Winner: Jim Murphy for The Great Fire (1995); A Young Patriot : the American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy (1996); The Long Road to Gettysburg (1992); Blizzard! : the Storm That Changed America (2000); and An American Plague : the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (2003)
An American Plague : the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
An American Plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by Jim MurphyCall Number: Juv 614.5 MUR (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395776087
Publication Date: 2003-06-23
A portrait of the rampant Yellow Fever plague of 1793 that devastated Philadelphia.
Blizzard! : the Storm That Changed America
Blizzard! : the storm that changed America by Jim Murphy (Illustrator)Call Number: J-974.7 MUR (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780590673099
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
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.
The Great Fire
The Great Fire by Jim MurphyCall Number: J-977.31 MUR (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780590472678
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Describes the fire that swept through Chicago in 1871 through the eyes of those survivors who wrote about their experiences in books, newspaper and magazine articles, or letters to friends.
The Great Fire [CD] by Jim MurphyCall Number: J-CD Fiction MU (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9781883332921
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
The Long Road to Gettysburg
A Young Patriot : the American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
A Young Patriot : the American Revolution as experienced by one boy by Jim MurphyCall Number: J-973.3 MUR (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780395900192
Publication Date: 1998-03-23
In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself "as warm a patriot as the best of them." He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy's humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire.
Winner: Terry Pratchett for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001); The Wee Free Men (2003); A Hat Full of Sky (2004); Going Postal; The Color of Magic (1983); Guards! Guards! (1989); Equal Rites (1987); Mort (1987); and Small Gods (1992)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry PratchettCall Number: J-Fiction PR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060012335
Publication Date: 2001-11-06
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
The Color of Magic
The Color of Magic [Kindle] by Terry PratchettCall Number: Kindle-869
ISBN: 9780062225672
Publication Date: 2013-01-29
Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two-flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an entertaining and bizarre spoof.
Equal Rites
Going Postal : a novel of Discworld
Going Postal : a novel of Discworld by Terry PratchettCall Number: Fiction P912g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060013134
Publication Date: 2004-09-28
Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig never believed his crimes were hanging offenses, until he found himself with a noose around his neck, dropping through a trap door, and falling into...a government job? Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be an impossible task. Worse, the new Postmaster could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building 'Neither Rain Nor Snow Nor Glo m of Ni t'.... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what's called for, he'll do it; to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and deliver that invaluable commodity that everyone requires: hope.
Guards! Guards!
A Hat Full of Sky
Mort
Small Gods
The Wee Free Men
Winner: Susan Cooper for The Dark is Rising Sequence - Over Sea, Under Stone (Bk. 1) (1965) - The Dark is Rising (Bk. 2) (1968) - Greenwitch (Bk. 3) (1974) - The Grey King (Bk. 4) (1975) - Silver on the Tree (Bk. 5) (1977)
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 1)
Over Sea, under Stone (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 1) by Susan Cooper; Margery Gill (Illustrator)Call Number: J-Fiction CO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780152590345
Publication Date: 1966-04-20
Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail.
The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 2)
The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 2) by Susan Cooper; Alan Cober (Illustrator)Call Number: J-Fiction CO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689303173
Publication Date: 1973-04-01
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 3)
Greenwitch [OverDrive E-Book] by Susan CooperCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780689849190
Publication Date: 2010-11-30
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest. Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of distubing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising.
The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 4)
The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 4) by Susan Cooper; Michael Heslop (Illustrator)Call Number: J-FIction CO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689500299
Publication Date: 1975-07-01
In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 5)
Silver on the Tree [OverDrive E-Book] by Susan CooperCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780689849183
Publication Date: 2010-05-11
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
Winner: Tamora Pierce for The Song of the Lioness : Alanna : the First Adventure (1983) - IN the Hand of the Goddess (1984) - The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (1986) - Lioness Rampant (1988) and Protector of the Small : First Test (1999) - Page (2000) - Squire (2001) - Lady Knight (2002)
Alanna : the First Adventure (The Song of the Lioness, Book 1)
In the Hand of the Goddess (The Song of the Lioness, Book 2)
In the Hand of the Goddess [OverDrive E-Book] (Song of the lioness, book 2) by Tamora PierceCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781439115138
Publication Date: 2009-12-08
Still disguised as a boy, Alanna becomes a squire to none other than the prince of the realm. Prince Jonathan is not only Alanna's liege lord, he is also her best friend--and one of the few who knows the secret of her true identity. But when a mysterious sorcerer threatens the prince's life, it will take all of Alanna's skill, strength, and magical power to protect him--even at the risk of revealing who she really is ...
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (The Song of the Lioness, Book 3)
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man [OverDrive E-Book] (Song of the lioness, book 3) by Tamora PierceCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781439115145
Publication Date: 2009-12-08
Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death--either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie ahead. As her mythic fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the tribe's first female shaman--despite the desert dwellers' grave fear of the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient tribal customs of the desert tribes--for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall.
Lioness Rampant (The Song of the Lioness, Book 4)
First Test (Protector of the Small, Book 1)
First Test [OverDrive E-Book] (Protector of the Small Quartet, Book 1) by Tamora PierceCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307433350
Publication Date: 1999
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight. When Alanna became the King's Champion, it was decided that girls would henceforth be allowed to train for the knighthood. But ten years have passed, and no girls have come forward. Now, however, someone is about to change all that. Her name is Kel.
