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Click on the title to view the item in the Public Library Catalog, then use Request-a-Title to place a hold on it and have it delivered to the library of your choice.
Select one from the following list:
A Boy at War: a novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children by Caroline Kennedy
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
Year of No Rain by Alice Mead
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
Blackwater by Eve Bunting
Cave Detectives: Unraveling the Mystery of an Ice Age Cave by David L. Harrison
Chronicles of Darkness #1: Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Danger on Midnight River: World of Adventure Series, Book 6 by Gary Paulsen
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes by Paula Danziger
Heartlight by T.A. Baron
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope by Stephen P. Kramer
How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Skellig by David Almond
The Liberation of Gabriel King by Kelly Going
When the Soldiers Were Gone by Vera W. Propp
Grade 7
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Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet by Alexandra Siy
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
City of Ember by Jeanne duPrau
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
Escape from Fire Mountain by Gary Paulsen
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela S. Turner
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer by Shelley Sommer
Heat by Mike Lupica
Knucklehead: tall tales and mostly true stories about growing up by Jon Scieszka
Liberty or Death: the Surprising Story of Runaway Slaves by Margaret Whitman Blair
Local News: stories by Gary Soto
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Maritcha: a 19th Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome
But True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
The Comet's Curse by Dom Testa
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin by Carolyn Meyer
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Grade 8
Select one from the following list:
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Chain Reaction: A Call to Compassionate Revolution by Darrell Scott
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Freak the Mighty by W. Rodman Philbrick
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Johnny Hangtime by Dan Gutman
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The Greatest, Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
Through My Eyes: A Quarterbacks's Journey, Young Readers Edition by Tim Tebow
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
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