The View from the Cherry TreeMystery
0 A teenage boy named Rob is
sitting in the cherry tree
outside his bedroom window
when he spies his next door
neighbor being killed by a
mystery person. Rob tries to
tell his family and others
what has happened but they
are too wrapped up in the
details of Rob’s sister’s
wedding to listen or believe
him. Now Rob is left to solve
this mystery on his own.
The Egypt Game-Mystery
0 April Hall is the daughter of a
famous Hollywood actress. April
is sent to California to live with
her grandma. While there, April
makes friends with Melanie and
her little brother Marshal.
Melanie is obsessed with Ancient
Egypt and the three create an
imaginative game centered
around the Egyptian beliefs,
practices, and rituals. Everything
is going as planned until someone
murders a child in the area. Now
the kids cannot play outside. The
children think it is their fault that
someone has died, but is it?
The Watson’s Go to BirminghamHistorical Fiction
0 The Watsons are a family living
in Flint, Michigan in 1963. The
neighbors refer to them as “the
weird Watson” because of the
things the kids do. The oldest
son, Byron, is always in trouble,
so he is being sent to live with
Grandma Sands in
Birmingham, Alabama. While
living with grandma, someone
bombs her church and Byron
and his siblings are forced to
deal with racism for the first
time.
Catherine Called BirdyHistorical Fiction
0 Setting-a manor house in
England-1290. 14 year old
Catherine is strong-minded
and willful. She also the
daughter of Sir Rollo and
Lady Aislinn. Her father has
promised her in marriage to a
rich not but Birdy will have
no part of that. Instead of
acting lady-like for her future
husband, she pretends to be
vulgar and rude thus scaring
away he and other would be
suitors.
Invitation to the GameScience Fiction
0 After graduation in 2154, a
group of eight teenagers
try to find their way in
society. They are
homeless, unemployed,
and desperate for
something to do. One night
they are told about “the
game” and want to be
invited But, is the game too
good to be true?
Among the Hidden-Science
Fiction
0 Luke is the third child in his
family-the shadow child. The
futuristic government has
decided that in order to
control the population,
families can only have 2
children. If a family has a 3d
child, they hide the child from
the government. This works
for Luke’s family for a while
but he is eventually
discovered. What will happen
to Luke and his neighbor who
is also a shadow child?
The Duplicate
0 David finds a mysterious
machine on the beach that
can copy living things. He
thinks this machine is the
answer to all his problems
when he made a study date
with the cutest girl in
school on the same night
his family has planned a
trip to visit grandma. The
answer to his dilemma…
Duplicate himself but his
plan so takes a turn for the
worse.
Maniac Magee
0 Jeffery Maniac Magee lives
with his aunt and uncle who
do not get along. He can no
longer stand the fighting and
runs away to the town of Two
Mills where he meets four
people that impact his life as
much as he impacts theirs.
Maniac makes friends, but he
also makes many enemies
because of his lack of
knowledge about the
unspoken “rules”.
Wringer-Realistic Fiction
0 Palmer LeRue is dreading his
10th birthday because this is
the year he is eligible to
participate in Family Fest-it is
the annual pigeon shoot.
Palmer will be expected to
wring the necks of wounded
pigeons. He is horrified! His
parents are excited that
Palmer gets to participate this
year; now Palmer has a
problem. What will he choose
to do-make his family proud
or do what he things is right?
Taking Sides-Realistic Fiction
0 Lincoln Mendoza is brown, not
white. Nothing is going to change
that. Sure, these days he lives in
Sycamore, the mostly rich, mostly
white suburbs instead of the hardknocks barrio where he grew up.
But he’s still loyal to his friends
back at Franklin Junior High, and
he’s still loyal to his old basketball
team – even though now he shoots
hoops for Columbus.
0 But loyalty is not so easy when
Lincoln’s new team faces his old
team on the boards. Hwo can he
play his best against his best
friends? Yet how can he betray his
new teammates by not giving the
games everything he’s got?
Tracker – Realisitic Fiction
0 For John Borne’s family, hunting
has nothing to do with sport or
manliness. It’s a matter of
survival. Every fall John and his
grandfather go off into the
woods to shoot the deer that
puts meat on the table over the
long Minnesota winter.
0 But this year John’s grandfather
is dying, and John must hunt
alone. John tracks a doe for two
days, but as he closes in on his
prey, he realizes he cannot
shoot her. For John, the hunt is
no longer about killing, but
about life.
Summer of the MonkeysRealistic Fiction
0 Monkeys out in the middle of
nowhere staring at him!
0 A tree full of monkeys was the last
thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry
Lee thought he’d find on one of his
treks through Oklahoma’s
Cherokee Ozarks. Jay learns from
his grandfather that the monkeys
have escaped from a circus and
there is a big reward for anyone
who finds them. He knows how
much his family needs the money.
Jay is determined to catch the
monkeys. It’s a summer of thrills
and dangers no one will ever
forget.
Detectives in Togas - Mystery
0 In these two delightful history-
mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome
solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some
help from their cranky teacher, a little
bit of logic, and a lot of amusing
misadventure.
Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL
on his tablet at school, but no, he did
not break into the schoolroom, did not
tie up his teacher, and certainly did not
paint his slur about Caius on the
Temple of Minerva (even if it is in
Rufus's own handwriting). Rufus is
doomed unless his six classmates can
find out who is really responsible. Every
hour seems to bring a new, confusing
clue . . . until the boys finally stumble
upon someone who is not what he
appears to be.
