Fiction Books

• Airborn
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Bad Beginning
• Before Green Gables
• The Borrowers
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Camp X
• The Canada Geese Quilt
• Catwings
• The Cay
• Clean Break
• The Convicts
• Cougar
• The Crazy Man
• Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
• Elixir
• The Fairest
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Foxman
• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• The Giver
• The Grim Grotto
• Half Moon Investigations
• Hatchet
• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
• Jakeman
• Julie of the Wolves
• The Kite Runner
• King Kong
• Last Chance Bay
• The Lemming Condition
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Magic Finger
• Maniac Magee
• Molly Moon Stops the World
• Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
• The Mountain That Walked
• My Broken Family
• The Orphan of Ellis Island
• Parvana's Journey
• The Penultimate Peril
• Poppy
• Poppy's Return
• Sacred Leaf
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
• Sarah's Legacy
• Shiloh
• The Sign of the Beaver
• Skybreaker
• The Slippery Slope
• Special Edward
• Stone Fox
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Superman returns: The junior novel
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
• Wayside School is Falling Down
• Weasel
• When You Reach Me
• The Whipping Boy
• Wired
• Wolf Pack
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
• The Wreckers

Title: Julie of the Wolves
Author: Jean Craighead George
Summary

An Eskimo girl was known as "Miyax" in the Eskimo language, and Julie in the English language. She admired the Eskimo customs of her father 'Kapugen' who taught her how to live an Eskimo life, respecting the earth and its animals.

Thinking that her father was dead, Julie moved to live with the parents of an idle son, Daniel. When her life became extremely miserable, Julie decided to run away to San Francisco, to live with her friend "Amy" with whom she exchanged letters in the past.

Julie got lost on the vast Tundra of the north. She made friends with a pack of Arctic wolves that brought her food and comfort...

Title:The Sign of the Beaver
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Summary

The father of 'Matt' went far away to bring the rest of the family to settle in a new built cabin. The new house ,the first one to be built in a new settlement area, was actually on the hunting grounds which once belonged to an Indian tribe of the Sign of the Beaver.

Matt's food became scarce. He climbed a tree to fetch some honey from a bee hive. He ,almost, lost his life, but was ,finally, saved by an Indian man and his grandson 'Attean'.

Attean did not like Matt because Matt's people killed Attean's parents. Yet, according to the desire of the grandfather, Attean had to learn how to read from Matt. Attean taught Matt how to survive...

Title: Bridge to Terabithia
Author: Katherine Paterson
Illustrated by: Donna Diamond
Summary

'Jesse', a fifth-grade boy, practiced running daily. He wanted to be the best runner at school races. When the important race began, Jesse was outwon by a girl 'Leslie' - a new student at the school and Jesse's neighbour.

Both of the kids became friends. They built a secret place and called it Terabithia. They found happiness and comfort in this solitude. Leslie was appointed the queen of Terabithia while Jesse became the king. They did a lot of planning together...

Title: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Written and illustrated by: E. L. Konigsburg
Summary

'Claudia', an eleven year old girl with three younger brothers, used to do a lot of daily rountine works. She wanted her parents to pay special attention to her. Also she wanted to live a differnt life without the rountine responsibilities. She ran away from the house with her nine year old brother 'Jamie'.

Both of them took shelter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. They kept themselves busy and educated by touring the museum with other people.

The museum purchased (The Angel); a statue believed to be an art work of the genius artist Michelangelo Buonarroti. Claudia and her brother worked hard to uncover the mystery of the statue. They were given permission to find the mystery clues from the files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - the previous owner of the statue...

Title: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Author: Eleanor Coerr
Summary

Sadako was an energetic girl who loved running. One day she felt very happy when she visited the Peace Park. It was a memorial place for remembering the victims of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

After a running race Sadako felt dizzy. One day she fainted in school. Her father took her to the hospital where people affected by the atom bomb were treated...

Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Author: Roald Dahl
Summary

A very clever fox lived with his family of five members in a hole near three farms. He used to steal chicken and other poultry from three mean farmers. They tried to dig him out using their shovels and electric machines ...

Title: The Canada Geese Quilt
Author: Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Illustrated By: Leslie W. Bowman
Summary

'Arial' always admired a flock of geese travelling across the sky. She sketched the geese in a drawing. Her grandmother started making a quilt based on Arial's pattern. Both of them wanted to make a quilt for the new coming baby...

