Nonfiction

Alexander, Caroline The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Armstrong, Jennifer Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

Calabro, Marian The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party

Clinton, Catherine I, Too, Sing America: African American Poetry (Poetry)

Freedman, Russell Give me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence

Gourley, Catherine Good Girl Work: Factories, Sweatshops, and How Women Changed Their Role …

Junger, Sebastian The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea

Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Lester, Julius From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

Nye, Naomi Shihab The Space between Our Footsteps (Poetry)

Schmidt, Thomas and Schmidt, Jeremy The Saga of Lewis & Clark: Into the Uncharted West

Turner, Ann Learning to Swim (Poetry)

Ung, Loung First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
 

Fantasy

Almond, David Skellig

Bach, Richard Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Barron, T. A. The Lost Years of Merlin

Calhoun, Dia Aria of the Sea

Calhoun, Dia Firegold

Clement-Davies, David Fire Bringer

Cooper, Susan The Boggart

Furlong, Monica Juniper

Furlong, Monica Wise Child

Jennings, Paul Undone! More Mad Endings

Jordan, Sherryl Secret Sacrament

Levine, Gail Carson Ella Enchanted

Morris, Gerald The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf

Nix, Garth Lirael

Pierce, Tamora Alanna: The First adventure

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Springer, Nancy I am Mordred
 
 

Science Fiction

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Christopher, John When the Tripods Came

Cooper, Susan King of Shadows (Time Travel)

Crichton, Michael Timeline (Time Travel)

Dickinson, Peter Eva

Farmer, Nancy The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Haddix, Margaret  Among the Hidden

Haddix, Margaret  Among the Imposters

Logue, Mary Dancing With an Alien

Lowry, Lois Gathering Blue

Pullman, Philip Golden Compass

Pullman, Philip The Subtle Knife

Pullman, Philp The Amber Spyglass
 
 
 

Homosexuality and Transgender

Bauer, Marion Dane, ed. Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence

Fox, Paula. Eagle Kite

Kerr, M.E. Deliver Us From Evie

Mastoon, Adam The Shared Heart

Nelson, Theresa Earthshine

Wersba, Barbara Whistle Me Home
 

Realistic Fiction

Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak (Rape)

Bauer, Joan Hope Was Here (Cancer)

Bauer, Joan Rules of the Road  (Alcoholism)

Bennett, Cherie Life in the Fat Lane (Eating Disorders)

Berg, Elizabeth Joy School (Love Stories)

Block, Francesca Lia Weetzie Bat (Friendship)

Bloor, Edward Tangerine (Physically Handicapped)

Blume, Judy Tiger Eyes (Death)

Brooks, Bruce All That Remains (Death)

Brooks, Bruce What Hearts (Remarriage/Stepfathers)

Cabot, Meg The Princess Diaries

Chevalier, Tracy Girl With a Pearl Earring (Netherlands)

Craven, Margaret I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Death/Native American)

Creech, Sharon Absolutely Normal Chaos (Love stories/Death)

Creech, Sharon Chasing Redbird (Death)

Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons (Death)

Crutcher, Chris Ironman (Anger Management)

Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk (Sports/Adoption)

Dessen, Sarah Dreamland (Dating Violence)

Farmer , Nancy A Girl Named Disaster (Survival/Adventure)

Fienberg, Anna Borrowed Light (Teenage Prgnancy/Abortion)

Flake, Sharon G. The Skin I'm In (African American)

Fleischman, Paul Seedfolks (Multicultural)

Fleischman, Paul Whirligig (Death/Foprgiveness)

Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (ADHD)

Haddix, Margaret Peterson Don't You Dare Read THis, Mrs. Dunphrey (Child Abuse)

Hamill, Pete Snow in August (Friendship/Baseball)

Haruf, Kent Plainsong (Teenage Pregnancy)

Hesser, Terry Spencer Kissing Doorknobs (Friendship/Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Hobbs, Will Far North (Survival)

Holt, Kimberley Willis When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Friendship)

Jimenez, Francisco Breaking Through (Mexican Americans/California)

Johnson, Angela Heaven (Adoption)

