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Claudia's big party (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 122)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Claudia is having trouble juggling time with her friends, her homework, and her new boyfriend, Josh. Then she gets the…
idea of having a big party to get all of her friends together. She even plans the party for the weekend her parents will be out of town. A big mistake. For grades 3-6Faraway summer
Par Johanna Hurwitz. 1998
In 1910, orphaned Dossi, twelve, lives with her seamstress sister, Ruthi, in a New York tenement. Ruthi signs Dossi up…
for a Fresh Air Fund vacation on a Vermont farm. Dossi knows the family members are puzzled by her Jewish customs, but she can't understand why the daughter is so unfriendly to her. For grades 5-8Beethoven in Paradise
Par Barbara O'Connor. 1997
Martin lives in the Paradise trailer park with his folks. His dream is to play a musical instrument, but his…
abusive father thinks music is stupid and insists Martin play baseball, instead. Some strong language. For grades 5-8Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Par Mildred Taylor, Jerry Pinkney. 1976
Nine-year-old Cassie Logan recalls a turbulent time in Mississippi during the Great Depression--a year of night riders, burnings, and threats.…
She describes her African American family's struggle to survive with their dignity and independence intact. Some strong language. For grades 6-9. Newbery Award. 1976Kristy in charge: the Baby-sitters Club (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 123)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Students at Stoneybrook Middle School are given a chance to teach a class three days a week. Several members of…
the Baby-Sitters Club take part. Kristy Thomas is in charge of a gym class with Cary Retlin, but their first session is a disaster. For grades 4-7Tree by leaf
Par Cynthia Voigt. 1988
In 1920 twelve-year-old Clothilde lives with her family on an isolated peninsula waiting for her father to return from the…
war. When he arrives, maimed and broken, he retreats to the boathouse. A mysterious voice helps Clothilde breach the gulf between her father and the rest of the family. For grades 6-9The unprotected witness
Par James Stevenson. 1997
Even though Pete's father was in the federal witness protection program, he was killed, and there is still the matter…
of missing money. The gangsters who want the money figure Pete knows where it is hidden. When Pete finds the telephone bugged, he realizes that he is an unprotected witness who needs friends more than ever. Sequel to The Bones in the Cliff (BR 10483). For grades 4-7A long way from Chicago: a novel in stories
Par Richard Peck. 1998
In eight short stories an old man reminisces about the week each summer he and his little sister spent with…
his grandmother. Joey likes the train ride and his feisty, independent grandmother, who tells "whoppers," fishes, and shoots a shotgun. For grades 6-9Yara
Par Tamara Berger. 2023
FEATURED IN QUILL & QUIRE 'S 2023 FALL PREVIEW THE GLOBE AND MAIL : BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023…
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN FALL 2023 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BIG INDIE BOOKS OF FALL 2023 From the author of Maidenhead , a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the boundaries of sex and belonging in the early 2000s Distraught that her teenage daughter is in love with a woman a decade older, Yara's mother sends her away from their home in Brazil to Israel, on a Birthright trip for Jewish youth. Freed from her increasingly controlling and jealous girlfriend, Yara is determined to forge her own path and follow her desires. But Birthright takes a debaucherous turn, and Yara flees Israel for Toronto and then California. As she wanders, Yara is forced to reframe her relationship and her ideas around consent. Set in the sex-tape-panicked early 2000s, Yara is a reverse cautionary tale about what the body can teach usMr. Ape
Par Dick King-Smith, Roger Roth. 1998
Mr. Ape is an old man, suddenly free of wife and offspring, living in his family estate, Penny Royal. Happy…
to make his own decisions, he lives in the kitchen and buys hens to keep in the living room. He befriends Jake and his father, Joe--traveling gypsies who prove to be kindred spirits. For grades 3-6Moving Mama to town
Par Ronder Young. 1997
Freddy James Johnson, thirteen, is confused when his father, "Big Kenny," leaves his family members to fend for themselves on…
the farm in 1947. But Freddy soon arranges to move Mama and little Kenneth Lee into town, and he gets a job to support them. For grades 5-8The secret life of Amanda K. Woods
Par Ann Cameron. 1998
Just before Amanda's only friend, Lyle, moves away, the two eleven-year-olds use a technique from a comic book to exchange…
hands in order to remain close. Amanda uses her new right hand and some advice from her "perfect" older sister to guide her through the awkward, friendless time that follows. For grades 4-7Family tree
Par Katherine Ayres. 1996
When sixth-grader Tyler Stoudt gets an assignment to create a family tree, her heart sinks. Her widowed father won't talk…
about his own family or her mother's, so Tyler has no idea who her relatives are. For grades 3-6The good lord bird (national book award winner): A novel
Par James McBride. 2023
Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From…
the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856-a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces-when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town-along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survivalThe skull of truth: A Magic Shop Book (Magic Shop Bks.)
Par Bruce Coville. 1997
Running from bullies, Charlie escapes into Mr. Elives's magic shop where, to his own horror, he steals a human skull.…
Worse, the skull talks and it forces Charlie to always tell the truth--something he rarely did in the past. For grades 4-7Meet Josefina, an American girl (Historical Character)
Par Valerie Tripp, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Susan McAliley, Peg Ross. 1997
In 1824 nine-year-old Josefina lives with her father and three sisters on a rancho near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The…
girls try hard to take care of things the way Mama did before she died the previous year. When their grandfather comes for a visit, they are surprised by the guest he brings--Tia Dolores, their mother's sister. Prequel to Josefina Learns a Lesson (DB 45562). For grades 2-4Joyride
Par Gretchen Olson. 1998
When Jeff McKenzie and a friend take a joy ride through a farmer's bean field one night, Jeff has no…
idea he will spend the summer in a strawberry field. He had planned to play tennis, but this is the price he must pay for ruining the farmer's irrigation motor. Jeff learns a lot and is befriended by the farmer's daughter and a farm hand. For junior and senior high readersMaura's angel (An Avon Camelot book)
Par Lynne Banks. 1984
On her way home from her Belfast school, Maura is knocked flat by a bomb's blast. When she looks around,…
she is amazed to see a naked girl who looks just like her. Maura must teach this new acquaintance to walk, eat, and even sleep. In return, Maura and her family experience wonderful changes while in her presence. For grades 4-7Being youngest
Par Jim Heynen. 1997
Gretchen's family has just moved down the road from Henry's family's Iowa farm. Both are children who have hateful older…
siblings and know that being youngest means nothing good ever happens to you. But their friendship with each other and with an odd old couple changes this. For grades 5-8Dancing with Great-aunt Cornelia: a novel
Par Anne Quirk. 1997
Every year around her birthday, Cornelia has tea with her eccentric great-aunt Cornelia Witherspoon and her wolfhound at a hotel…
in Manhattan. On Cornelia's thirteenth birthday, her aunt invites Cornelia to spend the summer with her. Cornelia meets some colorful people, and a long hidden family secret is revealed. For grades 4-7