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Suspense/Horror Mystery Historical Fiction Fantasy
Science Fiction Realistic Fiction Humor Animal Stories
Survival/Adventure Multiculture School Stories Sports
Non-Fiction Biographies    

 

Suspense/Horror

Buffie, Margaret  The Warning

Bunting, Eve  Coffin on a Case

Crew, Gary  Strange Objects

Duncan, Lois  Don’t Look Behind You

Farmer, Penelope  Thicker Than Water

Ferguson, Alane  Overkill

Mahy, Margaret  Underruners

Nixon, Joan Lowry  A Candidate for Murder

Sleator, William  The Spirit House

Williams, Ted  Child of the Ancient City

 

 

Mystery

Hall, Lynn  The Tormentors

Kehret, Peg  Nightmare Mountain

Levy, Elizabeth  Cold As Ice

McGraw, Elois  Tangled Web

Murrow, Liza  The Ghost of Lost Island

Nixon, Joan Lowry  The Weekend was Murder

Patneaude, David  Someone was Watching

Petersen, P.J. Lairs

Roberts, Willow Davis  Scared Stiff

Thesman, Jean  An Appointment with a Stranger

 

Historical Fiction

Anderson, Laurie Halse  Fever 1793

Beatty, Patricia  Who Comes with Cannons

Choi, Sook   Year of the Impossible Goodbyes

Fleischman, Paul  Saturnalia

Hahn, Mary Downing  Stepping on the Cracks

Hotze, Sollace  Summer Ending

Lyons, Mary  Letters From a Slave Girl

Matas, Carol  Lisa’s War

Peck, Richard  The River Between Us

Yolen, Jane  The Devil’s Arithmetic

 

Fantasy

Alexander, Lloyd  The Iron Ring

Barron, T. A.  The Lost Years of Merlin

Bradshaw, Gillian  Beyond the North Wind

Chetwin, Grace  The Chimes of Alyafalyn

Downer, Ann  The Books of Keepers

Jacques, Brian  Redwall

Jones, Diana  Wynne   Castle in the Air

King-Smith, Dick  Ace: The Very Important Pig

Pierce, Tamora  Wild Magic: The Immortals

Wrede, Patricia  Dealing with Dragons

 

 

 

Science Fiction

Card, Orson Scott  Ender’s Game

Cooper, Susan  The Boggart

Farmer, Nancy The Ear, The Eye, The Arm

Hoover, H. M. Only Child

Hughes, Monica  Invitation to the Game

Klause, Annette  Alien Secrets

Lowry, Lois  The Giver

Rodda, Emily Finders Keepers

Sleator, William  The Duplicate

Stevermer, Caroline  River Rats

 

 

Realistic Fiction

Bloor, Edward  Tangerine

Cannon, A. E.  Amazing Gracie

Haddix, Margaret  Takeoffs and Landings

Henkes, Kevin  Olive’s Ocean

Hodge, Merle  For the Life of Laetitia

Miller, Mary  Me and My Name

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds The Agony of Alice

Riddle, Ruth  Ice Warrior

Salisbury, Graham  The Lord of the Deep

Williams, Vera  Scooter

 

Humor

Avi “Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?”

Bauer, Joan  Squashed

Byers, Betsy  Bingo Brown and the Language of Love

Crew, Linda  Nekomah Creek

Klise, Kate  Letters From Camp

Lowry, Lois  Anastasia Krupnik

Murrow, Liza  Allergic to my Family

Napoli, Donna Jo  The Prince of the Pond

Pearson, Gayle  One Potato, Tu:  Seven Stories

Sachar, Louis  Holes

 

Animal Stories

Calvert, Patricia  Bigger

Corcoran, Barbara  Wolf at the Door

Dicamillo, Kate  The Tale of Desperaux

Fleischman, Sid  Jim Ugly

Hoeye, Michael  Time Stops for No Mouse

Hoppe, Joanne  Pretty Penny Farm

Kindl, Patricia  Owl in Love

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds  Shiloh

Taylor, William  Agnes the Sheep

Wallace, Bill  Beauty

Survival/Adventure

Bauer, Marion  Face to Face

Cooney, Caroline B.  Flight #116 is Down

Fox, Paula  Monkey Island

George, Jean  On the Far Side of the Mountain

Hobbs, Will  Beardance

Masterson, David  Get Out of My Face

Mikaelsen, Ben  Rescue Josh McGuire

Paulsen, George  Hatchet

Taylor, Theodore  The Cay

Wallace, Bill  Red Dog

 

Multicultural

Barrie, Barbara  Lone Star

Cannon, A. E.  The Shadow Brothers

Conlon, McKenna, Marita  Wildflower Girl

Hesse, Karen  Letters From Rifka

Johnson, Tony  Any Small Goodness

Lehrman, Robert  The Store that Mama Built

Mayerson, Eve  The Cat Who Escaped from Steerage

Park, Linda Sue  A Single Shard

Roth-Hanno, Rene  Safe Harbor

Yep, Laurence  Dragon’s Gate

 

School Stories

Clements, Andrew  The Janitor’s Boy

Fenner, Carol  Randall’s Wall

Gantos, Jack  Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Koss, Amy  The Girls

Miklowitz, Gloria  The War Between the Classes

Mills, Claudia  Dinah for President

Pevsner, Stella The Night the Whole Class Slept Over

Rabe, Bernice  Tall Enough to Own the World

Robinson, Barbara  The Best School Year Ever

Spinelli, Jerry  Loser

 

Sports

Deuker, Carl  On the Devil’s Court

Dygard, Thomas  Second Stringer

Gault, William  The Karters

Gutman, Dan  The Million Dollar Kick

Ritter, John Choosing Up Sides

Shreve, Susa  The Goalie

Smith, Robert Kimmel  Bobby Baseball

Spinelli, Jerry There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock

Wolf, Virginia  Bat 6

Zirpoli, Jane  Roots in the Outfield

 

 

Non Fiction

Armstrong, Jennifer Shipwrecked at the Bottom of the World

Beil, Karen Magnuson  Fire in Their Eyes

Boyer, Sara Jane  Teen Power Politics

Curlee, Lynn  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Dyson, Marianne J.  Space Station Science

Flowers, Pam  Alone Across the Artic

Freedman, Russell  In the Days of the Vaqueros

Fritz, Jean  Leonardo’s Horse

Jackson, Donna M.  The Wildlife Detectives

Walker, Sally M.  Fossil Fish Found Alive

 

Biographies

Bridges, Ruby  Through My Eyes

Fleming, Candice  Ben Franklin’s Almanac

Gold, Alison Leslie  A Special Fate

Kehret, Peg  Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

Murphy, Jim  Pick & Shovel Poet

Myers, Walter Dean  The Greatest Muhammad Ali

Orgill, Roxane  Mahalia A Life in Gospel Music

Robinson, Sharon  Promises to Keep

Stanley, Diane  Good Queen Bess

Warren, Andrea  Orphan Train Rider