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11 Up |
Kadohata, Cynthia | Kira-Kira [See Newbery]
Weedflower [A stirring novel about a "weedflower" caught in the hurricanes of war/before Pearl Harbor/Japanese internment/shame, anger and courage] |
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| 9-12 | Kalam, Bobbie | 19th Century Girls & Women: Historic Communities | @AMAZON |
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9-12 |
Karr, Kathleen [Bibliography/Bio] | The Boxer
The Great Turkey Walk |
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| 8-11 | Kelly, Katy [Interview] | Lucy Rose: Working Myself to Pieces and Bits [a friend turns a plumbing store into a bakery] (Recipes included)
Lucy Rose, Here's the Thing About Me. MELONHEAD (the new series begins...) |
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| 8-11 | Kennemore, Tim | Circle of Doom [Lizzie career plans have changed. Witchcraft was definitely the correct option. People were always telling her that actresses were continually out of work, resting between jobs, starving and penniless. As a witch, however, she would be self-employed and independent. She would be a GOOD witch, only ever harming those who truly deserved it.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-11 | Kesler, Liz | Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister (Book One) [A tale of a girl and her reluctant fairy guardian.]
Philippa Fisher and the Dream-Maker's Daughter (Book Two) [A sympathetic story about navigating between old friends and new, a tale full of mystery, whimsy, and magic.] |
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| 9-12 | Kheridian, David | The Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Kibuishi, Kazu | Amulet (Book One: The Stonekeeper) ["The story is about two kids (Emily and Navin) who have lost their father in a car accident. When they can no longer afford to live in the city, their mother moves them into a house in the woods, and on the first evening she is kidnapped by a creature in the basement. Using a powerful amulet left by their great grandfather as their guide, the kids have to journey through a giant subterranean labyrinth to rescue her before it's too late."] | |
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10-13 9-13 |
Klise, Kate | Trial by Journal [first juvenile juror in the state's history/humor]
Deliver Us From Normal [anything but normal life to "extraordinary ordinariness"] Dying to Meet You: 43 Old Cemetery Road (Bk. 1) [Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this grumpy old man—and the abandoned kid? Well, let's just say his last name's Hope. |
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| 9-12 | Koertge, Ron | Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs [baseball, romance, death of mother, dealing with loss, love of writing and poetry lots of poetry styles] | |
| 9-12 | Konigsburg, Elaine
Lobl
[Resource File] |
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (2004)
The View from Saturday [See Newbery] From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [Teacher's Guide] Silent to the Bone T-backs, T-shirts, Coat and Suit |
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| 9-12 | Korman, Gordon | ZOOBREAK [When Griffin Bing's class goes to a floating zoo, they don't expect to see animals being treated so badly. They don't expect to find Cleo, Dog Whisperer Savannah's pet monkey who's been missing for weeks. And they really don't expect to have to hide the animals once they've rescued them! Hilarity ensues as Griffin's team once more pulls off a heist...trying to break the animals back into a (better) zoo!]
