MASTER LIST 2001 - 2002
MASTER LIST OF ANNOTATIONS
Aronson, Marc. SIR WALTER RALEGH AND THE QUEST FOR EL DORADO. Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who led many expeditions to the New World. $20.00. ISBN 0-395-84827-X. Gr. 6 up.
Avi. ERETH'S BIRTHDAY. Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as a "mother" to three young fox kits. $15.95. ISBN 0-380-97734-6. Gr. 4 up.
Bauer, Joan. HOPE WAS HERE. When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. $16.99. ISBN 0-399-23142-0. Gr. 7 up.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. WEAVER'S DAUGHTER. In 1791 after her family's journey from Pennsylvania, ten-year-old Lizzie suffers from severe asthma in her new home in the Southwest Territory (present-day Tennessee). $14.95. ISBN 0-385-32769-2. Gr. 4 up.
Creech, Sharon. THE WANDERER. Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five-foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England. $15.95. ISBN 0-06-027730-0 (Tr.); $15.89. ISBN 0-06-027731-9 (PLB). Gr. 5 up.
dePaola, Tomie. HERE WE ALL ARE. Children's author-illustrator Tomie dePaola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. $13.99. ISBN 0-399-23496-9. Gr. 4 up.
DiCamillo, Kate. BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE. 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. $15.99. ISBN 0-7636-0776-2. Gr. 4 up.
Etchemendy, Nancy. THE POWER OF UN. When he is given a device that will allow him to "undo" what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck. $14.95. ISBN 0-8126-2850-0. Gr. 4 up.
Gantos, Jack. JOEY PIGZA LOSES CONTROL. Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship. $16.00. ISBN 0-374-39989-1. Gr. 6 up.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. NORY RYAN'S SONG. When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32141-4. Gr. 5 up.
Greenberg, Jan. FRANK O. GEHRY: OUTSIDE IN. Photo essay about the avant-garde architect and his creations. $19.95. ISBN 0-7894-2677-3. Gr. 5 up.
Hill, Kirkpatrick. THE YEAR OF MISS AGNES. Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athabascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived to be the new teacher. $16.00. ISBN 0-689-82933-7. Gr. 4 up.
Lester, Julius. PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER. A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods. $17.00. ISBN 0-15-201826-3. Gr. 7 up.
Levine, Ellen. DARKNESS OVER DENMARK. An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II. $18.95. ISBN 0-8234-1447-7. Gr. 6 up.
Lisle, Janet Taylor. THE ART OF KEEPING COOL. In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. $17.00. ISBN 0-689-83787-9. Gr. 5 up.
Lynch, Chris. GOLD DUST. In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napoleon, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napoleon will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school. $15.95. ISBN 0-06-028174-X (Tr.); $15.89. ISBN 0-06-028175-8 (PLB). Gr. 5 up.
Martin, Ann M. THE DOLL PEOPLE. A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll House Code of Honor. $15.99. ISBN 0-7868-0361-4 (Tr.); $16.95. ISBN 0-7868-2372-0 (PLB). Gr. 4 up.
Morris, Gerald. THE SAVAGE DAMSEL AND THE DWARF. Lynet, a feisty young woman, journeys to King Arthur's court in order to find a champion to rescue her beautiful older sister, and she is joined in her quest by a clever dwarf and a bold kitchen knave, neither of whom are what they seem. $15.00. ISBN 0-395-97126-8. Gr. 6 up.
Murphy, Jim. BLIZZARD. Presents a history based on personal accounts and newspaper articles of the massive snowstorm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. $18.95. ISBN 0-590-67309-2. Gr. 5 up.
Murphy, Rita. NIGHT FLYING. As the time for her solo flight on her sixteenth birthday approaches, Georgia begins to question the course of her life and her relationships with the other women in her unusual family. $14.95. ISBN 0-385-32748-X. Gr. 6 up.
Myers, Walter Dean. 145TH STREET: SHORT STORIES. Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem. $15.95. ISBN 0-385-32137-6. Gr. 7 up.
Park, Linda Sue. THE KITE FIGHTERS. In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition. $15.00. ISBN 0-395-94041-9. Gr. 4 up.
Peck, Richard. A YEAR DOWN YONDER. During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. $16.99. ISBN 0-8037-2518-3. Gr. 5 up.
Philbrick, Rodman. THE LAST BOOK IN THE UNIVERSE. After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, a teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future. $16.95. ISBN 0-439-08758-9. Gr. 6 up.
St. George, Judith. SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. $17.99. ISBN 0-399-23407-1. Gr. 4 up.
Spinelli, Jerry. STARGIRL. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. $15.95. ISBN 0-679-88637-0 (Tr.); $17.99. ISBN 0-679-98637-5. Gr. 6 up.
Whelan, Gloria. HOMELESS BIRD. When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. $14.89. ISBN 0-06-028452-8 (Lib Ed.); $14.95. ISBN 0-06-028454-4 (Tr.). Gr. 6 up.
White, Ruth. MEMORIES OF SUMMER. In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness. $16.00. ISBN 0-374-34945-2. Gr. 7 up.
Wittlinger, Ellen. GRACIE'S GIRL. As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important. $16.00. ISBN 0-689-82249-9. Gr. 5 up.
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