The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by AVI
(J AVI)
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.

Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbit
(J BABBIT, NAT)
The Tuck family is put into an agonizing situation when they discover that others share the secret about their special spring.

The Indian in the Cupboard
by Lynne Reid Banks
(J BANKS, LYN)
A boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a key for his birthday and has many adventures when the Indian comes to life.

Charley Skedaddle
by Patricia Beatty
(J BEATTY, PAT)
The adventures of a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City during the Civil War.

A String in the Harp
by Nancy Bond
(J BOND, NAN)
The story of three children who find an ancient harp-tuning key that takes one of them back to the time of the sixth-century.

The Children of Green Knowe
by L.M. Boston
(J BOSTON, L.M.)
Tolly goes to live with his great-grandmother  and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century

The Enormous Egg
by Oliver Butterworth
(J BUTTERWORTH, OLI)
When Nate discovers that one of his family's hens has laid a large egg, no one is prepared for what comes out when it hatches.

The Court of the Stone Children
by Eleanor Cameron
(J CAMERON, ELE)
Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves an
ancient murder mystery.

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
by Beverly Cleary
(J CLEARY, BEV)
The story of a reckless young mouse named Ralph who makes friends with a boy and discovers the joys and dangers of motorcycling.

Where the Lilies Bloom
by Vera Cleaver
(J CLEAVER, VER)
In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.

The Dark is Rising
by Susan Cooper
(J COOPER, SUS)
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs,

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
by Bruce Coville
(J COVILLE, BRU)
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.

Ordinary Jack
by Helen Cresswell
(J CRESSWELL, HEL)
Jack, the only "ordinary" member of the Bagthorpe family, concocts a scheme to distinguish himself as a modern-day prophet.

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
by Alice Dalgliesh
(J DALGLIESH, ALI)
A young boy is sent on an errand over Hemlock Mountain and completes his errand with the help of a big iron pot that he borrows.

Half Magic
by Edward Eager
(J EAGER, EDW)
Four children looking forward to an ordinary summer enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin.

The Great Brain
by John Dennis Fitzgerald
(J FITZGERALD, JOH)
The exploits of the Great Brain are described by his younger brother, who is often the victim of the Great Brain's schemes.

Humbug Mountain
by Sid Fleischman (J FLEISCHMAN, SID)
A young boy and his wandering family foil villains and nasty varmints as they make a home for themselves on the banks of the Missouri River.

One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox
(J FOX, PAU)
An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.

Stone Fox
by John Reynolds Gardiner
(J GARDINER, JOH)
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
(J GEORGE, JEA)
Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley, whose hero is Henry David Thoreau, packs up and leaves home for the challenge of wilderness living.

Wait Till Helen Comes
by Mary Downing Hahn
(J HAHN, MAR)
Molly and Michael dislike their new stepsister Heather but realize they have to save her when she almost follows a ghost child to her doom.

The Planet of Junior Brown
by Virginia Hamilton
(J HAMILTON, VIR)
Buddy Clark, a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, takes on the responsibility of protecting his friend.

Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
(J LINDGREN, AST)
The escapades of a little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Lord
(J LORD, BET)
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, at home, and by her love for baseball.

The Fledgling
by Jane Langton
(J LANGTON, JAN)
Georgie's hope, to be able to fly, is fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose.

A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula Le Guin
(YA LEGUIN, URS)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

The Pushcart War
by Jean Merrill
(J MERRILL, JEA)
The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings attention to the mounting problems of traffic.

Gentle Ben
by Walt Morey
(J MOREY, WAL)
Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.

Soup & Me
by Robert Newton Peck
(J PECK, ROB)
The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.

Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
(J RAWLS, WIL)
A young boy living in the Ozarks becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

How to Eat Fried Worms
by Thomas Rockwell
(J ROCKWELL, THO)
Billy wants a dirt bike so badly he makes a bet with his friends that he'll eat a worm every day for fifteen days.

The Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
(J SELDEN, GEO)
The adventures of a cricket who arrives in New York and is befriended by a mouse and a cat.

Chocolate Fever
by Robert Kimmel Smith
(J SMITH, ROB)
Henry Green eats chocolate on everything, until one day he breaks out in chocolate freckles.

The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
(J SNYDER, ZIL)
A group of children become entranced with the study of Egypt.

Abel’s Island
by William Steig
(J STEIG, WIL)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, struggles to survive and return to his home.

All of a Kind Family
by Sydney Taylor
(J TAYLOR, SYD)
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.

Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
(J YEP, LAU)
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

The Devil’s Arithmetic
by Jane Yolen
(J YOLEN, JAN)
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.