SCHOOLED [Capricorn “Cap” Anderson has never watched television. He’s never tasted a pizza. Never even heard of a wedgie. Since he was little, his only experience has been living on a farm commune and being homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Rain. But when Rain falls has to stay in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and her cranky teen daughter and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could have prepared him for the politics of public school. SWINDLE [After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.] The Toilet Paper Tigers [Disgusted by his softball team, which includes a coach who knows nothing about baseball, a ball-fearing catcher, a sleepy right fielder, and a toilet paper sponsor who wants the uniforms to reflect his product, Corey Johnson forms a plan with the coach's granddaughter.] |
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4-8 |
Kroll, Virginia | Shelter Folks
[Review]
Masai and I [Teacher Resource] [Nature Books] |
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| 9-12 | Kurtz,
Jane
[Interview] |
Faraway Home [Teacher Resource: Immigration and Ellis Island]
I'm Sorry Almira Ann [Oregon Trail] [Lesson Plan] The Storyteller's Beads [personal accounts of Ethiopian refugees who escaped from their country on foot during the 1980s.] [Lesson Plan] Fire on the Mountain [Fire Related Lesson Plan - Grade 6 Up] Pulling the Lion's Tail Only a Pigeon Bicycle Madness [Fiction/women in history/women's rights/suffrage/social responsibility] |
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| 8 Up | Kurzweil, Allen | Leon and the Spitting Image [mystery/adventure/fun] | @AMAZON |
| 9-13 | LaFleur, Suzanne | Love, Aubrey [explores tragedy of loss and finding life again/denial/acceptance]. Debut novel. | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Lalicki, Tom | Danger in the Dark: A Houdini & Nate Mystery
Shots at Sea: A Houdini & Nate Mystery |
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| 8-12 | Lasky, Kathryn | Lone Wolf (Wolves of the Beyond Series #1)(2009) [a story of survival, of courage, and of love triumphant. This is Seeker's story, the wolf pup who rose up to change forevever the Wolves of the Beyond.]
Chasing Orion [Set in Indiana during the polio epidemic in the summer of 1952. Everything from pools to camps are closing to slow the spread of polio. Despite all the headlines, Georgie never thought she’d come as close to the fearful disease as she does when she spies a silver glint in her neighbor’s yard. There she discovers a monstrous, hissing machine, and inside is Phyllis, a girl encased in an iron lung. "I have eighty-seven cubic centimeters of air, but you have the world," Phyllis tells her. Phyllis’s ability to breathe may be limited, but her strength to manipulate is boundless. As Georgie struggles to comprehend this once-gorgeous teenager’s life in a "coffin with legs," Phyllis slowly weaves a web of lies that snare all those around her, including Georgie’s quickly smitten brother. Can Georgie untangle the truth before Phyllis’s deception achieves its inevitable end?] |
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| 8-11 | LaFevers, R. L. | Flight of the Phoenix (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book I) [Nathaniel Fludd’s life has taken a turn for the worst. With his parents lost at sea, he lands on the doorstep of a distant cousin—the world’s last remaining beastologist. Soon Nate is whisked off on his first expedition, to Arabia, where the world’s only phoenix prepares to lay its new egg. When disaster strikes, Nate quickly finds himself all alone.] | |
| 10-13 | Leal, Ann Haywood | Also Known As Harper [Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn’t surprising, seeing as how she’s named after her mama’s favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper’s family gets evicted. Hope comes in the form of pen, paper and poetry.] | |
| 6-12 | Lelooska, Chief | Echoes of the Elders:
The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska (1997) Spirit of the Cedar People (1998) |
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| 9-12 | Latham, Jean Lee | Carry On Mister Bowditch | @AMAZON |
| 10-12 | Leck, James | The Adventures of Jack Lime [Meet Jack Lime, a self-styled P.I. who "solves problems" for his fellow students. In these three cases, Jack navigates an underworld that teems with pimply gangstas and fun-snapping femmes fatales — a.k.a. high school.] | |
| 9-12 | L'Engle, Madeleine
[Extensive Teacher Guides and bio] |
A Ring of Endless
Light
Friends for the Journey: Two Extraordinary Women... A Swiftly Tilting Planet [Teacher's Guide] A Wrinkle in Time (1963 Newbery) A Wind in the Door Many Waters |
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| 9-12 | Lenski, Lois | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Lester,
