Historical Fiction @ Kamiak Library

Abelove, Joan Go and Come Back Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a village in the Amazonian jungle of Peru, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study her people's way of life. F ABE

Almond, David  The Fire-Eaters  Encounters with an odd little man, a masochistic teacher, his father’s frail health, changing friendships, and the Cuban missile crisis all contribute to 12-year-old Bobby’s fear that the flash of nuclear annihilation is as likely as the dawn. F ALM

Avi Crispin: the cross of lead Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. F AVI *see shelf for more titles*

Bagdasarian, Adam Forgotten Fire The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915. F BAG

Bennett, James Dakota Dream After being shuttled between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, 15-year-old Floyd escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation, desperately seeking a family and a home.  F BEN

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre When the heroine, a plain and penniless governess, falls in love with the brooding, melancholy master of Thornfield she is unaware of the romantic and tragic events which will follow. F BRO

Bruchac, Joseph Geromino A fictional retelling of the story of Native American leader Geronimo's life after his last surrender, told from the point of view of his grandson. F BRU *see shelf for more titles*

Cadnum ,Michael The Book of the Lion In twelfth-century England, after his master, a maker of coins for the king, is brutally punished for alleged cheating, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart. F CAD

Chambers, Aidan  Postcards From No Man's Land Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation. F CHA

Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist. F CHE *see shelf for more titles*

Choldenko, Gennifer Al Capone Does My Shirts A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. F CHO

Chotjewitz, David. Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters. F CHO

Collier, James The Bloody Country In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states. F COL

Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. F CUR

Doctorow, El Ragtime Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century. F DOC

Doig, Ivan The Whistling Season Oliver Milliron answers an ad for a housekeeper named Rose from Minneapolis, who arrives with her unconventional brother, Morrie, in tow. F DOI

Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life. F DON

Dorris, Michael Yellow Raft on Blue Water A saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets, yet joined together by the bonds of kinship. F DOR

Draper, Sharon Copper Sun Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves. F DRA

Flagg, Fannie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgood who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s, best friends Idgie and Ruth. F FLA

Fleischman, Paul The Borning Room Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier. F FLE *see shelf for more titles*

Frost, Helen The Braid Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay. F FRO

Fox, Paula  The Slave Dancer Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.      F FOX

Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain A Civil War soldier and a lonely woman embark on parallel journeys of danger and discovery. F FRA *see shelf for more titles*

Gaines, Ernest J A Lesson before Dying A teacher tells the story of a man condemned to death because he accepted a ride with men who killed in a store robbery. F GAI *see shelf for more titles*

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera Translation of: El amor en los tiempos del colera. A love story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. F GAR

Geras, Adele  Troy The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up. F GER

Green, Bette Summer of my German soldier When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship. F GRE

Gregory, Kristiana  Earthquake at Dawn  A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. F GRE

Hamilton, Virginia House of Dies Drear A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. F HAM

Harris, Christie  Raven's Cry Fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation of the Northwest coast after their meeting with the white man. F HAR

Heller, Joseph Catch 22  Captain Yossarian, a paranoid bomber pilot stationed in the Italian theater during World War II, faces a "catch-22" in this comic novel when he wants to fly fewer combat missions.

F HEL

 

Hesse, Karen Witness A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town. F HES *see shelf for more titles*

Hobbs, Will The Maze Ho Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. F HOB *see shelf for more titles*

Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War. F HUN * see shelf for more titles*

lm, Anne North to Freedom After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark. F HOL

Janeczko, Paul B. Worlds Afire Based on a real circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1944 that killed 167 in a few minutes and injured more than 500, Janeczko's spare poetic novel describes the events in the voices of 29 eyewitnesses: children and adults in the audience, circus folk, and townspeople. First, there's the excitement before the show, then the horror of the sudden wild flames and screaming panic, and finally the "shuffling and sobbing"of families in grief. F JAN

Jocelyn, Marthe  Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum Peril and Romance  In 1901, Mable accompanies her older sister to a small town where Viola has been hired as a teacher.  Very little happens in Sellerton until Mable turns to a town outcast, an eccentric woman who leads a secret group of suffragettes, and becomes involved in a strike at a local factory. F JOC *see shelf for more titles*

Keneally, Thomas Schindler’s List The story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews during World War II. F KEN

Kerr, M.E. Slap Your Sides: A Novel Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II. F KER

Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.    F KID *see shelf for more titles*

Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze The adventures of a young coppersmith's apprentice in China. F LEW

London, Jack White Fang Follows the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada. F LON *see shelf for more titles*

Magorian, Michelle. Good Night, Mr. Tom A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during World War II. F MAG

Malamud, Bernard The Fixer Jewish handyman Yakov Bok, is arrested, imprisoned, and accused for a murder he did not commit. F MAL

McCaughrean, Geralkine Kite Rider In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.     F MCC

McKernan, Victoria Shackleton’s Stowaway  A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.     F MCK 

Meyer, Carolyn Mary, Bloody Mary Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. F CAR

Naidoo, Beverley  The Other Side Of Truth  Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria. F NAI

Namioka, Lensey  Ties That Bind, Ties That Break: A Novel Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound. F NAM

O'Dell, Scott Streams To The River, River To The Sea : A Novel Of Sacagawea A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific. F ODE *see shelf for more titles*

Orczy, Baroness The Scarlet Pimpernel The rulers of the French Revolution cannot discover who this maddeningly elusive figure is that threatens their total power with his disguises, endless ruses and infinite daring. F ORC

Orlev, Uri  The Island On Bird Street Translation of: ha-I bi-Rehov ha-tsiporim. During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions. F ORL *see shelf for more titles*

Park, Linda Sue  When My Name Was Keoko Living in Korea in the 1940s was difficult because the Japanese, who occupied the country, seemed determined to obliterate Korean culture and to impose their own on its residents. Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, describe the hardships their family is forced to face as Japan becomes enmeshed in World War II. F PAR

Paulsen, Gary  The Beet Fields : Memories Of A Sixteenth Summer A boy runs away from home and his drunken parents and spends his sixteenth summer learning about life as a migrant laborer, and carnival worker. F PAU *see shelf for more titles*

Peck, Richard The River Between Us During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. F PEC

Rees, Celia Pirates! : the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. F CEL

Reiss, Johanna  The Upstairs Room A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II. F REI

Remarque, Erich Maria  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. F REM

Rinaldi, Ann The Last Silk During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets. F RIN *see shelf for more titles*

Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows This is the story of a young farm boy and how he trains his two coon hounds to achieve fame for their coon hunting and trapping. F RAW *see shelf for more titles*

Sayres, Meghan Nuttall Anahuta’s Woven Riddle In Iran, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers. F SAY

Sebestyen, Ouida  Words By Heart A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks. F SEB

Sedgwick, Marcus The Foreshadowing Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him. F SED

Sheara, Michael The Killer Angels A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view. F SHE

Sijie, Pai Balzac & The Little Chinese Seamstress Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them, but things change when they discover a stash of Western classics in Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. F SIJ

Sturtevant, Katherine A True and Faithful Narrative In London in the 1680s, sixteen-year-old Meg tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men who court her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions. F STU

Sutcliff, Rosemary (retold by) Beowulf The epic of a dragon-slaying hero.     F SUT

Taylor, Mildred D  The Land Prequel to: Roll of thunder, hear my cry. Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War.  F TAY

Taylor, Mildred D.  Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken.;Newbery Medal, 1977. An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.  F TAY

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom. F TWA *see shelf for more titles*

Uris, Leon Exodus The founding of the new nation of Israel is vividly portrayed in this novel about an American nurse and a young Israeli freedom fighter. F URI *see shelf for more titles*

Voigt, Cynthia  Jackaroo When hard times among the people revive old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend. F VOI

Walker, Alice The Color Purple Tells the story of two sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God." F WAL *see shelf for more titles*

Whelan, Gloria Homeless Bird When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. F WHE *see shelf for more titles*

Yep, Laurence  The Star Fisher Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s. F YEP *see shelf for more titles*

Yolen, Jane The Devil’s Arithmetic Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. F YOL *see shelf for more titles*

Zusak, Markus The Book Thief Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Also: I am the Messenger F ZUS

 

Multi-Cultural Books @ Kamiak Library

 

Alexie, Sherman Flight: A Novel Follows the life of a troubled teen as he is transported back and forth in time in a search for his true identity. F ALE *see shelf for more titles*

 

Allende, Isabel The Infinite Plan This is the story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his attempt to reconcile his past which included poverty, neglect, war, and abusive relationships with his current strivings for success and peace of mind. F ALL

 

Alvarez, Julia In this book fifteen tales vividly chronicle a Dominican family's exile in the Bronx, focusing on the four Garcia daughters' rebellion against their immigrant elders.       F ALV

