Here I am again, since I had a multitude of requests for this list to be sent out.
The solution I'm trying this time is sending the list in pieces. Thanks for your
patience.
Heather Purcell, LMS
Tracyton Elementary
Bremerton, WA 98310
heatherapurcell@comcast.net
ALABAMA
_____ 230705 Collier, Kristi JERICHO WALLS $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 9 –
15 AR RL: 3.90 In 1957, When her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho,
Alabama, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her
to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.
_____ 591347 Lyon, George Ella SONNY’S HOUSE OF SPIES $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 11 – 14 In a small Alabama town in 1947 – 1956, Sonny searches for answers
about his father’s disappearance, “Uncle Marty,” and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
_____ 628171 McKissack, Pat RUN AWAY HOME $15.57 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 4.90 In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African-American girl and
her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
_____ 759270 Robinet, Harriette WALKING TO THE BUS-RIDER BLUES $16.30 Pub. Yr:
2000 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.10 Alfa, his sister, and their grandmother
struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the
Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
ALASKA
_____124288 Blake, Robert J. AKIAK: A TALE FROM THE IDITAROD $16.99 Pub. Yr:
1997 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 3.30 Akiak, the sled dog, refuses to give up after
being injured during the Iditarod sled dog race.
_____124336 Blake, Robert J. TOGO $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL:
3.80 In 1925, Togo, a Siberian Husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that
rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
_____129635 Bodett, Tom WILLIWAW! $16.30 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL:
5.70 In their father’s absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger
brother, Ivan, disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where
they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
_____ 244336 Cosgrove, Stephen GNOME FROM NOME $9.45 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 5
– 9 AR RL: 4.60 A gnome in Alaska desperately tries to find a way to get warm from
the inside out.
_____ 444665 Hill, Kirkpatrick MINUK: ASHES IN THE PATHWAY $10.63 Pub. Yr: 2002
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.10 Twelve-year-old Minuk’s traditional Eskimo way of
life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries.
_____ 445085 Hill, Kirkpatrick YEAR OF MISS AGNES $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.50 Ten-year-old Fred, short for Frederika, narrates the
story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when
Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.
_____ 449058 Hobbs, Will DOWN THE YUKON $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 16
AR RL: 5.40 In the wake of Dawson City’s Great Fire of 1899, Jason and his
girlfriend, Jamie, canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from
Canada’s Klondike to Cap Nome.
z_____ 449052 Hobbs, Will LEAVING PROTECTION $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 10
– 14 AR RL: 5.20 Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels discovers that the mysterious
captain of a fishing troller he is working aboard off southeastern Alaska is
searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the
Northwest.
_____ 449057 Hobbs, Will WILD MAN ISLAND $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 16
AR RL: 5.10 After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to
visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father’s death, a storm strands him
on Admiralty Island, Alaska.
_____ 642585 Mikaelsen, Ben TOUGHING SPIRIT BEAR $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
10 – 16 AR RL: 5.30 After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid
going to prison, agrees to go to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a
huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
_____ 658230 Morey, Walt GENTLE BEN $16.29 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR
RL: 4.80 Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan
Territory.
_____ 658319 Morey, Walt KAVIK THE WOLF DOG $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 10
-14 AR RL: 4.90 The adventures of Kavik, a wolf dog, trained by his master to
drive a team in the Alaskan North American dog sled race.
_____ 665012 Murphy, Claire Rudolf FREE RADICAL $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
12 – 18 AR RL: 4.40 In Fairbanks, Alaska, in the middle of the summer Little
League baseball season, fifteen-year-old Luke is stunned when his mother confesses
that she is wanted by the FBI for her role in the death of a student during an
anti-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.
_____ 665062 Murphy Claire Rudolf GOLD RUSH WINTER $9.05 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 7 – 8 Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live
with Klondy’s father, a gold miner who left when she was just a baby. Based on
events in the life of Klondy Nelson.
_____ 823621 Skurzynski, Gloria BURIED ALIVE $10.03 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 4.80 Jack, Ashley, and their foster brother are stranded when there is
an avalanche.
_____ 921100 Warner, Gertrude Chandler MYSTERY OF THE BLACK RAVEN $14.87 Pub.
Yr: 1999 Age Range: 7 – 12 AR RL: 4.10 The Aldens investigate a mystery involving
a mining expedition to Alaska.
ARIZONA
_____ 043614 Adler, C.S. NO PLACE CAT $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR
RL: 4.30 Tired of the strict rules and annoying children at her father and
stepmother’s house, twelve-year-old Tess walks across Tucson to her mother’s condo,
stopping for the night at a state park where she is adopted by a very special cat.
