- Dahlberg, Maurine F.
- The Story of Jonas
- Slave boy Jonas dreams of being a house slave until a trip to Kansas changes the dreams
to one of freedom.
- Duble, Kathleen Benner
- Bravo Zulu, Samantha
- Four weeks with her grumpy retired pilot Grandfather is not how Samantha wants to spend
her summer but she soon discovers he's hiding something and then the game's afoot!
- Going, K.L.
- Garden Of Eve
- Eve and her father move to New York after Eve's mother dies to take over a sick orchard.
Mysterious seeds, and a ghost boy help them heal.
- Hahn, Mary Downing
- Deep and Dark and Dangerous
- Overprotected 13-year-old Ali gets invited to babysit her cousin in Maine for the
summer, meeting up with a vengeful ghost and a decades old mystery.
- Harlow, Joan Hiatt
- Blown Away
- Jake's quiet life in the Florida Keys of 1935 is tremendously changed when a hurricane
sweeps through his small community.
- Hart, Alison
- Gabriel's Horses
- In Civil war torn Kentucky, young slave Gabriel tends MasterGiles' thoroughbred horses
and dreams of becoming a free jockey.
- McKissack, Patricia
- Friendship for Today
- As the only black child in her newly integrated classroom, Rosemary learns to make
friends with the racist, white classmate living behind her - not forever friends but at
least friends for today. (Set in Missouri)
- Pitchford, Dean
- The Big One-Oh
- Charley approaches throwing himself a tenth birthday party methodically but given his
history at parties, the outcome is anything but. Be prepared to laugh.
- Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Paint the Wind
- Orphaned Maya's extremely restricted life changes dramatically when her grandmother dies
and she is sent to live with relatives she didn't know existed and connects with a horse
that was once her mothers.
- Salisbury, Graham
- Night of the Howling Dogs [YF]
- A group of Boy Scouts and friends find their survival skills tested when an earthquake
and tsunami strike where they are camping in a remote part of Hawaii.
- Selznick, Brian
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Orphan, clock winder, and thief Hugo lives within a Paris train station and searches for
the answer to a mysterious message left by his father. (Caldecott winner)
- White, Ruth
- Way Down Deep
- Ruby, adopted as a toddler by Miss Arbutus, discovers where she came from, when a new
family moves into her remote West Virginia town.
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