Into the Dark: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams (YA)
Thirteen-year-old Ingrid Levin – Hill tries to clear her grandfather’s name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm. This is the third title in the Echo Falls series.
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
Isabel and her sister Ruth are sold to a cruel couple in New York City. She spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch (YA)
When Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she hopes to find a land of opportunities, but instead she finds a hard life of tenements and factory work.
Science Fair by Dave Barry (J)
The evil president of Kprshtskan is plotting to take over the U. S. Government by infiltrating a Middle School located in a Maryland suburb outside of Washington.
Penderwicks On Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall (J)
The Penderwick sisters decide that it is time for their father to start dating and they create a Save Daddy Plan to help him along. This follows The Penderwicks.
Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford
In 1161, a British merchant ship bound for the Japans is attacked by ninjas. The only survivor, 12-year-old Jack Fletcher, is taken into the home of a revered samurai where he is taught samurai training.
Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell (YA)
Using alternating voices, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans into the white culture.
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements (YA)
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find ways to reverse his condition so that he can return to normal life.
Miles To Go by Miley Cyrus (J Biography)
The story of Miley Cyrus as she becomes a television and singing phenomenon.
Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell (J)
Twelve-year-old Jamie’s brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam. Her excitement wears off after she receives rolls of film from her brother which reveal a new side of the war.
Much Ado About Anne by Heather Vogel Frederick
Entering seventh grade, four girls continue their mother daughter book club, reading Anne of Green Gables while dealing with a mean classmate. This book follows The Mother-Daughter Book Club.
Operation Redwood by S. Terrell French (J)
Julian Carter-Li and a ragtag group of friends have to stop Julian’s uncle’s company from cutting down some of the oldest and last California redwood trees.
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Mo’s fictitious double – Bluejay – tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling. Adderhead kidnaps all of the children in the kingdom and dooms them to slavery in the silver mines unless Bluejay surrenders. This continues the trilogy that began with Inkheart, and Inkspell.
Cat Among Pigeons: A Cat Royal Adventure by Julia Golding(YA)
The second in the Cat Royal series in which Cat goes to great lengths to help his friend Pedro whose old slave master wants him back.
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding (YA)
Orphan Catherine “Cat” Royal, living in a theater in London in the 1790s, becomes involved in a supposed hidden treasure, a political cartoonist, and rival street gangs.
Scat by Carl Hiaasen (YA)
Classmates Nick and Marta decide to investigate a mysterious fire that starts while they are on a school trip to a Florida wildlife preserve.
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (J)
Skulduggery Pleasant, a walking, talking and fire throwing skeleton, is a protector and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, an unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old. Together, they must defeat an ancient evil.
Ever by Gail Carson Levine (YA)
Teenage Kezi, who is to be sacrificed to the Hyte god, falls in love with young Olus who is the Akkan god of the winds. Together they try to change her fate through a series of quests.
Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (YA)
Ben is transformed through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic from a sullen, pudgy, graceless girl into Crown Princess Benevolence.
How To Steal a Dog: a Novel by Barbara O’Connor
Georgina thinks that she can help her mother with finances by stealing a dog and waiting for the owners to offer a reward.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (J)
For the first 12 years of her life, Esperanza Ortega is pampered by servants and her parents on their ranch in Mexico, but a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and her mother to flee to California to work in the fields.
Trouble by Gary Schmidt (YA)
Fourteen – year – old Henry wishes to honor his brother Franklin’s dying wish to climb Maine’s Mount Katahdin, but Trouble finds the family and brings racial tensions in the school and at home.
Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman (YA)
Fueled by friendship, Antsy Bonano begins a campaign of signing over days of life to a dying classmate.
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples (YA)
The lives of Najimah, a young Afghan girl and Nusrat, and American-Muslim teacher, intersect during the Afghanistan and Pakistan War in 2001 – 2002.
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (YA)
Jake Semple has been thrown out of his middle school and he is sent to live with the Applewhites, a forgetful, chaotic and outrageous family whose education style is cooperative education. If he can survive this family, he can survive anything!
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (YA)
Two teenagers describe how their feelings about each other and their families have changed over the years.
So B. It: A Novel by Sarah Weeks (J)
After spending her life with her mentally slow mother, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out the history of her life.
Starship Adventure@ your library, the 2009 Massachusetts Summer Library Adventure, is funded by the Concord Free Public Library, the Regional Library Systems, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.