GEORGIA
_____ 039915 Dixon, Franklin W. HIDDEN HARBOR MYSTERY $9.29 Pub. Yr: 1961 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.60 The Hardy boys investigate a dispute over a mysterious
pond and rumors of piracy in Georgia.
_____ 376395 Gibbons, Faye FULL STEAM AHEAD $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 5 –
8 AR RL: 3.10 A young boy and his grandpa ride on a steam locomotive chugging
through Georgia one hot summer day.
_____ 376430 Gibbons, Faye MAMA AND ME AND THE MODEL T $19.40 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age
Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 3.10 Mama gets behind the wheel of the new Model T that her
husband just drove. She proves that she can drive a car as well as the men of the
family.
_____ 505420 Kadohata, Cynthia KIRA-KIRA $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 11 – 14
AR RL: 4.70 Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters
growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s, and the despair felt when one
sister becomes terminally ill.
_____ 685703 O’Connor, Barbara MOONPIE AND IVY $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
10 – 16 AR RL: 4.20 Twelve-year-old Pearl feels hurt, confused, and unwanted when
her wild, irresponsible mother leaves her with Aunt Ivy in a little country house
in Georgia and then disappears.
HAWAII
_____ 215400 Cindrich, Lisa IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALI: A STORY OF THE HAWAIIAN
LEPER COLONY $18.39 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.60 In the late
nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Liliha is sent to the Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony
at Molokai, Hawaii, where she struggles to endure savage living conditions and
people, as well as her own disease.
_____ 273369 Denenberg, Barry EARLY SUNDAY MORNING: THE PEARL HARBOR DIARY OF
AMBER BILLOWS $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.60 In her diary,
twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the
horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
_____ 293481 Duey, Kathleen JANEY G. BLUE: PEARL HARBOR, 1941 $9.55 Pub. Yr:
2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.90 In Hawaii in 1941, sixth grader Janey G. Blue
experiences the terror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
_____ 406067 Guback, Georgia LUKA’S QUILT $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1994 Age Range: 4 – 8
AR RL: 2.60 When Luka’s grandmother makes a traditional Hawaiian quilt for her,
she and Luka disagree over the colors it should include.
_____ 616933 Mazer, Harry BOY AT WAR: A NOVEL OF PEARL HARBOR $15.60 Pub. Yr:
2001 Age Range: 10 –14 AR RL: 3.80 Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese
attack and in the subsequent days he tries to find his father who was serving on
the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
_____ 693444 Osborne, Mary Pope HIGH TIDE IN HAWAII $9.05 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 6 – 9 AR RL: 3.40 Jack and Annie time travel back to a Hawaiian Island of
long ago where they learn to surf and encounter a tsunami.
_____ 740233 Rattigan, Jama Kim DUMPLING SOUP $9.73 Pub. Yr: 1993 Age Range: 4 –
8 AR RL: 3.40 A young Hawaiian girl tries to make dumplings for her family’s New
Year’s celebration.
_____ 771039 Rumford, James DOG-OF-THE-SEA-WAVES: ILLUSTRATIONS AND STORY IN
ENGLISH AND HAWAIIAN $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 5 – 9 AR RL: 3.80 Manu saves
the life of a strange creature he calls Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves and they become fast
friends.
_____ 774781 Salisbury, Graham LORD OF THE DEEP $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
12 – 18 AR RL: 4.00 Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii
teaches thirteen-year-old Mikey about fishing, and about taking risks, making
sacrifices, and facing some of life’s difficult choices.
_____ 774795 Salisbury, Graham UNDER THE BLOOD-RED SUN $9.80 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.00 Tomikazu Nakaji’s biggest concerns are baseball,
homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes
drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
_____ 824145 Slepian, Jan BROCCOLI TAPES $16.99 Pub Yr. 1988 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 4.00 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.
_____ 823652 Skurzynski, Gloria RAGE OF FIRE $10.03 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 10
– 14 AR RL: 4.80 Jack visits Hawaii and meets a Vietnamese boy who is going to
live with his American grandfather.
