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1 Big Nate () Peirce Middle School Behaviors Humorous Stories The One and Only Ivan Castelao Gorillas Elephants Animal Cruelty Tale of Desperaux DiCamillo Fantasy Fairy Tales From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg Mystery Art Runaways Dragon Rider Funke Dragons Fantasy Quest Breadcrumbs Ursu Fairy Tales Friendships The Magician s Elephant DiCamillo Missing Persons Elephants Once Upon a Toad Frederick Fairy Tales Stepfamilies Fairy Godmothers Wonder Palacio Realistic Fiction Bullying Inside Out and Back Again Lai Vietnamese Americans Refugees Immigration Bullies Maniac Magee Spinelli Grief & Loss Racism Homelessness The Invention of Hugo Cabret Selznick Orphans Robots Mystery Matilda Dahl Schools - Fiction Humorous Stories Wildwood Meloy Fantasy The Mysterious Howling Wood Fiction Orphans Feral Children Governesses Gregor the Overlander () Collins Fantasy Fiction Brothers/Sisters Imaginary Wars Shadow Children Haddix Science Fiction Population () 850 Control Three Times Lucky Turnage Murder Mystery Detective Story Foundlings Humorous Story

2 Heroes of Olympus () Riordan Fantasy Fiction Mythology Bull Rider Williams War-related disabilities Siblings Rodeo Holes Sachar Boys Fiction Hunt for the Seventh Morton-Shaw Ghosts Mystery Out of My Mind Draper Cerebral Palsy Disabilities Genius Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls Realistic Fiction Dogs Boys and Men When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Holt Best Friends Overweight Persons The Boy at the End of the Van Eekhout Science Fiction Survival World Robots The Haunting of Gabriel Ash Poblocki Horror and Ghost Stories Esperanza Rising Muñoz-Ryan Historica Fiction Immigration Family The Westing Game Raskin Murder Mystery Inheritance When You Reach Me Stead Fantasy/Time Travel Hoot Hiaasan, Realistic Fiction Ecology Lara's Gift O'Brien Historical Fiction Borzoi Dogs Family Life Russia Summer of the Monkeys Rawls Monkeys Oklahoma Scat Hiaasan Missing Persons Ecology Wilderness Florida Mysterious Benedict Socie Stewart Science Fiction Listening for Lions Whelan Historical Fiction East Africa Orphans Strong Female Character The Boneshaker Milford Automata Supernatural Demonology The Kite Rider McCaughrean China - 3th Century Kublai Khan Circus Old Yeller Gipson Classic Lit Frontier Life Boys & Men Dogs

3 Code Talker : a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two The Death-Defying Pepper Roux Bruhac Historical Fiction Navajo Indians US Marine Corp Cryptography McCaughrean, Survival Fate Disguise Lincoln's Grave Robbers Sheinkin Non-fiction Historical Plots Counterfeiting Small Acts of Amazing Courage Whelan Historical Fiction India Strong Female Character Chasing Lincoln's Killer Swanson Non-fiction Assassins Lincoln Freak the Mighty Philbrick Fiction Friendship Disabilities The Higher Power of Lucky Patron Runaways Strong Girl Character Family love Booth Hatchet Paulson, Ortega Fergus Sci-Fi Gorillas Middle Schools Enola Holmes Mysteries Springer Mystery Detective Stories The True s of Charley Darwin Historical Fiction Voyages Exploration Savvy Law Magic Brothers/Sisters The Trap Smelcer Survival Fiction Conduct of Life Trapping Indians of North America of Unfortunate Events () Lemony Snicket Percy Jackson and the Riordan 620- Olympians () 740 Fablehaven () Mull Humorous Fiction Orphans 5-8 Fantasy/Magic Good/Evil 5-8 Fantasy Fiction Magic 3 Treasures () Harrison 700's 5-8 Mystery Fairies Fiction Changlings

4 Peter and the Starcatchers () Ranger s Apprentice ) Barry 700's 5-8 Magic Fiction Orphans Pirates Flanagan Fantasy Fiction Heroes of War Imaginary Wars Hunger Games Trilogy Collins Harry Potter () Rowling Wizardry Fantasy & Magic 00 Diary of a Wimpy Kid () Kinney Diaries Humorous Fiction Family Life School Life I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) Yousafzai NA 5-8 Memoir Of Mice and Men Steinbeck 630 Adult for Classic Lit Friendship young adults Migrant Workers The Red Pony Steinbeck 80 Adult for Classic Lit Horses young adults Death and Dying Responsibility The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway 940 Adult for young adults The Pearl Steinbeck 00 Adult for young adults How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci Gelb NL Adult for young adults Classic Lit Cuba Classic Lit Mexico Non-fiction Problem-solving Fishermen Elderly Men Poverty Greed Creativity Ender s Game Card 780 YA Science Fiction Military School Space Warfare Mary, Bloody Mary Beware, Princess Elizabeth Duchessina : a Novel of Catherine de' Medici 830 YA Historical Fiction British 90 YA Historical Fiction British 950 YA Historical Fiction Italian

5 The Bad Queen :Rules and Instructions for Marie- Antoinette The wild queen : the Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots 990 YA Historical Fiction French 000 YA Historical Fiction British The Thirteenth Child Wrede 00 YA Fantasy Fiction Magic Brothers/Sisters Pioneer Life Patience, Princess Catherine The President Has Been Shot: the Assassination of JFK 030 YA British Swanson 080 YA Non-fiction Assassinations Kennedy Twilight 670- YA Love/Romance Vampires 720 Maximum Ride () Patterson 700's YA Genetic Engineering Divergent Trilogy Roth Maze Runner () Dashner YA YA Identity Fiction Social Classes Family Life Science Fiction Experiements Viral Diseases Natural Disasters Leviathan Trilogy Westerfeld 800's YA Steam Punk Science Fiction War Stories The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien YA Fantasy Fiction Magic Boy Nobody Zadoff NA YA Action Teen Assasin The Rose that Grew from Shakur NL YA Poetry Urban themes Concrete Poetry I m Not Her Gurtler 670 YA Sisters Cancer Patients Teenagers Thirteen Little Blue EnvelopeJohnson 770 YA Love Interest If We Kiss Vail 640 YA Light sexual suggestions Grief & Loss Travel Coming-of-Age Teen Romance Parental Dating

6 The Fault in Our Stars Green 850 YA Some sexual content & course language Realistic Fiction Cancer Life Questions Looking for Alaska Green 930 YA Some sexual content & course language Homeboyz Sitomer 860 YA Violence Autobiography of My Dead Brother Myers 830 YA Violence Drugs/Gang s Sexual Situations The Price of Loyalty Castan 690 YA Violence/ Drugs/Gang s Between Shades of Grey Sepetys 490 YA Theme Boy in the Striped Pajamas Boyne 080 YA theme with horrific ending Confessions of a Murder Suspect Patterson 770 YA theme with sordid family secrets Realistic Fiction Fiction: Friendship Death & Dying Realistic Fiction Gangs Juvenile Justice Revenge Realistic Fiction Urban Fiction Realistic Fiction Urban Fiction Historical Fiction Holocaust Lithuania Labor Camps Historica Fiction Holocaust Friendship Crime Fiction Family Secrets Mystery

7 Matched () Condie 670 YA Romance The Lovely Bones Sebold 890 YA - AD theme with some violence I Am Malala Yousafzai 000 YA - Adult Violence House of Night () Cast 800's YA Suggestive Sexual Situations Fantasy Fiction Dystopian Mate Selection Realistic Fiction Rape & Murder Grief & Healing Memoir Fantasy Vampires Occult

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