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	Avi	Nothing but the Truth : a Documentary Novel.
	A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
		True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
	As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
	Bargar, Gary W.	Life. Is. Not. Fair.
	Louis and his aunt are startled and upset when a Black family moves next door to their Kansas City home in 1958, but Louis soon recognizes that his new neighbor is a more reliable friend than the group of junior high "cools" with whom he had hoped to be friends.
	Bawden, Nina	Outside Child.
	Thirteen-year-old Jane tries to learn more about her half brother and sister after discovering that her seafaring father remarried ten years ago.
	Brookins, Dana	Alone in Wolf Hollow.
	Two orphaned brothers come to live with their uncle in Wolf Hollow and stumble onto a murder case.
	Childress, Alice	Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich.
	The life of a thirteen-year-old Harlem black boy on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
	Conrad, Pam	My Daniel.
	Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
	Duncan, Lois	Locked in Time.
	Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
	Fenton, Edward	Morning of the Gods.
	Depressed over the death of her mother, twelve-year-old Carla makes a visit to her mother's aunt and uncle in Greece where she finds comfort and joy with the family situation, but shock and danger with the political situation in the early 1970s.
	Fleischman, Paul	Saturnalia.
	In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
	Fox, Paul	Slave Dancer.
	Kidnaped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
	Garfield, Leon	December Rose.
	In Victorian London a chimney sweep's assistant finds himself pursued by the sinister Inspector Creaker.
	Hall, Lynn	Tin Can Tucker.
	A sixteen-year old girl runs away from her foster home in Missouri, planning to make a name for herself on the rodeo circuit.
	Hamilton, Virginia	Cousins.
	Concerned that her grandmother may die, Cammy is unprepared for the accidental death of another relative.
	Hoover, H. M.	Delikon.
	Many generations after the Delikons have conquered and reordered Earth, their system of power and organization begins to crumble.
	Hudson, Jan	Sweetgrass.
	Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
J326	Lester, Julius	To Be a Slave.
	A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
	Lipsyte, Robert	One Fat Summer.
	An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turning-point summer in which he learns to stand-up for himself.
	Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda	Root Cellar.
	Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
	Mazer, Harry	Island Keeper.
	Longing to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, 16-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inhabitant.
	McKinley, Robin	Blue Sword.
	Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
J331.881138522	McKissack, Pat	Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter.
	A chronicle of the first black-controlled union, made up of Pullman porters, who after years of unfair labor practices staged a battle against a corporate giant resulting in a "David and Goliath" ending.
	Miles, Betty	Trouble with Thirteen.
	Twelve-year-old Annie is unwilling to face some major changes in her life.
	Myers, Walter Dean	Scorpions.
	After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
	Naylor, Phyllis Reynold	Solomon System
	Thirteen-year-old Ted and his older brother, Nory, have always been a team until the summer family problems make them reevaluate their relationship and their expectations of each other.
	O'Brien, Robert C.	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.
	A mouse seeks help from a colony of extremely intelligent rats.
	Paterson, Katherine	Lyddie.
	Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
	Paulsen, Gary	Winter Room.
	A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
	Peck, Richard	Ghost Belonged to Me : a Novel.
	In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to "exorcizing" a ghost.
	Pinkwater, Jill	Buffalo Brenda.
	Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna organize an underground newspaper and then provide a live buffalo as a mascot for the football team.
	Pople, Maureen	Other Side of the Family.
	Sent from England for safety during World War II to stay with an Australian grandmother known to hate her family, fifteen-year-old Katherine discovers a totally unexpected character and startling revelations about her family.
	Reeder, Carolyn	Shades of Gray.
	At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.
	Sachs, Marilyn	Fourteen.
	Having to contend with a suffering poet-father and an author-mother who uses her daughters's life as material for her popular books, fourteen-year-old Rebecca finds her life is further disrupted by the new boy next door and his enigmatic family.
	Sanfield, Steve	Adventures of High John the Conqueror.
	A collection of sixteen tales about High John the Conqueror, the traditional trickster hero of blacks during and immediately after the time of slavery.
	Slepian, Jan	Broccoli Tapes.
	During a stay of several months in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixth grade class in Boston, detailing her "adoption" of a wild cat, a friendship with a troubled Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmother.
	Spinelli, Jerry	Who Put that Hair in My Toothbrush?
	The sibling rivalry between twelve-year-old Megin and her older brother Greg intensifies after she ruins his science project and he retaliates by throwing her favorite hockey stick into the pond.
	Taylor, Theodore	Teetoncey.
	In 1898 eleven-year-old Ben O'Neal rescues the lone survivor of a shipwreck.
	Yep, Laurence	Dragonwings.
	After coming from China to join his father Windrider in San Francisco, Moonshadow helps his father in his dream to build a flying machine in 1909.
	York, Carol Beach	Once Upon a Dark November.
	A high school freshman with a crush on her English teacher, Katie enjoys her job doing housework in his house until a murder in his family has Katie fearing for her own life.

(All of the titles are Juvenile fiction unless otherwise indicated)

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