New Fiction
Books February/ March 2004
Fantasy Historical Fiction Teenage Issues Sports/ Adventure Stories
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Boy who Saved
Baseball by John H.
Ritter The fate of a small |
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Million Dollar Goal by Dan Gutman Twins Dawn and Dusk Rosenberg have tickets to a Canadiens game that will give a randomly chosen fan a
chance to win one million dollars. |
Losing is
not an Option by Rich Wallace This book presents episodes in the life of a young
man, from sneaking into football games with his best friends in sixth grade
to running his last high school race, the |
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Castaways Stories
of Survival by Gerald Hausman Six stories about shipwrecked people struggling to
survive in difficult circumstances. |
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Historical
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Breath by
Donna Jo Napoli Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied
Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up
when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after
being cheated out of full payment for ridding |
Sword of
the Rightful King. A Novel of King Arthur by Jane Yolen Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove
himself the rightful king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but
trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first. |
The winter people by Joseph Bruchac. As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage. |
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Prairie whispers by Frances Arrington Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby
sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her
place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her
family on the |
Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli This is the story of an orphan living in
Nazi-occupied |
Or give me death : a novel
of Patrick Henry's family / Ann Rinaldi. With their father away most of the time advocating
independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to
raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally
ill mother. |
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House of
Windjammer by V.A. Richardson In the fall of 1636, Adam, fourteen-year-old heir to
the House of Windjammer, must find a way to keep his family afloat after his
father dies and tulip fever sweeps |
A killing in In Plymouth Colony in the 1630s, John continually disappoints his father, Governor William Bradford, during a difficult time as the colony faces its first murder and subsequent trial. |
Anna Sunday by Sally M. Keehn In 1863 twelve-year-old Anna, disguised as a boy and
accompanied by her younger brother Jed, leaves their |
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Teenage
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After by
Francine Prose In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a
grief and crisis counselor takes over |
Quit it!
By Marcia Mylick Diagnosed with a neurological disorder that causes
uncontrollable tics, such as coughing and head jerking, sixth-grader Carrie
must cope with the embarrassment and strain of various reactions from family,
friends, and strangers. |
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American Girl by Meg Cabot A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination
attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the
eye of the very cute First Son. |
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Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by
the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a
classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an
older boy, and on her plans to be a writer. |
Almost
Home by Nora Baskin After years of being shuffled from town to town and
back and forth between her divorced parents, twelve-year-old Leah, now living
permanently with her father and stepmother, finds it difficult to adjust to
her new situation and the circumstances that made it possible. |
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The wind singer : an adventure by William Nicholson After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules
of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother
and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary
silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its
people. |
The Amulet of Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs
him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful
magician Simon Lovelace |
Outlaw princess of Sherwood :
a tale of Rowan Hood by Nancy Springer. King Solon the Red attempts to capture his runaway
daughter Ettarde and force her into marriage with a
rival king who has been threatening his reign. |
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The Divide
by Elizabeth Kay While hiking on the Continental Divide of Costa Rica, a young boy with a heart condition falls into a magical otherworld full of fantastical creatures. |
Pendradon Series Book Four: |
Sharing her father's gift of power to bring
fictional characters to life, Meggie wants to send
the villain Capricorn back between the pages where he belongs. |
