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	The High King		J Alexander
		Lloyd Alexander
		In this final part of the chronicles of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
	Waterless Mountain		J Armer
		Laura Armer
	Sounder		J Armstrong
		Armstrong, William Howard, 1914-
	Miss Hickory		J Bailey
		Bailey, Carolyn S.
	A Gathering Of Days		J Blos
		Blos, Joan W.
	Caddie Woodlawn		J Brink
		Brink, Carol Ryrie.
		The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
	Shen Of The Sea		J Chrisman
		Chrisman, Arthur B.
		Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought.
	Secret Of The Andes		J Clark
		Clark, Ann Nolan
		An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
	Dear Mr. Henshaw		J Cleary
		Cleary, Beverly.
	The Cat Who Went To Heaven		J Coatsworth
		Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane, 1893-1986.
	The Grey King		J Cooper
		Cooper, Susan
	Walk Two Moons		J Creech
		Creech, Sharon
		After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
	Bud, Not Buddy		J Curtis
		Curtis, Christopher Paul.
		Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
	The Midwife’s Apprentice		J Cushman
		Cushman, Karen
		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.
	The Door In The Wall		J de Angeli
		De Angeli, Marguerite, 1889-
		A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
	The Wheel On The School		J DeJong
		De Jong, Meindert, 1910-
		Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? Lina first asked the question and she set the others to wondering. So the children set out to bring the storks back to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to come true. Winner, 1955 Newbery Medal
	The Tale of Despereaux		J DICAMILLO, K.
		Kate DiCamillo
		The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
	The Twenty-One Balloons		J Du Bois
		Du Bois, William Pene, 1916-
	The Matchlock Gun		J Edmonds
		Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-
		In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
	Thimble Summer		J Enright
		Enright, Elizabeth, 1909-1968.
		A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer-- her thimble summer.
	Ginger Pye		J Estes
		Estes, Eleanor, 1906-
		When the Pye family's puppy, Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are convinced that he has been adbucted by a stranger in a yellow hat.
	Hitty, Her First Hundred Years		J Field
		Field, Rachel, 1894-1942.
		A favorite since it was first published in 1929, this Newbery Medal winner is a timeless classic about a very special doll of great charm and character.
	The Whipping Boy		J Fleischman
		Fleischman, Sid, 1920-
		A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
	Johnny Tremain		J Forbes
		Forbes, Esther.
		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.
	The Slave Dancer		J Fox
		Fox, Paula.
		Jessie Bollier was thirteen when he was kidnapped from New Orleans and forced to play his fife on board a slave ship.
	The graveyard book		J GAIMAN, N.
		Neil Gaiman
		An orphaned boy is raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
	Julie Of The Wolves		J George
		George, Jean Craighead, 1919-
		This Newbery Medal winner recounts the thrilling adventure of a 13-year-old Eskimo girl who is protected by wolves while lost on the tundra.
	Adam Of The Road		J Gray
		Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 1902-
		The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
	M.C. Higgins, The Great		J Hamilton
		Hamilton, Virginia.
		As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
	The Dark Frigate		J Hawes
		Hawes, Charles Boardman.
		With its bloody battles, brutal buccaneers, and bold, spirited hero, this rousing tale will enthrall readers in search of seafaring adventure
	King Of The Wind		J Henry
		Henry, Marguerite, 1902-
		Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses.
	Out Of The Dust		J Hesse
		Hesse, Karen.
		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.
	Up A Road Slowly		J Hunt
		Hunt, Irene.
	Smoky, The Cow Horse		J James
		James, Will, 1892-1942.
		The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
	Rifles For Watie		J Keith
		Keith, Harold, 1903-
		A young farm boy joins the Union forces and becomes a scout during the Civil War.
	The Trumpeter Of Krakow		J Kelly
		Kelly, Eric Philbrook, 1884-1960.
		A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
	From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil		J Konigsburg
		Konigsburg, E. L.
		When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money.
	The View From Saturday		J Konigsburg
		Konigsburg, E. L.
		Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
	Onion John		J Krumgold
		Krumgold, Joseph, 1908-
		His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
	And Now Miguel		J Krumgold
		Krumgold, Joseph, 1908-
		Miguel, the middle child of the Chavez family, lives near Taos, New Mexico, and longs to go with the men of his family to the Sangre de Christo Mountains.
	A Wrinkle In Time		J L’Engle
		L'Engle, Madeleine.
		It was a wild, stormy night when the unearthly visitor arrived to change the lives of Meg, her small brother, Charles, and their scientist mother.
	Rabbit Hill		J Lawson
		Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.
		New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
	Strawberry Girl		J Lenski
		Lenski, Lois, 1893-
		Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award.
	Young Fu Of The Upper Yangtze		J Lewis
		Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, 1892-1958.
