MASTER LIST 1999-2000
MASTER LIST OF ANNOTATIONS
Avi. POPPY AND RYE. When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the sone he had abandoned. ISBN 0-380-976-38-2. $14.00. Gr. 4 up.
Bauer, Joan. RULES OF THE ROAD. Sixteen-your-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful show stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. ISBN 0-399-23140-4. $15.99. Gr. 6 up.
Blackwood, Gary. THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER. A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeareís acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty. ISBN 0-525-45863-8. $15.99. Gr. 5 up.
Cameron, Ann. THE SECRET LIFE OF AMANDA K. WOODS. Living in a rural community in Wisconsin during the 1950s, eleven-year-old Amanda gradually and painfully learns a lot about herself, her parents, and her old sister. ISBN 0-374-36702-7. $16.00. Gr. 5 up.
Conly, Jane Leslie. WHILE NO ONE WAS WATCHING. When two brothers steal a rabbit from a backyard in the rich part of town, the incident brings about their collision with other children from a background very different from their own. ISBN 0-8050-3934-1. $ 16.95. Gr. 5 up.
Fenner, Carol. THE KING OF DRAGONS. Homeless Ian moves with his father into an unused city courthouse, but when his father disappears and a kite exhibit is mounted, Ianís whole world changes. ISBN 0-689-82217-0. $17.00. Gr. 5 up.
Fleischman, Paul. WHIRLIGIG. While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brent finds forgiveness and atonement. ISBN 0-8050-5582- 7. $16.95. Gr. 7 up.
Fleischman, Sid. BANDITíS MOON. Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s. ISBN 0-688-15830-7. $15.00. Gr. 4 up.
Fletcher, Susan. SHADOW SPINNER. When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old girl with a deformed foot, joins the Sultanís harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queenís life. ISBN 0-689-81852-1. $17.00. Gr. 5 up.
Gantos, Jack. JOEY PIGZA SWALLOWED THE KEY. To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings. ISBN 0-374-33664-4. $16.00. Gr. 5 up.
Gauthier, Gail. A YEAR WITH BUTCH AND SPIKE. Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Couture cousins. ISBN 0-339-23216-8. $15.99. Gr. 4 up.
Greenberg, Jan. CHUCK CLOSE, UP CLOSE. A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends. ISBN 0-7894-2486-X. $19.95. Gr. 4 up.
Griffin, Adele. THE OTHER SHEPARDS. Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parentsí continuing grief. ISBN 0-7868-0423-8. $14.95. Gr. 7 up.
Haas, Jessie. FIRE!: MY PARENTSí STORY. Describes a nighttime fire in a country house in Vermont in 1948 and the struggle of the residents to save their belongings. ISBN 0-688-15203-1. $15.00. Gr. 4 up.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. AMONG THE HIDDEN. In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his familyís farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. ISBN 0-689-81700-2. $16.00. Gr. 5 up.
Hesse, Karen. JUST JUICE. Realizing that her fatherís lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house. ISBN 0-590-0338-24. $14.95. Gr. 4 up.
Holt, Kimberly Willis. MY LOUISIANA SKY. Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern but loving grandmother and her parents who are "slow." ISBN 0-8050-5251-8. $15.95. Gr. 6 up.
Karr, Kathleen. THE GREAT TURKEY WALK. In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit. ISBN 0-374-32773-4. $16.00. Gr. 5 up.
Kurtz, Jane. THE STORYTELLERíS BEADS. During the political strife and famine of the 1980s, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia. ISBN 0-15- 201074-2. $15.00. Gr. 5 up.
Lowry, Lois. LOOKING BACK: A BOOK OF MEMORIES. Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life. ISBN 0-395-89543-X. $16.00. Gr. 4 up.
Mazer, Harry. THE WILD KID. Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mentally handicapped, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods. ISBN 0-689-80751-1. $15.00. Gr. 4 up.
Peck, Richard. A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. ISBN 0-8037-2290-7. $15.99. Gr. 5 up.
Philbrick, Rodman. MAX THE MIGHTY. Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father. ISBN 0-590-18892-5. $16.95. Gr. 5 up.
Sachar, Louis. HOLES. As further evidence of his familyís bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. ISBN 0-374-33265-7. $16.00. Gr. 5 up.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. GIB RIDES HOME. Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908. ISBN 0-385-32267-4. $15.95. Gr. 5 up.
Springer, Nancy. I AM MORDRED: A TALE FROM CAMELOT. When Mordred learns the identity of his father, he struggles with feelings of hatred, but also fights the fate which determines that he kill the good and gracious king. ISBN 0-399-23143-9. $16.99. Gr. 7 up.
Warner, Sally. SORT OF FOREVER. Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nanaís cancer. ISBN 0-679-88648-6. $16.00. Gr. 4 up.
Wilson, Diane Lee. I RODE A HORSE OF MILK WHITE JADE. Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a race and bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1285. ISBN 531-30024-2. $17.95. Gr. 6 up.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. BAT 6. In small-town post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girlís bigotry comes to the surface. ISBN 0-590- 89799-3. $16.95. Gr. 6 up.
Zemser, Amy Bronwen.. BEYOND THE MANGO TREE. While living in Liberia with her possessive, diabetic mother and often-absent father, twelve-year-old Sarina longs for a friend with whom to experience the world beyond her yard. ISBN 0-688-16005-0. $15.00. Gr. 7 up.