Julius [Interview]
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From Slave Ship to Freedom Road | @AMAZON |
| 9-13 | Levine, Gail Carson
[Interview] |
Ella Enchanted [reinvention of Cinderella]
The Wish ["To thine own self be true"] |
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| 9-12 | Lewis, C. S. | 50TH ANNIVERSARY
FULL COLOR EDITIONS
The Magician's Nephew The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The Horse and His Boy Prince Caspian The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" The Silver Chair The Last Battle C.S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller by Beatrice Gormley - Ages 10 Up |
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| 10-13 | Lichtman, Wendy | Secrets, Lie, and Algebra [what to do about a boy you like who's done something really bad]
The Writing on the Wall (Book 2) [intrigue, romance and math/decode school mystery] |
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| 9-12 | Lisle, Holly | MOON AND SUN: THE RUBY KEY (Book1) [Mankind is Sunkind and rules by the light; Nightlings are Moonkind and rule in the night; or there will be war. Human and Nightlings are never to meet, but when Genna and her brother Dan venture into the old forest at night, they encounter a Nightling slave who reveals a terrifying secret: Genna and Dan's village chieftain has made a dangerous deal with Letrin, ruler of the Nightlings, offering the lives of his people in exchange for his own immortality. | |
| 9-12 | Lord, Cynthia | RULES [Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"---in order to head off David's embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal? A lovely story about being different and acceptance.] | @AMAZON |
| 10 up | Lott, Tim | FEARLESS [a chilling dystopian tale about a heroic girl prepared to risk everything in the pursuit of justice. In the not-too-distant future, the world is safe from terrorists, the streets are clean, and girls labeled "juvies" or "mindcrips" have been hidden away behind the smartly painted exterior of the City Community Faith School. Their birth names are forgotten and replaced with a letter and number—slaves. | @AMAZON |
| 9 Up | Lovelace, Maud Hart (1892-1980) | Betsy Was a Junior
Betsy in Spite of Herself Heaven to Betsy Betsy and Joe [The Betsy-Tacy Society] |
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| 9-12
9-12 9-12 |
Lowry, Lois | Autumn Street
All About Sam Stay! Keepers Story Gossamer [Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears?] |
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| 10-14 | Luddy, Karon | Spelldown: The Big-Time Dreams of a Small-Town Word Whiz [SC in 60's/dysfunctional family/alcoholic father/keeping the family together/adolescent dreams/lover of words/coming of age/empowering] | @AMAZON |
| Ages 10 Up | Lynch, Chris | [See Young Adult Section]
Who The Man [adolescence to manhood/ gender stereotypes] |
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| 9-12 | Mac Donald, Amy | No More Nasty
No More Nice |
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| 9-12 | MacLachlan, Patricia | The Journey [Teacher's Guide]
Sarah, Plain and Tall [Newbery Section] Caleb's Story Edward's Eyes [love, loss, guilt, grief] Grandfather's Dance [conclusion of the "Sarah, Plain and Tall" stories. Marriage. Love. Loss] |
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| 8-12 | Maguire, Gregory | Five Alien Elves - the Hamlet Series Bk. 3
Six Haunted Hairdos - the Hamlet Series Bk. 2 Seven Spiders Spinning - the Hamlet Series Bk. 1 Four Stupid Cupids - the Hamlet Series Bk. 4 Three Rotten Eggs - the Hamlet Series Bk. 5 |
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| 9-12
9-12 |
Mahy, Margaret | The Seven Chinese
Brothers
The Five Sisters |
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| 10 up | Malley, Gemma | The Declaration [t’s the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can’t sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids—called surpluses—despite a law forbidding them from doing so. These children are raised as servants, and brought up to believe they must atone for their very existence. ] | @AMAZON |
| 8-11 | Marciano, John Bemelmans | Harold's Tail | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Marino, Nan | Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me [ | |
| 9-12 | Marsden, Carolyn | Take Me with You [Hopes of adoption test the friendship of two girls — one biracial — in a lyrical novel touching on themes of identity and the meaning of home.] | |
| 8-11 | Martin, Ann M. and Laura Godwin | The Doll People
The Meanest Doll in the World (Book 2) The Runaway Dolls (Book 3) |
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| 9-12 | Mass, Wendy | 11 Birthdays [Everything goes wrong on Amanda's 11th birthday. Friendship/teamwork/insecurities/resolution.]
