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Here I am again, since I had a multitude of requests for this list to be sent out.  
The solution I'm trying this time is sending the list in pieces.  Thanks for your 
patience.

Heather Purcell, LMS
Tracyton Elementary
Bremerton, WA 98310
heatherapurcell@comcast.net


ALABAMA
_____ 230705  Collier, Kristi  JERICHO WALLS  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 9 – 
15 AR RL: 3.90     In 1957, When her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, 
Alabama, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her 
to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.
_____ 591347  Lyon, George Ella  SONNY’S HOUSE OF SPIES  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age 
Range: 11 – 14  In a small Alabama town in 1947 – 1956, Sonny searches for answers 
about his father’s disappearance, “Uncle Marty,” and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
_____ 628171  McKissack, Pat  RUN AWAY HOME  $15.57  Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.90  In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African-American girl and 
her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
_____ 759270  Robinet, Harriette  WALKING TO THE BUS-RIDER BLUES  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 
2000 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.10  Alfa, his sister, and their grandmother 
struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the 
Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.

ALASKA
_____124288  Blake, Robert J.  AKIAK: A TALE FROM THE IDITAROD  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 
1997 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 3.30  Akiak, the sled dog, refuses to give up after 
being injured during the Iditarod sled dog race.
_____124336  Blake, Robert J.  TOGO  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 
3.80  In 1925, Togo, a Siberian Husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that 
rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
_____129635  Bodett, Tom  WILLIWAW!  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 
5.70  In their father’s absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger 
brother, Ivan, disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where 
they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
_____ 244336  Cosgrove, Stephen  GNOME FROM NOME  $9.45 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 5 
– 9 AR RL: 4.60  A gnome in Alaska desperately tries to find a way to get warm from 
the inside out.
_____ 444665  Hill, Kirkpatrick  MINUK: ASHES IN THE PATHWAY  $10.63 Pub. Yr: 2002 
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.10  Twelve-year-old Minuk’s traditional Eskimo way of 
life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries.
_____ 445085  Hill, Kirkpatrick  YEAR OF MISS AGNES  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age 
Range: 8 – 12  AR RL: 4.50  Ten-year-old Fred, short for Frederika, narrates the 
story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when 
Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.
_____ 449058  Hobbs, Will  DOWN THE YUKON  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 16 
AR RL: 5.40  In the wake of Dawson City’s Great Fire of 1899, Jason and his 
girlfriend, Jamie, canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from 
Canada’s Klondike to Cap Nome.
z_____ 449052  Hobbs, Will  LEAVING PROTECTION  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 10 
– 14 AR RL: 5.20  Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels discovers that the mysterious 
captain of a fishing troller he is working aboard off southeastern Alaska is 
searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the 
Northwest.
_____ 449057  Hobbs, Will  WILD MAN ISLAND  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 16 
AR RL: 5.10  After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to 
visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father’s death, a storm strands him 
on Admiralty Island, Alaska.
_____ 642585  Mikaelsen, Ben  TOUGHING SPIRIT BEAR  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 
10 – 16 AR RL: 5.30  After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid 
going to prison, agrees to go to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a 
huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
_____ 658230  Morey, Walt  GENTLE BEN  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR 
RL: 4.80  Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan 
Territory.
_____ 658319  Morey, Walt  KAVIK THE WOLF DOG  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 10 
-14 AR RL: 4.90  The adventures of Kavik, a wolf dog, trained by his master to 
drive a team in the Alaskan North American dog sled race.
_____ 665012  Murphy, Claire Rudolf  FREE RADICAL  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
12 – 18 AR RL: 4.40  In Fairbanks, Alaska, in the middle of the summer Little 
League baseball season, fifteen-year-old Luke is stunned when his mother confesses 
that she is wanted by the FBI for her role in the death of a student during an 
anti-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.

_____ 665062  Murphy Claire Rudolf  GOLD RUSH WINTER  $9.05 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age 
Range: 7 – 8   Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live 
with Klondy’s father, a gold miner who left when she was just a baby.  Based on 
events in the life of Klondy Nelson.
_____ 823621  Skurzynski, Gloria  BURIED ALIVE  $10.03 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.80  Jack, Ashley, and their foster brother are stranded when there is 
an avalanche.
_____ 921100  Warner, Gertrude Chandler  MYSTERY OF THE BLACK RAVEN  $14.87 Pub. 
Yr: 1999 Age Range: 7 – 12 AR RL: 4.10  The Aldens investigate a mystery involving 
a mining expedition to Alaska.