Title: Cougar
Author: Helen V. Griffith
Summary

Nickel went with his aunt 'Starla' and her husband 'Joe' to visit Joe's parents who lived on a farm. Many times did Nickel see Joe's black horse that was burnt in the fire three weeks before their arrival at the farm. Nobody else saw the horse!

Nickel was a great soccer player. He always defeated 'Robbo', the bully of the school...

Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Summary

Jonas, an eleven year old boy, lived in an "ideal" community whose members had no feelings, memories of the past or choices. They lived a quiet life without real struggles. When Jonas became 12 years old, he was assigned an honourable job as a receiver of past memories 'the giver'.

During his training, Jonas experienced unbearable pain, loss and love. When he realized that his father practiced releasing of unwanted members of the society, by killing them...

Title: The Foxman
Author: Gary Paulsen
Summary

Due to unsafe family conditions, a fifteen year old boy had to take custody in his uncle Harold's house. The boy liked the nearby woods and often went there skiing and hunting with his cousin Carl.

Once, they came across a man who, regularly, covered his burnt face with a mask The boy called him "Foxman" because the old man knew how to catch foxes with traps.

Title: Shiloh
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Summary

Marty, an eleven year old boy finds a runaway dog that was mistreated by his owner Judd Travers. The kind boy takes care of the dog ,secretly, and calls him Shiloh. Judd did not want to sell Shiloh.

When another dog attacked Shiloh...

Title: Poppy
Author: Avi
Summary

Poppy, a clever girl mouse, lived a horrible life with her large family, under the protection of a powerful owl, Mr. Ocax. All the mice had to take permission from the owl before moving about. Ragweed, Poppy's fiancé, was attacked and eaten by the owl for breaking his rule...

Title: The Lemming Condition
Author: Alan Arkin
Summary

A lemming, animal like a mole, named Bubber, once lived with his family in a burrow. One day his friend the crow asked him if he was going to migrate with his family towards the ocean. Bubber did not want to do something that he did not approve of...

Title:The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Author: Joan Aiken
Summary

When Mr. Green Willoughby and his wife had to travel far away for medical treatment, they left their daughter 'Bonnie' and her cousin 'Sylvia' under the mercy of a new cruel governess 'Miss Slighcarp'.

The governess conspired with a cunning man 'Mr.Grimshaw' to get rid of Bonnie's parents and steal their estate...

Title:The Whipping Boy
Author: Sid Fleischman
Illustrations by: Peter Sis
Summary

A king had a very mischievous boy. The prince was arrogant and cruel. His people disliked him and named him 'Prince Brat'. Whenever the prince misbehaved a boy named 'Jemmy' was whipped as a punishment for the prince. Before being a whipping boy, Jemmy was a rat catcher. Besides being whipped, Jemmy learnt to read and write while the prince only wasted his time by doing improper deeds...

Title:The Magic Finger
Author: Illustrated by: Tony Ross
Summary

An eight year old girl had an exceptional magic finger. The magic of the finger worked only when the girl was really angry. Once, she became very mad at her neighbours 'The Greggs' because they hunted a deer for fun. The magic started to work after the Greggs shot at four flying ducks. The arms of Mr. Gregg, his wife and their two sons were transformed into wings and their sizes shrinked to those of the ducks...

Title:Stone Fox
By: John Reynolds Gardiner
Illustrated by: Marcia Sewall
Summary

'Willy', a ten year old boy, lived on a farm with his grandfather and dog 'Searchlight'. Suddenly, the grandfather became ill and wanted to die.

Willy discovered that the issue of taxes ,that they owe the government, is bothering his grandfather and making him sick. Willy decided to help his grandfather recover. He registered in the great dogsled race. Stone Fox, an Indian who never lost a race, was also a participant in this race...

Title:The Borrowers
Author: Mary Norton
Illustrated by: Beth and Joe Krush
Summary

'Mrs Mary' told 'Kate' what her brother told her in the past. She talked about a family of little people: 'Homily'- the mother, 'Pod'-the father and 'Arrietty'-the 14 year old daughter. The little people lived under the kitchen of Mrs Mary's Great Aunt 'Sophy'. They borrowed ,secretly, everything they need from the house.

Mrs Mary's brother went to live with Great Aunt Sophy when he was an 11 year old boy. When Pod was getting a cup from the house, the boy saw him. Later, he met Arrietty and started talking with her...

