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January's Sparrow

author: Polacco, Patricia
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

Leigh Ann's Civil War

author: Rinaldi, Ann
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

Million-dollar Throw

author: Lupica, Mike
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

The Walls Have Eyes

author: Dunkle, Clare B
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
subjects: genetic engineering, robots, dogs, families [X]

Ashes

author: Lasky, Kathryn
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

author: Cabot, Meg
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

Powerless

author: Cody, Matthew
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

After Ever After

author: Sonnenblick, Jordan
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

This World We Live In

author: Pfeffer, Susan Beth
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

The Emperor's Code #8

author: Korman, Gordon
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
subjects: families [X], cryptography, genealogy, family life

Theodosia And The Eyes Of Horus

author: La Fevers, R. L
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

Little Blog On The Prairie

author: Bell, Cathleen Davitt
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

author: Kirov, Erica
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

author: Hughes, Dean
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

Storm Warning #9

author: Park, Linda Sue
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
subjects: families [X], cryptography, genealogy, family

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