_______ 916685 Wallace, Bill ALOHA SUMMER $16.27 Pub Yr. 1997 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 4.20 In 1925 fourteen-year-old John, an Oklahoma farm boy, has to accept
many changes in his life when his father takes a job on a pineapple plantation in
Hawaii and the family moves there.
_____ 939420 White, Ellen Emerson KAIULANI: THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS $12.77 Pub.
Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 13 AR RL: 6.40 Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani
Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii’s
monarchy is being undermined by American businessmen.
_____ 920610 Warner, Gertrude Chandler BLACK PEARL MYSTERY $14.87 Pub. Yr: 1998
Age Range: 7 – 12 AR RL: 4.10 The Aldens and cousin, Soo Lee, visit Hawaii and
help out at a pineapple plantation.
IDAHO
_____ 374387 George, Jean Craighead FIRE STORM $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 6
– 10 AR RL: 3.80 Axel enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as
they journey down Idaho’s Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of
a forest fire.
_____ 447551 Hite, Sid KING OF SLIPPERY FALLS $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 12
– 16 AR RL: 5.60 While on a quest to catch a giant trout, sixteen-year-old Lewis
Hinton’s life in a small Idaho town is turned upside down when he learns that he is
adopted and might be a descendant of French royalty.
_____ 572510 Lied, Kate POTATO: A TALE FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION $16.30 Pub. Yr:
1997 Age Range: 5 – 10 AR RL: 3.00 During the “Great Depression,” a family seeking
work finds employment for two weeks digging potatoes in Idaho.
_____ 665100 Murphy, Jim WEST TO A LAND OF PLENTY: THE DIARY OF TERESA ANGELINO
VISCARDI $12.07 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.20 While traveling in
1883 with her Italian-American family to Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a
diary of her experiences.
_____ 703471 Patneaude, David COLDER THAN ICE $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 9
– 12 AR RL: 3.80 Josh Showalter, an insecure and overweight sixth-grader, hopes
for a new start when he transfers to a school in Idaho, but he and his new friends
are soon the target of a cold-hearted bully.
_____ 970860 Wyss, Thelma Hatch TEN MILES FROM WINNEMUCCA $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002
Age Range: 12 – 16 AR RL: 4.50 When his mother and her new husband take off on a
long honeymoon and his new stepbrother throws out his belongings, Martin J. Miller
takes off for Red Rock, Idaho, where he finds a job, enrolls in school, and suffers
from loneliness.
ILLINOIS
_____ 462300 Hoobler, Dorothy 1920S, LUCK $20.43 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 8 – 12
In 1927 the Dixons move from rural Georgia to Chicago, where African Americans
have more opportunities, and there Lorraine meets a famous movie actress and her
little brother Marcus finds that his artistic talents are useful.
_____ 707426 Peck, Richard LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO: A NOVEL IN STORIES $16.29 Pub.
Yr: 1998 Age Range: 9 – 12 AR RL: 5.00 A boy recounts his annual summer trips to
rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their
larger-than-life grandmother.
_____ 707357 Peck, Richard RIVER BETWEEN US $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 –
16 AR RL: 4.90 During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in
two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
_____ 707535 Peck, Richard YEAR DOWN YONDER $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 10 –
16 AR RL: 4.50 During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent
to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes
to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. Sequel to: A Long Way from
Chicago.
_____ 844419 Stark, Ken OH, BROTHER! $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 5 – 9 AR
RL: 3.30 In 1952, two brothers, aged nine and ten, enjoy a year filled with fun
and adventure in the farmlands of northeastern Illinois.
INDIANA
_____ 144278 Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker RUTHIE’S GIFT $9.30 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age
Range 7 – 11 AR RL: 3.50 Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old
Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes
for a sister.
_____ 252263 Cullen, Lynn NELLY IN THE WILDERNESS $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 8 - 12 AR RL: 4.50 In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old
Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold
fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city
wife not long after burying their mother.
