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1 | TITLE | Author | # copies | Lexile | Year Published | Summary | Pages | Reading Level | Shelf Location | Availability | ||
2 | A Blizzard Year | Gretel Ehrlich | 10 | 890 | 5.9 | Wall | ||||||
3 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 11 | 860 | 1869 | Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole. | 426 | 7.1 | 114 | |||
4 | 3 Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, King | Shakespeare | 7 | 700-850 | 385 | YA | 155 | |||||
5 | Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | 6 | 1100 | 6.6 | Wall | ||||||
6 | Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Janet Gray | 34 | 1030 | 5.9 | Wall | ||||||
7 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 34 | 800 | 5.9 | Wall | ||||||
8 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 31 | 980 | 1875 | Tom Sawyer, his best friend Huck Finn, his would-be girlfriend Becky Thatcher, and his aunt Polly teach and learn about life, death, race and painting fences in a “typical” 19th century Midwestern town that bears a striking resemblance to Twain’s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. | 232 | 5.9 | 39 | |||
9 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 27 | 980 | 1875 | Tom Sawyer, his best friend Huck Finn, his would-be girlfriend Becky Thatcher, and his aunt Polly teach and learn about life, death, race and painting fences in a “typical” 19th century Midwestern town that bears a striking resemblance to Twain’s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. | 232 | 5.9 | 40 | |||
10 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 64 | 980 | AD | 220 | ||||||
11 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 22 | 980 | 5.9 | Wall | ||||||
12 | Adventures of Ulysses | Bernard Evslin | 8 | 860 | 1969 | In their ten-year siege of Troy, the Greeks claim victory thanks to the cunning wit of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, who devised the infamous Trojan Horse. Now, with the epic war finally finished, Ulysses sets sail for home—but his journey will be long and arduous. Having angered Poseidon, god of the sea, Ulysses and his men are thrown off course by a raging storm and forced to wander the perilous world for another ten years. | 178 | 6 | 130 A | |||
13 | Alice in Wonder Land | Lewis Carroll | 18 | 980 | 5.9 | Wall | ||||||
14 | Alien Spring | Anne Schraff | 7 | 510 | 4.2 | Wall | ||||||
15 | Alien Visitors and Abductions - NON | Brian Innes | 35 | 1999 | Presents reports of people who claim to have had alien encounters, noting their similarities to one another, and suggests that this phenomenon may be a "modern myth". | 47 | 110 | |||||
16 | Amazing But True Sports Stories | Phyllis Hollander | 10 | 1120 | 6.1 | Wall | ||||||
17 | Among the Hidden | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 52 | 800 | 1998 | In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another third convinces him that the government is wrong. | 153 | 197 | ||||
18 | Animal Dazzlers -NON | Sneed B. Collard III | 7 | 1040 | 6.8 | Wall | ||||||
19 | Anne Frank Beyond the Diary - NON | Ruud van der Rol | 36 | 1030 | 1997 | Anne Frank lived a life filled with the enthusiasms and hopes shared by many young women coming into adulthood. But the times Anne lived in and wrote of in her diary made her simple life extraordinary. In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings to life the harrowing story of one young Jewish woman's struggle to survive during a period of history which must never be forgotten. | 118 | 6.4 | 109 | |||
20 | Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 30 | 1080 | 1947 | 283 | YA/6.5 | 51 | ||||
21 | Anne of Green Gables | L.M.Montgomery | 46 | 760 | 1908 | recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town. | 373 | 5.9 | 201 | |||
22 | Anno's Hat Tricks | Akihiro Nozaki | 14 | 430 | 1984 | Three children, Tom, Hannah, and Shadowchild, who represents the reader, are made to guess, using the concept of binary logic, the color of the hats on their heads. An introduction to logical thinking and mathematical problem-solving. | 41 | 3 | 142 | |||
23 | Apollo 13 | Dina Anastasio | 3 | 570 | 1995 | A children's novelization of a film starring Tom Hanks. In the 13th minute of the 13th hour of the 13th day, the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon is doing well - until it hits disaster. The three astronauts now face the grim possibility that they might never return to Earth. | 93 | 5 | ||||
