MINNESOTA
_____ 097153 Bauer, Marion Dane LAND OF THE BUFFALO BONES: THE DIARY OF MARY ANN
ELIZABETH RODGERS, AN ENGLISH GIRL IN MINNESOTA $14.17 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range 9 –
14 AR RL: 5.90 Polly keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota
and of their first year struggling to make a life there.
_____ 297396 Durbin, William BLACKWATER BEN $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 5.10 In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to
work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.
_____ 297415 Durbin, William JOURNAL OF OTTO PELTONEN: A FINNISH IMMIGRANT
$12.77 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range 9 – 14 AR RL: 6.00 In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto
describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America.
_____ 297425 Durbin, William SONG OF SAMPO LAKE $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
10 –16 AR RL: 5.40 In 1900, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and
works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother’s shadow and earn
their father’s respect.
_____ 307405 Ellsworth, Loretta SHROUDING WOMAN $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range:
9 – 14 AR RL: 4.90 When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie
and her younger sister, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially
uncomfortable with her aunt’s calling to help prepare bodies for burial.
_____ 544212 Lasky, Kathryn MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS $9.85 Pub. Yr: 1997
Age Range: 6 – 10 AR RL: 4.50 When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota
logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, Marven finds a special
friend.
_____ 588300 Lovelace, Maud Hart BETSY-TACY $15.59 Pub. Yr: 1968 Age Range: 7 –
10 AR RL: 4.00 Betsy and Tacy are two little girls who become best friends when
Tacy moves into the neighborhood.
_____ 704794 Paulsen, Gary WINTER ROOM $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1989 Age Range: 11 – 14
AR RL: 5.00 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.
_____ 736287 Qualey, Marsha ONE NIGHT $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 12 – 18 AR
RL: 4.50 Nineteen-year-old Kelly, ex-addict niece of a nationally-renowned
Minnesota talk show host, has an unexpected adventure with the visiting prince of a
war-torn Eastern European country.
_____ 808763 Shaw, Janet Beeler CHANGES FOR KIRSTEN: A WINTER STORY $9.73 Pub.
Yr: 1988 Age Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 3.90 A tough Minnesota winter brings many
changes to Kirsten’s frontier life.
_____ 808810 Shaw, Janet Beeler KIRSTEN SNOWBOUND! $7.87 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 3.50 Kirsten and her cousins look after the farm while the
adults go to town for supplies.
_____ 808811 Shaw, Janet Beeler KIRSTEN’S PROMISE $8.57 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range:
7 – 11 Kirsten regrets the promise she makes to a boy she finds near a wrecked
covered wagon.
_____ 924910 Weaver, Will CLAWS: A NOVEL $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 – 16
AR RL: 4.20 Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their
seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent
who is having an affair with the other.
MISSISSIPPI
_____ 230250 Coleman, Evelyn WHITE SOCKS ONLY $10.53 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age Range: 5
– 9 AR RL: 3.60 Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town
during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.
_____ 251503 Crowe, Chris MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955 $17.69 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.50 In Mississippi in 1955, a white sixteen-year-old finds
himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and
murder of an African American.
_____ 440457 Hermes, Patricia SUMMER SECRETS $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 9 –
14 Twelve-year-old Missy tries to learn more about her mother’s odd behavior as
she and her two friends share some secrets during a long, hot summer in Mississippi
during World War II.
_____ 494373 Johnson, Angela I DREAM OF TRAINS $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 5
– 7 AR RL: 3.60 The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train
with the legendary engineer, Casey Jones.
_____ 612354 Matas, Carol WAR WITHIN: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR $16.30 Pub. Yr:
2001 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.10 In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah’s
family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines
her views regarding slavery and the war.
_____ 629669 McMullan, Margaret HOW I FOUND THE STRONG: A CIVIL WAR STORY $15.60
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 10 –14 AR RL: 4.90 Frank wishes he could have gone to
fight for the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing
relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
_____ 668685 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds NIGHT CRY $17.00 Pub. Yr: 1984 Age Range:
10 – 14 AR RL: 5.40 Often left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her
traveling salesman father, Ellen learns through a fearful experience to distinguish
between real and false fears.
_____ 761670 Rodman, Mary Ann YANKEE GIRL $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 3.70 When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi,
in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but she also wants to reach out
to the one black girl in her class.
_____ 873280 Taylor, Mildred D. LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN $17.69 Pub. Yr: 1981
Age Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.70 Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi
during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from
their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
_____ 947698 Wiles, Debbie LOVE, RUBY LAVENDER $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range 8
– 12 AR RL: 4.20 When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer,
nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters,
befriending the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather’s death.
