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F Al Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little
men ; Good wives ; Little women.
London : Octopus, 1978. Includes the complete,
unabridged text of Little women, Good wives, and Little men.
F Al Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women
Grosset, 1947. The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in
nineteenth-century New England.
F Al Alexander, Lloyd. The black cauldron
New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1965]. Taran must conquer
Arawn, lord of the land of Death, to protect his kingdom of
Prydain.
FAl Alexander, Lloyd. The book of three
New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1964]. Taran, the Assistant
Pig Keeper in the mythical kingdom of Prydain, sets out with
the warrior Gwydion to save his country from evil.
F Al Alexander, Lloyd. The high king
New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1968]. In this fifth and
final
chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in
ultimate confrontation.
F Al Alexander, Lloyd. Taran Wanderer
New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. The fourth book of the
Prydain cycle tells of the adventures that befell Taran when
he went in search of his birthright and the truth about
himself.
Ba Babbitt, Natalie. The eyes of the Amaryllis
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. When eleven-year-old
Jenny goes to stay with her widowed grandmother who lives by
the seaside, she learns a great deal about the nature of
love and the ways of the sea.
F Ba Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck everlasting
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975. The Tuck family is confronted
with an
agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old
girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a
spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
F Br Brink, Carol Ryrie, 1895-. Caddie Woodlawn
New York, : Macmillan, [1973]. The adventures of an
eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier
in the mid-nineteenth century.
F Bu Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. The secret garden.
Philadelphia, : Lippincott, 1962. Ten-year-old Mary comes
to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers
an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locke
garden.
F Co Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. My brother Sam is dead.
New York: London : Four Winds Press ; Collier Macmillan, [1985]
c1974. Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family
during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces
while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory
town.
F Co Conrad, Pam. My Daniel
New York : Harper & Row, c1989. Ellie and Stevie learn about
a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's
historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
F Co Cooper, Susan. The dark is rising
New York, Atheneum, 1973. "A Margaret K. McElderry book.".
F Co Cooper, Susan. Greenwitch
New York, : Atheneum, 1974. Jane's invitation to witness the making
of the
Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she
and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail
stolen by the Dark.
F Co Cooper, Susan. The grey king
New York : Atheneum, 1975. In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising
sequence,
Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate
quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient
Sleepers.
F Co Cooper, Susan. Over sea, under stone
New York, : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966, c1965]. Three
children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript
which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would
reveal the true story of King Arthur.
F Co Cooper, Susan. Silver on the tree
New York : Atheneum, 1977. In this conclusion of the tale begun
in
"Over Sea, Under Stone," Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran,
and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that
alone can vanquish the strong forces of Dark.
PB Cr Creech, Sharon. Chasing Redbird.
Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1998.
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor
uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a
mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in
Kentucky.
F Cr Creech, Sharon. Walk two moons
New York: HarperCollins, c1994. After her mother leaves home
suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a
car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal
recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also
left.
F Cu Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy.
New York : Delacorte Press, c1999. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in
Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad
foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to
be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of
Grand Rapids.
F Cu Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963:
a novel.
New York : Delacorte Press, c1995. The ordinary
interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an
African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are
drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in
Alabama.
F Cu Cushman, Karen. The ballad of Lucy Whipple.
New York : Clarion Books, c1996. In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught
when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a
small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough
boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying
to find a way to get "home.".
F Cu Cushman, Karen. The midwife's apprentice.
New York : Clarion Books, c1995. In medieval England, a nameless, homeless
girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and, in spite
of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things
she most wants: a full belly, a content heart, and a place
in this world.
F Da Dahl, Roald. Danny, the champion of the world. Knopf, 1975.
F De De Angeli, Marguerite. The door in the wall
New York : Doubleday & Co., 1949. fantasy--Medieval
times--Newbery Award.
F De De Jong, Meindert, 1910-. The house of sixty fathers.
New York,: Harper, [1956]. Alone in a sampan with his pig and three
ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging
river, back to the town from which he and his parents had
escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and
frightening days regaining his family and new home.