Title:The Orphan of Ellis Island
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Summary

'Dominic Cantori' went with his fifth grade class to the museum of Ellis Island. Many immigrants had passed through this Island to settle in America. Dominic was an orphan. He did not know anything about his family. Only one of his foster fathers had told him that his family name was Italian.

Dominic was feeling uncomfortable because of his tight shoes. Also, he did not want his classmates to know that he knew nothing about his family. Dominic wandered away from his class. He felt tired and slept. When he awoke, it was dark in the museum and everybody had left...

Title:Weasel
Author: Cynthia DeFelice
Summary

'Nathan Fowler' was an 11 year old boy in 1839. He lived with his father and sister 'Molly' in a cabin in the woods in the State of Ohio. Nathan often heard scary stories about a dangerous man called 'Weasel'. The Shawnee Indians gave him this name because he used to hunt them just like a weasel.

One day, the father went hunting and did not come back. A stranger knocked on the door and took the children with him. The stranger was called 'Ezra'. He could not talk because something aweful happened to his tongue...

Title:The Bad Beginning
By: Lemony Snicket
Illustrations by: Brett Helquist
Summary

'Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire' lost their parents in a fire that destroyed all their belongings. As per their dead parents' will, Mr. Poe, their family lawyer, handed the orphans over to their legal guardian ' Count OLaf '.

Count Olaf was a bad and unkind man. He mistreated the children and made them live in very miserable conditions. Often the children cried and missed their dead parents...

Title:Catwings
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Illustrations by: S. D. Schindler>
Summary

'Mrs. Jane Tabby' was a cat who had four kittens with unusual wings. The family lived in an unsafe neighbourhood with moving cars and hungry dogs.

Mrs Jane instructed her children to leave her and fly away to a new safe place. The kittens knew that they were grown up enough to take care of themselves. When the birds saw the cats flying, they became angry...

Title:Anne of Green Gables
By: L. M. Montgomery
Adapted by: Shelley Tanaka
Summary

Anne, an eleven year old orphan, was adopted by Matthew and his sister Marilla Cuthbert. Anne was an intelligent and a talkative girl who liked to use long words in her sentences. Her hot temper led her into a great deal of trouble.

Mrs Lynde got furious when Anne said horrible things about her. But when Anne apologized in an extraordinary nice way, Mrs Lynde forgave her...

Title:The Slippery Slope
By: Lemony Snicket
Summary

'Klaus Baudelaire' and his elder 14 year old sister 'Violet' survived when the caravan that they were in slided towards the edge of a steep mountain.

When the two kids got mercilessly stung by snow gnats, they seeked shelter in a cave. A group of Snow Scouts were staying in the cave.

'Sunny', the baby sister of the Baudelaire siblings, was captured by the cruel Count Olaf. He meant to keep her safe to enable him steal the Baudelaire fortune.

Violet and Klaus met with an old friend...

Title:Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
By: Louis Sachar
Summary

'Gary Boone' a seventh grade student liked to tell jokes. He wanted to become a professional comedian in the future.

Gary's classmates made fun of him. He took their mischievous words and deeds as compliments. Unfortunately, he was known as an idiot in the school.

Gary decided to take the talent show contest...

Title:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<
By: C. S. Lewis
Illustrated by: Pauline Baynes
Summary

A child called 'Lucy' and her other three siblings went to live in the country away from London during the war time. The house belonged to a strange professor.

One day Lucy opened the door of a wardrobe full with fur coats and stepped inside it. The wardrobe turned out to be huge and led her into a wood with winter all the time; She stepped into the land of Narnia.

Suddenly she met a Faun: A creature who looked like a man but had a goat's hoofs. Lucy enjoyed eating and talking to the Faun. But when she realized that the Faun was a spy of the white witch and that he was about to kidnap her, Lucy got very frightened...

Title:Hatchet
By: Gary Paulsen
Summary

'Brian Robeson' a 13 year old boy knew the big secret that lead to the divorce of his parents. He climbed on a small plane with only one pilot.

The plane was heading towards the north where Brian was going to live with his father during the holidays. The pilot had a sudden heart attack and became unconscious. Brian took control of the plane. He tried to fly the plane towards safety but in vain...

Title:Camp X
Author: Eric Walters
Summary

'George' almost a twelve year old boy and his elder brother 'Jack' were playing a fake war against the Nazis when they got lost and were suddenly stopped by two gunmen.

