Byars, Betsy - The Summer of the Swans
Fourteen year old girl searches for her younger brother, lost in the woods.
--FIC Byars(pbk.), J FIC Byars, JCB 108 Byars (Book-on-tape)

Paulsen, Gary - The Island
Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in Northern Wisconsin.
J FIC Paulsen, --FIC Paulsen, --FIC Paulsen CB 114 (Book-on-tape)

Blinn, William - Brian's Song
The story of a football star Brian Piccolo's life and career, cut short by cancer.
[BIOG] --Blinn (YA PBK)

Brandt, Keith - Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees
The life of the great baseball player, from his childhood to his triumph as star of the New York Yankees.
J B Gehrig B (pbk)

Guernsey, Van Riper - Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
A biography of one of the best athletes in history, who went on to win the Olympic gold medal and was also an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Guernsey, Van Riper - Knute Rockne: Young Athlete
Childhood of the football coach at Notre Dame, who won fame for his football strategy.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Gutman, Bill - Sammy Sosa: A Biography
All season long, the nation watched Sammy Sosa chase one of the most revered records in all of sports: the single season home run record set by Roger Maris in 1961.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Lovitt, Chip - Michael Jordan
Included are chapters describing Jordan's early years; high school, college and professional achievements; and personal goals.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Born a slave, Frederick Douglass at 24 became a spokesman for his race-- a role he retained throughout his life.
BIOG B Douglass

Dunham, Montrew - Langston Hughes: Young Black Poet
The early years of the African-American writer.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Freedman, Russell - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
J B Roosevelt F, [BIOG] --Roosevelt F

Holliday, Laurel - Children in the Holocaust and World War II
An anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and England, twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through day after day.
--940.5318 C (YA PBK)

Petry, Ann - Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
An introduction to Harriet Tubman and her work with the Underground Railroad describes the system of safe houses and secret routes that led hundreds of slaves to freedom.
J B Tubman P

Wiesel, Elie - Night
Details of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald as
witnessed by a fifteen-year old boy.
BIOG B Wiesel, --B Wiesel (YA PBK), --B Wiesel CB 179 (Book-on-tape), [biographies] B Wiesel DB 18 (playaway digital book)

Alexander, Lloyd - The Black Cauldron
Prince Gwydion leads the quest to destroy the Black Cauldron. The reader's involvement is intense as the excitement leads up to the climatic meeting of tragedy and triumph.
J FIC Alexander, --FIC Alexander

Avi - Blue Heron
Maggie Lavchek, a great believer in magic, makes a wish that nothing will ever change.
J FIC Avi, --FIC Avi (pbk)

Evslin, Bernard - Greek Gods
Zeus, Apollo, Hades, Athena, Aphrodite, Prometheus, Poseidon...The Greek gods had more powers than mortals could even imagine.
J 292.08 E; pbk

Sutcliff, Rosemary - Sword and the Circle
Retells the adventures of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot, and the other knights of the Round Table.
-- FIC Sutcliff (pbk)

Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit
An adventure of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who discovers (or steals) the One Ring of Power.
FIC Tolkien (pbk.), -- FIC Tolkien (pbk), J FIC Tolkien, 823 Tolkien, JCB 111 Tolkien (Book-on-tape), -- FIC Tolkien CB 172 (Book-on-tape), --FIC Tolkien CDB 241 (Book-on-CD)

Brooks, Bruce - The Moves Make The Man
An African-American basketball player and an emotionally troubled white shortstop form a risky friendship in North Carolina.
-- FIC Brooks (pbk)

Cooney, Caroline B. - The Face on the Milk Carton
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identify.
-- FIC Cooney (pbk.), -- FIC Cooney (Book-on-tape)

Danziger, Paula - The Divorce Express
Phoebe shuttles between her divorced parents aboard the "Divorce Express", a bus on which she makes a discovery.
J FIC Danziger, -- FIC Danziger (pbk.)

Danziger, Paula - The Pistachio Prescription
Cassie Stephens, thirteen, is running for freshman class president and believes pistachio nuts will cure any problems.
J FIC Danziger, --FIC Danziger (pbk)

Fox, Paula - One-Eyed Cat
Ned must deal with his guilt after injuring a cat with an air rifle.
J FIC Fox

Hinton, S.E. - Taming The Star Runner
A "tough" city boy is sent to stay with his uncle on a ranch and begins to realize he is not so cool.
-- FIC Hinton (pbk.)

London, Jack - Call of the Wild
A rugged outdoor story of a sled dog who breaks free to roam the Alaskan wilderness.
-- FIC London (pbk.), J FIC London, FIC London, LT FIC London, JDB 38 London (Book-on-CD), FIC London (PBK. RACK), FIC London CB 571 (Book-on-tape)

Paterson, Katherine - Jacob Have I Loved
Louise searches for her own identity while fighting
jealousy of her talented, beautiful, and fragile twin.
J FIC Paterson, -- FIC Paterson (pbk.)

Pfeffer, Susan - The Year Without Michael
The remaining members of the Chapman family try to
cope with the disappearance of fourteen-year old Michael.
-- FIC Pfeffer, -- FIC Pfeffer CB 127 (Book-on-tape)

Rawls, Wilson - Where The Red Fern Grows
Moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs.
J FIC Rawls, -- FIC Rawls (pbk)

Speare, Elizabeth - The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A story set in 1687 wherein a young girl rebels against bigotry and her new surroundings.
J FIC Speare, -- FIC Speare (pbk.)

Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee
A boy becomes a legend after his parents die by binding relations with kids from the white and black parts of town.
J FIC Spinelli, -- FIC Spinelli (pbk.)

Taylor, Mildred D. - Let The Circle Be Unbroken
A story set during the depression in which a young girl learns to struggle against prejudice and poverty.
J FIC Taylor, -- FIC Taylor

Twain, Mark - The Prince and the Pauper
The roles of two identical boys are switched with possible disastrous results.
-- FIC Twain (pbk.), J FIC Clemens, FIC Clemens, FIC Twain (pbk)

Voigt, Cynthia - Dicey's Song
A thirteen-year old girl, after having solved her sibling's problems, realizes she has problems of her own.
J FIC Voigt, -- FIC Voigt (pbk.), -- Voigt CB 102 (Book-on-tape)

Zindel, Paul - A Begonia for Miss Applebaum
Henry and Zelda accompany their former teacher, who is terminally ill to New York City and confront death together.
-- FIC Zindel

Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher - With Every Drop of Blood
A novel of the Civil War centered on Johnny who breaks a promise to his father to join the fighting.
-- FIC Collier

Fox, Paula - The Slave Dancer
A 13-year-old boy who plays the fife is kidnapped aboard a slave ship.
J FIC Fox, -- FIC Fox (pbk)

Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier
Story of a friendship between a Jewish girl and a young German soldier during WW II.
-- FIC Greene (pbk.), J FIC Greene

Hesse, Karen - Letters from Rifka
Rifka dreams of life in America, but she may never get there. Rifka and her family have fled Russia's brutal treatment of the Jews for a new life in America.
J FIC Hesse, -- FIC Hesse

Hunt, Irene - Across Five Aprils
The story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.
-- FIC Hunt (pbk.)

Bennett, Jay - The Executioner
Three survivors of an automobile crash are threatened by an executioner who believes they should die.
-- FIC Bennett

Bennett, Jay - The Pigeon
An innocent boy is accused of murder and now must find the real killer.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Christie, Agatha - Ten Little Indians (also titled And Then There Were None)
A baffling murder mystery where a nursery rhyme is the key to the crime.
-- FIC Christie (pbk.), MYS Christie, M Christie CB 524/525 (abridged Book-on-tape)

Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Hound of Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of the howls of a hound that for centuries has brought death to the Baskervilles.
-- MYS Doyle, FIC Doyle, J MYS Doyle, FIC Doyle CB 841 (Book-on-tape),
MYS SS Doyle, MYS Doyle

Raskin, Ellen - The Westing Game
Sixteen players are suspects in a murder and whoever discovers the villain wins $200 million...and the losers lose all.
J MYS Raskin, -- FIC Raskin (pbk), -- FIC Raskin (Book-on-tape)

Zindel, Paul - The Undertaker's Gone Bananas
Bobby Perkins is determined to find out if his neighbor Mr. Hulka really killed his wife and hid her head in the T.V.
-- FIC Zindel

Brimner, Larry Dane - Snowboarding
This book traces the history of snowboarding describes equipment and basic techniques, and discusses the safety issues and competitive aspects of the sport.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk.

Hersey, John - Hiroshima
The story of six human beings who survived the explosion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima.
-- 940.544 H (pbk.), 940.544 H, LT 940.544 H

Jones, Ron - The Acorn People
The true story of five handicapped boys at summer camp who defy everyone's notion of what handicapped children "ought" to do.
[BIOG] --B Jones (YA PBK)

Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A funny story about the end of the world and the
happy-go-lucky days that follow it.
-- FIC Adams (pbk), SF Adams (pbk.), SF Adams CB 1404 (Book-on-tape)

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
A story set in a time where firemen are paid to set books on fire.
-- FIC Bradbury, SF Bradbury (pbk.), FIC Bradbury CDB 267 (Book-on-CD), LT SF Bradbury (pbk)

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers For Algernon
An experiment is performed on a man with startling results.
-- FIC Keyes (pbk), FIC Keyes (pbk.)

L'Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time
Three young people transcend time to rescue their father.
-- FIC L'Engle (pbk.), J FIC L'Engle, J SF L'Engle, JCB 115 L'Engle (Book-on-tape), JDB 49 L'Engle (Book-on-CD)

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
A man-made "creature" is abandoned by its creator and rejected by society.
FIC Shelley (pbk.), FIC Shelley CB 1284 (Book-on-tape), 823 Shelley S, J FIC Shelley, --FIC Shelley CDB 246 (Book-on-CD)

Angelou, Maya - All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Recounts the author's stay in Ghana, with other African-Americans.
[BIOG] --B Angelou (YA PBK), -- B Angelou CB 176 (Book-on-tape), (BIOG) B Angelou (pbk.)

Bontemps, Arna - American Negro Poetry
For more than twenty years, Arna Bontemp's anthology has been recognized as a major contribution to our understanding of African-American literature.
--811.08 B (YA PBK)

Nye, Naomi Shihab, ed. - What Have You Lost?
This wonderful collection of poems deals with losses both great and small.
-- 808.8193 W (pbk.)

Poe, Edgar Allan - Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
A unique edition devoted exclusively to the author's haunting poetry.
No copies available at Baldwin Public Library-if you would like this book we can attempt to obtain it from another library. Please ask at the Reference Desk. We do have other editions of Poe's poetry available.

Watson, Esther Pearl - Pain Tree and Other Teenage Angst-Ridden Poetry
A book of poetry written by teens, for teens.
--811.54 P (YA PBK)