 | Title: Alabama moon Author: Key Watt Summary: After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. |
 | Title: Black duck Author: Janet Taylor Lisle Summary: Original historical fiction by Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle is filled with resounding mystery and suspense. When Ruben and Jed find a dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. |
 | Title: Black storm comin' Author: Diane Lee Wilson Summary: Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South. |
 | Title: Blood on the river : James Town 1607 Author: Elisa Carbone Summary: Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. |
 | Title: Cornelia and the audacious escapades of the Somerset sisters Author: Lesley M.M. Blume Summary: Cornelia, eleven-years-old and lonely, learns about language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world. |
 | Title: A drowned maiden's hair : a melodrama Author: Laura Amy Schlitz 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: Gossamer Author: Lois Lowry Summary: While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. |
 | Title: The green glass sea Author: Ellen Klages Summary: It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. |
 | Title: HATTIE BIG SKY Author: Kirby Larson Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. |
 | Title: Heat Author: Mike Lupica 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 invention of Hugo Cabret Author: Brian Selznick Summary: When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. |
 | Title: Letters from Wolfie Author: Patti Sherlock Summary: Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return. |
 | Title: Life as we knew it Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary: Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. |
 | Title: The lightning thief Author: Rick Riordan Summary: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. |
 | Title: Oh, rats! : the story of rats and people Author: Albert Marrin Summary: Get ready to look at rats in a whole new way. These intelligent, compassionate creatures are greatly misunderstood. |
 | Title: Penny from heaven Author: Jennifer L. Holm 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: Project Mulberry Author: Linda Sue Park Summary: While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book. |
 | Title: Rules Author: Cynthia Lord Summary: Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. |
 | Title: Shug Author: Jenny Han Summary: A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South. |
 | Title: Wolf brother Author: Michelle Paver Summary: 6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans. |