The boys were released when the gunmen realized that they were telling the truth. Another day the two boys went swimming with two old car inner tubes. They saw some men trying to blow up the bridge. But the train passed safely over the bridge and nothing happened. The boys managed to reach their home.

Jack and George met Mr. Krum who was the owner and editor of the local newspaper. He told the boys about Canada's enemy spies and agents...

Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted By: Mitsu Yamamoto
Illustrations By: Brendan Lynch
Summary

A famous respected lawyer named 'Mr. Utterson' was having a walk with his cousin when they stopped in front of an old looking door. The cousin told the lawyer that a man named 'Mr. Hyde' had the key to the door.

Mr. Utterson was further told that once Mr. Hyde collided with a little girl. Instead of helping her, he stomped on the girl and tried to escape with complete indifference. But when he was captured, he brought a cheque from Dr. Jekyll and gave it to the girl's parents.

The lawyer remembered that his wealthy friend 'Mr. Jekyll' ,the scientist, had the name of 'Mr. Hyde' as his heir in his will. He wondered if the will referred to the evil Mr. Hyde. A foul play was suspected.

Mr. Utterson paid a visit to Dr. Jekyll. The doctor defended Mr. Hyde but also said that he could get rid of Mr. hyde anytime he wanted...

Title: The Cay
Author: Theodore Taylor
Summary

Philip's father was an expert in gasoline production. He was placed in an island during the war time. The enemy were striking any ship from their submarines

Philip and his mother sailed on a boat. The boat started to sink and they were in the water. Philip became unconscious. When he ,finally, woke up he found himself on a wooden raft with a huge black man called 'Timothy' and a cat.

Timothy was speaking with West Indian accent which is not always clear. He also referred to Philip as a young boss...

Title:Wayside School is Falling Down
Author: Louis Sachar
Illustrated by: Joel Schick
Summary

'Louis', the yard teacher, loved the Wayside School and its students. He carried a computer all the way up to Mrs. Jewls class on the thirtieth story. The teacher wanted to demonstrate how gravity works so she dropped the computer out of the window . This way the children understood quicker the concept of gravity.

Besides the school being weird, several students at the school had weird stories. Mark Miller's real name was Benjamin Nushmutt. Yet Benjamin did not dare to tell the teacher about his real name. Bebe wrote unpleasnt stuff about Mrs Jewls. She kept on telling that her younger brother 'Ray' did it. When Mrs Jewls phoned her mother, she realized that 'Ray' was just a made up name...

Title:Parvana's Journey
Author: Deborah Ellis
Summary

During the war against the Taliban government, 'Parvana', a 13 year old Afghani girl, watched her dead father being burried. She had to take temporary refuge with a kind man's family. When she heard that she was about to be handed over to the soldiers, Parvana ran away from her shelter.

Finally, she reached a cave which was inhabited by a child who had one leg and a bad temper...

Title:The Wreckers
Author: Iain Lawrence
Summary

The rich owner of the ship "Isle of Skye" took his 14 year old son 'John' on a testing voyage. He wanted to prove to him that working in an office is far better than becoming a sailor.

Unluckily, the ship was lost due to unstable weather. The captain ordered the ship to be steered towards some lights. They were false beacons that lead the ship to a deliberate complete wreck.

Mr. Caleb, a heartless man, crushed , with his boots, a crew member to death. John could not see his father anywhere. He took shelter in an old house owned by a legless man called old Stumps. Stumps was wearing the golden ring of John's father...

Title:Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Author: Georgia Byng
Summary

'Molly Moon' was an orphan. Ten years ago she was left ,as a baby, at the orphanage along with another baby called 'Rocky'. Both of them became close friends. They liked Mrs. Trinklebury who always treated them with love and respect. But their true enemies were the cruel manager Miss Adderstone and the ill-tempered cook 'Edna'. Molly hated some children ,especially Hazel, because they used to bully her.

One day Molly visited the public library. She saw a professor ,named 'Mr. Nockman', demanding ,impolitely, a special hypnotism book from the librarian. But Molly ,luckily, laid her hand on the unique book. The book helped Molly change her life...

Title:Molly Moon Stops the World
Author: Georgia Byng
Summary

'Molly' and 'Rocky' were taking good care of the orphanage with the help of Mrs Trinklebury and Mr. Nockman.

