Beware! These Animals Are Poison! -- by Barbara Brenner (Author) (Book - Child)
"Discusses various facts about poisonous animals with emphasis on how they deliver their venom to other animals as a means of survival." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
How I Learned To Think Things Through -- by Lawrence Shapiro (Author) (Book - Child)
"This storybook is aboiut Emily and her best friend Andrew. They are impulsive children, and think that no one will really mind if they take candy from the drug store, cheat on their homework, or mess...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
Bridge to Terabithia -- by Katherine Paterson (Author) (Book - Child)
"The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He's been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler -- by E.L. Konigsburg (Author) (Book - Child)
"After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Conrad's War -- by Andrew Davies (Author) (Book - Child)
"Currently fascinated with wars, army, killing, and guns, Conrad becomes convinced that through dreams or time warp he is experiencing action in a past war." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Last Was Lloyd -- by Doris Smith (Author) (Book - Child)
"A friendless, overweight twelve-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the monotonous pattern of his life." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Sticks and Stones -- by Lynn Hall (Author) (Book - Child)
"A seventeen-year-old boy's life is nearly destroyed when a rumor that he is homosexual is started in his new high school." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Fledgling -- by Jane Langton (Author) (Book - Child)
"Georgie lives in an unconventional household, but even her rather unusual family does not truly understand her intense belief that she can fly. Then a Canadian goose enters her life. His are the...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beginnings: Creation Myths of the World -- by Penelope Farmer (Author) (Book - Child)
"Stories and poems from many countries explaining the Creation and the different ways people have tried to interpret their world and experiences from the beginning of time." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Ghosts of Departure Point -- by Eve Bunting (Author) (Book - Child)
"After a car plunges over a dangerous cliff, killing its four teenage occupants, one of the four returns as a ghost, tormented by guilt and wishing somehow to prevent another tragedy." From Card...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)