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Eight seconds Eight seconds Jean Ferris,Jean Ferris Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay. OL11703898W
Alice on the outside Alice on the outside Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change. OL13398W
Walker's Crossing Walker's Crossing Phyllis Reynolds Naylor While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement. OL13468W
The EGGbees The EGGbees Olivia Echeverria-Bis On a faraway planet, the EGGerson family is visited by relatives from a nearby country, MEGGxico, and although some of their shells are brown and some are white, the cousins soon discover that they h… OL13609025W
Saturnalia Saturnalia Paul Fleischman In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to… OL13680W
Wind on the River Wind on the River Laurie Lawlor In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, wher… OL145244W
Color Me Dark Color Me Dark Patricia McKissack An ordinary girl living extraordinary events. Her family, Love, characterizes her comfortable, secure world in Bradford Corners, TN. Until Uncle Pace is murdered by the KKK. The Author gradually e… OL14860530W
Bernie Magruder & the bats in the belfry Bernie Magruder & the bats in the belfry Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous In… OL15134011W
The mystery of the poison pen The mystery of the poison pen Gayle G. Roper Twelve-year-old Alysha, an African American, is appalled that someone in her church would leave poison pen notes about a baby with AIDS, and is determined to find the culprit, while also facing more … OL15204181W
Brains for lunch Brains for lunch K. A. Holt At a middle school where zombies, blood-sucking chupacabras, and humans never mingle, "lifer" Siobhan and Loeb, a zombie who likes to write haiku, share an attraction. Story written entirely in haiku. OL15488082W
Mayfield Crossing Mayfield Crossing Vaunda Micheaux Nelson When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for … OL15758861W
Journey home Journey home Yoshiko Uchida A Japanese American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family tr… OL15837457W
Torchlight Torchlight Carol Otis Hurst In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on h… OL15845571W
A perfect snow A perfect snow Nora Martin Seventeen-year-old Ben must deal with a violent white-supremacy hate group in his small Montana town because his father and his friends are involved with it. OL15856363W
How huge the night How huge the night Heather Munn In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they… OL15901304W
Gran at Coalgate Gran at Coalgate Winifred Cawley Jinnie, a straight-laced English school-girl of the twenties, learns about life when she goes to stay with her grandmother in the north. OL15927536W
Edgar Allan Edgar Allan John Neufeld When the Fickett family decides to adopt a little black boy, they are faced with threats, angry phone calls, a burning cross on the lawn, and an ultimatum from their oldest daughter. OL16037893W
Circle of fire Circle of fire William H. Hooks Shortly before Christmas, 1936, eleven-year-old Harrison overhears a notorious local bigot planning a Ku Klux Klan raid on a band of Irish tinkers camped nearby and realizes he must do something to p… OL16039413W
Maria takes a stand Maria takes a stand Norma Jean Lutz In 1914, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the war in Europe increases general hostility towards German Americans, twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt finds inspiration in the women's suffrage movement and dec… OL16071116W
Dinosaur trouble Dinosaur trouble Dick King-Smith Nosy and Banty are friends, so it's a pity that their families are so rude about each other. But when the terrible Tyrannosaurus rex arrives, the dinosaur families join forces to help one another out… OL16278175W
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