_____ 409460 Haddix, Margaret Peterson RUNNING OUT OF TIME $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1995
Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.80 When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village,
thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen
observation by heartless scientists.
_____ 530081 Kornblatt, Marc IZZY’S PLACE $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 4.20 While spending the summer at his grandmother’s Indiana home,
ten-year-old Henry Stone gets help from a new friend in coping with the recent
death of his grandfather and the possibility of his parents getting divorced.
_____ 544184 Lasky, Kathryn CHRISTMAS AFTER ALL: THE GREAT DEPRESSION DAIRY OF
MINNIE SWIFT $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.40 In her
fictionalized journal, Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the
difficult times during the Depression.
_____ 550605 Lawlor, Laurie SCHOOL AT CROOKED CREEK $16.27 Pub.Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 6 – 10 AR RL: 4.00 Six-year-old Beansie dreads his first day of school, but
his resilience surprises even his older sister Louise.
_____ 867614 Swain, Gwenyth CHIG AND THE SECOND SPREAD $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.50 Despite her small stature, eight-year-old Chig makes
large contributions to her southern Indiana community during the Great Depression.
IOWA
_____ 293484 Duey, Kathleen KATIE AND THE MUSTANG: BOOK ONE $9.55 Pub. Yr: 2004
Age Range: 8 – 12 Orphaned nine-year-old Katie Rose develops a bond with an
untamed Mustang on the Stevens’ farm where she lives doing chores all day as she
dreams of going west to find her uncle.
_____ 774159 Rylant, Cynthia OLD TOWN IN THE GREEN GROVES: LAURA INGALLS WILDER’S
LOST LITTLE HOUSE YEARS $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.20 Laura
Ingalls and her family move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a
small town and help manage a hotel.
_____ 782027 Schaefer, Carole Lexa TWO SCARLET SONGBIRDS: A STORY OF ANTON DVORAK
$16.97 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 5 – 8 AR RL: 3.40 While visiting Iowa in 1893,
the Czech composer, Anton Dvorak, hears the song of a scarlet tanager and is
inspired to create a new piece of music.
_____ 811865 Sheth, Kashira BLUE JASMINE $16.12 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 9 – 12
Captures a young girl’s struggles and accomplishments as she moves from India to
Iowa City and learns to navigate two such disparate cultures.
_____ 920729 Warner, Gertrude Chandler CLUE IN THE CORN MAZE $15.57 Pub. Yr:
2004 Age Range: 7 –12 The Aldens find themselves right in the middle of an Iowa
cornfield and a brand new mystery!
KANSAS
_____ 149197 Brenner, Barbara WAGON WHEELS $19.40 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 7 – 9
AR RL: 2.60 Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take
advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
_____ 463376 Hopkinson, Deborah OUR KANSAS HOME $9.05 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 6
– 9 AR RL: 3.60 The Kellers hide a runaway slave girl named Lizzie who is trying
to make her way to freedom in Canada.
_____ 463377 Hopkinson, Deborah PIONEER SUMMER $9.05 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 6
– 9 AR RL: 3.60 Charlie and his family move to the Kansas Territory where Papa
plans to cast his vote for Kansas to enter the Union as a free state.
_____ 491028 Jennings, Richard W. GREAT WHALE OF KANSAS $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 8 – 14 AR RL: 6.50 While digging a hole in his back yard, an
eleven-year-old Kansas boy finds the fossilized remains of a gigantic prehistoric
animal, a discovery that brings both fame and controversy.
_____ 518246 Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody IN THE EYE OF THE STORM $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003
Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.00 Nine-year-old Bill must run the farm and go to
school.
_____ 518233 Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody ONE SKY ABOVE US $21.20 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.70 The Cody family tries to make a home on the Kansas
frontier.
_____ 518234 Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody TO THE FRONTIER $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.70 After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody
and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile
Kansas Territory.
