The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Melanie and her new friend April had a common interest in ancient
Egypt and developed a land of Egypt in an abandoned storage yard.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (22 copies)
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles
against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order
given to her.
Age level: 8 & up
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline Cooney
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a
search for her real identity.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (5 copies)
North Shore Public Library (10 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high
school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a
devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (13 copies)
A Family Apart
by Joan Lowery Nixon
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are
sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with
farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (23 copies)
The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Kidnappers in Italy have their hands full when the captive
American children advise them on running a better kidnapping and
on proper nutrition.
Age level:
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
Father's Arcane Daughter
by E. L. Konigsburg
Kidnapped seventeen years before, a man's daughter by a former
marriage appears at his new home in Pittsburgh and affects the
entire family.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Fear Place
by Phyllis R. Naylor
When he and his older brother Gordon are left camping alone in
the Rocky Mountains, twelve-year-old Doug faces his fear of
heights and his feelings about Gordon--with the help of a cougar.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
The first book of the author's trilogy, entitled The lord of the
rings, of which The two towers, and The return of the King form
the second and third books respectively.
Age level:
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Five-Finger Discount
by Barthe DeClements
Ten-year-old Jerry's attempts to adjust to his new school and
make new friends are complicated by his determination to keep
secret the fact that his father is serving time in the local
prison for being a thief.
Age level:
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
Flour Babies
by Anne Fine
When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three
torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of
bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself
while coming to terms with his long-absent father.
Age level: 9-12
Available: North Shore Public Library (10 copies)
Freak the Mighty
by Rodman Philbrick
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his
new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but
not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they
make a powerful team.
Age level: 9-12
Available: East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Freaky Friday
by Mary Rodgers
A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic
understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to
spend a day in her mother's body.
Age level: 10 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Friends
by Rosa Guy
Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather
than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior
created the gulf between her and her best friend.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Riverhead Free Library (5 copies)
Frindle
by Andrew Clements
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the
dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word
and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his
control.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Brentwood Public Library (12 copies)
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (21 copies)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
A twelve year old girl and her brother run away to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Comsewogue Public Library (6 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (18 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Galax-arena: A Novel
by Gillian Rubinstein
Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter, and
Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children
stolen from Earth perform death-defying stunts for the amusement of the inhabitants of the planet
Vexak.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: East Islip Public Library (7 copies)
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his
community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in
which he lives.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (10 copies)
Huntington Public Library
(13 copies)
North Shore Public Library (13 copies)
Go Ask Alice
Anonymous
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to
escape the pull of the drug world.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (10 copies)
The Goats
by Brock Cole
Two children, exiled, lost, in a few ordinary American places
clustered around a lake, bring about their own deliverance.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Port Jefferson Free Library (16 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Going Through the Gate
by Janet Anderson
The five sixth-grade students in a small town prepare for their teacher's annual graduation ceremony, a mysterious ritual that several generations of students have experienced but no one can discuss.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (14 copies)
The Half-a-Moon Inn
by Paul Fleischman
A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (16 copies)
Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered
by Gary Paulsen
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy
home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin
Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
Age level: 9-12
Available: South Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K.
Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a
young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending
Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Sequel: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Commack Public Library (10 copies)
Riverhead Free Library (5 copies)
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four
days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
The Headless Cupid
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David
after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (12 copies)
Holes
by Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they
attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is
sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he
finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of
himself.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (13 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (27 copies)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
When a second member of the Baskerville family dies, Sherlock
Holmes investigates and finds murderous greed behind the supposed
curse.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
House of Stairs
by William Sleator
Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality
characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless
stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned
human response.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (14 copies)
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The great seven-gabled Pyncheon house is blighted by a curse
given when old Colonel Pyncheon of early Salem obtained the
property by convicting the rightful owner of witchcraft.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
How to Eat Fried Worms
by Thomas Rockwell
A small boy is challenged by a friend to eat fifteen worms in
fifteen days for fifty dollars.
Age level: 8-11
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
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