 | Title: Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac: a Civil War Novel Author: Avi, Summary: Tom's job as an assistant to Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, makes him a target of Confederate spies. |
 | Title: Jack Plank Tells Tales Author: Babbitt, Natalie Summary: Pirate Jack Plank is unable to get a job and he spends his evenings telling stories to the other boarders at Mrs. DeFresno boarding house. |
 | Title: The Magic Half Author: Barrows, Annie Summary: Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day. |
 | Title: Cicada Summer Author: Beaty, Andrea Summary: Twelve -year-old Lily mourns her brother, and has not spoken since the accident she feels she could have prevented, but the summer Tinny comes to town she is the only one who realizes Lily's secret |
 | Title: Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy Author: Blumberg, Rhoda Summary: In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japenese person to set foot in the United States. |
 | Title: No Talking Author: Clements, Andrew Summary: The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a no talking contest. |
 | Title: Freedom Train Author: Coleman, Evelyn Summary: Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, buy Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved fraom a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the Nigras their place. |
 | Title: Women Daredevils: Thrills, chills, and frills Author: Cummins, Julie Summary: Cummins profiles 14 women made famous by their dangerous stunts from the late 1800 through the Roaring Twenties. |
 | Title: MVP* : *Magellan Voyage Project Author: Evans, Douglas Summary: Twelve-year-old Adam Story is challenged by the deposed ruler of Babababad and his mongoose companion to become the first youngster to travel around the world in forty days without an adult. |
 | Title: The Gollywhopper Games Author: Feldman, Jody Summary: Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling from Golly Toy and Game Company. |
 | Title: The Great Wall of China Author: Fisher, Leonard Everett Summary: A brief history of the Great Wall of China, begun about 2,200 years ago to keep out Mongol invaders. |
 | Title: Igraine the Brave Author: Funke, Cornelia Caroline Summary: The daughter of two magicians, twelve-year-old Igraine wants nothing more than to be a knight, and when their castle is attacked by a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their singing magic books, Igraine has an opportunity to demonstrate her bravery. |
 | Title: Eleven Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly Summary: When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castely theya re building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered. |
 | Title: Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little Author: Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth Summary: With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book. |
 | Title: The Thing About Georgie: A Novel Author: Graff, Lisa Summary: |
 | Title: Football Genius Author: Green, Tim Summary: Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift of predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players. |
 | Title: Blown Away! Author: Harlow, Joan Hiatt Summary: In 1935 on the Florida key of Matacumbe, thirteen-year-old Jake makes new friends during an idyllic summer, only to have everything change when a hurricane threatens the island. |
 | Title: King of the Wind Author: Henry, Marguerite Summary: Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, ancestor of the most superior Thorooughbred horses. |
 | Title: Penny From Heaven Author: Holm, Jennifer L. Summary: As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. |
 | Title: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Author: Kehret, Peg Summary: The author describes her battle against polio and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects. |
 | Title: Swindle Author: Korman, Gordon Summary: After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's falling invention, the SmartPick fruit picker. |
 | Title: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia Author: C.S. Lewis Summary: Provides a simplified retelling of the adventures os Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, as they help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil. |
 | Title: Pippi Longstocking Author: Lindgren, Astrid Summary: Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village. |
 | Title: The Willoughbys Author: Lowry, Lois Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become deserving orphans after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny. |
 | Title: Punished! Author: Lubar, David Summary: Logan and his friend Benedict are playing tag in the library. Logan gets caught when he runs into a mysterious man. When Logan doesn't apologize sincerely, the mysterious gentleman punishes him by causing him to speak in puns. Only finding seven examples each of oxymorons, anagrams and palindromes withing the time limits will return Logan to normal. |
 | Title: Heat Author: Lupicka, Mike Summary: Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. |
 | Title: The Mozart Question Author: Morpurgo, Michael Summary: A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart. |
 | Title: War Horse Author: Morpurgo, Michael Summary: Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master. |
 | Title: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Author: O'Brien, Robert C. Summary: Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
 | Title: Crooked River Author: Pearsall, Shelley Summary: When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death. |
 | Title: The Big One-Oh Author: Pitchford, Dean Summary: Determined not to be weird all of his life like his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw himself a tenth birthday party, complete with a house of horrors them, but first he will have to make some friends to invite. |
 | Title: Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy Author: Rawls, Wilson Summary: A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. |
 | Title: A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy Summary: At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances. |
 | Title: The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures Author: Selznick, Brian Summary: When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the wall of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret is jeopardized. |
 | Title: Finding Buck McHenry Author: Slote, Alfred Summary: Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world. |
 | Title: Listening for Lions Author: Whelan, Gloria Summary: Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbors identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital. |
 | Title: Love Ruby Lavender Author: Wiles, Debbie Summary: When her quirky grandmother goes to hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death. |
 | Title: The Aurora County All Stars Author: Wiles, Deborah Summary: For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything. |
 | Title: Leepike Ridge Author: Wilson, N.D. Summary: While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters. |
 | Title: My Name is Sally Little Song Author: Woods, Brenda Summary: When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians. |