The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
ISBN 0064410323 Harper Paperback 320 pgs 
WB Price: $11.95
(8 to 13) "The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in."Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie's cousin Cody isn't sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie's and Cody's travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as "The Wanderer sails toward its destination -- and its passengers search for their places in the world. 

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
ISBN 0689856393 Atheneum Hardcover 244 pgs WB Price: $28.95
(12+)
EAN 9780689856402 Aladdin Paperback WB Price: $11.95 
kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is "kira-kira" because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is "kira-kira" for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- "kira-kira" -- in the future. Winner of Newbery Medal 2005

Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
ISBN 1416975667  EAN: 9781416975663 Simon Paperback (12+) 
WB Price: $10.95
Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to.That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor. Other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor, even if, like Sumiko, they were born in the United States! As suspicions grow, Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts in the United States. The vivid color of her previous life is gone forever, and now dust storms regularly choke the sky and seep into every crack of the military barrack that is her new "home."Sumiko soon discovers that the camp is on an Indian reservation and that the Japanese are as unwanted there as they'd been at home. But then she meets a young Mohave boy who might just become her first real friend...if he can ever stop being angry about the fact that the internment camp is on his tribe's land.With searing insight and clarity, Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Kadohata explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young girl who yearns to belong. Weedflower is the story of the rewards and challenges of a friendship across the racial divide, as well as the based-on-real-life story of how the meeting of Japanese Americans and Native Americans changed the future of both.272 pgs

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
ISBN 0440419395 Yearling Paperback WB Price: $11.95
(10 to 13) Unfortunately, Roy's first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn't been sinking his thumbs into Roy's temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from the school bus, carried no books, and-here's the odd part-wore no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy sets himself on the boy's trail. The chase introduces him to potty-trained alligators, a fake-fart champion, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes with unnaturally sparkling tails.Roy has most definitely arrived in Carl Hiaasen's Florida. Winner of Newbery Honor Book 2003 Winner of Newbery Honor Book 2003,19.46 cms L x 13 cms W 292 pgs

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
ISBN 0142404241 EAN 9780142404249 Speak Paperback
WB Price: $13.95 (12 to 17) 
Food is in sixteen-year-old Hope's blood. With her Aunt Addie, diner cook extraordinaire, she travels the States and hones her waitressing skills, impressing hungry people everywhere. But following the tides of comfort food dining means Hope never gets to stay in one place very long, and that's tough. This latest move threatens to be the hardest yet, leaving the excitement of New York City to run a diner in rural Wisconsin. Hope doesn't expect to feel at home there, just as she doesn't expect to get caught up in town politics. But her occupation has taught her to read people, and instinct tells her to trust G. T. Stoop, the straight- shooting owner of the Welcome Stairways Diner, whose leukemia makes his entry into a heated mayoral race a surprise to everyone. What follows--as Hope meets politics, corruption, and her past head-on--is at the heart of this memorable, laugh-out-loud story about honor, trust, and serving up your very best. Praise for Hope Was Here...  Winner of Newbery Honor Book 2001 ; 20.8 cms L x 13.8 cms W (0.20 kgs) 186 pages

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
ISBN 0142300705 EAN 9780142300701 Puffin Paperback 
WB Price: $11.95 (10 to 13) 
Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors -- and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out ... better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. Winner of Newbery Medal  2001; 19.8 cms L x 13. cms W (0.12 kgs) 144 pages

Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
ISBN 0698118928 EAN 9780698118928 Penguin Paperback
WB Price: $11.95 (10 to 13) 
After their baby sister dies, Willa Jo and Little Sister's family falls apart. Their mother sinks deep into an unshakable depression, so the two older girls are sent to live with their strict Aunt Patty and her husband. Since Little Sister refuses to talk, Willa Jo has to try and make things right in their new home, but she can't stop missing her mother or the life the four of them had before Baby died. Aunt Patty is trying as hard as she can, but she doesn't really understand what Willa Jo and Little Sister are trying to deal with-until the morning the two girls climb up to the roof of her house, and stay there. Audrey Couloumbis's masterful debut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, and Betsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans it is a story you will never forget. Winner of Newbery Honor Book  2000; 19.4 cms L x 12.8 cms W (0.17 kgs) 211 pages

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
ISBN 0399238611 Putnam Hardcover (11 to 13) 228 pgs WB Price: $28.95
Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the Warden, he knows right off she's trouble. But she's also strangely irresistible. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents' expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away. Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families, Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life.Winner of Newbery Honor Book 2005. Also available in Paperback $11.95.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
ISBN: 1416936475 EAN: 9781416936473 Simon Paperback
WB Price: $11.95
(10 to 15) On a trip to visit his father, 13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. With only the clothes on his back and a hatchet he received as parting gift from his mother, Brian begins to shape a life for himself in the wild. This splendid coming-of-age story has sold more than two million copies. 19.4 cms L x 16.4 cms W (0.13 kgs) 186 pages.Awards: A Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Book; ALA Best of the Best for Young Adults; "Booklist" editors' Choice; ALA Quick Pick.

Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
ISBN 0440227194 EAN 9780440227199 Laurel Paperback 
WB Price: $10.95 (10 to 15) 
In the Newbery Honor-winning "Hatchet, " 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness armed only with his hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. "Brian's Winter" begins where "Hatchet" might have ended: Brian is not rescued, but must build on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy--a northern winter. 17.55 cms L x 10.6 cms W (0.08 kgs) 144 pages

Saving Lilly by Peg Kehret
ISBN 0671034235 Aladdin Paperback 160 pgs WB Price: $8.95
(9 to 13) Erin Wrenn and her friend David are in big trouble because they refuse to go on a field trip to the Glitter Tent Circus. They wrote a report on the sad lives of circus animals and discovered that the Glitter Tent Circus is one of the worst animal abusers of all. Mrs. Dawson is determined to give her students the happy circus experience she remembers from her childhood; she won't let Erin and David share their report or pass around a petition asking for a different field trip. Then Erin sees an even bigger problem: Lilly, a mistreated elephant, is about to be sold to a hunting park. Erin persuades her classmates to help her buy Lilly and send her to an elephant sanctuary. However, the kids only have three weeks to raise $7,500. It takes ingenuity, determination, and an amazing amount of hard work to pull it off.19.3 cms L x 16.2 cms W (0.12 kgs) 160 pages

Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN 0689824750 Aladdin Paperback 160 pgs WB Price: $11.95
(9 to 14) Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows -- does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to? 

Among The Imposters by Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN 0689839081 Aladdin Paperback WB Price: $11.95
(9 to 14) Luke Garner is an illegal third child. All his life has been spent in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke is living among others. He has assumed a deceased boy's identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. Luke knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn't know is whom he can trust -- and where the answers to his questions may lead him...19.4 cms L x 12.95 cms W 172 pages 

Among The Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN: 068983909X EAN: 9780689839092 Aladdin Paperback 
WB Price: $11.95(9 to 14) 
What does it mean to save yourself? Nina Idi -- a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children -- has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the charges. But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life: Get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not....19.4 L x 16.2 cms W (0.12 kgs) 156 pages

Among The Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN: 0689839103 EAN: 9780689839108 Aladdin Paperback 
WB Price: $11.95(9 to 14) 
Luke Garner, an illegal third child, spent his first twelve years in hiding. For the past four months Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally starting to go right, Lee's little brother Smits arrives at the school and Luke finds himself caught in a tangle of lies that gets more complex with every passing day.Can Luke trust Smits to keep his secret? And can he trust Smits's menacing bodyguard, Oscar?19.35 L x 13.46 cms W (0.15 kgs) 182 pages

Joshua's Song by Joan Hiatt Harlow
ISBN 0689855427 Aladdin Paperback 160 pgs WB Price: $10.95
(10 to 13) Boston, 1919. It's been a terrible year for thirteen-year-old Joshua Harper. The influenza pandemic that's sweeping the world has claimed his father's life; his voice has changed, so he can't sing in the Boston Boys' Choir anymore; and now money is tight, so he must quit school to get a job. It's not fair! Joshua begins working as a newspaper boy, hawking papers on the street, but he soon finds himself competing with Charlestown Charlie, a tough, streetwise boy who does not make things easier for Joshua. It seems that fitting in is not as easy as it once was. Then disaster strikes the city of Boston. Joshua must do what he can to help, and in doing so he finds the place -- and the voice -- that he thought he'd lost.19.86 cms L x 12.8 cms W (0.11 kgs) 143 pages

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
ISBN 0064472078 EAN 9780064472074 Harper Paperback 80 pgs 
WB Price: $10.95
(11 to 15) A determined young girl plants six bean seeds in a trash-filled lot in Cleveland and something truly magnificent grows.Thirteen very different voices--old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful tell one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood.An old man seeking renewal, a young girl connecting to a father she never knew, a pregnant teenager dreading motherhood.Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman weaves characters as diverse as the plants they grow into a rich, multi-layered exploration of how a community is born and nurtured in an urban environment. 17.27 cms L x 10.6 cms W (0.06 kgs) 80 pages

Out of The Dust by Karen Hesse
ISBN 0590371258 EAN 9780590371254 Scholastic Paperback 
WB Price: $11.95 (10 to 13) 
A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart. 19.25 cms L x 13.4 cms W (0.17 kgs) 227 pages