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| 9-12
6-10 |
Farjeon, Eleanor | Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
Morning Has Broken |
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| 10 up | Fehler, Gene | BEANBALL [It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever. In this riveting novel, the events surrounding this pivotal moment are recounted through free-verse monologues by 28 different voices] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Fenner, Carol | Yolonda's Genius - 1996 Newbery Honor | @AMAZON |
| 10-13 | Ferris, Jean | Once Upon a Marigold [A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.]
Twice Upon a Marigold (Sequal) [Since Queen Olympia's fateful fall into the river, newlyweds Christian and Marigold have been living happily ever after. And they had every intention of keeping it that way--until they find out that Olympia may not be as gone as they thought. |
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| 9-12 | Fitzhugh, Louise | Harriet The Spy | @AMAZON |
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Fleischman, Paul | By the Great Horn Spoon
Whirlygig [Lesson Plan] [Lesson Plan] Bull Run [Lesson Plan] |
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9-12 9-12 |
Fleischman, Sid
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A Carnival of Animals
The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story By the Great Horn Spoon The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or Pirates Galore |
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| 9-12 | Frank Anne | Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl [Study Questions] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Forward, Toby | Pie Magic | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Fox, Paula | One-Eyed Cat | @AMAZON |
| **** | Fuhler, Carol | Teaching Reading With Multicultural Books Kids Love | |
| 10-14 | Funke, Cornelia | Inkheart
The Thief Lord |
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| 10 up | Fuqua, Jonathon Scott | Darby [In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.] | @AMAZON |
| 4-9 | Gannet, Ruth Stiles | My
Father's Dragon Trilogy:
My Father's Dragon Elmer and the Dragon (Book 2) The Dragons of Blueland (Book 3) |
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| 11 Up
10+ |
Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (1998)
Joey Pigza Loses Control (Newbery Honor Book, 2001) What Would You Do Joey? (2002) I Am Not Joey Pigza (2007) Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue (Prequel to Jack Henry Series) |
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| 9-12 | Gardiner, John Reynolds | Stone Fox [Lesson Plan Activities] | @AMAZON |
| 6-10 | Gates, Doris | Blue Willow | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | Gavalda, Anna. | 95 Pounds of Hope [march to a different beat/reluctant students] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Giff, Patricia R. | Lily's Crossing | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Gilchrist, Cherry | A Calendar of Festivals | @AMAZON |
| 10-12 | Glover, Savion | Savion: My Life in Tap | @AMAZON |
| Adult
8-12 |
Godden, Rumer (1907-1998)
[beautiful biography] |
Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life by Anne Chisholm
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower Gypsy Girl Doll's House A House With Four Rooms In This House of Brede An Episode of Sparrows Thursday's Children The Fairy Doll A Candle for St. Jude |
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| 8-12 | Gorman, Carol | Dork in Disguise
A Midsummer Night's Dork [hosting an Elizabethan festival] 2004 |
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| 9-12 | Graham, Mark | Llama in the Library | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Gray, Margaret | The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool [the humorous side of self-discovery] | @AMAZON |
| 8-10 | Greenburg, Dan | Secrets of Dripping Fang Series - A witty combination of comedy, horror, action, and adventure. | |
| 9-12 | Greene, Bette | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon, Maybe
Summer of My German Soldier |
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| 8-11 | Greenwald, Sheila | Rosy Cole's Memoir Explosion: A Heartbreaking Story about Losing Friends, Annoying Family, and Ruining Romance | @AMAZON |
| FAM | Greer, Colin | A Call to Character : A Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Development of Values for You and Your Children. | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Griffin, Adele
[Interview] |
Sons of Liberty [the dark side of loyalty and love within a family]
Overnight [Gray hopes a slumber party with the "Lucky Seven" at will take her mind off her mother's cancer, but when she is taken from the party by a deranged woman, both she and the other girls discover things about themselves and each other. preteen manipulation/ostracism/self-absortson.] |
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| 9-12 | Grover, Wayne | Dolphin Freedom
Dolphin Adventure |
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| 8-12
8-12 |
Gutman, Dan
See books Ages 7-10 |
The Million Dollar Putt [Blind golf is a teen sport/more than golf]
The Million Dollar Shot The Million Dollar Goal The Million Dollar Kick The Homework Machine (don't miss this great read) Abner & Me (A Baseball Card Adventure) - Time travel to the Civil War era/assassination of Lincoln/Doubleday, a Civil War General/Who really invented baseball?/fact/fiction in Author's notes] |
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| 9-12 | Hamilton, Virginia [author site]
[Links and Lesson Plans] |
Her
Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World M.C. Higgins, the Great Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
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| 10-13 | Han, Jenny | SHUG [Life is growing up all around Shug, and all she wants is for things to be like they used to be. How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today? | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Hansen, Joyce | I Thought My
Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Reconstruction Era Movement Diary of Patsy
Which Way Freedom |
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| 10 Up | Hardinge, Frances | Fly By Night [Twelve-year-old Mosca has one small, rare thing: the ability to read. She doesn't know it yet, but in a world where books are dangerous things, this gift will change her life.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Haven, Paul | Two Hot Dogs With Everything | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Hart, Alison | Racing to Freedom Trilogy - historical fiction
Gabriel's Horses - Book 1 - In the first book of this engrossing middle-grade trilogy set during the Civil War, a young Kentucky slave dares to pursue his dream of becoming a jockey. Gabriel's Triumph - Book 2 - The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel, a recently freed slave, is making a name for himself throughout the state of Kentucky riding in high-stakes horse races. Gabriel learns that being freed is not the same as being free. Background historical material and photos included. |
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| 9-12 | Henham, R. D. | For fans of The New York Times best-selling A Practical Guide to Dragons, a new series of fantasy fiction focusing on the power of dragonkind. The Dragon Codices chronicle adventures with each of ten dragons of Krynn. From the fiery, evil red dragon to the playful copper, each dragon's tale is unique. Sindri Suncatcher, narrator of A Practical Guide to Dragons, shared these tales from his travels with library scribe R.D. Henham.