_____ 776828 Sandin, Joan COYOTE SCHOOL NEWS $17.67 Pub.Yr: 2003 Age Range: 6 –
10 AR RL: 4.50 In 1938-1939, fourth-grader Monchi Ramfrez and the other students
at Coyote School enjoy their new teacher, have a special Christmas celebration,
participate in the Tucson Rodeo Parade, and produce their own school newspaper.
_____ 921066 Warner, Gertrude Chandler MYSTERY OF THE LOST MINE $14.87 Pub. Yr:
1996 Age Range: 7 – 12 AR RL: 3.50 On a camping trip to Arizona with their
grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
ARKANSAS
_____ 399665 Greene, Bette I’VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN YOUR NAME, PHILIP HALL! $16.29
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.70 Beth Lambert, a teenaged girl,
experiences the ups and downs of friendship with members of the Pretty Penny Club
and best friend Philip Hall.
CALIFORNIA
_____ 054459 Alphin, Elaine Marie PICTURE PERFECT $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 12 – 16 AR RL: 5.10 A gap in his memory the afternoon that his best friend
disappears has a fifteen-year-old wondering about his own role in the mystery, and
who he can turn to for help.
_____ 171810 Bunting, Eve SMOKY NIGHT $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1994 Age Range: 5 – 8 AR
RL: 2.40 When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their
neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the value of getting along with
others.
_____ 211978 Choldenko, Gennifer AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 3.50 A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz
Island in 1935 and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in
addition to life with his autistic sister.
_____ 254067 Cushman, Karen BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE $15.60 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.80 In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught when her
mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where
Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying
to find a way to get “home.”
_____ 261675 Davis, Sharon ADVENTURES OF CAPITOL KITTY: AN ALMOST TRUE STORY
$15.57 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 5 – 7 Capitol Kitty leads Scare D Cat inside the
California State Capitol, where the two get a cats-eye view of government.
_____ 293455 Duey, Kathleen ANISETT LUNDBERG: CALIFORNIA, 1851 $9.55 Pub. Yr:
1996 Age Range: 8 – 12, AR RL: 5.00 The small piece of gold which Anisett carries
in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the
California gold camps.
_____ 340438 Fleischman, Sid BANDIT’S MOON $15.57 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 4.20 Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin
Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the
mid-1880s.
_____ 340490 Fleischman, Sid BY THE GREAT HORN SPOON! $9.75 Pub. Yr: 1963 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.10 Jack and his aunt’s butler, Praiseworthy, stow away on a
ship bound for California during the Gold Rush of “49.”
_____ 341592 Fletcher, Susan WALK ACROSS THE SEA $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
10 – 14 AR RL: 4.30 In late nineteenth-century when Chinese immigrants are being
driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, Eliza Jane
defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who
has been kind to her.
_____ 355085 Freeman, Martha SPY WORE SHADES $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 4.90 Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California’s Calaveras County,
teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in
underground caves, and tries to help her people.
_____ 367941 Garland, Sherry VALLEY OF THE MOON: THE DIARY OF MARIA ROSALIA DE
MILAGROS $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 6.20 The 1845 – 1846 diary
of the thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took
her in when her Indian mother died.
_____ 370709 Gates, Doris BLUE WILLOW $9.93 Pub. Yr: 1968 Age Range: 9 – 12 AR
RL: 6.50 Moving around in the southwestern part of the United States, the Larkin
family finally settles down in a place they can call home.
_____ 491800 Jimenez, Francisco BREAKING THROUGH $10.53 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
10 – 14 AR RL: 5.30 Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago,
fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve
his life and complete his education.
_____ 491810 Jimenez, Francisco CIRCUIT: STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF A MIGRANT CHILD
$15.60 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 5.30 A collection of stories about
life in a migrant farm family.
_____ 497225 Johnston, Tony ANY SMALL GOODNESS: A NOVEL OF THE BARRIO $16.97 Pub.
Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 4.10 Arturo and his family and friends share all
kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles.
_____ 530149 Koss, Amy Goldman KAILEY $10.18 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR
RL: 4.60 Kailey launches a protest to keep a developer from spoiling the cove and
its tide pools that are special to her family and friends.
_____ 652287 Montes, Marisa CIRCLE OF TIME $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10
–14 AR RL: 4.60 In 1996, a fourteen-year-old girl in a coma is forced back in time
by a girl who died in 1906, and who needs help in righting a series of terrible
wrongs.
_____ 670428 Nelson, Theresa RUBY ELECTRIC: A NOVEL $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 10 –12 AR RL: 4.40 Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller tries to resolve the
mysteries surrounding her little brother’s stuffed woolly mammoth and their
father’s five-year absence.
