Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
ISBN 044023784X EAN 9780440237846 Laurel Paperback (12+)
WB Price: $11.95 
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tio Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government's secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo's dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind.From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl's struggle to be free.17.4 cms L x 10.6 cms W (0.10 kgs) 192 pages

Sun And Spoon by Kevin Henkes
ISBN 0141300957 EAN 9780141300955 Puffin Paperback (8 to 12) 
WB Price: $9.95
It's been only two months since Spoon Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he's worried that he'll forget her. But Spoon's little sister, Joanie, won't give him time alone to think, even when they go to their grandfather's house. What happens there will stay with readers long after they finish this read.Awards: An ALA Notable Book, a "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year, a "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year, Young Hoosier Book Award | Nominee | Grades 4-6 | 2000 ; Nutmeg Childrens Book Award | Nominee | Grades 4-6 | 2002  ;19.69 cms L x 12.85 cms W (0.11 kgs) 135 pages

Fair Weather by Richard Peck
ISBN 0142500348 EAN 9780142500347 Puffin Paperback (9 to 12) 
WB Price: $11.95
Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition -- the "wonder of the age" -- a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair. Aunt Euterpe is inviting the Becketts to come for a visit and go to the fair! Award-winning author Richard Peck's fresh, realistic, and fun-filled writing truly brings the World's Fair -- and Rosie and her family -- to life.Awards: An ALA Best Book for Young Adults; Booksellers Choice. 20 cms L x 12.8 cms W (0.13 kgs) 160 pages 

Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
ISBN 0060540249 EAN 9780060540241 Harper Paperback (8 to 12)
WB Price: $10.95
Run run run. That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating . . . thump-"THUMP, thump-"THUMP. It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best friend, Max, is always moody. Everything changes over time, just like the apple Annie's been assigned to draw. But as she watches and listens, Annie begins to understand the many rhythms of life, and how she fits within them. Award: Booksense Book of The Year Nominee.19.3 cms L x 13.36 cms W (0.14 kgs) 180 pages

The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
ISBN 0374427984 EAN 9780374427986 Farrar Paperback (8 to 12)
WB Price: $11.95
Fifteen-year-old Simon Green has just completed the third grade (for the fourth time) when Miss Rogers tells him it's time he made his way in the world of 1860. Simon may not be book- smart, but he hatches a plan that could make him a fortune. He intends to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, where meat is scarce and fetches a high price. Bankrolled by Miss Rogers and accompanied by a loyal drover and his dog, four mules, and a wagonload of shelled corn, Simon undertakes the biggest journey of his young life in this wild Wild West adventure. Awards: Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee 2000 ; A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year and a "Publisher's Weekly" Best Book ; Nutmeg Childrens Book Award | Nominee | Grades 4-6 | 2002 ; 19.9 cms L x 13 cms W (0.19 kgs) 208 pages

Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key by Jack Gantos
ISBN 0064408337 EAN 9780064408332 Harper Paperback (10 to 14) 
WB Price: $10.95
Joey Pigza can't sit still. He can't pay attention, he can't follow the rules, and he can't help it -- especially when his meds aren't working. Joey's had problems ever since he was born, problems just like his dad and grandma have. And whether he's wreaking havoc on a class trip or swallowing his house key, Joey's problems are getting worse. In fact, his behavior is so off the wall that his teachers are threatening to send him to the special-ed center downtown.Joey knows he's really a good kid, but no matter how hard he tries to do the right thing, something always seems to go wrong. Will he ever get anything right? Awards: Young Readers Choice Award | Nominee | Grades 4-8 | 2001 ; 19.35 cms L x 13 cms W (0.11 kgs) 160 pages 

Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
ISBN 0064410226 EAN 9780064410229 Harper Paperback (10 to 12)
WB Price: $10.95
When Joey Pigza meets his dad for the first time in years, he meets a grown-up version of his old out-of-control self. Carter Pigza is as wired as Joey used to be -- before his stint in special ed, and before he got his new meds. Joey's mom reluctantly agrees that he can stay with his dad for a summer visit, which sends Joey racing with sky-high hopes that he and Carter can finally get to know each other. But as the weeks whirl by, Carter has bigger plans in mind. He decides that just as he has pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, Joey can do the same and become as normal as any kid, without the help of a doctor's prescription. Carter believes Joey can do it and Joey wants to believe him more than anything in the world. Awards: Newbery Medal Honor Book 2001 ; Parents' Choice Award (Fall) Winner Gold 2000 ; Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee 2004; 19 cms L x 13. cms W (0.14 kgs) 208 pages