Red Dragon Codex (Bk. 1) |
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| 9-12 | Henkes, Kevin
[Teacher
Resource]
[See Picturebooks] |
The Birthday Room
Words of Stone [overcoming fear] Sun & Spoon Protecting Marie [Father/daughter… trust] |
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| 9-12 | Hess, Nina | A Practical Guide to Monsters [If you want to earn the robes of a wizard, you must know the habits and habitats of the monsters in this book backward and forward. Only then will you be prepared to defend yourself on a quest of your own.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Hesse, Karen | Out of the Dust
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Letters from Rifka Phoenix Rising The Music of Dolphins |
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| 9-12 | Hiaasen, Carl | FLUSH [Noah tackles the root of destruction of Florida's natural resources]
HOOT (Newbery Honor) [mystery vandal is sabotaging the site of a future pancake restaurant.] |
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| 10-14
12 Up |
Hite, Sid | A Hole in the World [small lie/a summer of maturity]
The King of Slippery Falls |
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| 10-12 | Hirsch, Odo | Something's Fishy, Hazel Green
Have Courage, Hazel Green |
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| 7-10 | Hobbs, Valerie | Sheep [told in the dog's simple, first-person voice/struggle for food, shelter, and love, as well as the suffering of the homeless pair awaiting adoption.] | @AMAZON |
| 7-10 | Hoffman, Mary [See also] | The Barefoot Book of Brother and Sister Tales | @AMAZON |
| 10 Up | Holm, Jennifer L. | Boston Jane: An Adventure - Bk. 1 of Trilogy
Boston Jane: Wilderness Days - Bk. 2 of Trilogy Our Only May Amelia |
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| 10-13 | Holmes, Sara Lewis | Letters from Rapunzel ["In the real world, you can only understand your life backwards" Once upon a time, there was a girl. Let's call her Rapunzel. A modern-day version. Abandoned. Alone. She was trapped. Not in the conventional fairy-tale way—this was the dreaded after-school Homework Club. A desolate place, where no gum could be chewed, and where Rapunzel sat day after day, cursing the evil spell that had been cast over her father. The doctors called it something else...clinical depression.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Horvath, Polly | The Trolls [Interview with Polly Horvath about The Trolls] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Hostetter, Joyce Moyer | BLUE [With her father away at war to fight Adolf Hitler, a young girl gains strength by joining her community in battling polio in this story based on the 1944 epidemic and the "Miracle of Hickory" Hospital in Hickory, North Carolina.] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Houston, Jeanne | Farewell
To Manzanar
(Info on Japanese Internment) |
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| 9-12 | Howe, James | The
Celery Stalks at Midnight
Bunnicula : A Rabbit Tale of Mystery Tales From The House of Bunnicula Series |
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| 9-12 | Hughes, Pat | The Breaker Boy [PA coal miners/mining conditions/brutality of management/strike] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Humphrey, Margo | The River That Gave Gifts | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Hulme, Joy N. | Climbing the Rainbow [historical fiction/early 1900s/homesteading/schooling] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Hunter, Mollie | The Walking Stones | @AMAZON |
| 8-10 | Hurwitz, Johanna | Squirrel World [Lexington (Lexi) and Lenox decide to visit the New York City streets they were named after. Lexi is worried about leaving Central Park, but Lenox is confident that their streets will be beautiful places, maybe even better than the park! When the two squirrels venture into the city, they soon realize that the human world is stranger and more dangerous than they'd ever imagined.] | @AMAZON |
| 10 Up | Ives, David | Monsieur Eek [mythical town in 1609] | @AMAZON |
| 8-12 | Jaffe, Nina | Tales for the Seventh Day : A Collection of Sabbath Stories | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Jacques, Brian | The
Redwall Adventures
The Legend of Luke 2000 Marlfox1998 Martin The Warrior Mossflower Outcast of Redwall Mariel of Redwall The Bellmaker Salamandastron Redwall Mattimeo The Pearls of Lutra The Long Patrol: A Tale from Redwall - Released 2/98- REVIEW Redwall Map & the Redwall Riddler - Released 2/98 - REVIEW |
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| 8 -12 | Johnson, Jane | The Secret Country (Eidolon Chronicles) | @AMAZON |
| 8 Up | Jones, Diana Wynne | The Ogre Downstairs
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1: Charmed Life |
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| 9-12
8-12 |
Joseph, Lynn | A Wave in Her
Pocket : Stories from Trinidad
The Color of My Words |
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| 8-12 | Jordan, Rosa | Lost Goat Lane [adolescent girl's first glimpse into the problems of prejudice and the redeeming power of friendships] | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Juster, Norton | Phantom Tollbooth [excerpts] [Study Questions] | @AMAZON
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