Adlington,
LJ. The
Diary of Pelly D. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.
(ISBN 0060766166) |
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When Toni V, a construction worker on
a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life
has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins
to question his own beliefs. |
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Banerjee,
Anjali. Maya
Running. New
York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2005. (ISBN 0385746563) |
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Maya, a Canadian of East Indian descent, struggles with her
ethnic identity, infatuation with a classmate, and the presence
of her beautiful Bengali cousin, Pinky, who comes for a visit
bearing a powerful statue of the god Ganesh, the Hindu elephant
boy. |
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Blackman,
Malorie. Noughts
and Crosses Trilogy. Corgi Children’s,
2002.
(ISBN 0552546321) |
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Two
young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking
look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society.
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class.
Callum is a Nought -- a “ colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves
to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that’ s
as far as it can go. In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don’ t
mix. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by
violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum -- a romance
that is to lead both of them into terrible danger. Can they possibly find a way
to be together?
In this gripping, stimulating and totally absorbing novel, black and white are
right and wrong. |
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Bruchac, Joseph. Skeleton Man. New
York: HarperCollins, 2001.(ISBN 0060290765) |
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After
her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of
a strange "great-uncle," Molly
must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety
and maybe even for her life. |
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Bruchac,
Joseph. The
Return of Skeleton Man. New
York: HarperCollins, 2006.
(ISBN 0060580909) |
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When
Molly and her parents attend a conference at Mohonk Mountain
House, Molly begins to fear that she is being watched by the
very man who kidnapped and tried to kill them all the previous
year. |
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Chan,
Da. Wandering
Warrior. Delacorte
Books for Young Readers, 2003. (ISBN 0385730209) |
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According to the sacred ancient scriptures, the future emperor
of China shall bear five black moles on the bottom of each foot.
Eleven-year-old Luka's mother is dead, and he doesn't know his
father, but his feet do bear the mark of the five black moles.
Luka's caretaker, a wise monk named Atami, is determined to keep
Luka alive so the prophecy can be fulfilled and to train Luka
in the ways of kung fu wandering warriors. But when Atami is
captured by the enemy, Luka must begin his own journey, using
what Atami has taught him, to become the warrior and leader he
is destined to be. |
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Divakaruni,
Chitra Banerjee. The
Conch Bearer. Roaring Brook Press, 2003. (ISBN 0761319352)
Book
1 of Series |
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In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him
on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home,
high in the Himalayan mountains. |
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Ellis,
Deborah. Parvana’s
Journey. Toronto:
Groundwood Books, 2002. (ISBN
0888995148) |
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After her father's death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old,
continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining
with two younger children who are also struggling to survive. |
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Farmer,
Jackie. The
Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. New York: Scholastic, Inc. (Orchard), 2004.
(ISBN 0439530644) |
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In 2194
in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped
and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives
use their special powers to search for them. The year is 2194,
and Tendai, his brother, and his sister ' the children of Zimbabwei₂s
chief of security, have escaped from their father's estate to explore
the dangerous city of Harare. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was
a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA
Notable Children' Book, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book, and received a
Golden Kite Award, and a Parents, Choice Award. It received starred
reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly and The Bulletin
of the Center for Children's Books. |
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George,
Jean Craighead. Julie
of the Wolves. New York: HarperCollins, 1972. (ISBN
0060219432)
Book 1 of Series |
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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. |
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Horowitz,
Anthony. Raven’s
Gate (The Gatekeepers). New York: Scholastic
Press, 2005.
(ISBN 0439679958) Book 1 of Series |
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village,
Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil
plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle. |
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Hunter,
Erin. Warriors:
Into the Wild. New
York: Avon, 2004 (Reprint Ed) (ISBN
0060525509)
Book 1 (of 6) |
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For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest.
When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a
house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior
of all. |
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| Park, Linda Sue. A
Single Shard. Clarion
Books, 2001. (ISBN 0395978270) |
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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. |
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Paterson,
Katherine. Bridge
to Terabithia. New
York: HarperCollins, 1977. (ISBN
0690013590) |
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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. |
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Pierce,
Tamora. Circle
of Magic: Sandry's Book. New York: Scholastic Paperbacks,
1999 (Reprint Ed).
(ISBN 0590554085) Book 1 in Series |
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Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined
temple community where they become friends while also learning
to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic. |
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| Sacher,
Louis. Holes. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1998. (ISBN 0374332657) |
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Stanley
Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too
surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys'
juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake
- it has been dry for over a hundred years - and it's hardly
a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day,
five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the
dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor
builds character, but she is really using the boys to dig for
loot buried by the Wild West outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow. The
story of Kissin' Kate, and of a curse put on Stanley's great-great-grandfather
by a one-legged gypsy, weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and
untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been
at work in the lives of the characters - and their forebears -
for generations. |
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Stone,
Jeff. The Five Ancestors: Tiger. Yearling,
2006. (ISBN 0375830723)
Book 1 in Series. |
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Five young warrior-monk brothers survive an insurrection and
must use the ancient arts to avenge their Grandmaster. |
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Yang,
Dori Jones. The Secret Voice of
Gina Zhang. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co.
Pubs, 2000.
(ISBN 1584852046) |
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When her extreme shyness makes her unable to speak at her
new American school, twelve-year-old Jinna, newly arrived from
China, retreats into her own fairy tale world. |
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Yolen,
Jane. The
Devil’s
Arithmetic. Viking
Juvenile, 1988. (ISBN 0670810274) |
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Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past
until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds
herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the
horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need
to remember the past. This critically acclaimed novel by award-winning
author Jane Yolen is now available in a beautifully designed
new edition. Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder
-- she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past.
But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the
prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the
year 1942, where she becomes caught up in the tragedy of the
time. |
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Yolen,
Jane. The Wizard of Washington
Square. Starscape, 2005 (Reprint Ed).
(ISBN 0765350165) |
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David and Leilah are delighted to meet the wizard who lives
in the park until he accidentally turns David's dog into a statue
and the statue is stolen. |
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