Secret Heart (16 page)

Counting Stars
•
David Almond
• 0-440-41826-7

With stories that shimmer and vibrate in the bright heat of memory, David Almond creates a glowing mosaic of his life growing up in a large, loving Catholic family in northeastern England.

Heaven Eyes
•
David Almond
• 0-440-22910-3 • Erin Law and her friends in the orphanage are labeled Damaged Children. They run away one night, traveling downriver on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine.

Kit's Wilderness
•
David Almond
• 0-440-41605-1

Kit Watson and John Askew look for the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors in the mines of Stoneygate.

Secret Heart
•
David Almond
• 0-440-41827-5 • Joe's mind is always somewhere else. He doesn't fit in, and everybody laughs at him. Then a tattered circus comes to town, and a tiger comes for him. It leads him out into the night, and nothing in Joe's world is ever the same again.

Skellig
•
David Almond
• 0-440-22908-1 • Michael feels helpless because of his baby sister's illness, until he meets a creature called Skellig.

Before We Were Free
•
Julia Alvarez
• 0-440-23784-X

Under a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, young Anita lives through a fight for freedom that changes her world forever.

Becoming Mary Mehan: Two Novels
•
Jennifer Armstrong
• 0-440-22961-8 • Set against the events of the American Civil War,
The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
depicts an Irish immigrant girl and her family, struggling to find their place in the war-torn country. •
Mary Mehan Awake
takes up Mary's story after the war, when she must begin a journey of renewal.

Forgotten Fire
•
Adam Bagdasarian
• 0-440-22917-0

In 1915, Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege when his world is shattered by the Turkish-Armenian war.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares •
0-385-73058-6 • Over a few bags of cheese puffs, four girls decide to take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The next morning, they say goodbye. And then the journey of the pants—and the most memorable summer of the girls' lives—begins.

The Rag and Bone Shop
•
Robert Cormier
• 0-440-22971-5

A seven-year-old girl is brutally murdered. A twelve-year-old boy named Jason was the last person to see her alive— except, of course, for the killer. Unless
Jason
is the killer.

Dr. Franklin's Island
•
Ann Halam
• 0-440-23781-5

A plane crash leaves Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stranded on a tropical island, totally alone. Or so they think. Dr. Franklin is a mad scientist who has set up his laboratory on the island, and the three teens are perfect subjects for his frightening experiments in genetic engineering.

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
•
Kimberly Willis Holt
• 0-440-23841-2 • Toby's small, sleepy Texas town is about to get a jolt with the arrival of Zachary Beaver, billed
as the fattest boy in the world. Toby is in for a summer unlike any other—a summer sure to change his life.

The Parallel Universe of Liars
•
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
0-440-23852-8 • Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, a self-described chunk, isn't sure what to make of her hunky neighbor's sexual advances, or of the attention paid her by a new boy in town who seems to notice more than her body.

Ghost Boy
•
Iain Lawrence
• 0-440-41668-X • Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. When the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it in hopes of discovering who he is and what he wants in life. Is he a circus freak or just a normal guy?

Lord of the Nutcracker Men
•
Iain Lawrence
0-440-41812-7 • In 1914, Johnny's father leaves England to fight the Germans in France. With each carved wooden soldier he sends home, the brutality of war becomes more apparent. Soon Johnny fears that his war games foretell real battles and that he controls his father's fate.

Gathering Blue
•
Lois Lowry
• 0-440-22949-9 • Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously taken to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

The Giver
•
Lois Lowry
• 0-440-23768-8 • Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices, until Jonas is given an opportunity that will change his world forever.

Shades of Simon Gray
•
Joyce McDonald
• 0-440-22804-2

Simon is the ideal teenager—smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon's car crashes into a tree and he slips into a coma, another portrait of him begins to emerge.

Harmony
•
Rita Murphy
• 0-440-22923-5 • Power is coursing through Harmony—the power to affect the universe with her energy. This is a frightening gift for a girl who has always hated being different, and Harmony must decide whether to hide her abilities or embrace the consequences —good and bad—of her full strength.

Both Sides Now
•
Ruth Pennebaker
• 0-440-22933-2

A compelling look at breast cancer through the eyes of a mother and daughter. Liza must learn a few life lessons from her mother, Rebecca, about the power of family.

Her Father's Daughter
•
Mollie Poupeney
• 0-440-22879-4

As she matures from a feisty tomboy of seven to a spirited young woman of fourteen, Maggie discovers that the only constant in her life of endless new homes and new faces is her ever-emerging sense of herself.

The Baboon King
•
Anton Quintana
• 0-440-22907-3

Neither Morengáru's father's Masai tribe nor his mother's Kikuyu tribe accepts him. Banished from both tribes, Morengáru encounters a baboon troop and faces a fight with the simian king.

Holes
•
Louis Sachar
• 0-440-22859-X • Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there's more than character improvement going on at the camp—the warden is looking for something.

Stargirl
•
Jerry Spinelli
• 0-375-82233-X • Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” Then the students turn on her.

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
•
Suzanne Fisher Staples
0-440-23856-0 • Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. She must reconcile her duty to her family and the stirrings of her own heart in this Newbery Honor–winning modern-day classic.

The Gospel According to Larry
•
Janet Tashjian
0-440-23792-0 • Josh Swensen's virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. While it seems as if the whole world is trying to figure out Larry's true identity, Josh feels trapped inside his own creation.

Memories of Summer
• Ruth White • 0-440-22921-9

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric describes her older sister Summer's descent into mental illness, telling Summer's story with humor, courage, and love.

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