2006 Noticible Books for Older Readers
1.  Photo by Brady - by: Jennifer Armstrong - ISBN: 0689857853
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6 Up–Armstrong chronicles the Civil War from Lincoln's election to his death with both a storylike...
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2.  Hitler Youth - by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti - ISBN: 0439353793
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 5-8–Hitler's plans for the future of Germany relied significantly on its young people, and this...
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3.  Let Me Play - by: Karen Blumenthal - ISBN: 0689859570
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 7 Up -A fascinating look at the birth, growth, stagnation, and final emergence of Title IX. While...
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4.  Maritcha - by: Tonya Bolden - ISBN: 0810950456
- From School Library Journal Grade 4 Up - Readers met Maritcha Rémond Lyons in Bolden's Tell All the Children Our Story (Abrams, 2002), in a one-page...
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5.  Code Talker - by: Joseph Bruchac - ISBN: 0803729219
- From School Library Journal Grade 5 Up–In the measured tones of a Native American storyteller, Bruchac assumes the persona of a Navajo grandfather...
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6.  The Tequila Worm - by: Viola Canales - ISBN: 0385746741
- From School Library Journal Grade 5-8–Sofia, 14, lives in McAllen, TX. What she lacks in material possessions, she makes up for in personality and...
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7.  Sweetgrass Basket - by: Marlene Carvell - ISBN: 0525475478
- From School Library Journal Grade 5-8–In alternating free verse, two Mohawk sisters tell of their lives at the Carlisle Indian School near the turn of...
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8.  Chicken Boy - by: Frances O'Roark Dowell - ISBN: 0689858167
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4-7 -In Raleigh, NC, seventh-grader Tobin McCauley has let life pass him by since his mother died five years...
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9.  Our Stories, Our Songs - by: Deborah Ellis - ISBN: 1550419137
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6 Up–In the summer of 2003, Ellis traveled to Malawi and Zambia and met with children and teens whose...
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10.  Our Eleanor - by: Candace Fleming - ISBN: 0689865449
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4-8–This presentation does for the longest-serving First Lady what Russell Freedman's Lincoln: A...
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11.  Understanding the Holy Land : Answering questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) - by: Mitch Frank - ISBN: 0670060321
- From School Library Journal Grade 6-9–In simple, straightforward language, making no assumptions about any prior knowledge, Frank tackles the task of...
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12.  Children of the Great Depression - by: Russell Freedman - ISBN: 0618446303
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4-8–Few authors are as well suited as Freedman to present a clear and understandable outline of...
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13.  Inkspell - by: Cornelia Funke - ISBN: 0439554004
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14.  The Legend Of The Wandering King - by: Laura Gallego Garcia - ISBN: 0439585562
- From School Library Journal Grade 7-10–The author of several books in her native Spain, Gallego García has set this quasi-historical fable in...
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15.  Good Brother, Bad Brother - by: James Cross Giblin - ISBN: 0618096426
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6-9–Actors Edwin and John Wilkes Booth each had a compelling stage presence and a fondness for...
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16.  The Witch's Boy - by: Michael Gruber - ISBN: 0060761644
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6-9–Once upon a time, in a faraway country, there was a woman who lived by herself in the middle of a...
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17.  Guys Write for Guys Read - by: Jon Scieszka - ISBN: 0670060275
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 5-9–Scieszka has put together a diverse and fast-paced anthology of scribblings and stories that...
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18.  Princess Academy (Newbery Honor Book) - by: Shannon Hale - ISBN: 1582349932
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 5-9–The thought of being a princess never occurred to the girls living on Mount Eskel. Most plan...
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19.  Flush - by: Carl Hiaasen - ISBN: 0375821821
- From School Library Journal Grade 5-8–Noah and his sister, Abbey, are more understanding of their volatile dad's latest arrest than their mother, who...
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20.  An Innocent Soldier (Mildred L Batchelder Award Book (Awards)) - by: Josef Holub - ISBN: 0439627710
- From School Library Journal Grade 8 Up–The book begins in 1811 in pre-unification Germany as a farmer enlists his unwitting farmhand, Adam, in Napoleon's...
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21.  Totally Joe - by: James Howe - ISBN: 068983957X
- From School Library Journal Grade 6-8–Joe's teacher asks his seventh-grade class to write an alphabiography throughout the year, presenting themselves...
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22.  The Forbidden Schoolhouse - by: Suzanne Jurmain - ISBN: 0618473025
- From School Library Journal Grade 7-9–Jurmain describes the difficulties Crandall faced when she decided to open a school for African-American females in...
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23.  Leonardo Da Vinci - by: Kathleen Krull - ISBN: 067005920X
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4-8–With a totally captivating opening and a conversational writing style, Krull offers a vivid...
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24.  Day of Tears - by: Julius Lester - ISBN: 0786804904
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6-9–This powerful and engaging historical novel is told in dialogue and through monologues. It also...
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25.  The Mzungu Boy - by: Meja Mwangi - ISBN: 0888996535
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-6–A story set in Kenya during the early 1950s. As a concluding note explains, much of the land at this time was held...
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26.  A Wreath for Emmett Till - by: Marilyn Nelson - ISBN: 0618397523
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–This memorial to the lynched teen is in the Homeric tradition of poet-as-historian. It is a...
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27.  A Maze Me - by: Naomi Shihab Nye - ISBN: 0060581891
- From Booklist *Starred Review* Gr. 8-11. In the thoughtful, inspiring introduction to her latest collection of original poems, Nye encourages young readers to...
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28.  Criss Cross - by: Lynne Rae Perkins - ISBN: 0060092734
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6-9–The author of the popular All Alone in the Universe (HarperCollins, 1999) returns with another character...
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29.  Under the Persimmon Tree - by: Suzanne Fisher Staples - ISBN: 0374380252
- From School Library Journal Grade 5-8 -When her father and brother are taken by the Taliban and her mother and baby brother are killed in a bombing raid during...
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30.  Harry Sue - by: Sue Stauffacher - ISBN: 0375832742
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-8–Harry Sue, 11, feels as though she's been doing time for the past seven years, since her father threw her out of a...
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31.  Hans Christian Andersen - by: Hjordis Varmer - ISBN: 088899690X
- From School Library Journal Grade 5-8–Most of this book describes Andersen's childhood and belated schooling, showing his poverty and the grief he...
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32.  Secrets of a Civil War Submarine - by: Sally M. Walker - ISBN: 1575058308
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6-10–Walker brings a little-known story of the Civil War to life in this fascinating book. When the...
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33.  Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time - by: Lisa Yee - ISBN: 0439622476
- From School Library Journal Grade 5-7–A companion volume to Millicent Min, Girl Genius (Scholastic, 2003). From birth, when his father named him for his...
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34.  When I Was a Soldier - by: Valerie Zenatti - ISBN: 1582349789
- From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up–In this compelling memoir, Zenatti, first among her group of friends to be called for compulsory military service,...
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35.  Elsewhere - by: Gabrielle Zevin - ISBN: 0374320918
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 7-10–What happens when you die? Where do you go? What do you do? Zevin provides answers to these...
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