24 | Ark | Ben Jeapes | 7 | 820 | 6.9 | Wall | ||||||
25 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | 16 | 1070 | 8.5 | Wall | ||||||
26 | Art Riddle Contest | Angela Medearis | 13 | 5.9 | Wall | |||||||
27 | Atalanta's Race: A Greek Myth | Shirley Cimo | 12 | 520 | 1997 | In ancient Greece, the gods control every life, from peasant to King. When newborn Princess Atalanta is left to die on a mountainside because her father wanted a son, the gods send a bear to care for her. Adopted by a woodsman, she grows into a great hunter and athlete, and is eventually reunited with her father, the King. But as she gets older, Atalanta has no use for the gods and gives them no credit. When she must run the most important race of her life, on which her future happiness rides, the gods intercede once more--and Atalanta learns they will not be ignored forever. | 35 | 4.8 | 136 | |||
28 | Awkward | Svetlana Chmakova | Graphic Novel % | 210 | 2015 | After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member. | 224 | 251 | ||||
29 | Back to Paul Revere | Beatrice Gormley | 12 | 750 | 4.8 | Wall | ||||||
30 | Back to the Day Lincoln Was Shot | Beatrice Gormley | 8 | 740 | 4.8 | Wall | ||||||
31 | Back to the Titanic | Beatrice Gormley | 10 | 710 | 4.8 | Wall | ||||||
32 | Banner in the Sky | James Ramsey Ullman | 6 | 680 | 5.1 | Wall | ||||||
33 | Bard of Avon: William Shakespeare | Diane Staley | 6 | 1030 | 1997 | Nobody knows exactly when or why William Shakespeare left his boyhood home of Stratford-on-Avon for the great city of London, but it didn't take long for him to make a name for himself. His plays are now performed almost every day in just about every part of the world; even people who've never seen them use words and phrases he introduced into the English language. How did a man from an unremarkable family create a legacy that the world, even 400 years after his death, has never forgotten? | 53 | 5.7 | 135 | |||
34 | Baseball in April | Gary Soto | 6 | 830 | 5.8 | Wall | ||||||
35 | Bat 6 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | 29 & Teach | 930 | 4.8 | Wall | ||||||
36 | Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days | Stephen Manes | 9 | 720 | 1996 | Milo Crinkley thought so. What gave him the idea was a book that fell on his head one day at the library--a book with the impressive title Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! The author, Dr. K. Pinkerton Silverfish, did look kind of weird, but he claimed to be the world's leading authority on perfection.Milo took the book home and followed its instructions. He liked the idea of being perfect. Perfect people never had their parents nag at them. Perfect people never had to take the blame for rotten tricks their sisters played. Perfect people never needed erasers. Perfect was obviously the perfect thing to be! Did Milo become a perfect person in just three days? More important, can you? | 76 | 4.5 | 59 | |||
37 | Bear Called Paddington | Michael Bond | 9 | 750 | 5.7 | Wall | ||||||
38 | Beat the Story-Drum Pum-Pum | Ashley Bryan | 56 | 610 | 5.5 | Wall | ||||||
39 | Beetles Lightly Toasted | Phyllis Naylor | 35 | 950 | 5.2 | Wall | ||||||
40 | Behind the Bedroom Wall | Laura E. Williams | 8 | 660 | 4.8 | Wall | ||||||
41 | Behind the Secret Window | Nelly S Toll | 116 | 910 | For thirteen months during World War II, Nelly Toll and her mother were hidden from the Nazis in the small bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Just eight years old when she went into hiding in 1943, Nelly began keeping the diary that would inspire this powerful and moving memoir of her childhood. | 161 | 192 | |||||
42 | Best Town in the World | Byrd Baylor | 43 | 920 | 3.4 | Wall | ||||||
43 | Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade | Bill Wallace | 7 | 660 | 5.5 | Wall | ||||||
44 | Birchbark House | Louise Erdrich | 46 | 970 | 4.9 | Wall | ||||||
45 | Black Eagles | Jim Haskins | 10 | 1160 | 5.9 | Wall | ||||||
46 | Blood is Thicker- Bluford High Series | Paul Langan | 28 | 730 | 2004 | This sequel to Until We Meet Again follows the story of Hakeem Randall after his move to Detroit. Far from Bluford High, Hakeem quickly finds himself in a world of trouble, and his family is at the center of it. To complicate matters, a new girl hopes to make him forget Darcy forever. | 156 | 5.2 | 178 | |||