Molly visited the librarian 'Lucy' who once lent her a special hypnotism book. She discovered that Lucy was in a car accident and was terribly crippled and deformed. A very important man called 'Primo Cell' was behind the planned accident.

The librarian requested Molly to travel and get some serious information about the dangerous man. Because of her special hypnotism skills, Molly accepted to take over the dangerous mission...

Title:Maniac Magee
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Summary

'Jeffrey Magee' became an orphan when he was only three years old. His aunt and uncle were his new family. But Magee was unhappy and bored by the continuous quarrels and the lack of communication between his two relatives.

Jeffrey ran away from his home. He became known as Maniac Magee because he could play football better than the other kids ...

Title: The Grim Grotto
A Series of Unfortunate Events #11.
By: Lemony Snicket
Illustrations by: Brett Helquist
Summary

The 'Baudelaire' orphans 'Violet', 'Klaus' and 'Sunny' were trapped on a toboggan that was floating on a stream going downhill.

The children noticed a strange object near them. It turned out to be a submarine that the children had to climb aboard. The submarine was controlled by Captain 'Widdershins' and his stepdaughter 'Fiona'.

After doing some chores in the submarine, the orphans were sent on a dangerous mission to the Grim Grotto...

Title: My Broken Family
By: Paul Kropp
Summary

'Maddy',a fourteen year old girl, and her younger brother 'Jacob' lead a normal life with their loving parents until the horrible divorce between their parents was announced.

Both children were angry and felt devastated. Jacob expressed his anger by breaking his favourite stuff. Maddy confided in her friend 'Shannon' who had experienced divorce long time ago.

The terrible blow of divorce came on Maddy's head when her house was for sale...

Title Airborn
By: Kenneth Oppel
Summary

'Matt Cruse' worked aboard the 'Aurora'- a big luxury airship. He spotted a hot-air balloon. According to the captain's instructions, Matt lowered himself from his airship and reached the balloon. He succeeded in bringing the balloon's captain, an aged sick man, to the airship.

When the man managed to talk, he told Matt a little secret: There are ,scientifically unspotted, beautiful creatures flying in the sky. He further mentioned that 'Kate' would have loved seeing them. Then he died.

A year later, Matt got on with his job as a cabin boy on the Aurora. He met 'Kate de Vries' who had a notebook with some writing about strange flying cat-like creatures...

Title: The Penultimate Peril
By: Lemony Snicket
Summary

The 'Baudelaire' orphans 'Violet', 'Klaus' and 'Sunny' were given a task of observing what is going on in a strange hotel.

They met several people; Some of them they knew in the past; Some of them were good and the others evil.

The orphans were asked to do some very unusaul chores in the hotel such as bringing a harpoon gun for the spoiled child 'Fiona'...

Title:The Mountain That Walked
By: Katherine Holubitsky
Summary

'Charlie' a 16 year old poor boy was separated from his family, due to extreme poverty, when he was a little kid in England. He was sent to the famous orphanage house known as Barnardo's Home.

After living in different foster houses, Charlie was selected to travel to Canada for work. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he became a home boy to the cruel Brooks Brothers, living on their farm in Alberta.

The boy endured a lot of mistreatment from his two masters. When Charlie was accused of murder, he became on the run. He carried with him a dream of owning a land...

Title: Skybreaker
By: Kenneth Oppel
Summary

'Matt Cruse' a 16 year old student at the Airship Academy was a trainee on the space vessel 'Flotsam'. The ship entered a fist and it started to drop towards the ocean. When Matt and the other crew members survived the downfall, the light ship started to rise in the storm's updraft.

The crew started to suffer from the high altitude sickness. But noticing the 'Hyperion', the wealthy ship that was lost forty years ago, pushed the captain to risk everything to try to tow the vessel in.

Matt noticed the exact coordinates of the Heperion before they were ,unintentionally, wiped off with water. Through mutiny, Matt succeeded to bring the Flotsam safely down to the neaest harbour.

Later on, different adventurous factors forced Matt to accept the Hyperion salvage mission aboard a commercial vessel 'Sagarmatha' and a team including his best rich friend 'Kate de Vries' ...

Title: Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
By: Deborah Ellis
Summary

An Israeli child mentioned that "he heard that it was good time in the past when Jewish and Palestinian students could meet." A Palestinian child said that "he wished the fight ends because he doesn't like the idea of people hurting each other."