Finally [My name is Rory Swenson, and I've been waiting to turn twelve my whole life. In exactly 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds, it will finally happen. My life will officially begin.] |
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| 5-9 | Mayne, William | Lady Muck | @AMAZON |
| 8 Up | McEwan, Ian | The Daydreamer [where daydreams and reality meet] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | McAllister, M. I. | The Mistmantle Chronicles: Bk.1 -Urchin of the Riding Stars
The Mistmantle Chronicles: Bk.2 - Urchin and the Heartstone The Mistmantle Chronicles: Bk.3 - The Heir of Mistmantle The Mistmantle Chronicles: Bk.4 - Urchin and the Raven War The Mistmantle Chronicles: Bk.5 - Urchin and the Rage Tide |
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| 10-14 | McKay, Hilary | Permanent Rose [ties that link family and friends together] | @AMAZON |
| 10-13 | McGhee, Alison | Snap [sophisticated and real in message. Edwina (Eddie) wears bands to remind her to do "things." A beautiful story of love, fear, hope, loss and friendship.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | McKinley, Robin | [see
also Newbery]
The Blue Sword The Hero and the Crown |
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| 9-12 | McKissack, Patricia & Frederick | Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? |
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| 9-12 | McKissack, Patricia | Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
A Friendship for Today [takes place 1954 Missouri after Supreme Court school desegregation decision] |
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| 9-12 | McMullan, Kate | The Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | McMullan, Margaret | When I Crossed No-Bob [Reader's Guide] [Life as an O'Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O'Donnell means trouble. Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O'Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy's mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell's wedding celebration, nobody is very surprised. A reluctant Mr. Frank and his new wife take Addy in, and Addy does everything she can to prove that at least one O'Donnell has promise. But one day, Addy witnesses a terrible event that brings her old world crashing into the new. As she finds herself being pulled back into No-Bob and the grips of her O'Donnell kin, Addy is faced with the biggest decision of her life. Can she somehow find the courage to do what's right, even if it means betraying one of her own?] | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | Mead, Alice | Girl of Kosovo [Serbian-Albanian conflict] | @AMAZON |
| 10 up | Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick [the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. A novel blending high-seas romantic adventure, symbolic allegory, and the conflicting ideals of heroic determination and undying hatred, Moby Dick is also revered for its historical accounts of the whaling industry of the 1800's. This handsomely illustrated abridged version is presented by Jan Needle. A great way to introduce an American classic to a new generation.] | |
| 9-12 | Mendez, Phil | The Black Snowman [Teacher Resource] | @AMAZON |
| 10-13 | Michael, Jan | City Boy [Sam's widowed mother has died from "the Disease," and Sam is claimed by his aunt Mercy, who lives in the small African village where Sam's mother was born and raised. The gap between Sam's life in the city and his new life in the dirt-floored one-room hut is vast beyond imagining. Grief, loneliness, and the absence of everything familiar make for a rocky transition to a traditional culture where possessions count for little and everyone is expected to do his or her share.] | |
| 9-12 | Mikaelsen, Ben [See YA] | Petey [dignity and disabilities]
Stranded Countdown [respecting differences] |
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| 10-13 | Miller, Kirsten | Kiki Strike [celebrates the courage and daring of seemingly ordinary girls/a secret city below the streets of Manhattan] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Miller, Wiley | Extraordinary Adventures Of Ordinary Basil [Tale of a boy who is bored by his life and ready to break free from the lighthouse he calls home. Led off by a wonderfully eccentric professor in a hot-air-balloon ship, Basil travels to another dimension where he and a new friend save the fantasy city of Helios from destruction.]