47 | Blue Door | Ann Rinaldi | 8 | 580 | 1996 | Amanda Videau had no idea what adventures she'd find on the journey North. But she never expected this… After witnessing a crime, she goes into hiding, disguising herself as a worker in her great-grandfather's textile mill. For the first time in her life, Amanda must work to survive. And that means experiencing the horrible working conditions of the mill firsthand. | 272 | 7 | 143 | |||
48 | Blue Willow | Doris Gates | 17 | 720 | 6.4 | Wall | ||||||
50 | Book of Plays | ****** | 30 & Teach | 7.9 | Wall | |||||||
51 | Born Too Short | Dan Elish | 8 | 630 | 4.7 | 225 | ||||||
52 | Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner | 21 | 490 | 1953 | The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather. | 154 | 2.1 | 30 | |||
53 | Boy Called Slow | Joseph Bruchac | 6 | 690 | 4.3 | Wall | ||||||
54 | Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne | 32 | 1000 | 2007 | Gr. 7-10. Some of the most thought-provoking Holocaust books are about bystanders, including those who say they did not know what was happening. This first novel tells the bystander story from the viewpoint of an innocent child. Bruno is nine when his family moves from their luxurious Berlin home to the country, where "the Fury"has appointed Bruno's father commandant. Lost and lonely, the child hates the upheaval, while his stern but kind father celebrates his success because he has learned to follow orders. Bruno can see a concentration camp in the distance, but he has no idea what is going on, even when he eventually meets and makes friends with Shmuel, a boy from Cracow, who lives on the other side of the camp fence. The boys meet every day. They even discover that they have the same birthday. It's all part of a poignant construct: Shmuel is Bruno's alternative self, and as the story builds to a horrifying climax, the innocent's experience brings home the unimaginable horror. Pair this with Anne Frank's classic diary and Anita Lobel's No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (1998) | 215 | 8.3 | 193 | |||
55 | Boy Trap | Nancy Matson | 18 | 670 | 5.4 | Wall | ||||||
56 | Boy Who Dared, The | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | 25 | 760 | 2008 | Novel based on the true story of a Hitler Youth.;Includes bibliographical references (page 199-202). In October 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. | 202 | 3.8 | 203 | |||
57 | Boy Who Saved Baseball, The | John H. Ritter | 33 | 660 | 2004 | Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to mention the secrets of Dante Del Gato, Dillontown's greatest hitter ever. Since he walked away from the game years ago, Del Gato hasn't spoken a word to anyone. But now he might be Tom's only hope for saving his hometown. | 216 | 6.5 | 94 | |||
58 | Brain, The | Seymour Simon | 3 | 900 | 5.5 | Wall | ||||||
59 | Breadwinner | Deborah Ellis | 32 | 630 | 2000 | Conscious of the strict limitations imposed by the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to earn money so that her family can survive after her father's arrest. | 146 | 5.5 | 205 | |||
60 | Breaking Through | Francisco Jimenez | 5 | 750 | 5.5 | Wall | ||||||
61 | Brian's Winter | Gary Paulsen | 7 | 1140 | 1996 | Brian's Winterbegins where Hatchet might have ended: Brian is not rescued, but must build on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy--a northern winter. | 133 | 6.2 | 154 A | |||
62 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | 30 | 810 | 1972 | Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief. | 128 | 6 | 145 | |||
63 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | 17 | 810 | 1972 | Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief. | 128 | 6 | 146 | |||
64 | Broken Days | Ann Rinaldi | 13 | 550 | 1995 | When her mother died, she told 14-year-old Walking Breeze to seek out her family-the Chelmsfords of Salem. She will find solace there.But Ebie Chelmsford has other ideas. Ebie knows that her half-Shawnee "cousin" will take her place as grandfather's favorite. And Ebie will do anything to stop that--even trying to prove that the girl is an imposter...Ebie thinks Walking Breeze is destroying the home Aunt Hannah has fought to keep together. But it's Ebie's actions, ultimately, that risk tearing apart the Chelmsford family, like the tattered threads of the family quilt. | 270 | 7 | 44 | |||
