Title	Author	Grade Level	Short Annotation
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	7^th	Takes place in a world where there are two kinds of people in the world people in the world: greasers and socs. Ponyboy a greaser is the main character follow him and his friends through adventure after adventure.
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry	Mildred D. Taylor	7^th	An African American family faces prejudice and discrimination in the south.
Heart to Heart Worlds Apart	Rogers, Peggy	7^th	The story of powerful friendship between an African and an American girl. How they remain friends with an ocean between them.
Johnny Tremain	Forbes, Esther	7^th	Johnny is a young apprentice silversmith just before the Revolutionary War
The Stolen Train	Ashley, Robert	7^th	Intense story about stealing a train during the Civil War.
Island of the Blue Dolphins	O’Dell, Scott	7^th	Newberry Award A young girl grows up living alone an island. She discovers herself along with great adventures in survival.
The Fledging	Langton, Jane	6^th	Newberry Award A modern fantasy that is about how a girl discovers she can fly.
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Cushman, Karen	6^th	Lucy moves with her family to California during the Gold Rush. Adventures and trials that a family might have faced.
Alicia: My Story	Alicia Appleman-Jurman	8^th	A young Jewish girl loses her family but survives along with helping many others to survive during the Holocaust of WWII.
The Incredible Journey	Sheila Burnford	8^th	The story of a cross-country journey made by two dogs and a cat in search of their vacationing family