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2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (J 812.6 SCHLI) Location: Juvenile Non-Fiction Thirteenth-century England springs to life using 21 dramatic individual narratives that introduce young inhabitants of village and manor; from Hugo, the lord's nephew, to Nelly, the sniggler. |
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2007 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (J FIC PATRO) Location: Juvenile Fiction Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life. |
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2006 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (YA FIC PERKI) Location: Young Adult Fiction Follows the lives of four 14-year-olds in a small town, each at their own crossroads. This ensemble cast explores new thoughts and feelings in their quest to find the meaning of life and love. |
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2005 Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (J FIC KADOH) Location: Juvenile Fiction Japanese-American sisters Katie and Lynn deal with Lynn's terminal illness and growing up in rural Georgia in the late 1950s. |
| 2004 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (J FIC DICAM) Location: Juvenile Fiction The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
| 2003 Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi (YA FIC AVI) Location: Young Adult Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. |
| 2002 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (J FIC PARK) Location: Juvenile Fiction Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. |
| 2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (J FIC PECK) Location: Juvenile Fiction In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities. |
| 2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (J FIC CURTI) Location: Juvenile Fiction Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
| 1999 Holes by Louis Sachar (YA FIC SACHA) Location: Young Adult As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. |
| 1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (YA FIC HESSE) Location: Young Adult In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. |
| 1997 The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (J FIC KONIG) Location: Juvenile Fiction Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. |
| 1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (J FIC CUSHM) Location: Juvenile Fiction In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. |
| 1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (J FIC CREEC) Location: Juvenile Fiction After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. |
| 1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry (YA FIC LOWRY) Location: Young Adult Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
| 1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (J FIC RYLAN) Location: Juvenile Fiction After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. |
| 1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J FIC NAYLO) Location: Juvenile Fiction When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. |
| 1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (J FIC SPINE) Location: Juvenile Fiction After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. |
| 1990 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (J FIC LOWRY) Location: Juvenile Fiction In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. |
| 1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (J 811.54 FLEIS) Location: Juvenile Nonfiction A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. |
| 1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (J LINCOLN FRE) Location: Juvenile Biography Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. |
| 1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (J FIC FLEIS) Location: Juvenile Fiction A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. |
| 1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (J FIC MACLA) Location: Juvenile Fiction When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. |
| 1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (YA FIC MCKIN) Location: Young Adult Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. |
| 1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (J FIC CLEAR) Location: Juvenile Fiction In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. |
| 1983 Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (YA FIC VOIGT) Location: Young Adult Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. |
| 1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (J 811 WILLA) Location: Juvenile Nonfiction A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. |
| 1981 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (YA FIC PATER) Location: Young Adult Having felt deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. |
| 1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan W. Blos (J FIC BLOS) Location: Juvenile Fiction The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. |
| 1979 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (J FIC RASKI) Location: Juvenile Fiction The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. |
| 1978 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (J FIC PATER) Location: Juvenile Fiction The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. |
| 1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (YA FIC TAYLO) Location: Young Adult A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. |
| 1976 The Grey King by Susan Cooper (YA FIC COOPE) Location: Young Adult A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark. |
| 1975 M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (YA FIC HAM) Location: Young Adult As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. |
| 1974 The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (YA FIC FOX) Location: Young Adult Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. |
| 1973 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. |
| 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (J FIC OBRIE) Location: Juvenile Fiction Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
| 1971 Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (J FIC BYARS) Location: Juvenile Fiction A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. |
| 1970 Sounder by William H. Armstrong (J FIC ARMST and YA FIC ARMST) Location: Young Adult Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder. |
| 1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander (YA FIC ALEXA) Location: Young Adult In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero. |
| 1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (J FIC KONIG) Location: Juvenile Fiction Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. |
| 1967 Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (J FIC HUNT) Location: Juvenile Fiction After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen. |
| 1966 I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velázquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life. |
| 1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (YA FIC WOJCI) Location: Young Adult Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. |
| 1964 It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (YA FIC NEVIL) Location: Young Adult The story of a fourteen-year-old New York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric old woman, a troubled older boy, the first girl with whom he has been friends, and his father. |