_____ 527665 Kochenderfer, Lee VICTORY GARDEN $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8
– 12 AR RL: 4.10 Hoping to contribute to the war effort during World War II,
eleven-year-old Teresa organizes her friends to care for an ill neighbor’s victory
garden.
_____ 629671 McMullan, Kate FINE START: MEG’S PRAIRIE DIARY $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003
Age Range: 7 – 10 AR RL: 3.40 Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing
her days in the Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school.
_____ 629625 McMullan, Kate FOR THIS LAND: MEG’S PRAIRIE DIARY $16.97 Pub. Yr:
2003 Age Range: 7 – 10 AR RL: 3.60 Meg records in her diary the events from July
to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and faces challenges from fires to
pro-slavery ruffians.
_____ 661655 Moss, Marissa ROSE’S JOURNAL: THE STORY OF A GIRL IN THE GREAT
DEPRESSION $10.55 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.80 Rose keeps a
journal of her family’s difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust
Bowl in 1935.
_____ 693440 Osborne, Mary Pope TWISTER ON TUESDAY $8.85 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 5 – 8 AR RL: 3.20 When Jack and Annie travel back to Kansas, they gain an
understanding of how hard life was for pioneers.
_____ 732609 Prigger, Mary Skillings AUNT MINNIE AND THE TWISTER $15.60 Pub. Yr:
2002 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 3.10 After a tornado rearranges their Kansas house,
Aunt Minnie and the nine nieces and nephews living with her add on a much-needed
new room.
_____ 746237 Reiss, Kathryn RIDDLE OF THE PRAIRIE BRIDE $9.73 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 5.50 In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed
father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead.
_____795390 Seely, Debra GRASSLANDS $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR
RL: 5.30 In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic
Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he
barely remembers and his new stepfamily.
_____ 795410 Seely, Debra LAST OF THE ROUNDUP BOYS $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 11 – 15 AR RL: 5.10 Seventeen-year-old Tom is hired as a cowboy on a cattle
ranch and faces the challenges of both herding work and a forbidden romance with
sixteen-year-old Evie, the ranch owner’s daughter.
_____ 946954 Wilder, Laura Ingalls LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRE $21.20 Pub. Yr:
1953 Age Range: 9 – 13 AR RL: 4.90 This volume from a popular series describes a
pioneer family’s journey to the Kansas frontier.
KENTUCKY
_____ 179925 Byars, Betsy Cromer KEEPER OF THE DOVES $15.59 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.00 In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amen McBee and her four
sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski,
but their father continues to provide for his needs.
_____ 251740 Crum, Shutta MY MOUNTAIN SONG $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 5 – 8
AR RL: 3.00 One summer day on her great-grandparents’ Kentucky farm, a squabble
with her cousin, Melvin, spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will
become her own special song made of memories.
_____ 251714 Crum, Shutta SPITTING IMAGE $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 9 – 13
AR RL: 4.50 In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey
and her friends confront some of life’s questions during their summer vacation in
the late 1960s.
_____ 516078 Ketchum, Liza ORPHAN JOURNEY HOME $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 8
– 12 AR RL: 3.70 In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky,
twelve-year-old Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the
milk sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves.
_____ 940842 White, Ruth TADPOLE $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL:
4.90 In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively
girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
LOUISIANA
_____ 166275 Buckey, Sarah Masters SMUGGLER’S TREASURE $10.18 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.90 Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the
War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler’s treasure.
_____ 293452 Duey, Kathleen AMELINA CARRETT: BAYOU GRAND COEUR, LOUISIANA, 1863
$9.05 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.50 When thirteen-year-old Amelina
saves the life of a young Yankee spy found injured near her Louisiana home in 1863,
the orphaned girl creates a dangerous situation for herself and her uncle.
_____ 461220 Holt, Kimberly Willis MISTER AND ME $14.89 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range:
7 –11 AR RL: 4.10 Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger, but it seems
that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.
