Dusssie

Author	Shenaaz Nanji
ISBN	1932425934

A breathtaking account of one girl's determination to triumph over a devastating historical event. In Uganda in 1972, President Idi Amin, also known as the Last King of Scotland, announces that foreign Indians must be "weeded" out of Uganda in ninety days. Fifteen-year-old Sabine's life is changed...

Author	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
ISBN	0718823478

I am new to Zilpha Keatley Snyder with an odd, long name but see that she is award-winning through other novels. This 1974 one didn't need to be set in 1938 and doesn't feel like it is in 1938, thus I don't know the authoress' purpose but most of it felt relevant. A strong, sour exception was one teacher's attitude...

Author	Esther M. Friesner
ISBN	0142408484

Until she stumbled upon the Divine Relief Temp Agency, Ilana Newhouse was having a hard time finding a summer job. Apparently, a T-shirt that reads "Orc: The Other Green Meat" isn’t appropriate for an interview. But when she reports for her first day as a temp, Ilana discovers why Divine Relief isn’t...

Author	Elizabeth E. Wein
ISBN	0670062731

In The Lion Hunter, Telemakos, the half-British, half-Aksumite grandson of King Arthur, was sent for his safety to stay with one of Aksum's former enemies. When Abreha, ruler of Himyar, allegedly the boy's protector, catches him in the midst of what appears to be treachery, he sentences him to a fate...

Author	Clemence McLaren
ISBN	0689867050

Four women.
Four stories.
One man's journey.
Odysseus. His epic tale has been told countless times, but rarely is it heard through the voices of the women who loved and served him. Penelope, Circe, Athena, Eurycleia: Theirs are the silent voices, the voices of longing, waiting, strength....

Author	Stephanie Spinner
ISBN	0440238196

It was Artemis, goddess of the hunt and mistress of the wild, who rescued the abandoned baby Atalanta, sending a she-bear to nurse her and a band of hunters to raise her in safety. Now sixteen, Atalanta, famous archer and swiftest mortal alive, has devoted her life to the goddess.

When strangers...

Author

Kate Saunders

Now if I had encountered Kate Saunders' 2010 school story Beswitched as a child (in other words, if she had written this novel decades earlier when I was a child), I am almost one hundred percent certain that I would have simply and massively adored it, and that it would have received a glowing five star...

Author	Yona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN	0670012793

When Anna spots a cat in the yard behind her parents' doll shop, she is excited. Then she realizes the cat is about to have kittens--even better! And Anna has something else to look forward to: her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family. Anna already has two sisters, but she and Tania...

Author	Patrice Kindl
ISBN	0618394028

Last night I saw my sister, who is dead. She stood at the end of a long corridor, weeping. “Can it really be you, Ariadne, come back after all this time?” I whispered. She did not answer, but began slowly to sink through the floor.

Princess Xenodice is content to spend her days tending to the...

Author	Ann Halam
ISBN	1842552694

PERSEUS, THE GOD-TOUCHED son of Zeus and a mortal princess, takes his easy life on the island of Serifos for granted, but he knows he lives in troubled times. First the gods, now the politicians, send trouble rumbling across land and sea.
When a beautiful stranger, a fugitive from another disaster...

Author	Michael Cadnum
ISBN	0141306386

This is no glorious Technicolor romp with dashing men, a greedy, dastardly villain and courtly romance. It is so much more, and after reading you may suddenly feel that all the other portrayals of the Robin Hood mythos are lacking in details and depth.

This is the story of the Sheriff of Nottingham,...

Author	Mark Kneece
ISBN	0802797210

In a time not unlike our own, two women are among the last people left behind in New York City, struggling to survive as the thermometer reaches an unbearable 140°. Almost overnight, modern-day conveniences have become luxuries and humans are pushed to their limits. As the climate grows more hostile,...

Author	Ann M. Martin
ISBN	0590413082

What a bummer!

Summer is supposed to be the best time of the year. But this summer looks like a total loss to Kammy Whitlock. First, her Dad gets married again. Then his new wife Kate moves in, and Kammy has to put up with her two children. They won't leave Kammy alone! Three-year-old Muffin flushes...

Author	Jane Yolen
ISBN	0064408477

Odysseus believed the age of heroes was over. Then he and his friend, along with a spoiled princess named Helen and her cousin Penelope, are kidnapped by pirates!

Their journey leads them to Crete, where Odysseus must face the secret at the heart of the Labyrinth. There was a time when the Minotaur...

Author	Philip Caputo
ISBN	0689862318

It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From...

Author	Hilary McKay
ISBN	0340726946

Cheerful mayhem carries the day in this new middle-grade novel from the author of "The Exiles". Ten-year-old Robin Brogan's life takes a turn for the interesting when a new family with five children moves next door. And when Robin, who's terrified of dogs, finds a starving, abandoned dog on the beach,...

Author	Hilari Bell
ISBN	1416905960

"I'D LIKE YOU TO FIND THE SWORD FOR ME. DO YOU THINK YOU COULD HANDLE THAT?"

Arisa isn't certain how to respond when her mother, the Falcon, formerly a dangerous bandit but now lord commander of the army and navy of Deorthas, entrusts her with this extremely special mission.

Everything...

Author	Chris Abouzeid
ISBN	0525475834

Princess Anatopsis Solomon wants to be a knight-errant. But her mother, chairwoman of Amalgamated Witchcraft Corporation, plans for her immortal daughter to take over the family business. The Queen has even hired a new tutor: a demigod named Mr. Pound. But Mr. Pound’s plans go far beyond completing...

Author	Christopher Golden
ISBN	1599902516

Kara Foster is finally starting to fit in at her boarding school in Japan-after all, nothing bonds you with your classmates like having an ancient demon put a curse on you. Hoping life can go back to normal now that the monster has been laid to rest, Kara joins her friends Sakura and Miho in putting on a play...

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	1860461611

I sing the eagle.
"Bone of the Cloud. The Clashing Rock.
The Hard Darkness."
It hangs above the grave mound.
I sing, dreaming...

William Buckley was transported to Australia in 1801. He escaped and lived as an Aborigine for thirty-one years. In this visionary novel, Alan...

Author	Janet Ruth Young
ISBN	1416900403

when i am well

i will take you

At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And after that he just stopped. Stopped being Billy's father and his...