Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba by Alma Flor AdaA book about the author's memories of her home, family, and life in Cuba. A sequel to Where the Flame Trees Bloom.
* The Gawgon and the Boy by Lloyd Alexander
* Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
* Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
* The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
* Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
* Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper
Mud City by Deborah Ellis
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming
Grape Thief by Kristine L. Franklin
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Fly with Poetry: an ABC of Poetry by Avis Harley
Witness by Karen Hesse
* Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman
The Canning Season by Polly Harvath
Misfits by James Howe
The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
* The Jungle Book (The Whole Story) by Rudyard Kipling
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
* Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Ackamarackus: Julius Lester's Sumptuously Silly Fantastically Funny Fables by Julius Lester
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
* The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Yeh Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
* A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay
Love to Langston by Tony Medina
Blues Journey by Walter Dean Myers
* Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Prince of the Pond, Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin by Donna Jo Napoli
Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen
Alice Alone by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia by Barbara O'Connor
Cuba 15: A Novel by Nancy Osa
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
East by Edith Pattou
* A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
* The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
* The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Amelia's War by Ann Rinaldi
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell
The Heavenly Village by Cynthia Rylant
* Holes by Louis Sachar
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella by Robert D. San Souci
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
Parasite Pig by William Sleator
* So, You Want to be President? by Judith St. George
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 by Ernest L. Thayer
* Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Motherland: A Novel by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
* Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
* Hush by Jacqueline WoodsonA book about an entire family who must enter the Federal Witness Protection Program because the Dad witnesses a savage crime of racial discrimination. Each member must rebuild their lives with new names and in a new place.
Books with an asterisk are available at the Needles Branch Library.
Updated May 2006.
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