Attack of the Volcano Monkeys [Basil and his friend Louise ride her pet pteranodon, Beatrice, to forbidden Monkey Island, they discover an advanced society of monkeys bred to have human intelligence. This is the work of evil Euric von Rottweil, who is planning to use his monkeys to further his plan of "Peace Through World Domination." |
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| 9-12 | Mills, Claudia | 7x9=Trouble! [sibling rivalry, family, problem solving] | @AMAZON |
| 10 up | Milway, Alex | The Mousehunter [For Emiline, a mousekeeper in the employ of wealthy Isiah Lovelock, there is no greater dream than becoming a famous mousehunter. So when she is given the opportunity to join the hunt for the legendary pirate Mousebeard, she sets off on the most dangerous, most thrilling, most swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime.] Look for a sequel. | |
| 9-12 | Moses, Shelia P. | Sallie Gal And The Wall-a-kee Man [country folks can't get to town so easily. And even though Mama and Sallie Gal work hard in the cotton fields, money is hard to come by. Especially for things they don't need.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Myers, Walter Dean | Handbook for Boys [life lessons-attitude]
Fallen Angels [Finding virtue in the Viet Nam War] |
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| 12-15 | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Jade Green: A Ghost Story
Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry Faith, Hope, and Ivy June (Ages 9-13) [realism of Appalachia/KY/coal mining/finding strength in each other/more alike than different.] Shiloh [See Newbery] |
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| 9-12 | Nelson, N. A. | Bring the Boy Home ["I've seen what the world does to the weak. It'll eat you alive." Tirio was cast out of the Takunami tribe at a very young age because of his disabled foot. But an American woman named Sara adopted him, and his life has only gotten better since. Why is he having visions and hearing voices calling him back to the Amazon? Luka has spent his whole life preparing for his soche seche tente, a sixth-sense test all Takunami boys must endure just before their thirteenth birthday. His family's future depends on whether or not he passes this perilous test. Two young boys. An unforgiving jungle. One shared destiny.] | @AMAZON |
| 10-13 | Nelson, Theresa | The Empress of Elsewhere | @AMAZON |
| 10-13 | Nemeth, Sally | The Heights, the Depths, and Everything in Between [fastpaced, entertaining, humorous story about friendship and loyalty vividly capturing the highs and lows of growing up, and the the "misfit" feelings most teens have during middle-school. | @AMAZON |
| 9 Up | Nesbit, E. | Five Children
and It [gift edition of 1902 classic] [Chapter
1]
The Railway Children |
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| 9-11 | Nimmo, Jenny | The Children of the Red King Series - Charlie Bone - The stories are centred on Charlie Bone, a young boy and descendant of The Red King, who reluctantly possesses a powerful endowment, along with many of his friends who he meets at a special school he attends called Bloor's Academy. His family, the Yewbeams, have many dark secrets and Charlie Bone embarks on a series of mysterious adventures to find out the truth about his past.
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| 7-11 | Nix, Garth | One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales ["the stories feature bright, level-headed children in situations that call for courage in the face of surprising and even fantastic circumstances."] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Norton, Mary (1903-1992) | The Borrowers
The Borrowers Afloat The Borrowers Afield The Borrowers Avenged The Borrowers Aloft Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
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| 9-12 | O'Dell, Scott | The
Black Pearl
The King's Fifth Sing Down the Moon [The Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner by white soldiers and settlers is dramatically and courageously told by young Bright Morning.] Black Star, Bright Dawn Island of the Blue Dolphins [Teacher's Guide] |
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| 10-12 | O'Hearn, Kate | Shadow of the Dragon: KIRA (Book One) [When war comes to the kingdom, Lord Dorcon and his knights arrive at Kira’s home to take her father, mother and brother, Dane, to the palace to serve the King. Kira and her sisters are to go to Lasser Commons - the most notorious prison in the land. Their only crime? Being unmarried girls. In a whirl of destruction and fire, Kira and her younger sister, Elspeth, manage to escape. But deep in her heart, Kira knows the real fight is just beginning.]