MISSOURI
_____ 135690 Bornstein, Ruth BUTTERFLIES AND LIZARDS, BERYL AND ME $15.57 Pub.
Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 3.70 In 1936, eleven-year-old Charlotte and her
mother move to tiny Valley Junction, Missouri, where Charlotte befriends an
eccentric old woman in spite of her mother’s and others’ warnings.
_____ 378940 Gilbert, Sheri L. LEGACY OF GLORIA RUSSELL $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 8 – 12 Twelve-year-old Billy James tries to come to terms with the sudden
death of his best friend and learns about himself, his own family history, and life
in his small hometown in the Ozark mountains.
_____ 444930 Hill, Pamela Smith VOICE FROM THE BORDER $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.40 Living in the border state of Missouri during the Civil
War, fifteen-year-old Reeves tries to understand her father’s decision regarding
their slaves.
_____ 592073 MacBride, Roger Lea LITTLE FARM IN THE OZARKS $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1994
Age Range 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.50 Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their eight-year-old
daughter Rose continue to work to make Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri their new home.
_____ 677328 Nixon, Joan Lowery DANGEROUS PROMISE $9.55 Pub. Yr: 1996 Age Range:
10 – 16 AR RL: 6.00 After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas,
twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend, Todd Blakely, join the Union army as
musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
_____ 920830 Warner, Gertrude Chandler HAUNTED CABIN MYSTERY $15.57 Pub. Yr:
1991 Age Range: 7 –12 AR RL: 4.00 The Alden children travel on a Mississippi
paddle-wheel steamer to visit a family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri.
MONTANA
_____ 916796 Wallace, Bill EYE OF THE GREAT BEAR $16.30 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range:
9 – 12 AR RL: 4.30 Eleven-year-old Bailey has a reputation for being a coward
until the prophecy given him by
an Indian medicine man in 1899 in Texas comes true when Bailey encounters a bear in
the mountains of Montana.
_____ 972968 Yep, Laurence WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN $15.59 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range 8 – 10 AR RL: 4.00 An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a
ten-year-old girl regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face.
NEBRASKA
_____ 165125 Buchanan, Jane HANK’S STORY $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 4.90 Hank, having come west on an orphan train to live with a
disagreeable couple on a farm in Nebraska, tries to endure his miserable existence
and thinks about running away, as his older brother did.
_____ 171707 Bunting, Eve DANDELIONS $9.85 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL:
3.50 Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the
Nebraska territory.
_____ 236060 Conrad, Pam MY DANIEL $20.30 Pub. Yr: 1989 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR
RL: 4.70 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.
_____ 394580 Gray, Dianne E. HOLDING UP THE EARTH $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age
Range: 9 – 12 AR RL: 5.90 Hope visits her foster mother’s farm and through old
letters, and a diary, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls
her age who lived there.
_____ 395125 Gray, Dianne E. TOGETHER APART $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 5.80 In 1888, after barely surviving a deadly blizzard,
fourteen-year-old Hannah goes to work for a wealthy widow with progressive social
ideas, where she meets Isaac, who is also trying to make a new life for himself.
_____ 536727 LaFaye, A. WORTH $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 8 – 12 After
breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless when his father brings home an
orphan boy to help with the chores on the family farm in nineteenth-century
Nebraska.
_____ 567479 Levinson, Nancy Smiler PRAIRIE FRIENDS $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age
Range: 7 – 9 AR RL: 2.50 When Betsy learns that a new family is coming to the
Nebraska prairie, she hopes they have a daughter who will be her friend.
_____ 770200 Ruckman, Ivy IN CARE OF CASSIE TUCKER $9.30 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range
9 – 12 AR RL: 4.70 When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their
Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven- year-old Cassie learns a lot, including the meaning
of “heathen” and “bigot.”
NEVADA
_____ 361226 Fuchs, Bernie RIDE LIKE THE WIND: A TALE OF THE PONY EXPRESS $16.97
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 5.00 In Nevada in 1861, a young Pony Express
rider races for his life, pursued by seven Paiute warriors who are determined to
drive white settlers out of their territory.
_____ 833255 Snyder, Zilpha Keatley RUNAWAYS $9.55 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 5.40 Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of
Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty
young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
_____ 080826 Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin MISS HICKORY $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1946 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.90 The story of how Miss Hickory, a country woman made of
an applewood twig and a head of hickory nut, survived a severe New Hampshire winter
with the aid of her animal friends.
_____ 088487 Banks, Kate DILLON DILLON $16.30 Pub.Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR
RL: 4.10 During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the
story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons that help him
make sense of his life.
_____127829 Blos, Joan W. GATHERING OF DAYS: A NEW ENGLAND GIRL’S JOURNAL, 1830 –
32 $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1982 Age Range: 11 – 13 AR RL: 6.70 The journal of a
14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily
events in a small New Hampshire town.
