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Bridge to Terabithia: A Newbery Award Winner
Par Katherine Paterson. 1977
Jess finds his biggest rival and best friend in Leslie, a girl who moves to his rural Virginia community from…
the city. Together they create Terabithia, a secret kingdom in the woods where they reign supreme--until tragedy strikes. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalThe red pony (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Par John Steinbeck. 1938
In this story, originally written in 1933, Jody Tiflin is only ten years old when he receives the red pony…
as a gift. As Jody matures, his experiences with horses, an old ranchhand, and the birth of a colt teach him about the interconnections between life and deathPudd'nhead Wilson, and Those extraordinary twins
Par Mark Twain. 1986
Two novels by an American humorist. In Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain provides a complex, ironical and morally disturbing account of human…
nature under slavery as a brilliant and inventive nineteenth-century lawyer attempts to prove his case by using the newfangled science of fingerprinting. Those Extraordinary Twins is about Siamese twins who share many amusing problemsThe first four years (Little House #9)
Par Laura Wilder, Garth Williams. 1971
The story of Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their first years together on a homestead on the Dakota prairie in…
the late 1800s. This story follows "These Happy Golden Years" (DB 21200). For grades 4-7 and older readersLittle house on the prairie (Little House Ser.)
Par Laura Wilder. 1935
A family moves westward from Wisconsin in a covered wagon and builds a cabin on the Kansas prairie right in…
Indian territory. Sequel to Little House in the Big Woods (BR 4442). For grades 4-7Finnegans wake
Par James Joyce. 1939
A controversial experimental novel first published in 1939. The book is apparently a dream sequence representing one night in the…
unconscious mind of a Dublin tavern keeper. Joyce's unique style makes extensive use of slang, arcane puns, and obscure allusionsThe life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Par Charles Dickens. 1951
Old Chuzzlewit, surrounded by a selfish family, sees the same traits forming in his grandson Martin and kicks him out…
of the house. Penniless, young Martin makes his way to America to seek his fortune. After a series of difficult experiences, he is cured of his greed. Other members of the Chuzzlewit clan have their own selfish goals, including a plot to murder Old ChuzzlewitUlysses (The Modern library of the world's best books)
Par James Joyce. 1992
Epic novel that deals with a single day--June 16, 1904--in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dublin advertising salesman. The…
stream-of-consciousness style and the use of interior monologues expose the personalities of the characters. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexThe stranger
Par Albert Camus. 1988
An existential novel, set in Algiers, about a man who resists any commitment, rendering his life meaningless. He does not…
react to his mother's death nor to a killing he commits, and he becomes a placid prisoner convicted of murder. His own impending death, however, leads him to some realizationsSister of the bride
Par Beverly Cleary. 1963
The complete Just so stories
Par Rudyard Kipling. 1993
Kipling began writing his Just So Stories as bedtime stories for his children. They began appearing in magazines in 1897,…
and in 1902 the twelve standard tales were collected and published in book form. This volume includes two additional stories, "The Tabu Tale" and "Ham and the Porcupine," the very last story that Kipling wrote. For grades 3-6 and older readersHilda Lessways
Par Arnold Bennett. 1911
This companion to Clayhanger (DB 34689, BR 9121) begins in 1878 in Turnhill, England, where twenty-one-year-old Hilda Lessways finds life…
with her widowed mother unfulfilling. Afraid that her inheritance will be squandered by her mother, Hilda gathers her courage and seeks the advice of attorney George Cannon. Cannon offers Hilda a vocation, and her life begins to change. Then a second man enters her life: Edwin ClayhangerSounder
Par William Armstrong. 1969
The mother and son of a black sharecropper family in the South struggle for survival when the sheriff arrests the…
father for stealing and shoots their devoted coon dog. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalThese twain
Par Arnold Bennett. 1915
In the third volume of the Clayhanger trilogy--Clayhanger (DB 34689, BR 9121) and Hilda Lessways (DB 39479, BR 9851)--Edwin and…
Hilda have married after Hilda's "tragic adventure with a rascal and a bigamist," and her son by George Cannon is now ten years old. The book begins with an "at home" gathering at the Clayhangers' in 1892 and follows the ups and downs of their marriage through the next five yearsBrighty of the Grand Canyon
Par Marguerite Henry. 1953
Brighty, a freedom-loving little burro, befriends a kind old prospector. Brighty watches one day as a vicious stranger kills the…
old man. Years later, Brighty vindicates his friend's death. For grades 4-7The secret garden
Par Frances Burnett. 1987
After becoming an orphan, Mary--ill-tempered and neglected--is sent to live on an uncle's huge estate where she meets an equally…
wretched cousin who is an invalid. Together they conspire to restore a locked, secret garden while the boy regains his health and his father's affection. For grades 4-7From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Par E. L Konigsburg. 1967
Claudia, feeling misunderstood at home, takes her younger brother and runs away to New York City where she sets up…
housekeeping in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For grades 4-6. Newbery MedalThe summer of the swans
Par Betsy Byars. 1970
When a mentally retarded boy becomes lost in the mountains, his fourteen-year-old sister forgets her own teenage problems, and gains…
new insight into herself and her family. For grades 4-7. Newbery MedalAround the world in eighty days
Par Jules Verne. 1990
Phileas Fogg is certain that he can travel around the world in eighty days--an incredibly short period of time in…
1873. He's so sure that it can be done that he's wagered half of his fortune and set off on the grand adventure with his servant Passepartout. For high school and older readersRabbit Hill
Par Robert Lawson. 1944
When a new family moves into a big house that has been standing empty, they start an extra-large garden. The…
small animals rejoice because they really miss the garden they once depended on. For grades 3-6. Newbery Medal