_____ 536721 LaFaye, A. STRENGTH OF SAINTS $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 4.80 In 1936, fourteen-year-old Nissa takes a stand against racial
prejudice and for her own integrity and independence.
_____ 677357 Nixon, Joan Lowery HAUNTING $16.27 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 12 – 16
AR RL: 4.70 When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana
countryside, fifteen-year-old Lisa seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts
it.
_____ 916722 Wallace, Bill BLACKWATER SWAMP $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1994 Age Range: 9-12
AR RL: 4.20 Having discovered the true nature of the old woman known as the Witch
of Blackwater Swamp, fifth grader Ted must decide whether to come to her aid when
she is accused of the thefts plaguing his small Louisiana town.
_____ 964615 Woods, Brenda RED ROSE BOX $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 16
AR RL: 4.90 In 1953, Leah Hopper dreams of leaving the poverty and segregation of
her home in Sulphur, Louisiana, and when Aunt Olivia sends train tickets to Los
Angeles as part of her tenth birthday present, Leah gets a first taste of freedom.
MAINE
_____ 045970 Agell, Charlotte WELCOME HOME OR SOMEPLACE LIKE IT $16.97 Pub. Yr:
2003 Age Range: 9 - 15 AR RL: 4.30 Thirteen-year-old Aggie Wing documents the
events of her summer in Ludwig, Maine, where she and her brother stay with their
grandfather while their mother is away doing research.
_____ 094550 Bartlett, Susan SEAL ISLAND SCHOOL $16.29 Pub. Yr. 1999 Age Range:
7 – 10 AR RL: 3.20 On Seal Island off the coast of Maine, a place aswarm with
pets of all kinds, nine-year-old Pru plans to keep her teacher from leaving by
finding her a dog.
_____ 179490 Buzzeo, Toni SEA CHEST $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 5 – 9 AR RL:
5.20 A girl listens as her great-great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, tells
of her childhood living on an island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a
storm.
_____ 267658 Deans, Sis Boulos EVERY DAY AND ALL THE TIME $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.80 Eleven-year-old Emily, still reeling from the car
accident that killed her older brother and badly injured her, uses ballet dancing
and psychotherapy to cope with her parents’ decision to sell their house – the only
place she can still feel and talk to her brother.
_____ 333939 Field, Rachel HITTY: HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS $17.67 Pub. Yr: 1957
Age Range: 9 – 11 AR RL: 7.10 Life and adventures of a wooden 19th century
American doll.
_____ 366627 Garden, Nancy MEETING MELANIE $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 5.40 Summer on her Maine island is enlivened for eleven-year-old Allie
when she befriends Melanie, a new girl with hidden talents and a family secret.
_____ 419875 Harlow, Joan Hiatt SHADOWS ON THE SEA $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.20 In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her
grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy
nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought.
_____ 460473 Holmes, Barbara Ware FOLLOWING FAKE MAN $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 3.70 During his summer in Maine, twelve-year-old Homer,
together with his new friend Roger, is determined to find the truth about himself,
his long-dead father, and a mysterious costumed man.
_____ 463370 Hopkinson, Deborah BIRDIE’S LIGHTHOUSE $10.55 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age
Range: 4 – 9 AR RL: 4.10 The diary of a young girl in 1855 who moves from the
Maine coast to rugged Turtle Island where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper.
_____ 464455 Horvath, Polly CANNING SEASON $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 –
16 AR RL: 5.60 Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her
eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and
encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.
_____ 519813 Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie GIFTS FROM THE SEA $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.30 Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine
lighthouse in the 1850s, find their lives changed when a baby washes ashore and
they decide to keep her.
_____ 522880 Kjelgaard, Jim STORMY $9.80 Pub. Yr: 1986 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL:
6.90 A determined boy and his courageous dog struggle to survive against all odds.
_____ 566745 Levin, Betty THAT’LL DO, MOSS $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 4.30 During the summer that Diane lives with a family as their
babysitter, she works to establish rapport with the border collie, Moss, as
everyone tries to cope with several crises.
