House of the Red Fish (29 page)

Eyes of the Emperor
Graham Salisbury
978-0-440-22956-8
Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in
his hometown, Honolulu, only weeks before the
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, Americans see
him as the enemy. Even the U.S. Army doubts the
loyalty of Japanese American enlisted men.
Then Eddy and a small band of Japanese American
soldiers are sent on a secret mission to a small island.
They are given a special job, one that only they can do.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
978-0-440-41412-4
Nine-year-old Kenny lives with his middle-class black
family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When
Kenny’s thirteen-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be
too much trouble, they head south to Birmingham to
visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up.
And they happen to be in Birmingham when
Grandma’s church is bombed.

Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez
978-0-440-23784-6
Under a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in
1960, young Anita lives through a fight for freedom
that changes her world forever.

Cuba 15
Nancy Osa
978-0-385-73233-8
Violet Paz’s upcoming
quinceañero,
a girl’s
traditional fifteenth-birthday coming-of-age ceremony,
awakens her interest in her Cuban roots—and sparks
a fire of conflicting feelings about Cuba
within her family.

Counting Stars
• David Almond • 978-0-440-41826-9
With stories that shimmer and vibrate in the bright heat of memory, David Almond creates a glowing mosaic of his life growing up in a large, loving Catholic family in northeastern England.

Heaven Eyes
• David Almond • 978-0-440-22910-0
Erin Law and her friends in the orphanage are labeled Damaged Children. They run away one night, traveling downriver on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Ann Brashares
978-0-385-73058-7
Over a few bags of cheese puffs, four girls decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The next morning, they say goodbye. And then the journey of the Pants, and the most memorable summer of their lives, begin.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
• Libba Bray
978-0-385-73231-4
Sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle is sent to the Spence Academy in London after tragedy strikes her family in India. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma finds her reception a chilly one. But at Spence, Gemma’s power to attract the supernatural unfolds; she becomes entangled with the school’s most powerful girls and discovers her mother’s connection to a shadowy group called the Order. A curl-up-under-the-covers Victorian gothic.

Walking Naked
• Alyssa Brugman • 978-0-440-23832-4
Megan doesn’t know a thing about Perdita, since she would never dream of talking to her. Only when the two girls are thrown together in detention does Megan begin to see Perdita as more than the school outcast. Slowly, Megan finds herself drawn into a challenging almost-friendship.

Colibrí
• Ann Cameron • 978-0-440-42052-1
At age four, Colibrí was kidnapped from her parents in Guatemala City, and ever since then she’s traveled with Uncle, who believes Colibrí will lead him to treasure. Danger mounts as Uncle grows desperate for his fortune—and as Colibrí grows daring in seeking her freedom.

The Chocolate War
• Robert Cormier • 978-0-375-82987-1
Jerry Renault dares to disturb the universe in this groundbreaking and now classic novel, an unflinching portrait of corruption and cruelty in a boys’ prep school.

Bud, Not Buddy
• Christopher Paul Curtis
978-0-553-49410-5
Ten-year-old Bud’s momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band. Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him.

Dr. Franklin’s Island
• Ann Halam • 978-0-440-23781-5
A plane crash leaves Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stranded on a tropical island, totally alone. Or so they think. Dr. Franklin is a mad scientist who has set up his laboratory on the island, and the three teens are perfect subjects for his frightening experiments in genetic engineering.

Keeper of the Night
• Kimberly Willis Holt
978-0-553-49441-9
Living on the island of Guam, a place lush with memories and tradition, young Isabel struggles to protect her family and cope with growing up after her mother’s suicide.

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
• Kimberly Willis Holt
978-0-440-23841-6
Toby’s small, sleepy Texas town is about to get a jolt with the arrival of Zachary Beaver, billed as the fattest boy in the world. Toby is in for a summer unlike any other—a summer sure to change his life.

The Parallel Universe of Liars
• Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
978-0-440-23852-2
Surrounded by superficiality, infidelity, and lies, Robin, a self-described chunk, isn’t sure what to make of her hunky neighbor’s sexual advances, or of the attention paid her by a new boy in town who seems to notice more than her body.

Ghost Boy
• Iain Lawrence • 978-0-440-41668-5
Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. When the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it in hopes of discovering who he is and what he wants in life. Is he a circus freak or just a normal guy?

The Lightkeeper’s Daughter
• Iain Lawrence
978-0-385-73127-0
Imagine growing up on a tiny island with no one but your family. For Squid McCrae, returning to the island after three years away unleashes a storm of bittersweet memories, revelations, and accusations surrounding her brother’s death.

Girl, 15, Charming but Insane
• Sue Limb
978-0-385-73215-4
With her hilariously active imagination, Jess Jordan has a tendency to complicate her life, but now, as she’s finally getting closer to her crush, she’s determined to keep things under control. Readers will fall in love with Sue Limb’s insanely optimistic heroine.

The Silent Boy
• Lois Lowry • 978-0-440-41980-8
When tragedy strikes a small turn-of-the-century town, only Katy realizes what the gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.

Shades of Simon Gray
• Joyce McDonald
978-0-440-22804-2
Simon is the ideal teenager—smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon’s car crashes into a tree and he slips into a coma, another portrait of him begins to emerge.

Zipped
• Laura and Tom McNeal • 978-0-375-83098-3
In a suspenseful novel of betrayal, forgiveness, and first love, fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols opens an e-mail he was never meant to see—and learns a terrible secret.

Harmony
• Rita Murphy • 978-0-440-22923-0
Power is coursing through Harmony—the power to affect the universe with her energy. This is a frightening gift for a girl who has always hated being different, and Harmony must decide whether to hide her abilities or embrace the consequences—good and bad—of her full strength.

Her Father’s Daughter
• Mollie Poupeney
978-0-440-22879-0
As she matures from a feisty tomboy of seven to a spirited young woman of fourteen, Maggie discovers that the only constant in her life of endless new homes and new faces is her ever-emerging sense of herself.

Pool Boy
• Michael Simmons • 978-0-385-73196-6
Brett Gerson is the kind of guy you love to hate—until his father is thrown in prison and Brett has to give up the good life. That’s when some swimming pools enter his world and change everything.

Milkweed
• Jerry Spinelli • 978-0-440-42005-7
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi someday, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind—the day he realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody.

Stargirl
• Jerry Spinelli • 978-0-440-41677-7
Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” The students are enchanted. Then they turn on her.

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
• Suzanne Fisher Staples
978-0-440-23856-0
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. She must reconcile her duty to her family and the stirrings of her own heart in this Newbery Honor-winning modern-day classic.

The Gospel According to Larry
• Janet Tashjian
978-0-440-23792-1
Josh Swensen’s virtual alter ego, Larry, becomes a huge media sensation. While it seems as if the whole world is trying to figure out Larry’s true identity, Josh feels trapped inside his own creation.

Memories of Summer
• Ruth White • 978-0-440-22921-6
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric describes her older sister Summer’s descent into mental illness, telling Summer’s story with humor, courage, and love.