Mary Casanova
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent with her younger brother to Godøy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.
2) Frozen
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to speak or remember the events surrounding her mother's mysterious death eleven years earlier, sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, the foster child of a corrupt senator in 1920s northern Minnesota, struggles to regain her voice, memory, and identity.
3) McKenna
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
4) Moose tracks
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Seth, the son of a game warden, tries to save an orphaned moose calf from poachers.
5) Grace
Author
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.
7) Chrissa
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't quit, and when the teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand strong and speak out.
8) Wolf shadows
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When his best friend illegally shoots a wolf while hunting in northern Minnesota, twelve-year-old Seth struggles to determine whether their friendship can survive their different ideas.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her grandparents' bakery and her recent visit to Paris, nine-year-old Grace leads her friends in starting La Petite Patisserie, making and selling French pastries at school and special events, but they soon discover that starting a new business is not always easy--or fun.
10) One-dog canoe
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.
12) Some dog!
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A stray dog moves into George's formerly peaceful home, dazzling the man and woman of the house with lively tricks and antics that just leave George exhausted.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Grace is crushed to learn that her grandparents' bakery might close after thirty years and wonders how her own business, which they inspired, can survive if theirs cannot, but she and her friends use their talents and newly-acquired business skills to try to save the day." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1711, twelve-year-old Cecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chrissa Maxwell's had a good summer, practicing for swim team tryouts. Then her world is shaken when she and her friends get mean text messages and there's an accident at the pool. Can one girl put an end to the bullying?
16) One-dog sleigh
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A girl hitches her dog to her sleigh one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When outlaw Dirk Yeller arrives in Cowtown looking for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam, whose pa says he is "a world-a-trouble and curious as a tomcat," knows just what this dangerous and jittery criminal needs to calm him down.