Darkness Under the Water

Author	Avi
ISBN	1416971025

The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno’s...

Author	Catherine Jinks
ISBN	0763636509

Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.

Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's...

Author	Deborah Noyes
ISBN	0763630004

In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries.

In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband,...

Author	Karen Hesse
ISBN	0786812095

As World War I rages in Europe, an influenza epidemic devastates Boston, forcing fourteen-year-old Hannah to leave home. Dangerously ill, she finds herself in Vermont, where a German man takes her in and nurses her back to health. Relying on her vision of an angel to help her find her way home, Hannah...

Author	Carolyn Meyer
ISBN	0152051163

Marie van Goethem, a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer in the famed Paris Opéra, has led a life of hardship and poverty. For her, dancing is the only joy to counter the pain inflicted by hunger, her mother's drinking, and her selfish older sister. But when famed artist Edgar Degas demands Marie's presence...

Author	Tracy Groot
ISBN	1414359470

2013 Christy Award winner!
Years of Nazi occupation have stolen much from Brigitte Durand. Family. Freedom. Hope for a future, especially for a woman with a past like hers. But that changes the day American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down over occupied France. Picked up by the Resistance,...

Author	Steve Watkins
ISBN	0763638390

In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...

Author

Carol Matas

"And she stomped purposely out of the room, muttering something about using all the power she could get and maybe asking Sayley if she'd like to join her in a little adventure.

Coren stared after her. Well, that was life with Lenora. Never dull.

He shrugged an apology to Fullbright and...

Author	David Calder
ISBN	0590630938

This was a really good book and I enjoyed it quite a bit. While the english can be hard to understand in some parts of the book it had a story that really keep in into the story. If there is a second book I wanna read it soon. The reason I choose to read this book is becuase I saw it on the book shelf and I mistook it...

Author	Paul Acampora
ISBN	0803730462

This is another mediocre YA novel dealing with the death of a parent. Dulcie's father died in a school janitorial accident and her mother's way to deal with this tragedy is to move across the country. Dulcie steals her late father's truck and goes back home, only to discover that there are worse fates than...

Author	Ron Koertge
ISBN	0763635804

Ron Koertge's spot-on repartee highlights the wry, poignant tale of a teen who is numbed by loss but finds an unusual route to reclaiming his life.

Listening to music 24/7. Hanging out with his slacker-stoner friend, Andy. Basically, Ryan's been sleepwalking through life since his younger...

Author	Betsy Franco
ISBN	0763648396

“The quality here is head and shoulders above most young writers’ collections, and in fact it’s well above many adult anthologies as well.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

The poets are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. They live...

Author	Beth Ain
ISBN	0763633968

In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...

Author	Donna Freitas
ISBN	0374360871

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...

Author	Will Peterson
ISBN	1406307092

This has been sitting in the library waiting for someone to get it out, so with a lack of takers it was me this school holiday. So glad I did too It's one of those gorgeous children's story's that I love - lots of description and observation so it's very visual and inviting. It had an old-worldy feel to it, mostly...

Author	David Fuller
ISBN	1401323316

The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything--punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life--to learn the truth concerning the murder...

Author	Chris Rettstatt
ISBN	0763635243

From a village made of hot-air balloons to a subterranean battle arena, two young people struggle to discover who and what they are — and how to use the astonishing powers they share.

High over China, twelve-year-old Mei arrives at the Sky Village, an intricate web of hot-air balloons floating...

Author	Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN	0807554960

The Boxcar Children titles encouraged me to read and, as an adult, I still enjoy reading them. This particular title has a perfect ingredient list:

Memory Recall
Awareness of Surroundings
Respect for Elders
Doing Good Deeds
Logic and Reasoning
Map Reading
Use...

Author

Ross Campbell

Hmm. The weird thing about Sophia Campbell is that she's totally white and her main characters always seem to be vaguely asian-looking, black punk rock girls. While I definitely like seeing some strong black female characters in comics, she does draw them in a ludicrously sexualized way. They all have...

Author	Tanya Landman
ISBN	0763636649

A young woman seeks to avenge her brother's death by becoming an Apache warrior — and learns a startling truth about her own identity.

After watching helplessly as Mexican raiders brutally murder her little brother, fourteen-year-old Siki is filled with a desire for vengeance and chooses...

Author	Inge Auerbacher
ISBN	0140364013

"I am a star : child of the Holocaust" was written by Inge Auerbacher. The purpose they had for this book was to inform you. It was written not only to tell you what the Holocaust was about but also to inform you on just one persons story during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very serious and horrible time....

Author	Gary Gygax
ISBN	1601250428

Gary Gygax, father of fantasy roleplaying and the co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, weaves a fantastic tale of warring wizards that spans the world from the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the mist-shrouded towns of medieval England. Someone is murdering the world's most powerful...

Author	Jon Scieszka
ISBN	0142400890

The Time Warp Trio is staying home for once, and Joe's got a perfect way to keep The Book from getting lost. But when the guys find themselves stuck on top of the half-finished Brooklyn Bridge, they realize that Joe's foolproof Book Tracker wasn't so foolproof after all. Now the guys have to make their way...

Author	Lisa Yee
ISBN	0545122767

Lisa Yee returns to her core strength in older middle-grade fiction and the characters that made her famous in this "Diary of a Wimpy Trekkie." Entering 7th grade is no big deal for Marley Sandelski: Same old boring classes, same old boring life. The only thing he has to look forward to is the upcoming Star...