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J / AVI
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
Avi.
Charlotte is a stowaway on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, when she learns
that the captain is murderous and most of the crew is very dangerous.
J / COLLIER
My brother Sam is dead.
James Lincoln Collier.
Tragedy strikes the Meeker family during the Revolutionary War when one son
joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in
a town that is still loyal to the British.
J / CURTIS
The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963.
Christopher Paul Curtis.
Everything changes for the Watsons after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama
in the summer of 1963.
J / CUSHMAN
Catherine called Birdy.
Karen Cushman.
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight writes of her
longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to
avoid being married off.
J / LEVOY
Alan and Naomi.
Myron Levoy.
In New York of the 1940's a boy tries to befriend a girl traumatized by Nazi
brutality in France.
J / MACLACHLAN
Sarah plain and tall.
Patricia MacLachlan.
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their
prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope
that she will stay.
J / PATERSON
Lyddie.
Katherine Paterson.
Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory
worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
J / PAULSEN
Nightjohn.
Gary Paulsen.
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous
when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
J / TAYLOR
Roll of thunder, hear my cry.
Mildred Taylor.
A black family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice
and discrimination.
J / YOLEN
Devilís arithmetic.
Jane Yolen.
Hannah opens the door during a Passover Seder and finds herself in Poland
during World War II where she sees the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp.
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