The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she
spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house
during World War II. Sequel: The Journey Back.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (8 copies)
The View From Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a
special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a
paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class
in the Academic Bowl competition.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
East Islip Public Library (6 copies)
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (5 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
The View from the Cherry Tree
by Willo Davis Roberts
Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except
the murderer.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
North Shore Public Library (20 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (24 copies)
The Village by the Sea
by Paula Fox
When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery,
ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her
tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she meets a
friend who suggests making a miniature village in the sand.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (15 copies)
The Voice on the Radio
by Caroline Cooney
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that
her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college
radio program. Companion novel to The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie?
Age level: 11 & up
Available: Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library (10 copies)
Voices After Midnight: A Novel
by Richard Peck
Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New
York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery
involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers
slip back in time to 1888.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Voyage of the Frog
by Gary Paulsen
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently
deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce
storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his
feelings about life and his uncle.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
North Shore Public Library (7 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (27 copies)
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
by Mary Hahn
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Commack Public Library (5 copies)
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (15 copies)
North Shore Public Library (11 copies)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963: A Novel
by Christopher Paul Curtis
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons,
an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are
drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in
the summer of 1963.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Huntington Public Library
(7 copies)
North Shore Public Library (18 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (5 copies)
We All Fall Down
by Robert Cormier
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house
in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his
drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his
obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.
Age level: 12 & up
Available: East Islip Public Library (8 copies)
Weasel
by Cynthia DeFelice
Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his
father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs
afoul of the renegade killer known as the weasel and makes a
surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
North Shore Public Library (33 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (14 copies)
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together
an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the
circumstances of his death before they can claim their
inheritance.
Age level: 12 & up
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
North Shore Public Library (29 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (7 copies)
What Could Go Wrong?
by Willo Davis Roberts
During a frightening trip spent in airplanes and airports between
Seattle and San Francisco, eleven-year-old Gracie and her two
cousins Charlie and Eddie get involved with sinister characters,
identical flight bags, and an assault on an innocent old lady.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (23 copies)
When the Legends Die
by Hal Borland
A young Indian finds his lifestyle in conflict with the elders of
his nation, as he joins an aging rodeo cowboy and gains temporary
happiness.
Age level:
Available: Riverhead Free Library (7 copies)
Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
by Amy Ehrlich
Nina and her mother move from place to place, never revealing
anything of themselves, and causing Nina to wonder if they will
ever stop hiding.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (11 copies)
Where the Lilies Bloom
by Vera Cleaver & Bill Cleaver
An Appalachian girl, the eldest of an orphaned family attempts to
preserve her pride in the face of abject poverty and interfering
neighbors.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (14 copies)
Whirligig
by Paul Fleischman
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a
whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-
year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
Age level: 14 & up
Available:
Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library (10 copies)
Comsewogue Public Library (5 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
Winter Camp
by Kirkpatrick Hill
Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must
survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping
camp.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth Speare
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the
Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered
a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing
trial for witchcraft.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Commack Public Library (5 copies)
The Witches of Worm
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A lonely twelve-year-old is convinced that the cat she finds is
possessed by a witch and is responsible for her own strange
behavior.
Age level: 9-12
Available: Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
Words of Stone
by Kevin Henkes
Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings
for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when
he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (5 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of
being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the
courage to oppose it.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
North Shore Public Library (16 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly
strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared
while engaged in secret work for the government.
Age level: 9-12
Available:
Commack Public Library (5 copies)
Port Jefferson Free Library (25 copies)
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
by Zlata Filipovic
Zlata's Diary stands out as a poignant reminder that war
exacts a devastating toll on everyone-including children.
Age level: 11 & up
Available:
Riverhead Free Library (10 copies)
South Huntington Public Library (6 copies)
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