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Snow: a novel
Par Calvin Miller. 1998
As Christmas approaches in 1929, young Pennsylvania widow Mary Withers has barely enough money to buy fuel to keep her…
asthmatic daughter warm. When the coal vendor's son, professor Erick Mueller, takes over for his injured father, Erick and Mary are able to help each other's family during a snowstormIt's my life
Par Michael Harrison. 1997
Martin's mother had ordered him straight home from school. When she calls to check on him, Martin reaches for the…
phone only to have someone grab him from behind. So begins Martin's kidnapping, which becomes more and more bizarre as he realizes just who his enemies really are. For grades 6-9Bad, badder, baddest (Bad Girls Ser.)
Par Cynthia Voigt. 1997
In this sequel to Bad Girls (BR 11341), Mikey and Margalo are now in the sixth grade. Mikey's parents announce…
that they are thinking of getting a divorce. Since Margalo has been through two divorces, Mikey asks for her help in stopping this one. For grades 4-7In the stone circle
Par Elizabeth Kimmel. 1998
Cristyn, fourteen, is reluctant to spend a dull summer in Wales with her widowed father while he does medieval-history research,…
and she's leery about sharing an ancient house with another American professor and her children. But ghostly happenings turn the vacation into an unexpected adventure. For grades 5-8The fisher king: a novel
Par Paule Marshall. 2000
Brooklyn, 1949. West Indian musician Sonny-Rett and African American Cherisse fall in love. Opposed by their families, the lovers flee…
to Paris where they start a family and Sonny becomes famous. Years later their grandchild returns to New York with Cherisse's best friend, Hattie. ALA Black Caucus Award. 2000The human comedy
Par William Saroyan. 1971
Story of a mother and her four children who live in Ithaca, California, during World War II. Features fourteen-year-old Homer,…
who is exposed to a lot of sadness in his job as telegraph messengerChanges for Josefina: a winter story
Par Valerie Tripp. 1998
Following the family's fiesta on the Feast of the Three Kings, Tía Dolores announces she must return home. But knowing…
Tía and her pap love each other, Josefina begins making plans. Sequel to Josefina Saves the Day (RC 47679, BR 12053). For grades 2-4The yearling (Illustrated Classics Ser.)
Par Marjorie Rawlings, N. C. Wyeth. 1938
Classic story about the Baxter family, who make a precarious living on a backwoods farm in northern Florida. Their young…
son, Jody, tames an orphaned fawn. When the deer begins to eat the family corn, Jody is ordered to shoot him. Pulitzer Prize. For grades 5-8 and older readersHans Brinker: or, The silver skates (The Children's illustrated classics)
Par Mary Dodge, Edna Cooke, Maginel Enright. 1993
In the winter Hans and his sister Gretel enjoy skating on frozen canals in Holland, even though they are so…
poor they have only clumsy, wooden skates. They would like to win the silver skates offered as the prize in a race. Originally published in 1865. For grades 4-7Songs of faith
Par Angela Johnson. 1998
Doreen relates this account of the summer of 1975 in Harvey, Ohio, which her mother describes as a town of…
divorced women and their kids. Although Doreen spends the summer playing with her brother Robert and her friends Viola and Jolette, she must come to terms with the absence of her father. As winter approaches, Doreen learns to have faith in the power of love. For grades 5-8The wake of the wind
Par J. Cooper. 1998
Africa, circa 1764. Acquaintances Kola and Suwaibu are captured and transported to America. One hundred years later two of their…
descendants, Mordecai and Lifee, marry on a plantation just prior to the Civil War. After they are freed the family starts on a journey to find a home. Some violenceSun & Spoon
Par Kevin Henkes. 1997
After the death of his beloved grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon pockets Gram's special deck of solitaire cards as a keepsake. When…
his grandfather becomes nostalgic and searches for the missing cards, Spoon returns the deck in exchange for another memento with a very special meaning. For grades 4-7Mama Flora's family: a novel
Par Alex Haley. 1998
A three-generation saga of Flora Palmer and her family. Born in Mississippi, she moves to Tennessee, marries a sharecropper, and…
raises her son and a niece. Years later, the children's offspring include social activists, Black Muslims, respected professionals, and a few with serious problems. All share a common respect for their matriarch. Some violenceThe Sandy Bottom Orchestra
Par Garrison Keillor. 1996
Eighth-grader Rachel Green is not looking forward to the summer. She and her best friend, Carol, seem to be growing…
apart, and her parents have decided to stay in town for the summer since her father is in charge of the Fourth of July celebration. Life does begin to look up, however, when Rachel is invited to play her violin in the Sandy Bottom Orchestra. For grades 5-8Search for the shadowman
Par Joan Nixon. 1996
When twelve-year-old Andy Thomas interviews his relatives for a family history assignment, he discovers a long-hidden scandal. Generations before, his…
ancestor Coley Joe Bonner supposedly ran away with his father's money. Andy's great-aunt refuses to discuss it, but after seeing a photo of Coley, Andy is determined to clear Coley's name. For grades 3-6Spencer's mountain
Par Earl Hamner. 1961
Recounts a year in the life of the Spencer family, who live in the foothills of Virginia, and especially that…
of Clay-Boy, as he prepares to leave Spencer's Mountain for his first year of collegeStrays like us
Par Richard Peck. 1998
Molly has been sent to live with her great-aunt Fay while her mother is in rehab. Next door, Will is…
staying with his grandparents and it is rumored that his father is in prison. They begin junior high school in their new town feeling like strays. For grades 5-8. 1998. For grades 5-8. 1998The bad beginning
Par Lemony Snicket. 1999
The Baudelaire siblings--Violet, fourteen; Klaus, twelve; and Sunny, a teething toddler--are charming and clever, but "magnets for misfortune." In short…
order, they are orphaned, denied access to their inheritance until Violet comes of age, and sent to live with a repulsive relative, Count Olaf. For grades 4-7. Bestseller. 1999Jeremy's dreidel
Par Ellie Gellman, Judith Friedman. 1992
Jeremy's art class at the Jewish center is making dreidels for Hanukkah. Each child can design one. Jeremy plans to…
use a special design for his father, who is blind. For grades 3-6 and older readersShortly after eight-year-old Rose and her parents move to a log house in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, she meets…
Swiney Baird, an orphan boy. He lives nearby with his older brother Abe. They all have many good times together, including going on a fishing trip. For grades 2-4. 2000