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Schmidt, Gary. The Wednesday Wars. 2007. LP, DB
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or
Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom where they read the
plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. 272 pages. Gr.
6 up. Dorothy’s List 2008-2009.

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Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows. 1961. LP, DB
The story of a young boy's love for two hunting dogs and his coming of age in Oklahoma in the 1930s. 249
pages. Gr. 6 up.

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Paterson, Katherine. The Great Gilly Hopkins. 1978. LP, DB
An eleven-year old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone
who tries to be friendly. 148 pages. Gr. 5 up. Dorothy’s List 1979-1980.

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+Chmakova, Svetlana. Awkward. 2015 Peppi is the new kid and just wants to fit in, but in an effort to keep from being bullied, she’s managed to hurt the one person who tried to be nice to her on her first day of school- a boy named Jaimie. Can Jaimie and Peppi still become friends and join forces to help their school… or is it just all too awkward? 210 pages. Gr. 5 up. Dorothy’s List 2016-2017.

Draper, Sharon. Out of My Mind. 2010. DB Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. 320 pages. Gr. 5 up. Dorothy’s List 2011-2012.

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Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is
forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice. 288 pages

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Draper, Sharon. Out of My Mind. 2010. DB
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers
a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. 320 pages. Gr. 5 up. Dorothy’s List
2011-2012.

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Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is
forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice. 288 pages

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Wolitzer, Meg. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman. 2011. DB
Twelve-year-olds Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano meet at the Youth Scrabble Tournament
where, although each has a different reason for attending and for needing to win, they realize that
something more important is at stake than the grand prize. 256 pages. Gr. 5 up. Dorothy’s List 2012-2013.Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 1950. LP, DB
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia
and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal
winter. 154 pages. Gr. 4 up.Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 2008. LP, DB
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem conduct an annual televised survival competition
pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills
are put to the test when she volunteers to take her younger sister’s place. 374 pages. Gr. 7 up. Dorothy’s
List 2009-2010.Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 2008. LP, DB
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem conduct an annual televised survival competition
pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills
are put to the test when she volunteers to take her younger sister’s place. 374 pages. Gr. 7 up. Dorothy’s
List 2009-2010.

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By Benjamin, Ali
After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must
have been a rare jellyfish sting---things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of
imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. 352 pages.

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By Barnhill, Kelly.

Every year the people of the Protectorate must sacrifice the youngest baby to the witch in the woods. What
does this witch want with these infants? When Xan the kind witch meets the newest offering, Luna, and
feeds her moonlight, characters from the past and the present become dangerously intertwined. 400 pages.

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+Berry, Julie. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. 2014. DB The students of St Etheldreda's School for Girls face a dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home – unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders. 368 pages. Gr. 6 up. Dorothy’s List 2015-2016.

Bray, Libba. Beauty Queens. 2011. DB When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island’s other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. 400 pages. YA. GMBA 2013-2014.

Choldenko, Gennifer. Notes from a Liar and Her Dog. 2001. DB Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies. 216 pages. Gr. 6 up. Dorothy’s List 2002-2003.

Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War. 1974. DB A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school’s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. 253 pages. Gr. 8 up.

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the girl who drank the moon by  Barnhill, Kelly Regan.

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the girl who drank the moon by  Barnhill, Kelly Regan.

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Every year the people of the Protectorate must sacrifice the youngest baby to the witch in the woods. What
does this witch want with these infants? When Xan the kind witch meets the newest offering, Luna, and
feeds her moonlight, characters from the past and the present become dangerously intertwined.

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out of my mine Sharon Draper
into the dark by Peter Abrahams