Young Adult BooksOLDIES but GOODIES

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The Thieves of Ostiaby Caroline Lawrence

If it’s not the dogs, who are the thieves of Ostia?

Test your logic along with twelve year olds from ancient Rome.

The Thieves of Ostiaby Caroline Lawrence

• Don’t you love a mystery?

• Does it take you long to figure our “who dun it”?

• Using your knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology, you probably will figure this out before the grown-ups in the story do.

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

How exciting to be a passenger

aboard a ship for a trip

across the ocean to an exotic continent!

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Unless, like an African slave,

you, are thirteen year old Jessie is kidnapped and forced against

your will to work on a slave ship.

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

This Newberry Award winning novel invites

you to experience what Jessie sees and fears as

this ship leaves his home in New Orleans,

sails across the ocean to Africa and back to the

island of Cuba.

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes Dodge

This classic historical novel takes you on a

tour of towns between Amsterdam and The

Hague as you travel with the young boyswho ice skate

over 30 miles down frozen canals of Holland.

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes Dodge

A skillful as a movie maker, Mary Mapes Dodge paints word pictures so clearly you may be able to draw what you see in your mind as you read about daring speed-skating and life-long friendships.

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes Dodge

You’ll learn about famous Dutch, Spanish, Russian, and English monarchs.

Discover new facts about art and artillery men; experience sacrifice and selfishness; marvel at the humble and the haughty, and even rejoice about a surprising medical miracle!

JACK: Secret Circlesby F. Paul Wilson

MYSTERY, MAGIC, AND MAYHEM

• Jack and Weezy find something weird and wonderful in the woods near their home.

• Then, neighbor boy goes missing.

• Few clues to who, what, when, where or how!

JACK: Secret Circlesby F. Paul Wilson

• What’s that pyramid shaped structure?

• It’s big!• What’s that foul smell?• It’s coming from

something big!• See how teens both help

and hurt when they get involved.

JACK: Secret Circlesby F. Paul Wilson

From the Jack, the Repairman series, this fast paced flashback entices you to read quickly.Discover the secrets around the town, in the woods, and within a neighbor’s house when Jack was a teenager.

The Seven Tales of Trinketby Shelley Moore Thomas

She sets out on the road with Thomas, the Pig Boy, following a map her father left.

What will Trinket, the Story Lass find and why does it matter?

The Seven Tales of Trinketby Shelley Moore Thomas

What folk tales do you know that include a

feather, a harp, a mirror, gold coins, a shovel,

a stool or a scroll?

The Seven Tales of Trinketby Shelley Moore Thomas

Like the vines on the book cover,

author Shelley Moore Thomas strings

together seven ancient tales from the British Isles into one story

about a young lass who inherits her father’s skill as a storyteller.

Dragonsongby Anne McCaffrey

• What could be more fun than a sweeping fantasy tale of dragons and flying lizards?

• Dragonsong, part of the Chronicle of Pern series is just such a book of science fiction.

Dragonsongby Anne McCaffrey

• Fourteen year old Menolly is a talented harper, so very skillful, yet her father wants her to hide her music.

• Her music even charms the fire lizards that people in her town onl believe are mythical creatures.

Dragonsongby Anne McCaffrey

What’s a girl to do? Read and find out for yourself.

Honey Beaby Kim Siegelson

You’re in for a delightful surprise if you decide to read this Louisiana story by Kim Siegelson who has used a pun as the title of her book.

Yes, a “pun” is a play on words.

Honey Beaby Kim Siegelson

You’ll learn about human

beekeepers and ways that bees

keep their human keepers

safe.You also will learn

family secrets.

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Honey Beaby Kim Siegelson

You also may be surprised at the lengths to which slaves will go to gain their freedom!

Expand your knowledge in three area by reading one novel.

Use of Languages, Beekeeping,

Flights toward Freedom

The Sword in the Stoneby T.H. White

Take a look at this book cover.

What do you notice?Just wait till you read what

this cover illustrates.This modern classic will

make you both jealous of this character and glad you didn’t go to school with him.

The Sword in the Stoneby T.H. White

• You’ve heard of King Arthur, right?

• Well, here’s a story of his adventures as a student.

• Yep, a student of the Wizard, Merlyn.

The Sword in the Stoneby T.H. White

• You think Harry Potter has some strange adventures?

• Wait until you read about Kid Arthur experiences as a fish, a snake, and a badger. He even talks to the trees…who talk back to him.

My Lady Pocohantas by Kathleen V. Kudlinski

When you think of Pocohantas, is this what

you imagine?or this?

This book of historical fiction shows her both ways.

Historical fiction tells stories about real people, real places, and real events…with details added by the author.

My Lady Pocohantas by Kathleen V. Kudlinski

The early chapters, set in the 1600’s, describe

what Pocohantas’ life may have been like in among the Pamunkey

tribe near Colonial Jamestown in the state

of Virginia.

My Lady Pocohantas by Kathleen V. Kudlinski

Through the imagination and skill

of Kathleen V. Kudlinkski, you

discover how and why a Native American

begins to dress like an English lady and is renamed, Rebecca.