ARIZONA
_____ 043614  Adler, C.S.  NO PLACE CAT  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR 
RL: 4.30  Tired of the strict rules and annoying children at her father and 
stepmother’s house, twelve-year-old Tess walks across Tucson to her mother’s condo, 
stopping for the night at a state park where she is adopted by a very special cat.
_____ 776828  Sandin, Joan  COYOTE SCHOOL NEWS  $17.67 Pub.Yr: 2003 Age Range: 6 – 
10 AR RL: 4.50  In 1938-1939, fourth-grader Monchi Ramfrez and the other students 
at Coyote School enjoy their new teacher, have a special Christmas celebration, 
participate in the Tucson Rodeo Parade, and produce their own school newspaper.
_____ 921066  Warner, Gertrude Chandler  MYSTERY OF THE LOST MINE  $14.87 Pub. Yr: 
1996 Age Range: 7 – 12 AR RL: 3.50  On a camping trip to Arizona with their 
grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.

ARKANSAS
_____ 399665  Greene, Bette  I’VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN YOUR NAME, PHILIP HALL!  $16.29 
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.70  Beth Lambert, a teenaged girl, 
experiences the ups and downs of friendship with members of the Pretty Penny Club 
and best friend Philip Hall.

CALIFORNIA
_____ 054459  Alphin, Elaine Marie  PICTURE PERFECT  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 12 – 16 AR RL: 5.10  A gap in his memory the afternoon that his best friend 
disappears has a fifteen-year-old wondering about his own role in the mystery, and 
who he can turn to for help.
_____ 171810  Bunting, Eve  SMOKY NIGHT  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1994 Age Range: 5 – 8 AR 
RL: 2.40  When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their 
neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the value of getting along with 
others.
_____ 211978  Choldenko, Gennifer  AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004 
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 3.50  A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz 
Island in 1935 and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in 
addition to life with his autistic sister.
_____ 254067  Cushman, Karen  BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age 
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.80  In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught when her 
mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where 
Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying 
to find a way to get “home.”
_____ 261675  Davis, Sharon  ADVENTURES OF CAPITOL KITTY: AN ALMOST TRUE STORY  
$15.57 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 5 – 7  Capitol Kitty leads Scare D Cat inside the 
California State Capitol, where the two get a cats-eye view of government.
_____ 293455  Duey, Kathleen  ANISETT LUNDBERG: CALIFORNIA, 1851  $9.55 Pub. Yr: 
1996 Age Range: 8 – 12, AR RL: 5.00  The small piece of gold which Anisett carries 
in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the 
California gold camps.
_____ 340438  Fleischman, Sid  BANDIT’S MOON  $15.57 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.20  Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin 
Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the 
mid-1880s.
_____ 340490  Fleischman, Sid  BY THE GREAT HORN SPOON!  $9.75 Pub. Yr: 1963 Age 
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.10  Jack and his aunt’s butler, Praiseworthy, stow away on a 
ship bound for California during the Gold Rush of  “49.”
_____ 341592  Fletcher, Susan  WALK ACROSS THE SEA  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 
10 – 14 AR RL: 4.30  In late nineteenth-century when Chinese immigrants are being 
driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, Eliza Jane 
defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who 
has been kind to her.
_____ 355085  Freeman, Martha  SPY WORE SHADES  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.90  Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California’s Calaveras County, 
teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in 
underground caves, and tries to help her people.
_____ 367941  Garland, Sherry  VALLEY OF THE MOON: THE DIARY OF MARIA ROSALIA DE 
MILAGROS  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 6.20  The 1845 – 1846 diary 
of the thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took 
her in when her Indian mother died.
_____ 370709  Gates, Doris  BLUE WILLOW  $9.93 Pub. Yr: 1968 Age Range: 9 – 12 AR 
RL: 6.50  Moving around in the southwestern part of the United States, the Larkin 
family finally settles down in a place they can call home.
_____ 491800  Jimenez, Francisco  BREAKING THROUGH  $10.53 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 
10 – 14 AR RL: 5.30  Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, 
fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve 
his life and complete his education.
_____ 491810  Jimenez, Francisco  CIRCUIT: STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF A MIGRANT CHILD 
 $15.60 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 5.30  A collection of stories about 
life in a migrant farm family.
_____ 497225 Johnston, Tony  ANY SMALL GOODNESS: A NOVEL OF THE BARRIO $16.97 Pub. 
Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 4.10  Arturo and his family and friends share all 
kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles.
_____ 530149  Koss, Amy Goldman  KAILEY  $10.18 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR 
RL: 4.60  Kailey launches a protest to keep a developer from spoiling the cove and 
its tide pools that are special to her family and friends.
_____ 652287  Montes, Marisa  CIRCLE OF TIME  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 
–14 AR RL: 4.60  In 1996, a fourteen-year-old girl in a coma is forced back in time 
by a girl who died in 1906, and who needs help in righting a series of terrible 
wrongs.
_____ 670428  Nelson, Theresa  RUBY ELECTRIC: A NOVEL  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 10 –12 AR RL: 4.40  Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller tries to resolve the 
mysteries surrounding her little brother’s stuffed woolly mammoth and their 
father’s five-year absence.
_____ 693409  Osborne, Mary Pope  EARTHQUAKE IN THE EARLY MORNING  $8.85 Pub. Yr: 
2001 Age Range: 5 – 8 AR RL: 3.30  The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San 
Francisco, in time to experience a big earthquake.
_____ 709455  Perez, L. King  FIRST DAY IN GRAPES  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
6 – 10 AR RL: 3.20  When Chico starts the third grade, he finds that self 
confidence and math skills help him cope with the first day of school.
_____ 724194  Politi, Leo  SONG OF THE SWALLOWS  $10.55 Pub. Yr: 1987 Age Range: 4 
– 8 AR RL: 4.60  Relates the story of the annual return of the swallows to the 
mission of San Juan Capistrano in California.
_____ 757165  Ritter, John H.  BOY WHO SAVED BASEBALL  $17.69 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.40  The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome 
of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the 
secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
_____ 758600  Roberts, Willo Davis  UNDERCURRENTS  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
8 – 12 AR RL: 5.20  Fourteen-year-old Nikki has trouble accepting her new 
stepmother, Crystal, and the problem grows worse when they visit the northern 
California house where Crystal lived as a child and experienced a horrible event 
that she is trying to keep secret.
_____ 773724  Ryan, Pam Munoz  ESPERANZA RISING  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9 
– 14 AR RL: 5.30  Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth 
in Mexico to work in the labor camps of California.
_____ 773766  Ryan, Pam Munoz  RIDING FREEDOM  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 7 – 
11 AR RL: 4.50  A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran 
away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by 
her appearance.

