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The ghost in the noonday sun
By Sid Fleischman. 2007
A pirate story unfolds when a 12-year-old boy is shanghaied and made to search for buried treasure - all because…
the villainous captain thinks that a boy born at the stroke of midnight ought to have the power to see a ghost. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2007, c1965.The game of silence (Birchbark House Ser. #Bk. 2)
By Louise Erdrich. 2005
It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's…
days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The Birchbark House" (DC21985). c2005.The final cut: An AllStar SportStory (A Peachtree junior publication)
By Fred Bowen. 1999
Eighth-graders Ryan, Zeke, Miles, and Eli have always been friends, but now they're trying out for the school's basketball team.…
Ryan worries what will happen if they don't all make the cut--and they don't. Grades 4-7. 1999.The first time: true stories
By Charles Montpetit. 1995
A collection of true stories, written by some of Canada's best writers, about "the first time" -- their first sexual…
encounter. The writers include Brian Doyle, W.P. Kinsella, and Julie Lawson. Descriptions of sex. Junior high and older. 1995.The French Isles
By Claire Mowat. 1994
Andrea Baxter's summer in Anderson's Arm, a fishing village in Newfoundland, turns to unexpected adventure, when she, her cousin, and…
her uncle are arrested for illegal scallop dragging by the St. Pierre et Miquelon coast guard. Once they're rescued from the police station, Andrea ends up staying on St. Pierre, finding mystery, adventure, and romance. Grades 5-8. 1994.The frame-up
By Wendy McLeod MacKnight. 2018
Don't let anyone know the paintings are alive. Thirteen-year-old Mona Dunn has followed that rule for almost one hundred years,…
ever since she was painted by William Orpen and her portrait was hung on the walls of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. So when the gallery director's son, Sargent Singer, discovers Mona is alive, she's sure she's just exposed the gallery's biggest secret. But Sargent, an aspiring artist himself, just wants to know more about the world beyond the frames. When Mona and Sargent suspect shady dealings in the gallery, they set out to find the culprit. Grades 5-8. 2018.The final six
By Alexandra Monir. 2018
Twenty-four teens are on a quest to become one of six sent on a scouting mission to Jupiter's moon. Leo…
is an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science prodigy from California. As the finalists become fewer, the two grow closer as the tests get more challenging--even deadly. For junior and senior high readers. 2018.The first rule of punk
By Celia C Perez. 2017
Twelve-year-old Maria Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malu) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and…
starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favour of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos. Grades 5-8. 2017.The free
By Lauren McLaughlin. 2017
In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just…
so she looked less like a charity case whose mother spent money on booze and more like the prep school girls he'd see on his way to school. But when Isaac's petty theft lands him in juvie, he's cut off from helping Janelle. Friendless in a dangerous world of gangs and violent offenders, he must watch his every step. His sentence requires him to meet regularly for group therapy, where the inmates re-enact their crimes, attempting to understand what happened from the perspective of their victims. The therapy is intense. And as Isaac works through scenes with the group, he begins to recall a memory he'd long ago repressed. A memory that changed everything. And as he begins to piece together the truth about the circumstances that shaped his life - the circumstances that brought Isaac to Haverland in the first place - he must face who he was, who he is, and who he wants to be. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.The Firefly code
By Megan Frazer Blakemore. 2016
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid…
knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter. But when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known. Grades 4-7. 2016.The friendship riddle
By Megan Frazer Blakemore. 2015
When her former best friend gets popular and leaves her behind, sixth-grader Ruth prefers to be alone, studying for the…
school spelling bee, until she finds a riddle in an old book. Grades 5-8. 2015.The flu of 1918: millions dead worldwide! (Nightmare Plagues Ser.)
By Jessica Rudolph. 2011
The fold
By Na An. 2008
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her…
aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better. Grades 5-8. 2008.The Friday Society
By Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The fisher king (Griot audio)
By Paule Marshall. 2002
In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family’s disapproval of his…
music and the racism that shadowed his career. Decades later, his eight-year-old grandson is brought to Payne’s old Brooklyn neighborhood to attend a memorial concert in his honor. The child’s visit reveals the persistent family and community rivalries that drove his grandfather into exile. Senior High. 2002.The folk of the Faraway Tree (The faraway tree. #3)
By Enid Blyton. 2007
When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, an Enchanted Wood is on their doorstep. And when they…
discover the Faraway Tree, that is the beginning of many magical adventures! Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Sequel to "The magic faraway tree". Followed by “Up the faraway tree”. Grades 4-7. Originally published 1946, 2007. (Faraway Tree ; 3)The first days of life
By Russell Freedman, Joseph Cellini. 1974
The foundling and other tales of Prydain: And Other Tales Of Prydain (Prydain chronicles. #6)
By Lloyd Alexander. 1999
Eight tales dealing with happenings before the birth of Taran, assistant pig keeper, whose adventures in the Prydain Chronicles begin…
with “The Book of Three” (DC04224) and end with the Newbery Medal-winning “The High King” (DC10994). Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. c1999.The finest creation
By Jean Rabe. 2004
Long ago, the Creators established the Finest Court, a race of intelligent, moral horses that names shepherds to secretly guide…
and guard the Fallen Favorites. Young Gallant-Stallion, a newly-appointed shepherd, escapes the violent massacre of the prince's wedding party, carrying away 13-year-old Meven, the new prince, and Meven's younger sister, Kalantha. Gallant-Stallion and his charges know that the assassins, directed by an evil avian mastermind, are tracking them, and embark on a series of adventures as they as they try to set things right - and stay alive. For junior and senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The final reckoning (Deptford mice trilogy. #3.)
By Robin Jarvis. 1994
The ghostly spirit of Jupiter has returned, more terrifying than ever before. Bent on revenge, he smothers the world in…
an eternal winter of ice and snow. Huddled around their fires, the Deptford Mice are worried: the mystical bats have fled from the attic, and underground a new rat army is being mustered. With food short, and no sign of spring, the mice know that a desperate struggle confronts them. Few will survive. Sequel to "The Crystal Prison". Grades 5-8. 1994. (The Deptford mice trilogy ; 3)