| 1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (YA FIC LENGL) Location: Young Adult Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. |
| 1962 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus teaches him love and understanding of others. |
| 1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (J FIC ODELL and LT FIC ODE) Location: Juvenile Fiction Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast. |
| 1960 Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (J FIC KRUMG) Location: Juvenile Fiction His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father. |
| 1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. |
| 1958 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (J FIC KEITH) Location: Juvenile Fiction Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy. |
| 1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (J FIC SOR) Location: Juvenile Fiction After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other. |
| 1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (J BOWDITCH LAT) Location: Juvenile Biography A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator. |
| 1955 The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (J FIC DEJON) Location: Juvenile Fiction Set in a small Dutch fishing village, this book tells the story of a young girl and her simple composition about the storks that build their nests in neighboring villages. When the children wonder why the storks don't nest in their village, the stage is set for a dramatic challenge against all odds. |
| 1954 ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (J FIC KRU and J FIC KRUMG) Location: Juvenile Fiction Presents the story of twelve-year-old Miguel who feels too young or too old to do the things he would like. While he most of all wants to tend the sheep, his father tells him he must wait. The eventual answer to his prayers proves to be a mixed blessing, helping Miguel take a step toward growing up. |
| 1953 Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (J FIC CLA) Location: Juvenile Fiction An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. |
| 1952 Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (J FIC ESTES) Location: Juvenile Fiction The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. |
| 1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (J FORTUNE YATES) Location: Juvenile Biography The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty. |
| 1950 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. |
| 1949 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (J FIC HEN) Location: Juvenile Fiction Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses. |
| 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (J FIC DUBOI) Location: Juvenile Fiction Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. |
| 1947 Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (J FIC BAILE) Location: Juvenile Fiction Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head. |
| 1946 Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (J FIC LENSK) Location: Juvenile Fiction Set in Florida in the 1940s, this novel relates the adventures of Birdie Boyer. She belongs to a large "strawberry family," who lives on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the state. Through all the hazards of the uncertain crop - battling against dry weather and grass fires, the roving hogs and cattle of their neighbors - Birdie dreams of an education that includes playing the organ. |
| 1945 Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (J FIC LAWSO) Location: Juvenile Fiction New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. |
| 1944 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (J FIC FORBE and LT FIC FORBE) Locations: Juvenile Fiction and Adult Large Print After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. |
| 1943 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (J FIC GRAY) Location: Juvenile Fiction The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick. |
| 1942 The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (J FIC EDMON) Location: Juvenile Fiction In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. |
| 1941 Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people. |
| 1940 Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (J BOONE DAU) Location: Juvenile Biography A biography of Daniel Boone, the 18th century frontiersman who settled in Kentucky, West Virginia and finally Missouri. |
| 1939 Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (J FIC ENR) Location: Juvenile Fiction Set in Wisconsin in the 1930s. A few hours afer nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways. |
| 1938 The White Stag by Kate Seredy Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home. |
| 1937 Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (J FIC SAWYE) Location: Juvenile Fiction The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's. |
| 1936 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (J FIC BRINK) Location: Juvenile Fiction Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. |
| 1935 Dobry by Monica Shannon (J FIC SHA) Location: Juvenile Fiction A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer. |
| 1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (ALCOTT MEI) Location: Adult Biography Biography tracing the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston to her success as a writer of such classics as Little Women. |
| 1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (J FIC LEWIS) Location: Juvenile Fiction In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune. |
| 1932 Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (J FIC ARM) Location: Juvenile Fiction Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence. |
| 1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (J FIC COA) Location: Juvenile Fiction A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune. |
| 1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (J FIC FIELD) Location: Juvenile Fiction A doll named Hitty recounts her adventures as she moves through a continually changing string of owners. |
| 1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (J FIC KELLY) Location: Juvenile Fiction A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father. |
| 1928 Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (J FIC MUK) Location: Juvenile Fiction The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield. |
| 1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (J FIC JAMES) Location: Juvenile Fiction The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age. |
| 1926 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (J FIC CHRIS) Location: Juvenile Fiction Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought. |
| 1925 Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger Location: Bookmobile-ask Reference Librarian A compilation of 19 folktales from Central and South America. |
| 1924 The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (YA FIC HAWES) Location: Young Adult In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew. |
| 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (J FIC LOFTI) Location: Juvenile Fiction When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island. |
| 1922 The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (909 VAN) Location: Adult Nonfiction Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings |