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On the other side of the hill (Little House Sequel)
By David Gilleece, Roger Lea MacBride. 1995
In the early 1900s, young Rose Wilder and her pioneer family struggle with a series of natural disasters, including a…
cyclone, on their farm in Missouri. Sequel to In the Land of the Big Red Apple (DB 42000). For grades 4-7. 1995How I became a pirate
By David Shannon, Melinda Long. 2003
Amelia Bedelia road trip! (Amelia Bedelia Ser.)
By Herman Parish. 2013
When Amelia's dad gets a week off from work, the family decides to go on a road trip in search…
of adventure. They get lost, see some silly sights, and go fishing. For grades 2-4. 2013Graduation day (The Testing #3)
By Joelle Charbonneau. 2014
Tensions between the United Commonwealth and the rebel alliance intensify, with deadly action looming on the horizon. Meanwhile, gifted student…
Cia Vale, unsure of which side to trust, must convince her fellow students to believe in her. Sequel to Independent Study (DB 78427). Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2014Endangered
By Eliot Schrefer. 2012
Sophie visits her mother in the Congo and befriends Otto, a baby bonobo in the sanctuary. When an armed revolution…
breaks out, the sanctuary is compromised. Sophie and Otto escape--but they struggle to survive as they search for Sophie's mother. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2012Trapped
By Michael Northrop. 2011
During what seems like a typical New England blizzard, seven kids at Tattawa Regional High School are waiting to be…
picked up by their parents. Only the snowstorm is much more powerful than was expected, and not everyone survives. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2011Paddle-to-the-Sea: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Sandpiper books)
By Holling Clancy Holling. 1980
A First Nations boy sets a foot-long canoe afloat on Ontario's Lake Nipigon. As the little dugout drifts through the…
Great Lakes to the ocean, strangers honor the message carved in the wood: "Please put me back in water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea." For grades 3-6. Caldecott Honor Book. 1941Son (Giver Quartet #4)
By Lois Lowry. 2012
After a difficult labor, fourteen-year-old birthmother Claire has a baby boy who is immediately rescued by Jonas, from The Giver…
(DB 37689). Claire knows she shouldn't search for her "product" but, overwhelmed by a sense of loss, she does anyway. For senior high and older readers. 2012Beezus and Ramona (Ramona Ser.)
By Beverly Cleary. 2010
Four-year-old Ramona likes to do things her own way and usually winds up upsetting her nine-year-old sister Beezus. Like the…
time Ramona scribbles in a library book checked out to Beezus, or when she puts a witch--her rubber doll--in the oven, spoiling Beezus's birthday cake. For grades 2-4. 1955Stolen
By Lucy Christopher. 2010
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback. She…
soon realizes that escape attempts are futile and comes to an understanding about her captor. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2010Revolver
By Marcus Sedgwick. 2010
Scandinavian Arctic, 1910. After fourteen-year-old Sig Andersson's father Einar dies, a stranger arrives demanding that Sig and his sister return…
gold Einar allegedly stole during the Alaska Gold Rush a decade ago. Sig struggles with the dilemma of using Einar's hidden revolver. Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2009Crispin: the end of time (Crispin)
By Avi. 2010
While Troth chooses to stay at a convent that needs a healer, Crispin continues trying to fulfill Bear's dream of…
moving to Iceland. Falling in with thieves posing as musicians, Crispin makes a new friend--Owen. Sequel to Crispin: At the Edge of the World (DB 63729, BR 16913). For grades 6-9. 20101806. Star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet…
another daring mission--this time diving for Spanish gold off the Florida coast. Sequel to My Bonny Light Horseman (BR 18846). For junior and senior high readers. 200911 birthdays
By Wendy Mass. 2009
Born on the same day, Leo and Amanda have shared nine birthday parties. But on their tenth, Amanda's feelings are…
hurt and she doesn't speak to Leo for a year. When their separate eleventh birthdays keep repeating, Leo and Amanda need to reconcile to get unstuck. For grades 4-7. 2009Now you see them, now you don't (On The Run Ser. #No. 3)
By Gordon Korman. 2005
Aiden and Meg Falconer, whose parents are wrongly imprisoned as terrorists, track a mysterious "uncle" named Frank Lindenauer, convinced he…
holds the key to their parents' freedom. But FBI agents are trailing the siblings and may catch them first. Sequel to The Fugitive Factor (BR 17840). For grades 4-7. 2005Peak (A Peak Marcello Adventure)
By Roland Smith. 2007
A New York City SWAT team arrests fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello for scaling a skyscraper. A judge places Peak on probation…
and allows him to accompany his father, a famous mountain climber, to Tibet, where Peak hopes to be the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. For grades 6-9. 2007The kingdom keepers: Disney After Dark (Kingdom Keepers Ser.)
By Ridley Pearson. 2005
Teen Finn Whitman becomes a hologram host/guide at Disney World park in Orlando, Florida. In the middle of the night,…
Finn finds himself, in hologram form, transported to the Magic Kingdom to fight a group of Disney villains--the Overtakers, who are led by Maleficent. For grades 6-9. 20051806. Jacky Faber heads west to escape British charges of piracy. She turns a Mississippi keelboat into a casino-showboat and…
heads for New Orleans, with her beloved Jaimy following in her wake. Sequel to In the Belly of the Bloodhound (BR 17126). For junior and senior high readers. 2007The Wanderer
By Sharon Creech, David Diaz. 2000
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic voyage by sailboat to visit Bompie, their grandfather in England. Also…
on board are three uncles and another cousin. The journey of discovery for all five becomes especially important for Sophie, who was adopted into the family only three years ago. For grades 5-8. 200013 little blue envelopes (13 Little Blue Envelopes Ser. #1)
By Maureen Johnson. 2005
Timid seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her recently deceased favorite aunt that send Ginny from New…
Jersey on a scavenger hunt across Europe. Along the way Ginny meets new people, finds love, and has adventures that transform her life. For senior high readers. 2005