Shadow of the Dragon: ELSPETH (Book Two) [Now outlawed and running for their lives, they are determined to stand amongst the men and fight the unjust First Law that binds the kingdom. But cruel Lord Dorcon still stands in their way and the heat of his chase is stronger than ever. A prophecy to fulfill, a cruel monarchy to upend. The battle continues... ] |
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| 10-12 | Oppel, Kenneth | Silverwing: How One Small Bat Became a Noble Hero
Sunwing: A Companion to Silverwing Firewing (Bk. 3) |
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| 8-11 | Oliver, Lin | Who Shrunk Daniel Funk Series - Meet Daniel Funk, a regular guy who's stuck living in a house full of girls. (Reluctant Readers)
Attack of the Growling Eyeballs [When Daniel and Pablo decide to have some fun at their sisters' party and let loose a giant hissing cockroach just to watch the girls scream, they find out that it's dangerous to be so small.] Escape of the Mini-Mummy [Daniel Funk can shrink to the size of the fourth toe on his left foot. But that's not his only skill. Daniel and his best friend, Vu, are entering the school diorama contest with a model of King Tut's tomb. If they win, they get tickets to a Lakers game. If they lose, they'll never hear the end of it from Vince the Pizza Prince, the most obnoxious guy in school.] Revenge of the Itty-Bitty Brothers [Daniel has finally figured out how to control his shrinking/ Daniel's Science Club holds a model rocket launch at the La Brea Tar Pits, and Daniel comes up with the best idea of all: He and Pablo will launch themselves into the air for a teeny-tiny rocket ride! But things take a turn for the dangerous when Daniel's rocket takes a nosedive into the tar pits. Will Daniel make it out in one piece? Or will he become an itty-bitty fossil?] |
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7-10 |
Orr, Wendy | Ark in the Park
Nim's Island |
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| 9-12 | Osborne, Mary Pope | Buffalo
Before Breakfast [Lesson
Plan Activities]
Dinosaurs Before Dark [Lesson Plan Activities] The Knight at Dawn [Lesson Plan Activities] Mummies in the Morning [Lesson Plan Activities] |
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| ALL | Paraskevas, Betty | Junior Kroll [Poetry] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Park, Linda Sue [see Newbery] | Keeping Score [Korean War/Brooklyn Dodgers/ the tragedies and reality of war/ life in Brooklyn in the early 1950s | @AMAZON |
| 6 Up | Parrish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia
[Lesson
Plan]
Come Back, Amelia Bedelia |
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| 10-13 | Paterson, Katherine | Bread and Roses [moving story based on real events surrounding an infamous 1912 Bread and Roses strike in the mills of Lawrence, MA, and the sympathetic response of the citizens of Barre, VT]
The Day of the Pelican [Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness, the long, arduous journey, and danger on every side. Then, unexpectedly, they are brought to America by a church group and begin a new life in a small Vermont town.] |
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| 9-12 | Patron, Sharon | The Higher Power of Lucky (Bk. 1) Newbery Medal 2007
Lucky Breaks (Bk. 2) |
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| 9-12 | Paulsen,
Gary
[Author Site] |
Alida's Song
The Cookcamp Brian's Return - Brian's Return Brian's Winter Dogsong Hatchet [the story of thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson's survival following a plane crash has become a modern classic. Stranded in the desolate wilderness, Brian uses his instincts and his hatchet to stay alive for fifty-four harrowing days.] Newbery Honor - Newbery Honor [Lesson Plan] Hatchet: 20th Anniversary Edition (2007) [This twentieth-anniversary edition of Hatchet contains a new introduction and sidebar commentary by Gary Paulsen, written especially for this volume. Drew Willis's detailed pen-and-ink illustrations complement the descriptions in the text and add a new dimension to the book. ] The Winter Room Mr. Tucket Tucket's Ride Tucket's Gold Call Me Francis Tucket |
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| 10 Up | Pearce, Philippa | Familiar and Haunting: Collected Stories [37 in all] | @AMAZON |
| 10-13 | Peck, Dale | Drift House: The First Voyage | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Penn, Audrey | Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Perkins, Lynne Rae | All Alone in the Universe [broken friendships] | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | Perkovich, Olugbemisola Rhuday | Eighth-Grade Superzero [Reggie gets involved with a local homeless shelter, the Olive Branch. Haunted by two of the clients there--George, a once-proud man now living on the streets, and Charlie, a six-year-old kid who becomes his official "Little Buddy"--he begins to think about making a difference, both in the world and at school.] | |