_____ 832900  Snyder, Zilpha Keatley  CAT RUNNING  $9.80 Pub. Yr: 1994 Age Range: 8 
– 12 AR RL: 5.60  When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape 
her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to 
California after losing their home in Texas to the dust storms of the 1930s.
_____ 836130  Soto, Gary  AFTERLIFE  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 
5.2  A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal 
murder in the restroom of a club where he has gone to dance.
_____ 841920  Spurr, Elizabeth  SURFER DOG  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 
AR RL: 3.80  After moving to a new California beach town, eleven-year-old Pete 
feels lonely until he meets a dog that shares his passion for surfing.
_____ 873282  Taylor, Theodore  LORD OF THE KILL  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
10 – 16 AR RL: 5.00  With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in 
charge of Los Coyotes Preserve when two groups try to shut it down by intimidation, 
murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.
_____ 962367  Wood, Frances M.  DAUGHTER OF MADRUGADA  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age 
Range: 10 –16 AR RL: 4.60  After the United States wins the war with Mexico in 
1848, life on her Mexican family’s ranch in California is greatly changed for 
thirteen-year-old Cesa.
_____ 972926  Yep, Laurence  CHILD OF THE OWL  $20.30 Pub. Yr: 1977 Age Range: 12 – 
18 AR RL: 5.50  A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage 
is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
_____ 972953  Yep, Laurence  JOURNAL OF WONG MING-CHUNG: A CHINESE MINER  $12.77 
Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9 –14 AR RL: 4.80  A young Chinese boy records his 
experiences in a journal as he travels from China to California in 1852 during the 
Gold Rush.

COLORADO
_____ 077479  Avi  SECRET SCHOOL  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12  AR RL: 
4.10
In 1925, Fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the 
one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
_____ 078179  Ayres, Katherine  SILVER DOLLAR GIRL  $9.55 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range 8 
– 12; AR RL: 4.30  In 1885, Valentine Harper disguises herself as a boy and runs 
away to Colorado determined to find her father who has gone there in search of gold.
_____ 314596  Ernst, Kathleen  WHISTLER IN THE DARK  $10.18 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age 
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.70  In 1867, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother 
move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper.
_____ 449032  Hobbs, Will  BEARDANCE  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 1993 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR 
RL: 5.70  While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip, a Ute Indian boy tries 
to help two orphaned grizzley cubs survive the winter and completes his spirit 
mission.  Sequel to “Bearstone.”
_____ 665822  Myers, Edward  CLIMB OR DIE  $9.53 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age Range: 10 – 14 
AR RL: 4.70  After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their 
parents, fourteen-year old Danielle and her brother, Jake, must scale a mountain to 
find help.
_____ 872998  Taylor, Kim  CISSY FUNK  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 16 AR 
RL: 3.90  Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she 
struggles between her aunt and mother in Depression era Colorado.