Page (Protector of the Small, Book 2)
Squire (Protector of the Small, Book 3)
Lady Knight (Protector of the Small, Book 4)
Lady Knight (Protector of the Small Quartet, Book 4) by Tamora PierceCall Number: J-Fiction PI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375814655
Publication Date: 2002-08-27
When she became a knight, eighteen-year-old Kel hoped to be given a combat post, but instead she finds herself named commander of an outpost of refugees, where she must face the unnatural forces of the evil Balyce.
Winner: Markus Zusak for The Book Thief (2006); Fighting Ruben Wolfe (2001); Getting the Girl (2001); and I Am the Messenger
The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCall Number: YA F ZUS-M (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780375831003
Publication Date: 2006-03-14
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
The Book Thief [CD] by Markus Zusak; Allan Corduner (Read by)Call Number: YA-CD F ZUS-M (Young adult CD audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780739337271
Publication Date: 2006-09-26
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus ZusakCall Number: J-Fiction ZU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781862917613
Publication Date: 2000
Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the ring.
Getting the Girl
I Am the Messenger
I Am the Messenger by Markus ZusakCall Number: J-Fiction ZU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375830990
Publication Date: 2005-02-08
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
Winner: Sharon M. Draper for Tears of a Tiger (1994); Forged by Fire (1997); Darkness Before Dawn (2001); Battle of Jericho (2004); Copper Sun (2006); and November Blues (2007)
Battle of Jericho
The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. DraperCall Number: J-Fiction DR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689842320
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club.
Copper Sun
Copper Sun by Sharon M. DraperCall Number: J-Fiction DR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689821813
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Darkness Before Dawn
Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon M. Draper; Michael Benabib (Contribution by)Call Number: J-Fiction DR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689830808
Publication Date: 2001-02-01
Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
Forged by Fire
Forged by Fire [OverDrive E-Book] by Sharon M. DraperCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781439132067
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, Jordan Sparks, who abuses her, and from their mother, whose irresponsible behavior forces Gerald to work hard to keep the family together. As a teenager, Gerald finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, while Angel develops her talents as a dancer. Trouble still haunts them, however, and Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation.
November Blues
November Blues by Sharon M. Draper; Howard Pyle (Cover Design by)Call Number: J-Fiction DR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781416906988
Publication Date: 2007-10-23
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
Tears of a Tiger
Tears of a Tiger [OverDrive E-Book] by Sharon M. DraperCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781416928317
Publication Date: 2006-02-01
In one horrifying night, Andy's life changed forever ... Andy Jackson was driving the car that crashed one night after a game, killing Robert Washington, his best friend and the captain of the Hazelwood High Tigers. It was late, and they'd been drinking, and now, months later, Andy can't stop blaming himself. As he turns away from family, friends, and even his girlfriend, he finds he's losing the most precious thing of all -- his ability to face the future.
Winner: David Levithan for Boy Meets Boy (2003); The Realm of Possibility (2004); Wide Awake (2006); Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist; How They Met, and Other Stories (2008); and Love is the Higher Law (2009)
Boy Meets Boy
The Realm of Possibility
Wide Awake
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist; How They Met, and Other Stories
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist [OverDrive E-Book] by Rachel Cohn and David LevithanCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780375890765
Publication Date: 2007
It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band?s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
Love is the Higher Law
Winner: Sarah Dessen for Keeping the Moon (1999); Dreamland (2000); This Lullaby (2002); The Truth About Forever (2004); Just Listen (2006); Along for the Ride (2009); and What Happened to Goodbye
Along for the Ride
Along for the Ride by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670011940
Publication Date: 2009-06-16
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived.
Dreamland
Dreamland by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670891221
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant and dangerous.
Just Listen
Just Listen by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-FIction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670061051
Publication Date: 2006-04-06
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Keeping the Moon
Keeping the Moon by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670885497
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
This Lullaby
This Lullaby by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670035304
Publication Date: 2002-05-27
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
The Truth About Forever
The Truth about Forever by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670036394
Publication Date: 2004-05-11
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
What Happened to Goodbye
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah DessenCall Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670012947
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.
Winner: Angela Johnson for Toning the Sweep (1993); Heaven (1998); Looking for Red (2002); The First Part Last (2003); Bird (2004); and Sweet, Hereafter (2010)
Bird
The First Part Last
The First Part Last (Heaven Trilogy, Book 2) by Angela JohnsonCall Number: J-FIction JO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689849220
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
The First Part Last [CD] (Heaven Trilogy, Book 2) by Angela Johnson; Khalipa Oldjohn (Read by)Call Number: J-CD Fiction JO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781400090655
Publication Date: 2004-08-24
Heaven
Looking for Red
Sweet, Hereafter
Sweet, Hereafter [OverDrive E-Book] by Angela JohnsonCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781416998655
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.
Toning the Sweep
Toning the Sweep by Angela JohnsonCall Number: J-Fiction JO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780780745766
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
Winner: M. T. Anderson for Feed (2002); The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1 : The Pox Party (2006); and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2 : The Kingdom of Waves (2008)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1 : The Pox Party
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume 1 : The Pox Party by M. T. AndersonCall Number: J-Fiction AN O1 (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780763624026
Publication Date: 2006-09-12
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation [CD] . Volume 1 : The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson; Peter Francis James (Read by)Call Number: J-CD Fiction AN O1 (Juvenile Audiobook CD]
ISBN: 9780739338629
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2 : The Kindom of Waves
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2 : The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. AndersonCall Number: J-Fiction AN O2
ISBN: 9780763629502
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation [CD], Volume 2 : The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson; Peter Francis James (Read by)Call Number: J-CD Fiction AN O2 (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780739338629
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
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