Children/Young Adult

Gone to Texas

By Louise A. Jackson - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

Jackson based this young adult novel on her great-grandfather’s experiences going West in 1850. Recently-orphaned Ephraim Darter, 14, is bored working the family farm ...Read Review

Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

By Adeline Yen Mah - Published 2004Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Adeline Yen Mah is the author of the critically acclaimed Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter. Now she brings a ...Read Review

Bound

By Donna Jo Napoli - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Don’t expect the typical Cinderella story, with a fairy godmother, two stepsisters, and a glorious ball in Donna Jo Napoli’s Bound. ...Read Review

Betsy and the Emperor

By Staton Rabin - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

It is the fall of 1815 on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean when Napoleon Bonaparte arrives there as ...Read Review

Horse of Seven Moons

By Karen Taschek - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

A horse is the link between his two teen-aged keepers throughout this young adult historical set in 1880s New Mexico. The pinto, called ...Read Review

Wintering Well

By Lea Wait - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Wintering Well tackles the issue of physical disability in rural Maine around 1820. Twelve-year-old Will Ames loses a leg in an accident just as ...Read Review

The Year the Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs and Elvis Presley

By Diane Thomas - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

It is 1955 when fourteen-year-old Achsa McEachern hears “That’s All Right Mama” on the radio, sung by the as-yet-unknown twenty-year-old Elvis Presley. She ...Read Review

Riddle in the Mountain

By Daryl Burkhard - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Kathy and David Henley have just moved to Boulder, Colorado. They have become acquainted with a boy their age, Frank Kessler. A neighbor, ...Read Review

Shades of Red

By k.c. dyer - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

This is the third installment of a time travel trilogy written for young adult readers. In this episode, Darrell returns to Eagle Glen ...Read Review

The Game of Silence

By Louise Erdrich - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

  Louise Erdrich is wonderful! This talented author thoughtfully crafted this tale that acquaints the reader with the warmth, care and intricacies of ...Read Review