	The Voyages Of Doctor Dolittle		J Lofting
		Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947.
		When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parroton an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
	The Giver		J Lowry
		Lowry, Lois
		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.
	Number The Stars		J Lowry
		Lowry, Lois.
		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.
	Sarah, Plain And Tall		J MacLachlan
		MacLachlan, Patricia.
		Two children experience the apprehensions and joys of the possibility of a new mother when their father invites a mail-order bride to their prairie home. 1986 Newbery Medal.
	Hero And The Crown		J McKinley
		McKinley, Robin.
		Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
	Gay-Neck		J Mukerji
		aMukerji, Dhan Gopal, 1890-1936.
	Shiloh		J Naylor
		Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
		When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
	It’s Like This, Cat		J Neville
		Neville, Emily Cheney.
	Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh		J O’Brien
		O'Brien, Robert C.
		When mouse widow Mrs. Frisby needs advice on how to move her children safely, she consults the rats who live under the rosebush. Not only do they help her, they tell her of their escape from a laboratory where experimentation had made them literate, and of the brave death of her husband.
	The Island Of The Blue Dolphins		J O’Dell
		O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.
	A Single Shard		J Park
		Park, Linda Sue.
		Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
	Jacob Have I Loved		J Paterson
		Paterson, Katherine.
		Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
	Bridge To Terabithia		J Paterson
		Paterson, Katherine.
		In this classic novel, the friendship between young Jess and Leslie grows as they meet in Terabithia--their secret hiding place--and only ends with the tragic death of one of them.
	The Higher Power of Lucky		J PATRON, S.
		Susan Patron
		Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
	Year Down Yonder		J Peck
		Peck, Richard, 1934-
		During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
	The Westing Game		J Raskin
		Raskin, Ellen.
	Missing May		J Rylant
		Rylant, Cynthia.
		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.
	Holes		J Sachar
		Sachar, Louis, 1954-
		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.
	Roller Skates		J Sawyer
		Sawyer, Ruth, 1880-1970.
		The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
	The White Stag		J Seredy
		Kate Seredy
	Dobry		J Shannon
		Shannon, Monica
	Miracles On Maple Hill		J Sorensen
		Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen, 1912-
		Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.
	The Bronze Bow		J Speare
		Speare, Elizabeth George.
		When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
	The Witch Of Blackbird Pond		J Speare
		Speare, Elizabeth George.
		In 1687, Kit Tyler moves from the Caribbean to Connecticut Colony. Her friendship for a strange, old woman leads to her trial for witchcraft.
	Call It Courage		J Sperry
		Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-
		A legendary adventure story of how Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a Polynesian race who worship courage, conquers his fear of the sea and proves he isn't a coward.
	Maniac Magee		J Spinelli
		Spinelli, Jerry.
		After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
	Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry		J Taylor
		Taylor, Mildred D.
		A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
	Dicey’s Song		J Voigt
		Voigt, Cynthia.
		Thirteen-year-old Dicey Tillerman brings her abandoned family to the home of their eccentric grandmother to learn how to trust, and when to let go.
	Shadow Of A Bull		J Wojciechowska
		Wojciechowska, Maia.
	Tales From Silver Lands		J398 Finger
		Finger, Charles Joseph, 1869-1941.
	A Joyful Noise: Poems For Two Voices		J811.54 Fleischman
		Fleischman, Paul.
		Written to be read aloud by two voices, here are poems--funny, sad, loud, and quiet--that resound with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise.
	A Visit To William Blake’s Inn		J811.54 Willard
		Willard, Nancy.
		Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake's imaginary inn and its unusual guests.
	Good masters! Sweet Ladies!		J812.6 SCHLITZ
		Laura Amy Schlitz
		A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
	The Story Of Mankind		J909 Van Loon
		Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
		Winner of the first John Newbery Medal in 1921, here is van Loon's renowned classic record of historic adventure, updated for the 21st century.
	Invincible Louisa		JB Alcott
		Meigs, Cornelia, 1884-1973.
	Daniel Boone		JB Boone
		Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-1974.
	Carry On, Mr. Bowditch		JB Bowditch
		Latham, Jean Lee.
		Fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
	Amos Fortune Free Man		JB Fortune
		Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-
		The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
	Lincoln: A Photobiography		JB Lincoln
		Freedman, Russell.
		Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
	I, Juan De Pareja		JB Pareja
		Trevi, Elizabeth Borton de, 1904-
		Novel based on the true story of the slave, Juan de Pareja, who was willed to Velazquez and whose relationship with the great Spanish painter evolved into one of friendship and equality.
	Crispin: The Cross Of Lead		YA FIC Avi
		Avi
		Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
	Kira-Kira		YA FIC KADOHATA, C.
		Cynthia Kadohata
		Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
	Criss Cross		YA FIC PERKINS, L.
		Lynne Rae Perkins
		Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love