2007 6-8 Master List
- Avalon High/Meg Cabot
- HarperCollins (December 27, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0060755865 $16.99
- Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
- Bras & Broomsticks/Sarah Mlynowski
- Delacorte Books for Young Readers (February 22, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0385731817 $15.95
- Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.
- Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two/Joseph Bruchac
- Dial (March 17, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0803729219 $16.99
- After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
- Death Mountain/Sherry Shahan
- Peachtree (August 3, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 1561453536 $15.95
- While traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to survive.
- Defiance/Valerie Hobbs
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (July 14, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0374308470 $16.00
- While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
- Do You Know The Monkey Man?/Dori H. Butler
- Peachtree Jr (March 18, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 1561453404 $14.95
- While searching for the father who left her and her mother ten years ago, thirteen-year-old Samantha begins to believe that the twin sister who supposedly died when they were three years old is still alive.
- Flush/Carl Hiaasen
- Knopf Books for Young Readers (September 13, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0375821821 $16.95
- With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
- Not Exactly Normal/by Devin Brown
- Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (September 15, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0802852831 $15.00
- A sixth-grader at St. Luke's Episcopal School in rural New England sets out to have a mystical experience and learns valuable lessons about himself and the world along the way.
- Red Kayak/Priscilla Cummings
- Dutton Juvenile; [1st ed.] edition (September 27, 2004) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0525473173 $15.99
- Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
- Secrets Of A Civil War Submarine: Solving The Mysteries Of The H. L. Hunley/Sally M. Walker
- Carolrhoda Books (January 2005) (Library Binding) ISBN: 1575058308 $18.95
- Presents the history of the Civil War submarine the H.L. Hunley, including the construction, mysterious sinking, recovery, and restoration.
- Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk/Angie Sage; Mark Zug ill.
- Katherine Tegen Books (March 15, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0060577312 $16.99
- After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier. The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead....
- Small Steps/Louis Sachar
- Delacorte Books for Young Readers (January 10, 2006) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0385733143 $16.95
- Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
- Weedflower/Cynthia Kadohata
- Atheneum (March 28, 2006) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0689865740 $16.95
- After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
- Where the Great Hawk Flies/Liza Ketchum
- Clarion Books (August 15, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0618400850 $16.00
- Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal with past trauma and prejudices before they can help each other in the present. Based on the author's family history. Includes historical notes and notes on the Pequot Indians.
- A Wreath for Emmett Till/Marilyn Nelson; Philippe Lardy ill.
- Houghton Mifflin (April 4, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0618397523 $17.00
- Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a while woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.
updated: Thursday, 03-Aug-2006 14:19:40 EDT