The Dark Is Rising
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: fantasy, england, newbery, extreme read-different worlds [X], stanton, will (fictitious character), good and evil, stanton, will (fictional character), fantasy fiction, large type books, space and time, england, audiobooks, children's audiobooks, fantasy fiction, great britain
The Blue Sword
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
subjects: fantasy, science fiction, newbery, extreme read-different worlds [X], women, fantasy fiction, magic
Among The Hidden
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 532
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: population, science fiction, extreme read-different worlds [X], audiobook, playaway, audiobooks, children, teenagers, children's audiobooks, science fiction
Mariel Of Redwall
The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: mice, animals, adventure and adventurers, fantasy, extreme read-different worlds [X], animals, redwall abbey (imaginary place), pirates, fantasy fiction, fantasy fiction
Redwall
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 79
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: mice, animals, fantasy, extreme read-different worlds [X], animals, badgers, fantasy fiction
Heir Apparent
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 131
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
Shabanu
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 77
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: sex role, cholistan desert (pakistan), pakistan, readers rule, extreme read-different worlds [X], newbery, girls, arranged marriage, coming of age, audiobooks, sex role
Year Of Impossible Goodbyes
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
Haveli
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
The Devil's Arithmetic
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 238
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: jews, concentration camps, time travel, extreme read-different worlds [X], space and time, poland, yolen, jane, holocaust, 1939-1945, films for the hearing impaired, holocaust, world war ii, fiction, occupation of poland (1939-1945), holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), children's audiobooks, young adult fiction
Turnabout
Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger, until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they are too young to do it themselves.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: science, aging, science fiction, extreme read-different worlds [X], large type books, large print books
The Exchange Student
When her mother arranges to host one of the young people coming to Earth from Chela, Daria is both pleased and intrigued by the keen interest shown by the Chelan in her work breeding endangered species.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: wildlife conservation, endangered species, extraterrestrial beings, extreme read-different worlds [X]
Goose Chase
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: orphans, geese, kings, queens, rulers, etc, fairy tales, extreme read-different worlds [X]
Paint By Magic
After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Conner is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
The Place At The Edge Of The Earth
At first unhappy with a new stepfather and a new school on a military base that was once an off-reservation boarding school for Indian children, thirteen-year-old Jenny finds herself changing as she makes two new friends, one the son of the base commander and the other the ghost of Jonah Flying Cloud, who died there in 1880.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: ghosts, teton indians, indians of north america, schools, stepfathers, extreme read-different worlds [X]