65 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | 24 | 950 | 1999 | "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." | 243 | 5.6 | 53 | |||
66 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | 25 | 950 | "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." | 5.6 | 54 | |||||
67 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | 26 | 950 | 1999 | "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." | 243 | 5.6 | 53 A | |||
68 | Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt | Jean Fritz | 11 | 980 | 6.8 | Wall | ||||||
69 | Bunnicula | James Howe | 18 | 700 | 1979 | BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits...and fangs! | 98 | 4.9 | 33 | |||
70 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry | 15 | 830 | 5.8 | Wall | ||||||
71 | Call of the Wild | Jack London | 85 plus map | 790 | 1903 | The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts as well as students and devotees of American literature will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience. | 122 | 5.9 | 125 | |||
72 | Call of the Wild | Jack London | 59 | 1903 | a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts as well as students and devotees of American literature will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience. | 80 | 7.3 | 149 | ||||
73 | Call of the Wild | Jack London | 117 | ****** | 243 | |||||||
74 | Can't You Make Them Behave King | Jean Fritz | 11 | 800 | 1977 | This entertaining volume sheds light on the life of England's King George III. It begins when he was a bashful boy who blushed easily, goes on to his early days as king, and finally examines his role in the American Revolution - when Americans ceased to think of him as good King George. Fascinating history made accessible for young readers. | 47 | 4.6 | 93 | |||
75 | Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | 31 | 850 | 1897 | At the start of Captains Courageous, one of literature's most beloved stories of the sea, a spoiled rich boy is literally swept away — dashed overboard from an ocean liner. Luckily, young Harvey Cheyne is rescued by a passing fishing vessel. As it turns out, Harvey's apparent misfortune in tumbling from a life of pampered luxury into the humble company of a fishing schooner becomes a blessing in disguise. Compelled by the captain to earn his keep, Harvey loses his affectations as he learns the rewards of an honest day's labor amid the gruff and hearty companionship of the crewmen, who teach him to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. | 6.9 | 9 | ||||
76 | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham | 23 | 570 | 4.1 | 224 | ||||||
77 | Carver | Ruth Yaffe Radin | 40 | 600 | ****** | Wall | ||||||
78 | Casey's Code | Gail Blasser Riley | 8 | 3.7 | Wall | |||||||
79 | Catwing's | Ursula K. Le Guin | 24 | 700 | 4.3 | Wall | ||||||
80 | Cay | Therodore Taylor | 27 & Teach | 860 | 6.3 | Wall | ||||||
81 | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | 4 | Wall | ||||||||
82 | Childtimes | Eloise Greenfield | 11 | 1000 | 5.6 | Wall | ||||||
83 | Chocolate Fever | Kimmel Smith | 7 | 680 | 1972 | Henry Green is a boy who loves chocolate. He likes it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and every other form you can possibly imagine. Henry probably loves chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world. One day-it starts off like any other day-Henry finds that strange things are happening to him. First he makes medical history with the only case of Chocolate Fever ever. Then he finds himself caught up in a wild and hilarious chase, climaxed by a very unusual hijacking! | 93 | 4.7 | 144 | |||
84 | Chocolate Touch | Patrick Skene Catling | 8 | 770 | 1952 | In a laugh-out-loud hilarious twist on the legend of King Midas, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate. Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out…. | 87 | 4.5 | 121 | |||
85 | Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 34 | 890 | 1843 | A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. | 116 | 5.5 | 124 | |||
86 | Christopher Columbus - Bio | Jim Haskins | 28 | 1990 | biography | 138 | 5.3 | 148 | ||||