0
The
Golden
Goblet-Mystery
Ranofer wants only one thing
in the world: to be a master
goldsmith like his beloved
father was. But how can he
when he is all but imprisoned
by his evil half brother, Gebu?
Ranofer knows the only way
he can escape Gebu’s abuse is
by changing his destiny. But
can a poor boy with no skills
survive on the cutthroat
streets of ancient Thebes?
0 Then Ranofer finds a
priceless golden goblet in
Gebu’s room and he knows
his luck – and his destiny –
are about to change…
Mary, Bloody Mary –
Historical Fiction
0 Mary Tudor is a beautiful young princess in a
grand palace filled with servants. She is
accustomed to sparkling jewels, beautiful
gowns, and lavish parties. Then, suddenly, she
is banished by her father, King Henry VIII, to
live in a cold, lonely place without money, new
clothes, or even her mother.
0 At first it seems like a terrible mistake. Even
when her father has a public and humiliating
affair with a bewitching woman, Mary remains
hopeful. But when he abandons her mother,
marries his mistress and has a child with her,
Mary begins to lose faith. And now, dressed in
rags, she is summoned back to the palace to be
a serving maid for her new baby stepsister.
0 Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII, is a
servant in her own home. Believe it or not, it’s
all true.
A Night to Remember – Historical Fiction
0 A minute-by-minute account as told by
survivors of the sinking of the unsinkable
Titanic. This remains the best telling of the
fascinating story that has riveted the public
for a century.
0 She was the world’s biggest-ever ship. A
luxurious miracle of twentieth-century
technology, the Titanic was equipped with
the most ingenious safety devices of the time.
Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the
“unsinkable” Titanic raced across the glassy
Atlantic of her maiden voyage, with only
twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. This
book is a the gut-wrenching, minute-byminute account of her fatal collision with an
iceberg and how the resulting tragedy
brought out the best and worst in human
nature. Some gave their lives for others,
some fought like animals for survival.
0 From the first distress flares to the struggles
of those left adrift for hours in freezing
waters, here is the legendary disaster relived
by the few who survived and can never
forget the many who did not.
The King’s Shadow –
Historical Fiction
0 Evyn, a young Welsh serf, has dreamed
all his life of becoming a storyteller. But
in a cruel twist of fate, Evyn and his
father suffer a brutal attack by a group
of murderous ruffians. Evyn's tongue is
cut off and his father is killed.
Orphaned and unable to speak, Evyn
assumes he is destined to a life of
slavery. But Evyn is resilient and
teaches himself to read and write. He is
then appointed the personal
companion to Earl Harold of Wessex,
who later becomes the King of England.
The two travel the countryside
together, forming a close father-son
bond. Evyn chronicles all of their
exciting journeys, which culminate at
the Battle of Hastings, where the future
of the country is decided.
A Wrinkle in Time - Fantasy
0 It was a dark and stormy
night. Out of this wild night, a
strange visitor comes to the
Murry house and beckons
Meg, her brother Charles
Wallace and their friend
Calvin O’Keefe on a most
dangerous and extraordinary
adventure – one that will
threaten their lives and our
universe.
Z for Zachariah – Science Fiction
0 Ann Burden is sixteen years old and
completely alone. The world as she
once knew it is gone, ravaged by a
nuclear war that has taken everyone
from her. For the past year, she has
lived in a remote valley with no
evidence of any other survivors.
0 But the smoke from a distant
campfire shatters Ann's solitude.
Someone else is still alive and
making his way toward the valley.
Who is this man? What does he
want? Can he be trusted? Both
excited and terrified, Ann soon
realizes there may be worse things
than being the last person on Earth.
The View from Saturday –
Realistic Fiction
0 How did Mrs. Olinski, returning to
teaching ten years after being
paralyzed in an automobile accident,
choose Noah, Nadia, Ethan and
Julain to be her sixth-grade
Academic Bowl team? And how did
this unlikely foursome become even
unlikelier champions, in far more
than just the state middle school
competition? This book is a rich
rewarding journey that answers
these questions and raises many
more.
Redwall-fantasy
0 War erupts in the Summer of the
Late Rose, shattering the peace
that had reigned in Mossflower
since the magnificent mouse,
martin the Warrior, laid down his
mighty sword generations
earlier. Now a dark cloud of
doom and despair hangs over the
ancient stone abbey of Redwall.
Cluny the Scourge-the one-eyed
embodiment of evil, the most
savage bilge rat that ever jumped
from the ship to shore-has
arrived with his rodent horde to
conquer…and to destroy.
The Westing Game-Mystery
0 Sixteen heirs who are mysteriously
chosen to live in the Sunset Towers
apartment building on the shore of
Lake Michigan, somewhere in
Wisconsin, come together to hear the
will of the self-made millionaire,
Samuel W. Westing. The will takes the
form of a puzzle, dividing the sixteen
heirs into eight pairs, giving each pair a
different set of clues which consist of
almost all of the lyrics from "America
The Beautiful", and challenging them to
solve the mystery of who murdered
Sam Westing. As an incentive, each heir
is given $10,000 to play the game.
Whoever solves the mystery will inherit
Sam Westing's $200 million dollar
fortune, and his company, Westing
Paper Products.