_____ 163299 Bruchac, Joseph HEART OF A CHIEF: A NOVEL $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age
Range: 9 – 12 AR RL: 4.70 An Indian boy living on a reservation faces his
father’s alcoholism and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his schools.
_____ 166250 Buckey, Sarah Masters ENEMY IN THE FORT $9.73 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.60 Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the
Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort.
NEW JERSEY
_____ 166255 Buckey, Sarah Masters GANGSTERS AT THE GRAND ATLANTIC $10.18 Pub.
Yr: 2003 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 4.30 Emily goes on a trip to a luxurious hotel
on the New Jersey shore but worries that gangsters have come to the same hotel.
_____ 408556 Gutman, Dan EDISON MYSTERY $16.30 Pub. Yr. 2001 Age Range 9 – 14 AR
RL: 4.80 Thirteen-year-old Robert “Qwerty” Stevens uses the time machine he
finds in his backyard to visit Thomas Edison’s workshop in 1879.
_____ 507563 Karr, Kathleen MAN OF THE FAMILY $16.30 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10
– 16 AR RL: 4.50 During the 1920s, life for Istvan, the eldest child of a
Hungarian-American family, holds both joy and sadness.
_____ 589685 Lubar, David DUNK $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 12 – 16 AR RL:
3.80 While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank the summer
before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend’s serious
illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
_____ 915810 Walker, Sally M. 18 PENNY GOOSE $9.05 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 7 –9
AR RL: 2.70 Eight-year-old Letty attempts to save her pet goose from marauding
British soldiers in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War.
NEW MEXICO
_____ 449050 Hobbs, Will KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1995 Age Range: 8 –
12 AR RL: 5.30 Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling
in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American magic.
_____ 471067 Hulme, Joy N. CLIMBING THE RAINBOW $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range 8
– 12 AR RL: 4.90 Ten-year-old Dora makes a quilt to record her experiences as she
finally starts school and her Mormon family’s efforts to secure homestead rights
for their farm in New Mexico.
_____ 533300 Krumgold, Joseph …AND NOW MIGUEL $17.69 Pub. Yr: 1953 Age Range: 10
– 16 AR RL: 4.80 The story of Miguel Chavez who yearned to go with the men of his
family to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and trade boyhood for manhood.
_____ 882850 Timberlake, Amy DIRTY COWBOY $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 4 – 8
AR RL: 4.20 Telling his dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a
cowboy jumps into a river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing
will change his scent.
_____ 890774 Tripp, Valerie CHANGES FOR JOSEFINA: A WINTER STORY $9.73 Pub. Yr:
1998 Age Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 4.30 When Tia Dolores, a beloved aunt, tells
Josefina and her sisters that she is planning to leave, they try to change her mind.
_____ 890827 Tripp, Valerie HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOSEFINA!: A SPRINGTIME STORY $9.73
Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 4.30 Josefina hopes to become a “curandera”
or healer like Tia Magdalena.
_____ 890852 Tripp, Valerie JOSEFINA LEARNS A LESSON: A SCHOOL STORY $9.73 Pub.
Yr: 1997 Age Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 4.50 Josefina and her sisters do not trust the
changes Tia Dolores brings to the household.
_____ 890854 Tripp, Valerie JOSEFINA’S SONG $7.87 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 7 –
11 AR RL: 3.60 Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to
check on the elderly shepherd who works for him.
_____ 890863 Tripp, Valerie MEET JOSEFINA: AN AMERICAN GIRL $9.73 Pub. Yr: 1997
Age Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 4.10 Nine-year-old Josefina, living in New Mexico in
1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
_____ 890876 Tripp, Valerie REWARD FOR JOSEFINA $7.87 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 7
– 11 AR RL: 4.20 When the family goes to the hills to collect nuts, Josefina hopes
to find the most.
_____ 921068 Warner, Gertrude Chandler MYSTERY OF THE LOST VILLAGE $14.87 Pub.
Yr: 1994 Age Range: 8 - 12 AR RL: 4.10 While visiting a Navajo Indian reservation
in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development.
NEW YORK (Note: There are 122 titles set in NY. Register to use BTSB Book Store at
www.btsb.com and do a subject search for more titles.)
_____ 474525 Hurwitz, Johanna DEAR EMMA $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12
AR RL: 5.40 In letters to a Vermont friend, Dossi, living in New York City in
1910, shares her thoughts about her new brother-in-law, the diphtheria epidemic,
and a factory fire.
_____ 921072 Warner, Gertrude Chandler MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE POOL $14.87 Pub.
Yr: 1994 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.00 While staying at a hotel in New York City,
the Aldens investigate a series of annoying pranks plaguing the management and
guests.
NORTH CAROLINA
_____ 261758 Davis, C.L. CHRISTMAS BARN $14.17 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 14
AR RL: 4.20 In 1930, when a snowstorm destroys their home in the Appalachian
mountains, twelve-year-old Roxie and her family move into the barn and prepare for
a very unusual Christmas celebration.
