2005 6-8 Master List
- Battle of Jericho / Sharon M. Draper.
- Atheneum, 2003. 297p.
- After joining what seems to be a reputable school club, a high school junior and his cousin suffer the tragic ramifications of acceptance through hazing.
- The Beast / Walter Dean Myers.
- Scholastic Press, 2003. 170p.
- A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school.
- Brian's Hunt / Gary Paulsen.
- Wendy Lamb Books, 2004. 103p.
- Two years after having a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian Robeson returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a treacherous bear. Final book in the Hatchet series.
- Dead Girls Don't Write Letters / Gail Giles.
- Roaring Brook Press, 2003. 136p.
- Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister, Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.
- Eragon / Christopher Paolini.
- Knopf, 2003. 509p.
- In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power. Story is peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
- Kissing the Rain / Kevin Brooks.
- Scholastic, 2004. 320p.
- Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and fight that results in a murder.
- Olive's Ocean / Kevin Henkes.
- Greenwillo, 2003. 217p.
- On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
- The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place / E. L. Konigsburg.
- Atheneum, 2004. 296p.
- Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her great-uncles have been building in their backyard for over forty years.
- Pirates!: The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates / Celia Rees.
- Bloomsbury, 2003. 379p.
- In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
- The River Between Us / Richard Peck.
- Dial Books, 2003. 164p.
- 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.
- Ruby Electric / Theresa Nelson.
- Atheneum, 2003. 264p.
- Twelve-year-old Californian Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence.
- The Silent Boy / Lois Lowry.
- Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 178p.
- Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends Jacob, a gentle, retarded boy when events cause their lives to take a tragic and unexpected turn.
- Spitting Image / Shutta Crum.
- Clarion, 2003. 218p.
- Kentucky author, Shutta Crum, tells the intriguing story of twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey as she confronts the mysteries of her past in small town Baylor, Kentucky during the late 1960s.
- Surviving the Applewhites / Stephanie S. Tolan.
- HarperCollins, 2002. 216p.
- 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.
- Swear to Howdy / Wendelin Van Draanen.
- Thorndike Press, 2004. 126p.
- Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship full of laughter and tears.
updated: Thursday, 03-Aug-2006 14:18:24 EDT