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Book |
Author |
Dewey Number |
Description |
The Terrible Two |
Mac Barnett |
JUV FIC BAR |
Miles is not happy to be moving to a sleepy rural
town filled with cows where he must compete for the title of town prankster. |
Circus Mirandus |
Cassie Beasley |
JUV FIC BEA |
Micah goes on a quest to visit the magical
circus from his grandfather’s stories. |
The Thing About Jellyfish |
Ali Benjamin |
JUV FIC BEN |
Teen tries to deal with death of a friend in
this National Book Award finalist. |
Escape from Baxter’s Barn |
Rebecca Bond |
JUV FIC BON |
A story of perseverance, friendship and
teamwork by a group of farm animals. |
The War That Saved My Life |
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
JUV FIC BRA |
Set in London during the Blizt,
a young handicapped girl rescues herself and her brother, as they flee the
city. |
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New
Orleans |
Don Brown |
JUV 976.335 BRO |
Journalistic look at the hurricane that
leveled New Orleans in 2005. |
Awkward |
Svetlana Chmakova |
JUV FIC CHM |
Peppi is a
new kid at school and must navigate tricky social water. |
Stella by Starlight |
Sharon Draper |
JUV FIC DRA |
A segregated Southern town deals with the Ku
Klux Klan as bravery battles prejudice. |
The Doldrums |
Nicholas Gannon |
JUV FIC GAN |
Archer wants to follow his adventurous
grandparents to the Arctic—where they have gone missing. |
George |
Alex Gino |
JUV FIC GIN |
George wants a part in the school play. But
George wants a girl’s part and wants everyone to accept her as she is—a girl
trapped in a boy’s body. |
Lost in the Sun |
Lisa Graff |
JUV FIC GRA |
Trent is involved in an accident that results
in another boy’s death. |
Somewhere There is Still a Sun |
Michael Gruenbaum |
JUV 92 GRU |
A memoir of a Jewish boy during the Nazi
invasion of Prague. |
Waiting for Unicorns |
Beth Hautala |
JUV FIC HAU |
Talia deals with the death of her mother and a
summer in the Arctic cared for by an Inuit woman while her father studies
whales. |
Full Cicada Moon |
Marilyn Hilton |
JUV FIC HIL |
Mimi is of mixed race and moves to an
all-white Vermont town in 1969. |
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler |
Phillip Hoose |
JUV 940.534 HOO |
Tale of the teenagers that helped spark a resistance movement in Denmark during Nazi
occupation. |
Roller Girl |
Victoria Jamieson |
JUV FIC JAM |
In this graphic novel the main character discovers
roller derby during tough times socially. |
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry
Farmer |
Kelly Jones |
JUV FIC JON |
A family moves from LA to a chicken farm
they’ve inherited. But one of the chickens has rare abilities… |
Night On Fire |
Ronald Kidd |
JUV FIC KID |
When the Freedom Riders come to the South, a
young girl begins to question her beliefs and the racism around her. |
The Orphan Army |
Jonathan Maberry |
JUV FIC MAB |
Characters save the world from alien bug invaders
in this futuristic tale. |
Shadows of Sherwood |
Kekla Magoon |
JUV FIC MAG |
A group of misfit kids band together to fight
in Nott City in this send-up of the Robin Hood myth. |
A Night Divided |
Jennifer Nielsen |
JUV FIC NIE |
A young German girl finds her family separated
by the Berlin Wall. |
The Nest |
Kenneth Oppel |
JUV FIC OPP |
A boy filled with anxiety begins to receive
mysterious dream messages from a queen wasp. |
The Seventh Most Important Thing |
Shelley Pearsall |
JUV FIC PEA |
A young man is sentenced to community service
helping the man he attacked and forms a redemptive relationship. |
I Am Princess X |
Cherie Priest |
JUV FIC PRI |
A young woman deals with the death of her
friend through focusing on the fictional character they had created together. |
The Lightening Queen |
Laura Resau |
JUV FIC RES |
A magical mix of history and folklore
explores the cultures of the Rom and Mixtec Indians through an unlikely
friendship. |
Echo |
Pam Munoz Ryan |
JUV FIC RYA |
A prophecy, a promise and a harmonica tie
together this magical tale that spans time and place. |
The Blackthorn Key |
Kevin Sands |
JUV FIC SAN |
An apothecary’s apprentice in 17th
century London encounters a mysterious cult and a series of murders. |
Nimona |
Noelle Stevenson |
JUV FIC STE |
In this graphic novel, a young shapeshifter
joins forces with a supervillain to wreak havoc. |
Like A River |
Kathy Cannon Wiechman |
JUV FIC WIE |
Two Union soldiers (one a girl disguised as a
boy) survive incredible odds in this Civil War era novel. |