January's Sparrow
After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation, traveling north through the Underground Railroad in search of freedom.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 81
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: underground railroad, slavery, fugitive slaves, liberty, families [X], african americans, women, freedom, family life, historical fiction, historical fiction, picture books for children
Leigh Ann's Civil War
Spunky Leigh Ann Conners, eleven years old when the Civil War erupts, faces the biggest challenge of her life when she is arrested and charged as a traitor after placing a French flag on top of the family mill in Roswell, Georgia, in hopes of convincing the invading Yankees to spare the business.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: brothers and sisters, families [X], family life, historical fiction, united states, georgia, siblings, confederate states of america
Million-dollar Throw
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 138
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: football, contests, blind, people with disabilities, friendship, massachusetts, family life, football stories, family, families [X]
The Walls Have Eyes
Having spirited his parents out of their domed suburb, Martin goes to the school for help and finds that his sister, Cassie, and the other Wonder Babies are gone again, but his AllDog, Chip, may hold the means to save them all.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Ashes
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 61
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
Being Nikki
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: models (persons), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, identity (psychology), corporations, families [X], new york (n.y.)
Powerless
Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: supernatural, bullying, moving, household, schools, families [X], pennsylvania, bullies, moving, school stories, family life, family, detective and mystery stories, paranormal fiction, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, mystery fiction
After Ever After
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome after effects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: cancer, middle schools, schools, best friends, friendship, new jersey, school stories, family life, brothers, family, families [X]
This World We Live In
Miranda Evans, her two brothers, and their mother struggle for survival a year after the moon's collision with a meteor altered the climate forever, and while things become more difficult with the arrival of six more people, including her father and stepmother, a new disaster threatens to derail the new lives they have been trying to build.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: survival skills, families [X], survival, family life, diaries, science fiction, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, family, castaways, diary fiction, science fiction
The Emperor's Code #8
Amy and Dan are separated while trying to retrieve a clue which is guarded by thousands of soldiers and worry they cannot succeed apart.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 98
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
Theodosia And The Eyes Of Horus
Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every black-cloaked occultist in London.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: museums, magic, blessing and cursing, families [X], london (england), great britain, adventure stories
Little Blog On The Prairie
Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
The Pyramid Of Souls
Thirteen-year-old Nick Rostov and his family of Russian Magickeepers battle the evil Shadowkeepers who are in search of a miniature pyramid of souls once belonging to Edgar Allan Poe.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Missing In Action
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: prejudices, japanese americans, racially mixed people, baseball, grandparents, utah, baseball stories, world war, 1939-1945, families [X], family life, historical fiction, war fiction, war stories, adventure fiction
Storm Warning #9
Amy and Dan Cahill continue to hunt for clues while reeling from the knowledge of what happened the night their parents died, and they wonder if the end is near as they try to learn the secret behind Grace Cahill's alternate will.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630