_____ 288978 Dowell, Frances O’Roark DOVEY COE $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9
– 12 AR RL: 5.40 When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in
1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding
of others, including her deaf brother.
_____ 314527 Ernst, Kathleen BETRAYAL AT CROSS CREEK $10.18 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 9 – 12 AR RL: 5.00 Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro must find out who is
betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the
Revolutionary War.
_____ 366149 Gantos, Jack JACK ADRIFT: FOURTH GRADE WITHOUT A CLUE $16.30 Pub.
Yr: 2003 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 4.90 When his family moves to Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina, nine-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher,
contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.
_____ 465416 Houston, Gloria LITTLEJIM’S DREAMS $16.30 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range:
8 – 12 AR RL: 6.00 Jim Houston sees his hopes of continuing his education fade
when his mother becomes seriously ill.
_____ 661416 Moses, Shelia P. LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 12 – 16 AR RL: 4.60 In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her
dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem.
_____ 685690 O’Connor, Barbara ME AND RUPERT GOODY $15.60 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 4.50 Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man
arrives in her community and claims he’s Uncle Beau’s son, owner of the general
store and her only friend.
_____ 718995 Pinkney, Gloria Jean BACK HOME $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1992 Age Range: 5 –
8 AR RL: 3.50 Eight-year-old Ernestine returns to visit relatives on the North
Carolina farm where she was born.
_____ 884130 Tolan, Stephanie S. SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.50 Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for
home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy,
where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
NORTH DAKOTA
_____ 156200 Brooke, Margaret JAKE’S ORPHAN $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 5.40 When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in
1962, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for
his irrepressible younger brother.
_____ 535198 Kurtz, Jane JAKARTA MISSING $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 10 – 16
AR RL: 4.50 When her sister finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier
in Cottonwood, North Dakota, where she and their parents are living, but she still
longs for their home in Africa.
_____ 668614 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds BLIZZARD’S WAKE $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 5.90 In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits
Grand Forks, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother
inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.
OHIO
_____ 209657 Cheng, Andrea HONEYSUCKLE HOUSE $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 8 –
12 A girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in
common when they meet, but they are both missing their best friends and soon
discover other connections.
_____ 297610 Durrant, Lynda BEADED MOCCASINS: THE STORY OF MARY CAMPBELL $15.60
Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 4.70 After being captured by a group of
Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead
granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to
Ohio.
_____ 379065 Gilbert, Barbara Snow PAPER TRAIL $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range:
12 – 18 AR RL: 5.50 In hiding from the soldiers of God, the Oklahoma
antigovernment militia group whose members have now turned against him and his
parents, a fifteen-year-old boy remembers what it was like to grow up among them.
_____ 415890 Hamilton, Virginia BELLS OF CHRISTMAS $12.10 Pub. Yr: 1989 Age
Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 3.50 Twelve-year-old Jason describes the wonderful Christmas
of 1890 that he and his family celebrate in their home in Springfield, Ohio.
_____ 416160 Hamilton, Virginia M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT $17.70 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age
Range: 12 – 16 AR RL: 4.40 As a slag heap creeps closer to his home in the Ohio
Hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and
fighting for the home they love.
_____ 416350 Hamilton, Virginia TIME PIECES: THE BOOK OF TIMES $16.97 Pub. Yr:
2002 Age Range: 10 –14 AR RL: 3.20 Valena lives in rural Ohio where she and her
cousin Melinda share experiences that include seeing the aurora borealis, surviving
a tornado, and going to a circus.
_____ 591277 Lyon, George Ella GINA JAMIE FATHER BEAR $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age
Range: 11 – 16 AR RL: 3.70 The lives of two young people, one in Ohio and one in
another dimension, intersect as they struggle to hold their single-parent families
together and to explain the changes in their fathers.
_____ 754415 Rinaldi, Ann SECOND BEND IN THE RIVER $9.55 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age
Range: 10 – 13 AR RL: 3.70 In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio Territory,
meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.
_____ 790765 Schumacher, Julie GRASS ANGEL $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 10 –
14 AR RL: 4.00 Rather than go to a spiritual retreat in Oregon with her mother and
brother, eleven-year-old Frances insists on staying in Ohio with her odd aunt, but
she soon begins to worry that the retreat may really be a cult.
_____ 903030 Van Leeuwen, Jean CABON ON TROUBLE CREEK $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2004 Age
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 4.50 In 1830 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish
the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to
fetch their mother and younger siblings.
_____ 953386 Willis, Patricia DANGER ALONG THE OHIO $15.60 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age
Range: 9 – 12 AR RL: 5.40 Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793,
twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness
and to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.
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