_____ 606633 Martin, Jacqueline Briggs GRANDMOTHER BRYANT’S POCKET $10.03 Pub.
Yr: 1996 Age Range: 5 – 9 AR RL: 4.50 Suffering from nightmares after her dog is
killed in a fire, a young girl in 18th-century Maine goes to live with her
grandparents.
_____ 619365 McCloskey, Robert ONE MORNING IN MAINE $10.55 Pub. Yr: 1980 Age
Range: 5 – 8 AR RL: 4.40 A family’s experiences in Maine one day include Sally’s
losing a tooth and a visit to the village.
_____ 619410 McCloskey, Robert TIME OF WONDER $10.41 Pub. Yr: 1985 Age Range: 6
– 8 AR RL: 5.10 Follows the activities of two children spending their summer
vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
_____ 786816 Schmidt, Gary D. LIZZIE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY $15.60 Pub.
Yr: 2004 Age Range: 11 – 15 In 1911, Turner dislikes his new home in Maine, but
things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a nearby island
community.
_____ 876551 Testa, Maria SOME KIND OF PRIDE $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8
–12 AR RL: 4.40 Named after the greatest baseball player of all times,
eleven-year-old Ruth dreams of becoming a major league baseball player until she
overhears her father lamenting the fact that she is a girl.
_____ 914330 Wait, Lea STOPPING TO HOME $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 4.50 In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother,
Seth, find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine,
and help her discover a way to support them all.
MARYLAND
_____ 252302 Cummings, Priscilla FACE FIRST $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 –
16 AR RL: 4.80 Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends
and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car
accident near her home on Maryland’s Kent Island.
_____ 410492 Hahn, Mary Downing ANNA ON THE FARM $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range:
7 – 10 AR RL: 4.00 Nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and
uncle’s Beltsville, Maryland, farm until she meets Theodore, who calls her a “city
slicker” and spurs her to prove that she’s just as clever and brave as he is.
_____ 410612 Hahn, Mary Downing PROMISES TO THE DEAD $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age
Range 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.50 Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of
the Civil War.
_____ 754373 Rinaldi, Ann AMELIA’S WAR $16.27 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 14
AR RL: 4.00 When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland,
unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a
way to save the town.
MASSACHUSETTS
_____ 074970 Atkins, Jeannine BECOMING LITTLE WOMEN: A NOVEL ABOUT LOUISA MAY AT
FRUITLANDS $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.50 Relates events in
author Louisa May Alcott’s tenth year, 1843, when her family moved from Boston to a
farm where they try to establish a community based on equality and love.
_____ 273372 Denenberg, Barry MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL: THE DIARY OF BESS
BRENNAN $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 6.00 In 1932, a
twelve-year-old girl keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she
describes life at Perkins School for the Blind.
_____ 402040 Griffin, Adele AMANDINE $16.12 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR
RL: 4.70 Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not
anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.
_____ 420090 Harness, Cheryl THREE YOUNG PILGRIMS $16.30 Pub. Yr: 1992 Age
Range: 5 – 10 AR RL: 4.40 Mary, Remember, and Bartholomew are among the pilgrims
who survive the harsh early years in America and see New Plymouth grow into a
prosperous colony.
_____ 474499 Hurst, Carol Otis IN PLAIN SIGHT $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10
– 14 AR RL: 4.30 Eleven-year-old Sarah copes with emotional and economic hardships
when her beloved but impulsive father leaves the family and their Massachusetts
farm to prospect for gold in California.
_____ 507552 Karr, Kathleen GILBERT & SULLIVAN SET ME FREE $16.12 Pub. Yr: 2003
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 4.90 During the early 1900s, an inmate’s life at
Massachusetts’ Sherborn Prison for Women changes for the better after she becomes a
member of the prison choir and participates in the production of “The Pirates of
Penzance.”
_____ 544211 Lasky, Kathryn JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD: THE DIARY OF REMEMBER
PATIENCE WHIPPLE $12.77 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 6.00 Mem presents
a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and
their first year in the New World.
