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| 9-12
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] |
Newbery
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| 9-12 | Kalam, Bobbie | 19th Century Girls & Women: Historic Communities | @AMAZON |
| 11-15
9-12 |
Karr, Kathleen [Bibliography/Bio] | The Boxer
The Great Turkey Walk |
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| 8-11 | Kelly, Katy | Lucy Rose: Working Myself to Pieces and Bits [a friend turns a plumbing store into a bakery] (Recipies included) | @AMAZON |
| 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 |
| 9-12 | 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."] | |
| 8-12
10-13 |
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"] |
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| 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- | Korman, Gordon | 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. | @AMAZON |
| 7-9
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 |
| 9-12 | Lalicki, Tom | Danger in the Dark: A Houdini & Nate Mystery
Shots at Sea: A Houdini & Nate Mystery |
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| 11-14 | Lally, Soinbhe | A Hive for the Honeybee | @AMAZON |
| 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 |
| 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]
[Resource File] |
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Levin, Betty | The Banished (1999) | @AMAZON |
| 9-12 | Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted
The Wish ["To thine own self be true"] |
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| 9-12 | Lewis,
C. S.
50
Years of Narnia
www.narnia.com
The Chronicles of Narnia
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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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| 9-12 | Little, Kimberley Griffiths | Enchanted Runner [Native American] | @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 |
| 8-11 | Martin, Ann M. and Laura Godwin | The Doll People
The Meanest Doll in the World |
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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 |
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| 10-14 | McKay, Hilary | Permanent Rose [ties that link family and friends together] | @AMAZON |
| 10-14 | Mead, Alice | Girl of Kosovo [Serbian-Albanian conflict] | @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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| McMullan, Kate | The Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad | @AMAZON | |
| 9-12 | Mendez, Phil | The Black Snowman [Teacher Resource] | @AMAZON |
| 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 |
| ALL | Milne, Merose, Shephard | The Pooh Bedside Reader | @AMAZON |
| 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 Shiloh [See Newbery] |
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| 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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| 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 Black Star, Bright Dawn Island of the Blue Dolphins [Teacher's Guide] |
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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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| 7-8
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 |
| 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] | @AMAZON |
| 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 |
| 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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| 8-12 | Pinkwater, Daniel | Looking for Bobowicz (2004)
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency |
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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 | 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
[See Picturebook Section] |
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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 |
| 9-12
6-9 6-9 6-9 6-9 9 Up |
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: April 22, 2008