F Fa Farley, Walter, 1915-. The black stallion
New York, : Random House, [1941]. Pulled to a desert island by a
wild black
stallion he has freed during a shipwreck at sea, then
rescued by a southbound freighter, a seventeen-year-old boy
befriends the horse, trains him by night, and rides him to
victory in a match race.
F Fa Farley, Walter, 1915-. The black stallion mystery.
New York: Random House, c1957. In an attempt to clear up a mystery,
Alec, his friend Henry and the black stallion journey to
Spain, only to find greater mystery and adventure awaiting
them.
F Fi Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet, the spy.
New York, : Harper & Row,
[1964]. When Harriet's classmates find her diary and read
what she has written about them, they decide to make life
miserable for her.
F Fi Fitzhugh, Louise. The long secret.
New York, : Harper & Row,
[1965]. While at the beach for the summer, Harriet ponders
her own beliefs after encountering a religious fanatic and
reveals the author of mysterious notes that appear all over
town.
F Fo Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain : a novel for old & young.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1943. The Revolutionary War
with its famous Boston Tea Party is described in this
historical novel of the revolt in Boston.
F Fo Fox, Paula. One-eyed cat : a novel
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Cornerstone Books, 1987, c1984.
An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently
suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.
PB F Fo Fox, Paula. The slave dancer
New York : Dell, 1975, c1973. Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship,
a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is
on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise
periods of the human cargo.
B R0 Freedman, Russell. Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery.
New York : Clarion Books, c1993. A photobiography of the
first wife of a president to have a public life and career
of her own.
B Cr Freedman, Russell. The life and death of Crazy Horse.
New York: Holiday House, c1996. A biography of the Oglala leader
who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take
over Indian lands.
F Ge George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Julie of the wolves.
New York, : Harper & Row, [1972]. While running away from
home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo
girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is
befriended by a wolf pack.
F Ge George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. My side of the mountain
New York : Dutton, c1988. A young boy relates his adventures
during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill
Mountains including his struggle for survival, his
dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate
realization that he needs human companionship.
F Gi Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's Crossing
New York : Delacorte Press, c1997. During a summer spent at Rockaway
Beach in
1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee
causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
F Gi Gipson, Fredrick, 1908-. Old Yeller.
[New York] : Harper, [1956]. In the late 1860's in the Texas hill country, a big
yellow dog and a fourteen year-old boy form a close, loving
relationship.
F Ha Hahn, Mary Downing. Stepping on the cracks
New York : Clarion Books, c1991. In 1944, while her brother is overseas
fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a
new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding
his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
F He Henkes, Kevin. Words of stone
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1992. Busy trying to deal with his many fears and
his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old
Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and
irresistible Joselle.
F He Henry, Marguerite, 1902-. ; King of the Wind
Chicago, : Rand McNally, [1948]. Follows the adventures of the Arabian
stallion brought to England to become one of the founding
sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy
who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
F He Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust
New York : Scholastic Press, 1997. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old
Billie
Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat
farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the
Depression.
F Ju Juster, Norton, 1929-. The phantom tollbooth
New York, Epstein & Carroll; distributed by Random House, [1961]. A
journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of
words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
B Ke Kehret, Peg. . Small steps : the year I got polio
Morton Grove, IL : A. Whitman, 1996. The author describes her battle
against polio when she was twelve and thirteen and her
efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
F Ki King-Smith, Dick. Babe : the gallant pig
New York : Crown, 1985, c1983. A piglet destined for eventual
butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old
sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
F Ki King-Smith, Dick. Harry's Mad
New York : Crown, 1987, c1984. Harry's legacy from his great-uncle,
a
talking parrot, proves to be a much more exciting gift than
he ever imagined.
F Ki Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. The jungle book
Grosset & Dunlap, c1950. The adventures of a young boy raised
and protected
by the animals of the jungle.
F Ko Konigsburg, E. L. From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler,
New York, : Atheneum, 1967. Two
suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and
go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their
ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.