87 | Circle of Gold | Candy Dawson Boyd | 11 | 610 | 5.1 | Wall | ||||||
88 | Circuit | Francisco Jimenez | 19 | 5.5 | Wall | |||||||
89 | Clockwork | Philip Pullman | 4 | 900 | 1996 | Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ...A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil ...Wind up these characters, fit them into a story on a cold winter's evening, with the snow swirling down, and suddenly life and the story begin to merge in a peculiarly macabre - and unstoppable - way. Almost like clockwork ... | 109 | 6 | 152 | |||
90 | Come All You Brave Soldiers | Clinton Cox | 7 | 1270 | 2002 | Tells the story of the thousands of black men who served as soldiers fighting for independence from England during the American Revolutionary War. | 176 | 6.1 | 87 | |||
91 | Copper Sun- YA | Sharon Draper | 35 | 820 | 2008 | The story begins in Amari's Ashanti village, but the idyllic scene explodes in bloodshed when slavers arrive and murder her family. Amari and her beloved, Besa, are shackled, and so begins the account of impossible horrors from the slave fort, the Middle Passage, and auction on American shores, where a rice plantation owner buys Amari for his 16-year-old son's sexual enjoyment. In brutal specifics, Draper shows the inhumanity: Amari is systematically raped on the slave ship and on the plantation and a slave child is used as alligator bait by white teenagers. And she adds to the complex history in alternating chapters that flip between Amari and Polly, an indentured white servant on Amari's plantation. A few plot elements, such as Amari's chance meeting with Besa, are contrived. But Draper builds the explosive tension to the last chapter, and the sheer power of the story, balanced between the overwhelmingly brutal facts of slavery and Amari's ferocious survivor's spirit, will leave readers breathless, even as they consider the story's larger questions about the infinite costs of slavery and how to reconcile history. A moving author's note discusses the real places and events on which the story is based. | 314 | YA/4.8 | 195 | |||
92 | Cousins | Virginia Hamilton | 31 | 550 | 5.5 | Wall | ||||||
93 | Crash | Jerry Spinelli | 13 | 560 | 4.8 | Wall | ||||||
94 | Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | 6 | 780 | 5.5 | 64 | ||||||
95 | Crusader | Edward Bloor | 5 | 510 | YA | Wall | ||||||
96 | Cybil War | Betsy Byars | 34 | 730 | 1981 | Simon is in fifth grade, and every time he sees Cybil Ackerman, his heart pounds. Falling in love with her was easy, but winning her is not. Simon's best friend, Tony, is also swooning over Cybil, and he'll stop at nothing to ruin Simon's chances of impressing her. When Simon realizes what Tony is up to, the war is on... but only Cybil can decide the outcome. Who will be the lucky winner of Cybil's heart? | 126 | 4.2 | 104 | |||
97 | Cybil War | Betsy Byars | 36 | 730 | 1981 | Simon is in fifth grade, and every time he sees Cybil Ackerman, his heart pounds. Falling in love with her was easy, but winning her is not. Simon's best friend, Tony, is also swooning over Cybil, and he'll stop at nothing to ruin Simon's chances of impressing her. When Simon realizes what Tony is up to, the war is on... but only Cybil can decide the outcome. Who will be the lucky winner of Cybil's heart? | 126 | 4.2 | 105 | |||
98 | Darkness Before Dawn- YA | Sharon Draper | 30 | 670 | 2001 | In her senior year, things are finally looking a little brighter for Keisha. Still haunted by the suicide of her ex-boyfriend, Andy, she finds comfort in the attentions of the new track coach, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Hathaway, the principal’s son. How can Keisha not be swept off her feet by a tall, dark, handsome “lemon drop wrapped in licorice” who treats her like a woman, not a girl? But suddenly this intoxicating relationship takes a frightening turn, and Keisha is once again plunged into the darkness she’s fought so hard to escape. Will Keisha ever be able to find her way back into the light? | 276 | YA/6.1 | 187 | |||
99 | Dear Levi | Elvira Woodruff | 5 | 1010 | 4.9 | Wall | ||||||
100 | Defenders | Ann McGovern | 22 | 820 | 5.5 | Wall | ||||||
101 | Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | 35 | 730 | 2004 | Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. | 170 | 5.2 | 194 |