_____ 693409 Osborne, Mary Pope EARTHQUAKE IN THE EARLY MORNING $8.85 Pub. Yr:
2001 Age Range: 5 – 8 AR RL: 3.30 The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San
Francisco, in time to experience a big earthquake.
_____ 709455 Perez, L. King FIRST DAY IN GRAPES $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
6 – 10 AR RL: 3.20 When Chico starts the third grade, he finds that self
confidence and math skills help him cope with the first day of school.
_____ 724194 Politi, Leo SONG OF THE SWALLOWS $10.55 Pub. Yr: 1987 Age Range: 4
– 8 AR RL: 4.60 Relates the story of the annual return of the swallows to the
mission of San Juan Capistrano in California.
_____ 757165 Ritter, John H. BOY WHO SAVED BASEBALL $17.69 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.40 The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome
of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the
secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
_____ 758600 Roberts, Willo Davis UNDERCURRENTS $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
8 – 12 AR RL: 5.20 Fourteen-year-old Nikki has trouble accepting her new
stepmother, Crystal, and the problem grows worse when they visit the northern
California house where Crystal lived as a child and experienced a horrible event
that she is trying to keep secret.
_____ 773724 Ryan, Pam Munoz ESPERANZA RISING $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9
– 14 AR RL: 5.30 Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth
in Mexico to work in the labor camps of California.
_____ 773766 Ryan, Pam Munoz RIDING FREEDOM $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 7 –
11 AR RL: 4.50 A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran
away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by
her appearance.
_____ 832900 Snyder, Zilpha Keatley CAT RUNNING $9.80 Pub. Yr: 1994 Age Range: 8
– 12 AR RL: 5.60 When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape
her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to
California after losing their home in Texas to the dust storms of the 1930s.
_____ 836130 Soto, Gary AFTERLIFE $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 – 18 AR RL:
5.2 A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal
murder in the restroom of a club where he has gone to dance.
_____ 841920 Spurr, Elizabeth SURFER DOG $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 3.80 After moving to a new California beach town, eleven-year-old Pete
feels lonely until he meets a dog that shares his passion for surfing.
_____ 873282 Taylor, Theodore LORD OF THE KILL $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
10 – 16 AR RL: 5.00 With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in
charge of Los Coyotes Preserve when two groups try to shut it down by intimidation,
murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.
_____ 962367 Wood, Frances M. DAUGHTER OF MADRUGADA $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 10 –16 AR RL: 4.60 After the United States wins the war with Mexico in
1848, life on her Mexican family’s ranch in California is greatly changed for
thirteen-year-old Cesa.
_____ 972926 Yep, Laurence CHILD OF THE OWL $20.30 Pub. Yr: 1977 Age Range: 12 –
18 AR RL: 5.50 A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage
is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
_____ 972953 Yep, Laurence JOURNAL OF WONG MING-CHUNG: A CHINESE MINER $12.77
Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9 –14 AR RL: 4.80 A young Chinese boy records his
experiences in a journal as he travels from China to California in 1852 during the
Gold Rush.
COLORADO
_____ 077479 Avi SECRET SCHOOL $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL:
4.10
In 1925, Fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the
one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
_____ 078179 Ayres, Katherine SILVER DOLLAR GIRL $9.55 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range 8
– 12; AR RL: 4.30 In 1885, Valentine Harper disguises herself as a boy and runs
away to Colorado determined to find her father who has gone there in search of gold.
_____ 314596 Ernst, Kathleen WHISTLER IN THE DARK $10.18 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.70 In 1867, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother
move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper.
_____ 449032 Hobbs, Will BEARDANCE $17.00 Pub. Yr: 1993 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR
RL: 5.70 While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip, a Ute Indian boy tries
to help two orphaned grizzley cubs survive the winter and completes his spirit
mission. Sequel to “Bearstone.”
_____ 665822 Myers, Edward CLIMB OR DIE $9.53 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age Range: 10 – 14
AR RL: 4.70 After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their
parents, fourteen-year old Danielle and her brother, Jake, must scale a mountain to
find help.
_____ 872998 Taylor, Kim CISSY FUNK $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 16 AR
RL: 3.90 Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she
struggles between her aunt and mother in Depression era Colorado.
CONNECTICUT
_____ 077519 Avi WINDCATCHER $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1991 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.00
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother’s at the Connecticut
shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in
the area.
_____ 240560 Cooney, Caroline B. BURNING UP: A NOVEL $16.27 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.00 When a girl she had met at an innercity church is
murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that
leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their
wealthy Connecticut community.