| 10-13 | Phelan, Matt | The Storm in the Barn [Tall tale. Thriller. Gripping historical fiction. This artful, sparely told graphic novel — a tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America. In a land where it never rains, it’s hard to trust what you see with your own eyes — and harder still to take heart and be a hero when the time comes.] | |
| 9-12
11 Up |
Philbrick, Rodman | Rem World
Freak the Mighty The Mighty Max the Mighty The Fire Pony |
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| 9-12 | Pierce, Tamora | Magic Steps - Book 1 The Circle Opens 2000
Street Magic- Book 2 The Circle Opens - Song of the Lioness, Book 1 Alanna: The First Adventure In the Hand of the Goddess -Song of the Lioness, Book 2 |
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Pinkwater, Daniel | Looking for Bobowicz (2004)
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization (Bk.1) The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There (Bk.2) |
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| PARENTS | Pollack, William | Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood | @AMAZON |
| 10 Up | Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men
The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings [a crew and nomes save their home from destruction by human hands.] Only You Can Save Mankind (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 1.) |
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| 9-12 | Preller, James | Along Came Spider [Spider Stevens and Trey Cooper have lived next door to each other their entire lives. Their houses are on the odd-numbered side of Maple Street, which seems just about right. Because Trey Cooper is a little odd himself. The whole class thinks Trey is weird. Does that mean Spider has to turn his back on his oldest friend?]
Justin Fisher Declares War! [Justin has always been the funniest kid in school. But this year, his new teacher isn't amused. And when Justin gets in trouble with Mr. Tripp over and over, the other kids turn on him, too. No one wants to be friends with the class troublemaker.] |
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| 9-12 | Rawls, Wilson | Where The Red Fern Grows
The Summer of The Monkeys |
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| 10-12 | Reich, Susanna | Penelope Bailey [the power of art and a young person's dreams about the struggle of 19th century women for self-determination and one girl's effort to find a balance between her own desires and the expectations of society.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Reiche, Dietlof | I, Freddy: Book One In the Golden Hamster Saga
Freddy in Peril: Book Two In The Golden Hamster Saga |
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| 9-12 | Reiss, Kathryn | Paint By Magic: A Time Travel Mystery | @AMAZON |
| 9 up | Rex, Adam | The True Meaning of Smekday ["Who knew the end of the world could be so hilarious? "] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Richter, Conrad | The Light In The Forest | @AMAZON |
| 6-10 | Ringgold, Faith [Teacher Guides] | The Invisible
Princess
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| 9-12 | Rochelle, Belinda | Witnesses to
Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil
Rights
Words with Wings |
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| 9-12 | Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms [Lesson Plan Activities] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Rowling, J.K.
[complete page, bio and lesson plans] |
Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1998
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 6/1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 10/99 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 7/00 |
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| 10-13 | Ryan, Pam Munoz | Becoming Naomi Leon [multi-cultural/search for identity/absent parents] | @AMAZON |
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Rylant, Cynthia [see also] | Every
Living Thing
Henry and Mudge (1999) The Case of the Missing Monkey (2000) The Case of the Climbing Cat (2000) The Case of the Troublesome Turtle (2001) The Case of the Sleepy Sloth [2002] The Heavenly Village [excellent for grief] |
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Last Updated: August 30, 2010
The Chronicles of Narnia DVD Seven-volumes (3 disc set)