An Israeli child said that "he doen't want to hurt anybody and he doesn't want anybody to hurt him." A Palestinian child said that "she doesn't know any Israeli people other than soldiers" ...

Title: The Kite Runner
By: Khaled Hosseini
Summary

'Amir', a rich man's son, grew up in one house with 'Hassan' his servant's son. The only time they couldn't play together was when the society's high class children were available.

Hassan always defended Amir out of sheer love. Yet, Amir couldn't understand the real reason behind his father's unexpected care for his servant.

Both kids liked to fly kites. On a very special day, Amir went looking for Hassan. He saw him surrounded by three cruel gang members who were preparing to abuse Hassan. It was the day that Amir betrayed his friend...

Title:King Kong
Novelization By: Lovelace, Delos W.
Summary

'Denham' wanted to start an adventurous sailing trip to make a spectacular movie. But first he went looking for a courageous girl who was going to be the heroine. He found a poor blonde girl 'Ann' who agreed to be in the movie without exactly knowing what her part is.

Denham set on his sailing mission with his brave friend 'Driscoll' and Captain 'Englehorn'. They reached the isolated island of dead skulls, thousand of miles away from Sumarta.

Denham landed with some of his crew members. They ,secretly, watched a secret ritual where some native were dressed as gorillas. They were preparing human sacrifices to gift 'Kong' when they suddenly noticed the strangers...

Title: Ice Age 2 The Meltdown: The Movie Novel
By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Summary

Ice was everywhere. Sid, a sloth, was running a summer camp for animal kids. But his two best friends Manny, a wolly mammoth, and his friend Diego, the sabre-tooth tiger didn't think that he was doing a good job.

Animals were frightened becasue they heard that the world was coming to an end. They started to pack and run away from the water park. 'Fast Tony', a sales armadillo, was trying to sell breathing stalks to help animals survive under the melting ice.

Manny couldn't believe that he was the last of his mammoth race. He felt relieved when he saw Ellie, a possum which is another mammoth...

Title:The Convicts
By: Iain Lawrence
Summary

A young boy, Tom Tin, was an indebted captain's son. When his father was sent to jail, Tom had to leave his mentally ill mother and his school to earn money in order to free his father.

He was compelled to join a grave digger who stole dead corpses. When left alone, he was captured by a gang who called him 'the Smasher'. To make it worse, Tom was accused of killing a blind man...

Title: Poppy's Return
By: Avi
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
Summary

'Poppy', a famous mouse, had hard times dealing with her teenager son 'Ragweed Junior'. He didn't listen to her and used to answer back. When Poppy had to travel with her son to see her sick father, Ragweed insisted on taking his best friend with him; a skunk.

Poppy started on her trip not knowing that 'Ereth', her porcupine friend, was following her. Poppy's father didn't like especially porcupines. Little did Ragweed know that his mother was a heroine and that she came to solve a huge problem at Grey House ...

Title:Wired
By: Sigmund Brouwer
Summary

Fifteen year old, Keegan, was a number one speedy skier. He was on a practice trial, when he succeeded in avoiding to crash into a wire that was stretched between two trees in his way downward on the ice. It could have cut him into two. A girl known as Cassie, a snowboarder,hit the wire but luckily, wasn't much hurt.

Keegan and Cassie tried to solve the mystery of the wire and who put it there, but in vain. Little did they both know that Garth, another skier, was in hospital with broken legs because of the same wire...

Title: Wolf Pack
By: Edo Van Belkom
Summary

While on duty to control a forest fire, 'Carrett Brock' found four wolf cubs. He took them to his house where his wife started to care for them. At night, the wolves changed into human infants. So the Brock family adopted them as their four children.

After fifteen years, the kids went on a running race in the forest. They changed into their animal form. But unfortunately, a famous scientist ,called Monk, captured their transformation on a camera film.

Monk wanted to capture the four siblings to put them on a costly show that earns him a lot of money. He succeeded in catching 'Tora', the boys' sister...

Title:Clean Break
By: Jacqueline Wilson
Illustrated by: Nick Sharratt
Summary

'Emily' known as 'Em' and 'Emerald' grew up in a healthy environment with her loving step father, mother and two younger siblings. In fact, she liked her step father far better than her real dad whom she even couldn't remember.

