Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes
legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Age level: 8-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Commack Public Library (8 copies)
East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Huntington Public Library
(8 copies)
North Shore Public Library (13 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
M.E. and Morton
by Sylvia Cassedy
Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton
is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is
astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton
for a friend.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
The Midnight Fox
by Betsy Byars
Tony dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he
discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a
sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship,
eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
Age level: 12 & up
Available:
Brentwood Public Library (11 copies)
East Islip Public Library (10 copies)
Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-
year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia
trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Age level: 10 & up
Available: North Shore Public Library (19 copies)
Monkey Island
by Paula Fox
Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother
disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is
befriended by two men who help him survive.
Age level: 10-14
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Monster Garden
by Vivien Alcock
Using a tissue sample she believes is from one of her father's
experiments in genetic engineering, Frankie accidentally creates
a baby monster, which begins to grow at an alarming rate.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (15 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (22 copies)
More Than Meets the Eye
by Jeanne Betancourt
Elizabeth's romantic interest in an Asian American student angers a prejudiced bully named Brad.
Age level:
Available: East Islip Public Library (7 copies)
The Music of Dolphins
by Karen Hesse
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (14 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (24 copies)
My Fabulous New Life
by Shelia Greenwald
Eleven-year-old Alison, having moved from the affluent
suburbs to an apartment in New York City, tries to make new
friends and come to terms with the homelessness she sees all
around her.
Age level: 9-12
Available: North Shore Public Library (13 copies)
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he
spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his
struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal
friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human
companionship.
Age level: 8-12
Available:
Bayport-Blue Point Public Library (5 copies)
Commack Public Library (5 copies)
Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (8 copies)
The Night Room
by E. M. Goldman
When a group of students uses an experimental computer program
that simulates their tenth high school reunion, they get an
unsettling look at their possible futures.
Age level: 11 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Nightjohn
by Gary Paulsen
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more
dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to
read.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: North Shore Public Library (26 copies)
Not Without My Daughter
by Betty Mahmoody
A riveting true story of terror and escape. Betty has come to
the Middle East with her daughter and native-born husband. It's
just a vacation, her husband promises. But soon the horrible
truth surfaces. Betty's husband doesn't intend to bring his
family back to America. . . ever.
Age level:
Available:
Riverhead Free Library (5 copies)
Nothing But the Truth
by Avi
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled
Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (19 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (8 copies)
Now Is Not Too Late
by Isabelle Holland
While spending the summer with her grandmother on a
Maine island, 11-year-old Cathy learns a great many things about
herself and her relationship with other people.
Age level:
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old
Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps
shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Age level: 10-14
Available: North Shore Public Library (19 copies)
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Clinging to one another in their loneliness and alienation,
George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters
will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work
on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their hopes, like "the best laid
schemes o'mice an' men," begin to go awry.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Dicken's story of the orphan forced to
practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century
London.
Age level: 10 & up
Available:
Riverhead Free Library (6 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
On My Honor
by Marion D. Bauer
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a
treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Brentwood Public Library (7 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a
dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by
flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
On the Far Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when
his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a
conservation officer.
Age level: 8-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (32 copies)
One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox
An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle,
subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes
responsibility for it.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (11 copies)
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Age level: 10 & up
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Comsewogue Public Library (5 copies)
East Islip Public Library (5 copies)
Huntington Public Library
(5 copies)
North Shore Public Library (21 copies)
South Country Library (7 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
Park's Quest
by Katherine Paterson
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he
travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his
father who died in the Vietnam War and meets a Vietnamese-
American girl named Thanh.
Age level: 10 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (? copies)
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
A fisherman finds a pearl beyond price with which he hopes to buy
peace and happiness for himself, his wife and their little son.
Instead he finds that peace and happiness are not to be
purchased. Peace and happiness are, themselves, pearls beyond
price.
Age level: 14 & up
Available:
Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (7 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of
words and numbers and finds a cure for his boredom.
Age level:
Available: Riverhead Free Library (5 copies)
Phoenix Rising
by Karen Hesse
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when
fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a
nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont
farmhouse.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (20 copies)
The Pigman and Me
by Paul Zindel
An account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island, when
his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or
mentor.
Age level: 10 & up
Available: East Islip Public Library (5 copies)
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