I Know What You Did Last Summer
by Lois Duncan
Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their
responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a
mystery figure seeking revenge.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (9 copies)
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes
Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her
love for baseball.
Age level: 9-12
Available: North Shore Public Library (32 copies)
Indian in the Cupboard
by Lynne Reid Banks
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in
adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and
befriends him.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Commack Public Library (9 copies)
North Shore Public Library (9 copies)
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
Ever since a mysterious stranger, wrapped in bandages
from head to toe, arrived strange and terrible things have been
happening.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
When her younger brother died in 1800, Karana, an Indian girl,
spent eighteen years alone on the Island of San Nicholas, far off the coast of California.
Age level: 12 & up
Available:
Commack Public Library (6 copies)
North Shore Public Library (12 copies)
South Country Library (10 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
The Island on Bird Street
by Uri Orlev
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in
a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the
tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: North Shore Public Library (5 copies)
It Happened at Cecilia's
by Erika Tamar
Ninth-grader Andy's relatively stable life with his father and
his cat living above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened
when his father falls in love and their restaurant is discovered
by a restaurant critic, bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the
increasing business.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: East Islip Public Library (5 copies)
It Happened To Nancy
Anonymous
The true story of a fourteen-year-old who reveals her deepest
feelings while facing the cruel reality of AIDS.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
It's Like This, Cat
by Emily Neville
The story of a fourteen-year-old New
York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric
old woman, a troubled older boy, the first girl with whom he has
been friends, and his father.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
Izzy, Willy-Nilly
by Cynthia Voigt
A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and
face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Commack Public Library (10 copies)
Jackaroo
by Cynthia Voigt
When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the
hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to
unlock the secret reality behind the legend.
Age level:
Available: Riverhead Free Library (5 copies)
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and
even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find
her identity.
Age level: 9 & up
Available: East Islip Public Library (5 copies)
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
by Jack Gantos
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers,
Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings
when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked
up and acting wired.
Age level: 9-13
Available: Brookhaven Free Library (11 copies)
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston
becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before
the American Revolution.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (15 copies)
Journey Outside
by Mary Q. Steele
The Raft People live in darkness and travel a circular journey on
a underground river. One boy finds his way outside and tries to
learn as much as possible so he can ultimately lead his people
there to the Better Place.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (11 copies)
Journey to America
by Sonia Levitin
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable
separations before they are once again united.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (24 copies)
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
Escaping from an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo
girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Age level: 10-14
Available:
Commack Public Library (6 copies)
South Country Library (11 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Just a Little Ham
by Joan Carris
A family's pet pig delights them with her intelligence and
enthusiastic personality, until her independence leads her to
such bad habits they are afraid they've created a monster.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
The Killer's Cousin
by Nancy Werlin
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds
himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his
strange young cousin Lily.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (10 copies)
Letters From the Inside
by John Marsden
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted
through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some
of the terrible problems of their lives.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (8 copies)
The Library Card
by Jerry Spinelli
The lives of four young people in different circumstances are
changed by their encounters with books.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (20 copies)
North Shore Public Library (13 copies)
The Light in the Forest
by Conrad Richter
Story of a white boy captured and brought up by Indians who must
now return and adjust to civilized society.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: North Shore Public Library (8 copies)
Lily and the Lost Boy
by Paula Fox
Eleven-year-old Lily has grown closer to her thirteen-year-old
brother Paul during the spring their family has spent on the
Greek island Thasos, until the unpredictable behavior of another
American boy disrupts their lives.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
Lily's Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's
friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the
war and her own world differently.
Age level: 8-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Brentwood Public Library (7 copies)
Comsewogue Public Library (5 copies)
Riverhead Free Library (6 copies)
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint Exupery
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert
encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his
adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really
important in life.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
Lost in Cyberspace
by Richard Peck
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his
friend Aaron use the computer at their New York prep school to
travel through time, learning some secrets from the school's past
and improving Josh's home situation.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
Lyddie
by Katherine Paterson
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to
gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell,
Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Age level: 10-14
Available:
East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Huntington Public Library
(5 copies)
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