Irving, Washington, 1783-1859

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

            A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer’s daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Peck, Richard, 1934-

Remembering the Good Times 

            Trav, Kate, and Buck make up a trio during their freshman year in high school, but their special friendship may not be enough to save Trav as he pressures himself relentlessly to succeed.

Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970

All Quiet on the Western Front 

            Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.

Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878

Black Beauty 

            A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

Adams, Richard, 1920-

Watership Down 

            Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice 

            The romantic clash of two opinionated your people provides the sustaining them of Pride and Prejudice.  Vivacious Elizabeth Bennet is fascinated and repelled by the arrogant Mr. Darcy, whose condescending airs and acrid tongue have alienated her entire family.  Their spirited courtship is conducted against a background of assembly-ball flirtations and drawing-room intrigues.  Jane Austen’s famous novel captures the affections of class-conscious 18^th century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries.

Golding, William, 1911-

Lord of the Flies 

            Stranded on an island while an atomic ware destroys the rest of the world, a group of young boys revert to savagery as the struggle to survive.

Adams, Douglas, 1952-

The Restaurant at the end of the Universe 

            In this science fiction spoof, a sequel to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Arthur Dent and his friends encounter new adventure and danger in their space travels.

Brin, David

The Postman 

            After a limited but devastating war, the few Americans who remain struggle to survive.  One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm and finds the uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.

Fleischman, Sid, 1920-

The Whipping Boy 

            A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

Hautzig, Ester Rudomin

The Endless Steppe : growing up in Siberia 

            During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia.  She recounts here the trials of the following five year spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

Lewis, C.S.

The Wood Between the Worlds 

            Uncle Andrew uses a set of magic rings to send Polly and his nephew Digory into another world, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis.

Morrison, Toni

The Bluest Eye 

            Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away.

Nowels, Conrad

The Burned Letter 

            Jenny spends the summer with the Harmon family, who seem strangely preoccupied.  Then she finds a letter containing Roger’s secret and fears her attraction to him may prove fatal.

Peretti, Frank E.

Nightmare Academy 

            Elijah and Elisha, teenage twins who, along with their parents, have been recruited by the president to learn the truth behind strange mysteries, crimes, and unusual occurrences in the news, face a rigorous test of faith when their job takes them into a world of twisted reality.

Pike, Christopher, 1961-

The Hollow Skull 

            At first glance, the people of Madison seem normal, but late at night they plot to take over the world and get rid of the human race, and now someone needs to stop them before it is too late.

Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-

Fat Camp Commandos 

            Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.

Preston, Douglas J.

The Ice Limit 

            Billionaire museum owner Palmer Lloyd’s expedition to Chile to steal the largest meteorite every found turns dangerous when the origin and nature of the meteorite come into question.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

            Mischievous, adventure-living Tom is always in and out of trouble.  When he teams up with Huck Finn, the action gets faster, and the trouble gets double.  One night Tim and Huck meet in a spooky graveyard at midnight.  They want to prove they’re not afraid of ghosts.  They don’t know they’re about to witness a murder!

Whitney, Phyllis A., 1903-

The Mystery of the Gulls 

            When 12-year-old Taffy and her mother, Mrs. Saunders, came to Mackinac Island to manage the resort hotel willed to Mrs. Saunders by her aunt, Taffy found it to be a house of many mysteries.