F Ko Konigsburg, E. L. Journey to an 800 number
New York : Atheneum, 1982. Bo learns about kindness, love, loyalty,
appearances, and pretense from the unusual characters he
meets when he is sent to live with his father after his
mother decides to remarry.
F Ko Konigsburg, E. L. Up from Jericho Tel
New York : Atheneum, 1986. The spirit of a dead actress turns two children
invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful
street performers to search for a missing necklace.
F Ko Konigsburg, E. L. The view from Saturday
New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1996. Four
students, with their own individual stories, develop a
special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a
paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade
class in the Academic Bowl competition.
F Le L'Engle, Madeleine. A swiftly tilting planet
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1978. The youngest of the
Murry
children must travel through time and space in a battle
against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire
universe.
F Le L'Engle, Madeleine. A wind in the door
New York, : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. With Meg Murry's
help, the
dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden
play an important part in his struggle between life and
death.
F Le L'Engle, Madeleine. A wrinkle in time
New York : Ariel Books, [1962]. Three extra-terrestrial beings take
Meg and
her friends to another world.
F Le Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. The magician's nephew.
1st Collier Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Collier Books,
1986, c1955. When Diggory and Polly try to return the
wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up
and they all land in Narnia where they witness Asian
blessing the animals with human speech.
F Li Lisle, Janet Taylor. Afternoon of the elves
New York : Orchard Books, c1989. As Hillary works in the miniature
village,
allegedly built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she
becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life
inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent
mother.
F Lo Lowry, Lois. Autumn street
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980. When her father goes to
fight in World War II, Elizabeth
goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house
where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often
cruel realities of the adult world.
F Lo Lowry, Lois. The giver
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Given his lifetime assignment
at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in
his community and discovers the terrible truth about the
society in which he lives.
F Lo Lowry, Lois. Number the stars.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1989. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark,
ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous
when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
F Mc McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The moorchild. New York : Margaret K.
McElderry Books, c1996. Feeling that she is neither fully
human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and
attempts to find the human child whose place she had been
given.
F Mc McKinley, Robin. The hero and the crown. New York :
Greenwillow, c1984. Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard
Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright
due her as the daughter of the Damarian King and a
witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
F Mo Morrow, Honoré, 1880-1940. On to Oregon
New York : Beech Tree Books, 1946. Based on the actual
mid-nineteenth century journey by covered wagon of seven
children through two thousand miles of wilderness and
hardship from Missouri to Oregon.
F Na Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The agony of Alice. New York
: Atheneum, 1985. Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides
she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right;
and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is
greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people
are inside that counts.
PB Na Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Saving Shiloh
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997. Sixth-grader Marty
and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd
Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West
Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
F Na Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh.
New York : Atheneum,
1991. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his
West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family
and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot
deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
F No Norton, Mary. The borrowers.
New York, :
Harcourt, Brace, [1953]. A charming story of the tiny
people no taller than a pencil who live in quiet old country
houses and "borrow" the things they need.
F Ob O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh
New York, : Atheneum, 1971. Having no one to help her with
her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former
imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
F Od O'Dell, Scott, 1903-. Black Star, Bright Dawn. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Bright Dawn must face the challenge
of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is
injured.
F Od O'Dell, Scott, 1903-. Island of the Blue Dolphins. Boston, :
Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Records the courage and
self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen
years on an isolated island off the California coast when
her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
F Od O'Dell, Scott, 1903-. Streams to the river, river to the sea
: a
novel of Sacagawea. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986. A
young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel
husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the
Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
F Pa Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. New York : Crowell,
c1977. The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia
expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer and
together they create the kingdom of Teribithia.
F Pa Paterson, Katherine. The great Gilly Hopkins
New York : Crowell, c1978. An eleven-year-old foster child tries
to
cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against
everyone who tries to be friendly.
F Pa Paterson, Katherine. Jip: his story. New York : Lodestar
Books/Dutton, c1996. While living on a Vermont poor farm
during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of
his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this
place.
F Pa Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie.
