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By Benjamin Zephaniah. 2004
Rebellious fifteen-year-old Londoner Ray, alienated from his West Indian father, gets sent to an alternative school. His hip-hop band hits…
the big time but has trouble with rival rappers until an act of violence convinces Ray to seek peace. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2004By Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers. 2005
Childhood friends Jesse and Rise are growing apart. While fifteen-year-old Jesse develops his interest in art, Rise turns to the…
Harlem streets under pressure to be cool. When their long-established neighborhood social group becomes a gang, more violence enters their community. Violence. For junior and senior high readers. 2005By Rudyard Kipling, Jerry Pinkney. 1995
Eight stories about the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves in a jungle in India.…
Presented in Kipling's preferred arrangement. Includes a ninth non-Mowgli tale "Rikki-tikki-tavi," about a valiant mongoose. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1894By Laurie Halse Anderson, Lori Earley. 2000
Philadelphia, 1793. Fourteen-year-old Matilda works in her widowed mother's busy coffeehouse along with her grandfather and their cook, Eliza--a freed…
slave. When a yellow fever epidemic hits the city, people panic and flee, and Matilda's life turns upside down. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2000By Robert McCloskey. 1941
Five helpful Boston policemen stop busy city traffic so that Mrs. Mallard can move her family of eight ducklings from…
their island in the Charles River to their new home in the Public Garden. For grades K-3. Caldecott Medal 1942By Rosemary Graham. 2005
California high school sophomore Kelsey Wilcox endures vicious rumors spread on the Internet by her superstar, skateboarding boyfriend after she…
breaks up with him. Kelsey competes for a place on the school newspaper as she tries to salvage her reputation. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005By Scott Westerfeld. 2004
Hunter, a New York City teenager paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with his…
girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find his missing boss Mandy. They thwart a plot to subvert a consumer system based on trends and profit. For senior high readers. 2004By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2006
Merlin sends Jack and Annie to the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, France. Their mission is to find four new…
magicians in the crowds at the Eiffel Tower and protect them from an evil sorcerer. For grades 2-4. 2006By Donna L Washington. 2004
Six folktales from West Africa. "The Boy Who Wanted the Moon" is a pourquoi tale from the Congo that explains…
why there are monkeys in the world. It tells about "a spoiled child, his doting father, and a great deal of foolishness." For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2004By Elie Wiesel. 2005
As a boy, Jewish Gamaliel Friedman survived World War II in the care of Hungarian cabaret singer Ilonka. Now settled…
in New York among fellow exiles, Gamaliel visits a hospital patient who could be Ilonka. The meetings trigger emotional memories of life, love, and loss. Some descriptions of sex. 2003By Michele Jaffe. 2006
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Irish Jamaican Jasmine Callihan stumbles upon a murder. With the help…
of her friends from California, aspiring police detective Jasmine investigates--and also falls in love. For senior high readers. 2006By Roland Smith. 2005
With his trial date approaching, drug czar Alonzo Aznar kidnaps Jack and his sister Joanne. They attempt a daring escape…
while their parents, aided by some old friends, plan a rescue. Sequel to Zach's Lie (BR 14667). For grades 6-9. 2005By Yiyun Li. 2005
Ten short stories about Chinese people coping with life in rapidly changing China and in the United States. In "Son,"…
Han, a naturalized American, returns home to Beijing and declares his homosexuality to his mother, who has become a Christian. 2005By Eleanor Estes. 2004
The girls in her class mock Wanda Petronski because she claims to have a hundred dresses lined up in her…
closet but wears the same faded dress everyday. And they tease her about her Polish last name. Then Wanda stops coming to school. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1944By Elisa Carbone. 2005
After thirteen-year-old biracial Eva's adopted parents die in 1878, Eva heads to Denver to find her birth mother. She's shocked…
to discover that her mother and half-sister live in a house of ill repute and hatches a plan to improve their lot. For senior high readers. 2005By Ebele Oseye, Ellease Southerland. 2004
Young African American Abeba Williams moves from rural North Carolina to Brooklyn to live with her mother, who dreams of…
a better life. Abeba begins to develop a promising musical talent but soon becomes distracted by marriage and children. Despite economic and social hardships, Abeba perseveres with dignity. 1979By Maggie Lewis. 2005
After moving from California to Massachusetts, Morgy experiences many changes. As he adjusts to fourth grade, Morgy learns to play…
the trumpet, joins the ice hockey team, adopts a greyhound named Dante, and makes new friends. Sequel to Morgy Makes His Move (BR 12739). For grades 2-4. 2005British teenager Georgia Nicolson continues to list all her madcap adventures in her journal. When the family goes to Memphis,…
Hamburger-a-gogo land (U.S.A.), Georgia and her best friend try to track down Georgia's current crush, Masimo, who's visiting relatives in New York. For senior high readers. 2005By Rod Townley. 2004
New York City, 1959. Fifteen-year-old Alec (Sky) Schuyler's passion is jazz. When his father objects to his playing the piano,…
Sky leaves home. He finds a mentor in a blind African American jazz musician and relies on support from friends. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2004By Richard Peck. 2004
Rural Indiana, 1904. After Miss Myrt Arbuckle, the mean old teacher, "hauled off and died" in August, fifteen-year-old Russell figures…
the one-room schoolhouse will close. His dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat-threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister fills the vacancy. For grades 6-9. 2004