CONNECTICUT
_____ 077519  Avi  WINDCATCHER  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1991 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.00
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother’s at the Connecticut 
shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in 
the area.
_____ 240560  Cooney, Caroline B.  BURNING UP: A NOVEL  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age 
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.00  When a girl she had met at an innercity church is 
murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that 
leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their 
wealthy Connecticut community.
_____ 255260  Dalgliesh, Alice  COURAGE OF SARAH NOBLE  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1986 Age 
Range: 6 – 10 AR RL: 3.90  Remembering her mother, an eight-year-old girl finds 
courage to go with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness.
_____ 488600  Janeczko, Paul B.  WORLDS AFIRE  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 12 – 
16 AR RL: 5.20  In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the 
excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, 
Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 
180 people, mostly women and children.
_____ 524509  Kline, Suzy  HORRIBLE HARRY GOES TO SEA  $14.89 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age 
Range: 7 -10  AR RL: 3.30  The students in Miss Mackle’s third-grade class enjoy a 
boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveal 
that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea.

DELAWARE
_____ 441504  Hesse, Karen  LIGHT IN THE STORM: THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF AMELIA 
MARTIN  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.30  While working in her 
father’s lighthouse, Amelia writes in her diary about the Civil War devastating her 
divided state.

FLORIDA
_____ 127780  Bloor, Edward  TANGERINE  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 12 – 18 AR 
RL: 4.30  Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero 
brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and 
slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
_____212115  Christelow, Eileen  GREAT PIG SEARCH  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 
5 – 8 AR RL: 2.90  Bert and Ethel go to Florida to look for their runaway pigs and 
find them in unexpected places.
_____ 250200  Crocker, Carter  TALE OF THE SWAMP RAT  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 3.90  Guided by an ancient alligator, a silent young rat 
learns to find his own way in the drought-stricken swamp.
_____ 261774  Davis, Michele Ivy  EVANGELINE BROWN AND THE CADILLAC MOTEL  $16.99 
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 8 – 12  Depicts the unconventional life of an 
eleven-year-old girl with her widowed alcoholic father in a Florida motel.
_____ 276765  DiCamillo, Kate  BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age 
Range: 8 – 12  AR RL: 3.90  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.
_____ 276780  DiCamillo, Kate  TIGER RISING  $15.59 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 
16 AR RL: 4.00  Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood 
carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend, Sistine, into a plan to free a 
caged tiger.
_____ 343820  Fogelin, Adrian  ANNA CASEY’S PLACE IN THE WORLD  $15.57 Pub. Yr: 
2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 3.80  Anna, a twelve-year-old girl with strong 
survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange 
neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is 
not at all sure he wants to stay there.
_____ 343830  Fogelin, Adrian  MY BROTHER’S HERO  $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
10 – 14 AR RL: 3.80  Thirteen-year-old Ben is annoyed by a know-it-all girl who 
threatens the fun of his family’s vacation, but he has other worries, especially 
anxiety about his friend’s reaction when she opens the gift he gave her for 
Christmas.
_____ 374570  George, Jean Craighead  MISSING ‘GATOR OF GUMBO LIMBO: AN ECOLOGICAL 
MYSTERY  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1992 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.60  A homeless 
sixth-grader living in an unspoiled forest in Florida searches for a missing 
alligator destined for official extermination.
_____ 563296  Lenski, Lois  STRAWBERRY GIRL  $17.69 Pub. Yr: 1973 Age Range: 8 – 11 
AR RL: 4.80  Birdie Boyer belonged to a large “strawberry family” who lived in 
Florida on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the state.
_____ 707361 Peck, Robert Newton  BRO: A NOVEL  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 12 
– 16  Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him 
unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug’s older brother feels compelled to 
rescue him from their grandfather’s Florida cattle ranch.
_____ 707362 Peck, Robert Newton  COWBOY GHOST  $19.40 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 12 
– 18 AR RL: 4.50  Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle 
ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his 
older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on 
their first cattle drive together.
_____ 707395  Peck, Robert Newton  HORSE THIEF: A NOVEL  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age 
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.10  In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, 
horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from 
Chickalookee, Florida’s doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.
_____ 740690  Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan  YEARLING  $24.70 Pub. Yr: 1985 Age Range: 
10 –14 AR RL: 5.00  A young boy is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has 
lovingly raised as a pet.
_____ 762815  Romain, Trevor  JEMMA’S JOURNEY  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 6 – 
12 AR RL: 4.10  Jemma plants a tree in honor of a man who was hanged there in the 
1920s.
_____ 921051  Warner, Gertrude Chandler  MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN BEACH  $15.57 Pub. 
Yr: 1994 Age Range: 7 –12 AR RL: 4.20  While visiting the Florida Keys, the Aldens 
encounter suspicious characters and a plot to steal valuable coral.
_____ 949797  Williams, Carol Lynch  CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age 
Range: 10 –14 AR RL: 4.20  When a movie star builds a mansion near her family’s 
diner, Honey develops a friendship with the young daughter that helps Honey realize 
how special her own family is.



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