New York : Lodestar Books/Dutton,
c1991. Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is
determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory
worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
F Pa Paulsen, Gary. Brian's winter.
New York : Delacorte Press,
c1996. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in
the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would
have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a
winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and
hatchet.
F Pa Paulsen, Gary. The cookcamp.
New York : Orchard Books, c1991.
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his
grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road
through the wilderness.
F Pa Paulsen, Gary. Harris and me : a summer remembered.
San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1993. Sent to live with
relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an
eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and
is given an introduction to a whole new world.
B Pa Paulsen, Gary. My life in dog years. New York : Delacorte
Press, c1998. The author describes some of the dogs that
have had special places in his life, including his first
dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him
from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
F Pa Paulsen, Gary. The river. New
York : Delacorte Press, 1991.
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for
fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed
by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar
experience to help scientists learn more about the
psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
F Pe Pearson, Kit. Awake and dreaming.
New York : Viking, 1996.
Theo lives in near poverty with her young mother and dreams
of belonging to a real family with parents and siblings.
When a family adopts her, she is not sure if it is real or a
dream.
F Pe Pearson, Kit, 1947-. The sky is falling. Markham, Ont., Canada
; New York, N.Y., USA : Viking Kestrel, 1989. The
experiences of a young girl and her small brother who are
evacuated to Canada at the beginning of World War II and
find that they will be staying with complete strangers.
F Pu Pullman, Philip. The subtle knife. New York : Knopf, c1997. As
the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and
her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and
for a powerful, magical knife.
F Pu Pullman, Philip, 1946-. The golden compass. New York : Alfred
A. Knopf : Ballantine, 1996. Accompanied by her daemon,
Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other
kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome
experiments in the Far North.
F Ra Rawls, Wilson. Summer of the monkeys. Garden City,
N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976. In the late 1800's, a
fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer
trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus.
PB F Ra Rawls, Wilson. Where the red fern grows : the story of two
dogs
and a boy. New York : Bantam, 1985, c1961. The adventures
of a ten-year-old boy and the two dogs he bought with money
he had earned.
F Ro Rockwood, Joyce. The midnight horse.
F Ro Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone. New York
: A.A. Levine Books, 1998. Rescued from the outrageous
neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great
destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for
Wizards and Witches.
F Ry Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May.
New York : Orchard Books, c1992.
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her,
twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West
Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
F Sa Salisbury, Graham. Under the blood-red sun. New York :
Delacorte Press, c1994. Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns
are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with
his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
F Sl Slepian, Jan. The Broccoli tapes.
New York : Scholastic, 1990.
During a stay of several months in Hawaii with her family,
Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixth-grade
class in Boston, detailing her "adoption" of a wild cat, a
friendship with a troubled Hawaiian boy, and the death of a
beloved grandmother.
F Sp Speare, Elizabeth George. The sign of the beaver. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, c1983. Left alone to guard the family's
wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is
hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their
skills.
F Sp Speare, Elizabeth George. The witch of Blackbird Pond. Boston,
: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. A young girl's rebellion against
bigotry culminates in a terrifying witch hunt and trial.
F Sp Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee : a novel. Boston :
Little, Brown, c1990. After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel
Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic
and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
F Sp Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer.
New York : HarperCollins, c1997. As
Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of
being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the
courage to oppose it.
F Ta Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of thunder, hear my cry. New York :
Dial Books, c1976. A black family living in the South
during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and
discrimination which their children don't understand.
F Ta Taylor, Theodore, 1922-. The cay. Garden City,
N.Y., : Doubleday, [1969]. When the freighter on which they
are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during
World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on
the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny
Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of
vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
F Tr Travers, P. L. (Pamela L.), 1906-. Mary Poppins. Rev. ed. New
York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1981. The wind brings
two English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister
and introduces them to some delightful people and
experiences.
F Tu Turner, Megan Whalen. The thief. New
York : Greenwillow Books,
c1996. Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes
the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods
where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
F Wo Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6.
New York : Scholastic Press,
1998. In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th
grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game,
during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
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