QUEEN OF COOL comes an edgy new L.A. novel full of humor, heart, and music.The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation; Volume 1)
By M. T. Anderson. 2006
A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED. It…
sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother -- a princess in exile from a faraway land -- are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments -- and his own chilling role in them. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. WInner of the National Book AwardSome Like It Hot (A-List Novel #5)
By Zoey Dean. 2006
It's prom season, and no town does prom like Tinsel Town. Ben is back for the summer - just in…
time to be Anna's prom date. But his family has a house guest who's so hot, she's bound to burn up their perfect plans. Adam finds out a scandalous secret that threatens to tear Cammie's world to pieces. Sam agrees to take Parker to the prom and they end up doing a lot more than dancing. What happens when Sam's romance-obsessed boyfriend Eduardo flies in from Paris to surprise Sam? This prom is sure to be glamorous, scandalous, and occasionally downright shocking! It's just the kind of night the A-List crew will never forget.I Dream of Trains
By Angela Johnson. 2003
Spite Fences
By Trudy B. Krisher. 1994
In Kinship, Georgia everything begins to change for 13-year-old Maggie Pugh in the summer of 1960. It is the summer…
when Maggie must decide whether to tell anyone about the horrible thing she saw. Most of all it's the summer of Maggie's first camera, a tool that becomes a way for her to find independence and a different kind of truth.Zack
By William Bell. 1998
Zack Lane knows about his father's side of the family -- they are descendants of Romanian Jews -- but his…
black mother broke all ties with her family before Zack was born. Why she did so is the "Family Mystery." Uprooted by his parents' move to the outskirts of a small town, Zack is friendless and at the lowest point in his life. He undertakes a research project into the life of Richard Pierpoint, former African slave, soldier in the War of 1812, and the pioneer farmer who cleared the land on which Zack's house now stands. Pierpoint's story inspires Zack to go to Mississippi to look for his maternal grandfather. What he discovers shakes the foundations of all he has believed in.Tunnels
By Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams. 2008
14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with…
his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....The Shakespeare Stealer
By Gary L. Blackwood. 1998
Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play…
"Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama.Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady (Dear America)
By Ellen Emerson White. 1998
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl (Dear America)
By Patricia C. Mckissack. 1997
In 1859 thirteen-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in…
her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (Dear America)
By Sherry Garland. 1998
In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other…
residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
By Benjamin Alire Saenz. 2004
As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class…
of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.