The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys
and hardships of ranch life.
Age level: 14 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Remember Me to Harold Square
by Paula Danziger
When Frank spends the summer with Kendra and her family in their
New York City apartment, a friendship develops as the two
teenagers set off on a scavenger hunt exploring the city's
museums, restaurants, and other landmarks.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (24 copies)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred Taylor
A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced
with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't
understand. Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Commack Public Library (8 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (11 copies)
A Room Made of Windows
by Eleanor Cameron
A young girl who wants to be a writer makes her room an
observation post and sits there dreaming about the world while
around her move the real people of her family whom she fails to
understand.
Age level: 10-14
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (13 copies)
Rumble Fish
by S. E. Hinton
Rusty-James wants to be as great a street-fighter as his older
brother until Bill Wilcox suddenly pulls a knife on him.
Age level: 11 & up
Available: North Shore Public Library (17 copies)
The Secret of Platform 13
by Eva Ibbotson
Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle
fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel
from their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen's son
who had been stolen as an infant.
Age level: 9-12
Available: North Shore Public Library (8 copies)
Secrets of the Shopping Mall
by Richard Peck
Two eighth-grade loners decide to take up residence in a
department store. Little do they know that theirs is not an
original idea.
Age level: 11 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (26 copies)
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the
Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage
to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family,
she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk
the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
Age level: 11 & up
Available: East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Shadow Spinner
by Susan Fletcher
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the
Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
Age level: 10 & up
Available: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (16 copies)
Shark Beneath the Reef
by Jean Craighead George
On the Island of Coronado, a young Mexican fisherman comes of age
as he becomes aware of the politics, corruption, and changes
around him.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (26 copies)
Shiloh Season
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt
can go and how long it takes to heal. Sequel to: Shiloh.
Age level: 8-12
Available: Mattituck-Laurel Library (5 copies)
The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-
century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local
Indians teach him their skills.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
North Shore Public Library (22 copies)
Slake's Limbo
by Felice Holman
Thirteen year-old Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and
misfortunes, flees them into New York City's subway tunnels,
never again--he believes--to emerge.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (10 copies)
Snow Bound
by Harry Mazer
Two teenagers caught in a snowstorm face a fight for survival in
a desolate area.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Solid Gold Kid
by Norma Fox Mazer
Derek Chapman hitches a ride and later realizes he has
unwittingly assisted in what he has dreaded and anticipated--his
own kidnapping.
Age level:
Available: North Shore Public Library (10 copies)
SOS Titanic
by Eve Bunting
Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
Age level: 11 & up
Available:
East Islip Public Library (8 copies)
Huntington Public Library
(5 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (26 copies)
Riverhead Free Library (9 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (8 copies)
Squib
by Nina Bawden
Thinking that a small, nameless boy must be her long
lost little brother a twelve-year-old girl and her friends try to
discover his true identity.
Age level:
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (15 copies)
Stepping on the Cracks
by Mary Downing Hahn
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II,
eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully
Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army
deserter, and decides to help him.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (24 copies)
Stonewords: A Ghost Story
by Pam Conrad
Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of
an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her
death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.
Age level: 12 & up
Available:
Brentwood Public Library (12 copies)
North Shore Public Library (15 copies)
Summer of the Monkeys
by Wilson Rawls
In rural Oklahoma around the turn of the century a fourteen-year-
old boy and his grandpa spend all summer trying to catch a troupe
of monkeys hiding in the woods which had escaped from a traveling
circus and for which there was a handsome reward.
Age level: 10 & up
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (15 copies)
The Summer of the Swans
by Betsy Byars
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family
when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (8 copies)
Superfudge
by Judy Blume
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger
brother Fudge.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
Sweet Friday Island
by Theodore Taylor
Vacationing on what they think is an uninhabited island,
fifteen-year-old Peg and her father find their adventure turned
into a fight for survival.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (9 copies)
Sweetgrass
by Jan Hudson
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her
family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her
father.
Age level: 11 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Switching Well
by Peni Griffin
Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber in 1991, switch places through a magic well and try desperately to return to their own times.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (15 copies)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
by Judy Blume
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing
problem.
Age level: 8 & up
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football
hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite
his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident
that damaged his eyesight.
Age level: 12 & up
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
East Islip Public Library (5 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
Thank You, Jackie Robinson
by Barbara Cohen
A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an
enthusiasm for Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by
Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
The Thief of Always
by Clive Barker
After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a
trip to the magical Holiday House, ten-year-old Harvey learns
that his fun has a high price.
Age level:
Available: Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Traces the growing friction between village leaders and Europeans
determined to save the heathen souls of Africa. But its hero, a
noble man who is driven by destructive forces, speaks a universal
tongue.
Age level:
Available: Riverhead Free Library (7 copies)
Titanic Crossing
by Barbara Williams
In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a
pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and
uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking.
Age level: 9-12
Available: North Shore Public Library (31 copies)
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Two children in a small Southern town are thrust into an adult
world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father
chooses to defend a Black man unjustly accused of raping a white
girl.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
Toughboy and Sister
by Kirkpatrick Hill
The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old
Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin in the
Yukon, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling
food supplies and hostile wildlife.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Trouble with Lemons
by Daniel Hayes
Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a
quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.
Age level: 9-12
Available: North Shore Public Library (17 copies)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832,
Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew
rebellious.
Age level: 9 & up
Available:
Brentwood Public Library (11 copies)
Emma S. Clark
Memorial Library (5 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
Tuck's family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Comsewogue Public Library (6 copies)
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (14 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (24 copies)
Riverhead Free Library (5 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (15 copies)
Two Against the Tide
by Bruce Clements
A fantasy in which two youngsters are kidnapped and taken to a
peaceful Maine island where everybody lives forever.
Age level:
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (12 copies)
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