On Christmas Day, Em's father gave her a 'real' emerald ring as the most expensive gift given to a member of his family. Everything was going perfectly well. All the immediate family members had a wonderful Christmas gathering and enjoyed being together. The father volunteered to do the dishes , after the dinner, and went to the kitchen. It was there where Em heard him speaking on the cell phone to his girl friend saying that he really wanted to be with her. Suddenly, the dad's secret was out and the kids' world changed forever. The father left their mother to another woman...

Title: The Crazy Man
By: Pamela Porter
Summary

In the year 1965, Emaline was an 11 year old girl who liked to have rides on her father's tractor. One day she came from school and climed on the their running tractor. To save her dog 'prince' for a tragic incident she jumped down only to get her foot badly cut off by the discer. She was taken to hospital, while her father shot the dog dead and walked out of his daughter's life.

Emaline and her mother had to face difficult situations. 'Angus' known to the town as a crazy man was brought in from the mental hospital to help with the farm work. He was stared at and accused of theft...

Title:Superman returns: The Junior Novel
Adapted By: Louise Simonson
Summary

According to a published research concerning the remnants of 'Krypton', Superman went looking for any survivors from his destroyed homeland. But he found out that the planet was blown out and the information he got about it was not true. He returned to earth, his adopted homeland, with a heavy heart. He was gone away for five years.

Superman , disguised as 'Clark Kent' returned to his work as a reporter at the 'Daily Planet' newspaper. He felt devastated when he knew that 'Lois Lane' ,his co-worker, whom he always loved, had got a family of her own; Richard and her son 'Jason'.

It was, Lex Luthor, Superman's old enemy, who was behind the wrong 'Krypton' information that sent Superman away. Luthor , carefully, planned to make a whole new continent of crystals tainted with Kryptonite, the poison that kills Superman. His criminal dream was going to be fulfilled with the loss of human lives...

Title:Last Chance Bay
By: Anne Laurel Carter
Summary

'Meg Christie', a 13 year old girl, who lived in Cape Breton (N.S.), didn't want anything in the world more than flying a plane like her heroines Emelia Earhart and Beryl Markham.

Being a girl, Meg faced a lot of opposition from the male gender in her coal mining community of Last Chance Bay. Only her brave cousin 'Caleb' and her dear teacher believed in Meg and encouraged her. It was a tensed time during the the Second World War. Yet Meg insisted on following her big dream while taking care ,as a grown up, of some family members...

Title:Half Moon Investigations
By: Eoin Colfer
Summary

'Fletcher Moon' earned a private investigator's badge from the 'Bob Bernstein Private Detective Academy'. Since grade three Fletcher became known in his school 'Saint Jerome's Elementary and Middle School' with the nickname 'Half Moon' bestowed on him by a villain named 'Red Sharkey'.

At the age of 12, in grade 7, Half Moon was summoned by some students to solve the mystery of a girl's stolen organizer. The suspect was 'Herod Sharkey' and the organizer was found in a cookie tin buried deep in the school's garden. Herod admitted that the tin was his but denied putting the organizer in it...

Title:The Fairest
By: Gail Garson Levine
Summary

The family of 'Aza' owned 'Featherbed' inn in the fictitious village of Amonta in the kingdom of Ayortha. Aza ,now 15 years old, was left as an orphan infant at the inn. She wasn't beautiful and she came to know that she had some ogre blood in her. But Aza's voice was the finest. She could easily illuse which meant that she could imitate others' voices.

King 'Oscaro', 41 years old, was getting married to princess 'Ivi' who was 19 years old and couldn't sing. Aza was chosen to be the lady-in-waiting for the duchess who was invited for the wedding.

According to the customs, Princess Ivi was supposed to sing to bring good luck to the wedding. She threatened Aza into illusing for her as if the queen was singing. Aza accepted to sing, although she didn't want to betray prince 'Ijori' to whom she was attached. Once, when reciting for a song, Aza looked into a strange mirror , controlled by the Fairy Lucinda, and saw herself very fair. But when Aza looked in another mirror she was still ugly...

Title:A Thousand Splendid Suns
By: Khaled Hosseini
Summary

'Mariam' ,in Afghanistan, was often called 'harami' by her own biological mother 'Nana'. Nana's society turned against her blaming her for forcing herself on Mariam's father who was a married man. But the truth was that Nana was subdued by her master Jalil and not the vice versa.