_____ 255260 Dalgliesh, Alice COURAGE OF SARAH NOBLE $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1986 Age
Range: 6 – 10 AR RL: 3.90 Remembering her mother, an eight-year-old girl finds
courage to go with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness.
_____ 488600 Janeczko, Paul B. WORLDS AFIRE $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 12 –
16 AR RL: 5.20 In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the
excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford,
Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly
180 people, mostly women and children.
_____ 524509 Kline, Suzy HORRIBLE HARRY GOES TO SEA $14.89 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 7 -10 AR RL: 3.30 The students in Miss Mackle’s third-grade class enjoy a
boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveal
that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea.
DELAWARE
_____ 441504 Hesse, Karen LIGHT IN THE STORM: THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF AMELIA
MARTIN $12.77 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.30 While working in her
father’s lighthouse, Amelia writes in her diary about the Civil War devastating her
divided state.
FLORIDA
_____ 127780 Bloor, Edward TANGERINE $17.00 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 12 – 18 AR
RL: 4.30 Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero
brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and
slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
_____212115 Christelow, Eileen GREAT PIG SEARCH $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
5 – 8 AR RL: 2.90 Bert and Ethel go to Florida to look for their runaway pigs and
find them in unexpected places.
_____ 250200 Crocker, Carter TALE OF THE SWAMP RAT $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 3.90 Guided by an ancient alligator, a silent young rat
learns to find his own way in the drought-stricken swamp.
_____ 261774 Davis, Michele Ivy EVANGELINE BROWN AND THE CADILLAC MOTEL $16.99
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 8 – 12 Depicts the unconventional life of an
eleven-year-old girl with her widowed alcoholic father in a Florida motel.
_____ 276765 DiCamillo, Kate BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE $10.05 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 3.90 Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first
summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her
because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
_____ 276780 DiCamillo, Kate TIGER RISING $15.59 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 –
16 AR RL: 4.00 Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood
carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend, Sistine, into a plan to free a
caged tiger.
_____ 343820 Fogelin, Adrian ANNA CASEY’S PLACE IN THE WORLD $15.57 Pub. Yr:
2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 3.80 Anna, a twelve-year-old girl with strong
survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange
neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is
not at all sure he wants to stay there.
_____ 343830 Fogelin, Adrian MY BROTHER’S HERO $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
10 – 14 AR RL: 3.80 Thirteen-year-old Ben is annoyed by a know-it-all girl who
threatens the fun of his family’s vacation, but he has other worries, especially
anxiety about his friend’s reaction when she opens the gift he gave her for
Christmas.
_____ 374570 George, Jean Craighead MISSING ‘GATOR OF GUMBO LIMBO: AN ECOLOGICAL
MYSTERY $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1992 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.60 A homeless
sixth-grader living in an unspoiled forest in Florida searches for a missing
alligator destined for official extermination.
_____ 563296 Lenski, Lois STRAWBERRY GIRL $17.69 Pub. Yr: 1973 Age Range: 8 – 11
AR RL: 4.80 Birdie Boyer belonged to a large “strawberry family” who lived in
Florida on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the state.
_____ 707361 Peck, Robert Newton BRO: A NOVEL $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 12
– 16 Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him
unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug’s older brother feels compelled to
rescue him from their grandfather’s Florida cattle ranch.
_____ 707362 Peck, Robert Newton COWBOY GHOST $19.40 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 12
– 18 AR RL: 4.50 Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle
ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his
older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on
their first cattle drive together.
_____ 707395 Peck, Robert Newton HORSE THIEF: A NOVEL $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.10 In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly,
horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from
Chickalookee, Florida’s doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.
_____ 740690 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan YEARLING $24.70 Pub. Yr: 1985 Age Range:
10 –14 AR RL: 5.00 A young boy is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has
lovingly raised as a pet.
_____ 762815 Romain, Trevor JEMMA’S JOURNEY $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 6 –
12 AR RL: 4.10 Jemma plants a tree in honor of a man who was hanged there in the
1920s.
_____ 921051 Warner, Gertrude Chandler MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN BEACH $15.57 Pub.
Yr: 1994 Age Range: 7 –12 AR RL: 4.20 While visiting the Florida Keys, the Aldens
encounter suspicious characters and a plot to steal valuable coral.
_____ 949797 Williams, Carol Lynch CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age
Range: 10 –14 AR RL: 4.20 When a movie star builds a mansion near her family’s
diner, Honey develops a friendship with the young daughter that helps Honey realize
how special her own family is.
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