Kessler, Cristina No Condition Is Permanent (Friendship)

King, Stephen The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Divorce)

Konigsburg, E.L. Silent to the Bone (Friendship)

Lasky, Karen Memoirs of a Bookbat (Censorship)

Lawrence, Iain Ghost Boy (Self-Acceptance)

Lawrence, Iain The Wreckers (Survival)

Lynch, Chris Gold Dust (Baseball/Friendship/Racism)

Mazer, Norma Fox When She Was Good (Family Violence)

Moriarty, Jaclyn Feeling Sorry For Celia

Murphy, Rita Night Flying (Sisters/Mother and Daughters)

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Outrageously Alice (Single-Parent Family)

Nye, Naomi Shihab Habibi (Jerusalem)

Paulsen, Gary Brian’s Winter (Survival)

Paulsen, Gary The Schernoff Discoveries (Friendship/Humorous)

Peck, Richard The Last Safe Place on Earth (Censorship)

Peck, Richard A Long Way from Chicago

Peck, Richard Strays Like Us

Philbrick, Rodman Freak the Mighty (Physical Handicap/Learning Disability)

Rennison, Louise Angus, Thongs, and Frontal-snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising

Sachar, Louis Holes (Friendship)

Shusterman, Neal. Downsiders

Spinelli, Jerry Stargirl

Staples, Suzanne F. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind (Pakistan)

Wallace,Rich, Wrestling Sturbridge (Friendship/Wrestling)

Weaver, Will Hard Ball (Baseball)

Werlin, Nancy The Killer's Cousin (Murder/Family Problems)

Whelan, Gloria Homeless Bird (India)

Wolff, Virginia Euwer Make Lemonade (babysitting)

Yolen, Jane and Coville, Bruce Armageddon Summer (Cults)
 
 

Biography

Bridges,Ruby Through my eyes: The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges

Cary, Lorene Black Ice

Filipovic, Zlata Zlata s Diary

Fradin, Dennis Brindell Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Freedman, Russell Babe Didrikson Zaharias: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany

Freedman, Russell Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life

Lalicki, Tom Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini

Levine, Ellen Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews

Lobel, Anita No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War

Marrin, Albert Sitting Bull and His World

McKissack, Patricia Young, Black, and Determined: a Biography

Opdyke, Irene Gut In My Hands

Partridge, Elizabeth Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange

Paulsen, Gary The Beet Fields

Spinelli, Jerry Knots in My Yo-yo String
 
 
 
 
 

Historical Fiction

Bagdasarian, Adam Forgotten Fire (Armenians/Turkey 20th Century)

Cooney, Barbara The Ransom of Mercy Carter (Colonial Period)

Cormier Robert Heroes (World War II)

Curtis, Christopher Paul The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

Cushman, Karen Catherine, Called Birdy (Middle Ages)

Cushman, Karen The Midwife's Apprentice (Middle Ages)

Giff, Patricia Reilly Nory Ryan's Song (Ireland-History-Famine: 1845-1852)

Hardman, Ric Lynden Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western (late 1800's)

Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust (Depression 1929)

Isaacs, Anne Torn Thread (World War II)

Mazer, Norma Fox Good Night, Maman (World War II)

Paulsen, Gary Soldier's Heart (Civil War)

Rinaldi, Ann Acquaintance with Darkness (Civil War)

Sturtevant, Katherine At the Sign of the Star (London-History-18th Century)

Temple, Frances The Ramsay Scallop (Middle Ages)

Wolff, Virginia Euwer Bat 6 (World War II)
 
 
 
 
 

Mystery

Avi The Man Who Was Poe

Cross, Gillian Tightrope

Duncan, Lois The Twisted Window

Duncan, Lois Killing Mr. Griffin

Haddix, Margaret Peterson Running Out of Time

Hamilton, Virginia House of Dies Drear

Plum-Ucci, Carol The Body of Christopher Creed

Roberts, Willo Davis Twisted Summer
 
 
 
 

Horror Stories

Anderson, M.T. Thirsty

Duncan, Lois A Gift of Magic