Instead of supporting Mariam and her mother, the father sent them to live away from him and his high ranked society. Mariam often longed to see her father, his cinema and the rest of his rich property. Once she made the daring move but eventually was forced to go back to her dwelling place. When she reached there she found out that her mother had committed suicide thinking that her daughter had left her...

Title:Before Green Gables
By: Budge Wilson
Summary

'Anne Shirley' was born to loving partents who treated their infant daughter as their whole world. She was merely an infant when her both parents died because of a killing fever that spread quickly in the area. Because Anne did not have relatives she was taken care by Mrs Thomas. Mrs Thomas was a house maid at Anne's house when her parents were alive. Eliza, Mrs Thomas's eldest daughter, liked Anne and treated her like her own daughter. On the contrary Mrs Thomas started to mistreat Anne because of her continuous pregnancies, a drunk husband and the lack of money.
Anne survived the bad times by being smart for her age. When she became four she told Mrs Thomas that her birdthday was the next day. Mrs Thomas yelled at her and told her not to call her a mother or remind her of any birthday. When Eliza was getting married she wanted to take Anne to live with her. But the husband did not want Anne. Anne was left alone to take care of the Thomas's children...

In 1921 'Ruth' was 12 years when her mother had to work as a cleaning woman at the University of Toronto. Before losing his life in the first World War, Ruth's father worked in the same university as a professor and his family enjoyed a luxurious life. It was Summer time and Ruth had to spend her Summer at the University while her mother was on duty there.

One day when Ruth was working on memorizing her spelling lessons, a professor started talking friendly to her. Then he introduced himself to her as Professor Fredrick Grant Banting. Professor Banting was researching how to make insulin to benefit people with diabetes. He was using animals to help save humans' lives.

Ruth at the beginning was suspicious about some of the demonstrators who gathered in front of the University to protest against using animals for scientific research. But soon she was convinced about their cause and started to help 'Melissa' - one of the group's leaders...

'Sarah Gilmore' a 12 year old girl was leading a poor life in a small town in Ontario with her mother who served in a restaurant. Her father, who even did not know that Sarah was to be born, was killed by a driver who was high on something. One day Sarah's mother received a letter from her 'great-aunt Sarah', whom she never met, leaving them a huge house and all of her wealth.

The mother and Sarah moved to New Brunswick where they inherited the new estate. It was Mr. Stan who gave them the ride to near their inherited house. Sarah did not like Mr. Stan thinking his mother might befriend him. According to a condition in the inheritance will, Sarah had to take full care of 11 pets including a bird that kept on telling to knock it off...

Title: Jakeman
By: Deborah Ellis
Summary

'Jacob' nicknamed Jake tolerated his elder teenage sister 'Shoshona' who liked to boss him around. Jake liked to draw and he kept his comic-book with him. He draw a superman called 'Jakeman' who could one day free his imprisoned mother. Jake never saw his father and he thought he was on the International Space Station.

After a long journey the kids managed to visit their imprisoned mother. The mother was put in prison because of drugs hidden by anther person. Jake kept on writing to the governor to pardon his mother and to help set her free. Yet the governor did not reply to any of his letters. It is only towards later that Jake discovered why he did not get an answer for his letters...

Title: Sacred Leaf
By: Deborah Ellis
Summary

'Diego' was on the run in Bolivia because he left a man to die after the man had killed Diego's friend. He was welcomed by Ricardo's family except their daughter Bonita. Being a smart girl Bonita suspected Diego at the beginning but soon she realized that Diego is a good person and can help her family in their hectare of coca bushes.

When the Ricardos finished cultivating the coca product, government officials came and took all the product because they had reports that people make the illegal drug 'cocaine' from it. The Ricardos were very furious and they joined other coca farmers (cocaleros) in a demonstration against the Bolivian Government...

Title: Special Edward
By: Eric Walters
Summary

Another student called Zack was still writing the test when the test time was up. But Edward had to hand over his test paper even before finishing it. Is it fair? Find out ...

Title: When You Reach Me
By: Rebecca Stead
Summary

Miranda, a twelve year old girl used to pretend not to be scared of the crazy laughing man on her street corner. The man who practiced kicking his leg out into traffic and slept with his head under the deserted mailbox kept on repeating the mysterious clues "bookbag, pocketshoe". It took Miranda a long time to realize the message of time travel that the laughing man was trying to send her...