THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET by Brian Selznick

2007 Fiction

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

 PEAK by Roland Smith

2007 Fiction

 A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

WELCOME TO WAHOO   By Dennis & Elise Pritcher Carr

2006 Fiction

After being told that she must leave her European boarding school to live in  Nebraska under an assumed name to be safe from Mafia assassins, Victoria Van  Wyck tries to stop a smear campaign directed at her new friend by the school's  popular clique.

RED MOON AT SHARPSBURG by Rosemary Wells

2007 Fiction

Even though the odds are against her and the Civil War has ruined her home and given her a view of the darker side of humanity, thirteen-year-old India Moody continues to aspire to become a scientist and attend Oberlin College.

CRACKER By Cynthia Kadohata

2007 Fiction

A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.

ELIJAH OF BUXTON By Christopher Paul Curtis

2007 Fiction

Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

LOVE, STARGIRL By Jerry Spinelli

2007 Fiction

Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.

RUNAWAY By Wendelin Van Draanen

2006 Fiction

After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.

THIS IS WHAT I DID   by Ann Dee Ellis

2007 Fiction

Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him.