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The Promise
Robert Westall
Paperback (Point, April 1, 1993)Because Valerie, the beautiful young woman who loves him, is so sick, Bob carelessly makes a promise to her he knows he cannot keep, unaware that, after she dies, she will make him pay. Reprint.
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Arly
Robert Newton Peck
Paperback (Point, Nov. 1, 1991)Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.
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The Final Nightmare
Lynn Philbrick, Rodman; Harnett
Paperback (Scholastic Point, Aug. 16, 1997)None
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The Tricksters
Margaret Mahy
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Oct. 1, 1988)The lives of Jack and Naomi Hamilton, their five children, their guest, and friends are disturbed by the arrival of three mysterious and sinister young men at Carnival's Hide, the Hamilton's seaside home in New Zealand, and by bizarre supernatural events. The lives of Jack and Naomi Hamilton, their five children, their guest, and friends are disturbed by the arrival of three mysterious and sinister young men at Carnival's Hide, the Hamilton's seaside home in New Zealand, and by bizarre supernatural events
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Building Blocks
Cynthia Voigt
Paperback (Aladdin, Aug. 1, 2002)Having traveled back in time more than three decades to his father's childhood home, Brann Connell gets to meet his father as a child and learn what life was like for him when he was once his young age. Reprint.
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Flight #116 Is Down
Caroline B. Cooney
School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, July 1, 1997)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever.
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Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers
Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic, Oct. 1, 1993)Jimmy's life changes dramatically when Crab, a man with something to prove, enters his life and reveals himself as Jimmy's long-lost father. Reprint. AB. K. SLJ. PW. H.
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Where Do I Go from Here?
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Paperback (Point, Jan. 1, 1996)Struggling against prejudice and financial disadvantages at Endicott Academy, Nia, an African-American teenager, finds a friend and mentor in Marcus, whose disappearance leaves Nia confused and determined to find him. Reprint.
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Nell's Quilt
Susan Terris
Paperback (Point, Oct. 1, 1988)Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.Yearning to attend college and work for the women's suffrage movement, eighteen-year-old Nell feels trapped by her parents' inability to manage the farm without her and seeks refuge in the creation of a quilt, in a story set at the turn of the century
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All Shook Up
Elizabeth Levy
Paperback (Point, Jan. 1, 1986)Her friends call him a greaser and her father does not like him, but Amy remains mesmerized by Elvis, the young singer whose ambition is to become a superstar
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LeRoy and the Old Man
W. E. Butterworth
Hardcover (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 1980)None
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Wolf By The Ears
Ann Rinaldi
School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 1, 1993)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her: to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
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