_____ 703453 Paterson, John BLUEBERRIES FOR THE QUEEN $17.69 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 3.40 In the summer of 1942, when Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands lives near his house in Massachusetts, William takes her some
blueberries he has picked.
_____ 743820 Rees, Celia WITCH CHILD $11.05 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 12 – 16 AR
RL: 6.00 In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage
from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch near Salem,
Massachusetts.
_____ 743817 Rees, Douglas VAMPIRE HIGH $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 – 16
AR RL: 4.00 When his family moves to New Sodom, Massachusetts, and Cody enters
Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired,
pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him
around campus on the first day.
_____ 754400 Rinaldi, Ann JOURNAL OF JASPER JONATHAN PIERCE: A PILGRIM BOY
$12.77 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 4.90 A servant keeps a journal of
his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth in 1620 and
1621.
_____ 831120 Smith, Patricia Clark WEETAMOO: HEART OF THE POCASSETS $12.65 Pub.
Yr: 2003 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.80 The 1653 – 1654 diary of a
fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl destined to become a leader of her tribe.
_____ 861501 Strohmeier, Lenice MINGO $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 10 AR
RL: 4.40 In 1771, seven-year-old Olivia learns about freedom from her father’s
slave, Mingo, who has been promised that he’ll be freed if the tide is ever low
enough that he can walk to a certain spot offshore.
_____ 916920 Wallace-Brodeur, Ruth BLUE EYES BETTER $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 3.80 When her older brother is killed in an accident,
ten-year-old Tessa and her parents find it difficult to overcome their grief and
return to living normally.
_____ 922398 Waters, Kate ON THE MAYFLOWER: VOYAGE OF THE SHIP’S APPRENTICE AND A
PASSENGER GIRL $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age Range: 8 – 11 A twelve-year-old
apprentice and an eight-year-old passenger experience the 1620 voyage of the
Mayflower.
_____ 937726 Whelan, Gloria FRUITLANDS: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT MADE PERFECT $16.29
Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.30 Fictional diary entries recount the
true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott’s family to establish a utopian community
known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.
_____ 947755 Wiley, Melissa ROAD FROM ROXBURY $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8
– 12 AR RL: 5.50 Seven-year-old Charlotte Tucker begins to sense the big world
around Roxbury, Massachusetts, and wonder when she will get to see it.
_____ 973440 Yolen, Jane LETTING SWIFT RIVER GO $9.75 Pub. Yr: 1992 Age Range: 4
– 8 AR: RL: 4.40 Relates Sally Jane’s experience of changing times in rural
America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western
Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
MICHIGAN
_____ 466307 Howard, Ellen LOG CABIN CHURCH $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 4 –
8 AR RL: 3.10 On the Michigan frontier, while the adults disagree over whether
there are enough settlers to build a church, a girl tries to recall what church is
all about.
_____ 723333 Polacco, Patricia MRS. MACK $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 4 – 8
AR RL: 4.00 The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying
with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends
with a perfect horse.
_____ 937725 Whelan, Gloria NEXT SPRING AN ORIOLE $9.05 Pub. Yr: 1987 Age Range:
7 – 9 AR RL: 4.50 In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered
wagon to the Michigan frontier.
_____ 938191 Whelan, Gloria SHADOW OF THE WOLF $9.05 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 6
– 9 AR RL: 4.40 In 1841 thirteen-year-old Libby and her family begin a new life on
the shores of Lake Michigan, where her father works as a surveyor for the Ottawa
Indians.
_____ 938230 Whelan, Gloria WANIGAN: A LIFE ON THE RIVER $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2002
Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.10 In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel survives a year of
adventure that includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of
Michigan lumbermen moving logs.
_____ 949612 Willey, Margaret CLEVER BEATRICE $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 3
– 7 AR RL: 3.80 A small, but clever, young girl outwits a rich giant and wins all
his gold.
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