Poppy and Rye by Avi
ISBN 0380797178 EAN 9780380797172 Avon Paperback (8 to 12) 
WB Price: $10.95
Heartbroken over the death of her fiance, Ragweed, Poppy, a deer mouse, journeys west through the vast Dimwood Forest to bring the sad news to Ragweed's family. But Poppy and her porcupine pal, Ereth, arrive only to discover that beavers have flooded the serene valley where Ragweed lived. Together Poppy and Ragweed's brother Rye brave kidnapping, imprisonment, and a daring rescue to fight the beavers. At the same time, Rye--who has lived in Ragweed's shadow--fights to prove himself worthy of Poppy's love.19. cms L x 13. cms W (0.14 kgs) 189 pages

Where I Want To Be by Adele Griffin
ISBN 0142409480 EAN: 978014240948 Speak Paperback (12 to 17)
WB Price: $12.95
Adele Griffin, the National Book Award nominee for "Sons of Liberty" has crafted a spellbinding book, told in the alternating voices of two very different sisters (one of whom was mentally ill) dwelling on opposite sides of life and death, and who are bravely trying to overcome the void and bring light to each other. Awards: NAPPA ; National Book Awards | Finalist | Young People's Lit. | 2005 ; Tayshas Reading | Commended | Young Adult | 2006 - 2007 ; 20.85 cms L x 16.89 cms W (0.27 kgs) 150 pages

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
ISBN 0064402010 EAN 9780064402019 Harper Paperback (10 & up)
WB Price: $10.95
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her. But the rescue doesn't work out, and the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad ... Awards: Newbery Medal Honor Book 1979 ; National Book Awards Winner 1979 ; 19. cms L x 13. cms W (0.13 kgs) 148 pages

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
ISBN 1582349932 EAN 9781582349930 Bloomsbury Hardcover (10 & up) WB Price: $32.95
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess. Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates. Awards: Newbery Medal Honor Book 2006 ; Young Readers Choice Award | Nominee | Junior/Grades 4-6 | 2008 ; Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award | Nominee | Grades 4-8 | 2008 ; Dorothy Canfield Fisher Childrens Book Award | Nominee | Children's | 2007 ; Beehive Awards | Nominee | Fiction | 2007; 20 cms L x 13.8 cms W (0.41 kgs) 314 pages

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
ISBN 0440400023 EAN 9780440400028 Yearling Paperback (9 to 12)
WB Price: $11.95
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floating island. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holds the key to the greatest mystery of all. Award: Newbery Medal Winner 1923 ;19.38 cms L x 13. cms W (0.22 kgs) 336 pages

The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
ISBN 0152025294 EAN 9780152025298 Odyssey Paperback (8 to 12)
WB Price: $11.95
just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery ... the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks. In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury...so he can live to be one hundred. Between brushing her hair from her eyes and holding up her stockings, she has to help the girls' basketball team win the championship. And it falls to Jane-the only person in town with enough courage-to stand up to the frightful mechanical wizard, Wallie Bangs. Jane is so busy keeping Cranbury in order that she barely has time to be plain old Jane. Sometimes the middle is the most exciting place of all....  Award: Newbery Honor Book 1943 ;19 cms L x 13 cms W (0.25 kgs) 256 pages

Jeremy The Tale of An Honest Bunny by Jan Karon
ISBN 0142500046 EAN 9780142500040 Puffin Hardcover (9 to 12)
WB Price: $15.95
When it is time for Jeremy, a handmade English bunny, to be sent to his true home in America, he refuses to be shipped in a box. So he sets out to deliver himself to the little girl who eagerly awaits him. Jeremy's journey begins with a prayer and some handy words of advice from his maker. Along the way he encounters friends in many forms, and all the adventures he has lead him, eventually, to his final destination -- home. Award: Parents' Choice Award Winner | Gold | 2000 ; 20. cms L x 14.38 cms W (0.23 kgs) 80 pages

Sounder by William H. Armstrong
ISBN 0064400204 EAN 9780064400206 Harper Paperback (9 to 12)
WB Price: $9.95
A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, "Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African- American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, Sounder, return to the cabin empty-handed. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweet-smelling ham is cooking in the family's kitchen. At last the family will have a good meal. But that night, an angry sheriff and his deputies come, and the boy's life will never be the same. Reviews: "A rarely beautiful, understated novel about a black share-cropper and his family in the 19th-century American South. An extraordinarily sensitive book." -- "School Library Journal""The power of the writing lies in its combination of subtlety and strength." "The writing is simple, timeless and extraordinarily moving. An outstanding book." Awards: Newberry Medal 1970,ALA Notable Children's Book Award ; 19 cms L x 13 cms W (0.09 kgs) 128 pages

The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez
ISBN 0826317979 EAN 9780826317971 Univ of New Mexico Paperback 
(12 to 17) WB Price: $19.95
A collection of twelve short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farm workers. These independent but intertwined stories follow his family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots - and back again - over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define their lives. But with faith, hope, and back-breaking work, the family endures.Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards | Winner | Fiction or Poetry | 1998 ; Young Hoosier Book Award | Nominee | Grades 6-8 | 2001 ; Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature | Winner | Fiction | 1997 ; 18cms L x 12 cms W (0.14 kgs) 146 pages