"Career Discovery Encyclopedia" by Carol Summerfield, editor

"Childcraft - Scientists and Inventors" the Childcraft How and Why Library

"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

"The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

"Some of The Kinder Planets" by Tim Wynne-Jones

"Mistakes That Worked" by Charlotte Jones

" The Bone Detectives" by Donna Jackson

"Call of The Wild" by Jack London

"Life Before Man" by Zdenek Spiner

The Plants We Eat" by Millicent Selsam

"So You Have To Do A Science Project" by ?

"Animals That Frighten People" by Dorothy Shuttleworth

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

The Secret School by Avi
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.

In the Shade of the Nispero Tree by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Because her mother wants her to be part of the world of high society in their native Puerto Rico, nine-year-old Teresa attends a private school but loses her best friend.

Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.

Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's objections.

Tomorrowland by Michael Cart
A collection of ten stories about the future, by such authors as Lois Lowry, Katherine Paterson, and Jon Scieszka.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Fatality by Caroline Cooney
When Rose Lymond was invited to spend a weekend at Angelica's magnificent summer home, she had plans to just enjoy herself. But somebody ended up dead. Now, four years later, the police have reopened the case, and have the diary Rose kept all through that time.

Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.

Witness by Karen Hesse
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes
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.
Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.

No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.

Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

Fair Weather by Richard Peck
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Tru Confessions by Janet Tashjian
Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to create a television show.

A Sailor Returns by Theodore Taylor
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.

Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
 

Skellig by David Almond
Unhappy about his baby sister’s illness and the chaos of moving, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.

Perloo the Bold by Avi
Perloo, a peaceful scholar who has been chosen to succeed Jolaine as leader of the furry underground people called the Montmers, finds himself in danger when Jolaine dies and her evil son seizes control of the burrow.

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin to work as a waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner’s political campaign to oust the town’s corrupt mayor.

Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac
Sacajawea, a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William and Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and the heir to the throne.

Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney
When a girl she met at an inner city 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.

The Boggart by Susan Cooper
After visiting the castle in Scotland that her family has inherited and returning to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentaly brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.

Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland’s potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan’s courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.

Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix
What if people could grow younger each year instead of older? In the year 2001, nursing home residents Melly and Anny Beth, aged 100 and 103, are given just such an opportunity.

The Maze by Will Hobbs
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.

The Adventures of Blue Avenger by Norma Howe
On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides – or does he? - to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world.

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
Follow the adventures of a young, mute boy, Neb, and his faithful talking Labrador who together survive the destruction of the doomed ship the Flying Dutchman. They set off on an eternal journey of their own, braving icy wind and waves to arrive at strange shores and explore new places and times.

Heaven by Angela Johnson
Fourteen-year-old Marley’s seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

F is for Fabuloso by Marie G. Lee
Seventh-grader Jin-Ha finds her adjustment to life in America complicated by her mother’s difficulty in learning to speak English.

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
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.

The Last Book in the Universe by W.R. Philbrick
After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.

Holes by Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in Texas where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

The Cookie Company by Ross Venokur
Thirteen-year-old Alex, the unluckiest boy alive, opens an unusual fortune cookie and is whisked into another world, where he is threatened by the evil game show hostess Cyprss Vine.

Sort of Forever by Sally Warner
Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nana's cancer.

Later, Gator by Lawrence Yep
Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more when he buys his younger brother an alligator for his birthday.

Non-Fiction

Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets

The Way Things Never Were by Norman Finkelstein

Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey

A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer

Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder by Tony Hawk

The Illustrated Book of Myths by Neil Philip

In the Line of Fire: President’s Lives at Stake by Judith St. George

The Greatest: Muhammed Ali by W.D. Myers

In the Line of Fire: President’s Lives at Stake by Judith St. George

Our Century in Pictures for Young People