 

Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies This book gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo. Also: How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents F ALV

 

Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. F CRE *see shelve for more titles*

 

Crew, Linda Children of the River  Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a regular American. F CRE

 

Doerr, Harriet Consider This, Senora This book tells the story of four expatriate Americans who buy land on a hillside adjacent to a small Mexican village. Each of them interacts with the landscape and the local people in a different way, but it is Ursula Bowles--born in Mexico and now returning near the end of her life--who comes to the truest understanding of the nature of the place. F DOE

 

Esquirel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate This is a romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico. F ESQ

 

Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban This is a story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties. F GAR

 

Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known. F GOL

Hosseini, Khaled Kite Runner Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official. Also: A Thousand Splendid Suns F HOS

Ihimaera, Witi Whale Rider As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor. F IHI

Islas, Arturo The Rain God The first book in a trilogy which traces the lives of the Angel family, a Mexican-American clan living on the Texas/Mexico border. Also: Migrant Souls      F ISL

Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams Codi returns to her hometown to confront her past and face her ailing father. What she finds is a town threatened by an environmental catastrophe and a man who could change her life. F KIN *see shelf for more titles*

McCaughrean, Geraldine Kite Rider In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. F MCC

Mochizuki, Ken Beacon Hill Boys In 1972 in Seattle, a teenager in a Japanese American family struggles for his own identity, along with a group of three friends who share his anger and confusion. F MOC

Mori, Kyoko Shizuko’s Daughter After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy. F MOR

Na, An A Step from Heaven A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. F NA

Naidoo, Beverley The Other Side of Truth Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria. F NAI

Namioka, Lensey Ties that Bind,Ties that Break Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.      F NAM

Staples, Suzanne Fisher Shabanu: Daughter Of The Wind Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family. She must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. F STA

Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember. F TAN *see shelf for more titles*

Taylor, Theodore The Cay When the freighter they are traveling on is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. F TAY *see shelf for more titles*

Uchida, Yoshiko Journey Home After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence. F UCH

Whelan, Gloria Homeless Bird When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. F WHE *see shelf for more titles*

Williams-Garcia, Rita No Laughter Here In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria. F WIL

Yep, Lawrence Child of the Owl A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown. F YEP *see shelf for more titles*

Mazer, Anne America Street Fourteen stories by American authors from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds SC AME

Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street This book tells the story of a young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago who ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. Also: Woman Hollering Creek SC CIS

Poey, Delia and Virgil Suarez Iguana Dreams This book is an anthology of contemporary Latino fiction, featuring the work of 29 writers who live in the United States and write in English. SC POE

Cruz, Barbara Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity Discusses the many issues facing teens of multiethnic descent, including discrimination and the search for ethnic identity in an unsympathetic culture. 305.23 CRU

 

Mystery and Suspense Book List

 

Alphin, Elaine Marie Counterfeit Son Edward Allen Poe Award 2001. When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life. F ALP
 

Bennett, Jay  Coverup Teenage Brad is tormented by confused memories of a drunken ride with his best friend Alden, during which they may have hit and killed a man. F BEN
 

Christie, Agatha Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot refuses a stranger's request to help and then within six hours is asked to find the stranger's killer. F CHR *see shelf for more titles*
 

Clark, Mary Higgins Weep No More, My Lady Elizabeth Lange is haunted by the tragic death of her sister Leila, who plunged from the balcony of her New York penthouse under mysterious circumstances. While visiting the Cypress Point Spa, Elizabeth decides to find out exactly what happened.  F CLA *see shelf for more titles*
 

Clancy, Tom The Hunt for Red October A dangerous race is on when the crew of the Soviet Union's new ballistic-missile submarine "Red October" attempts to defect to the United States, while being pursued by the Soviet Atlantic fleet which has been ordered to find and destroy the submarine at all costs. F CLA *see shelf for more titles*
 

Connelly, Michael  Angles Flight The last coyote -- Trunk music -- Angels flight. A collection of three crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch. F COL
 

Cook, Robin Coma When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on the operating table, a medical student determines to find the reason. F COO *see shelf for more titles*
 

Cooney, Caroline Code Orange While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City. F COO *see shelf more titles*
 

Cormier, Robert  The Rag and Bone Shop Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts. F COR *see shelf for more titles*
 

Crichton, Michael Timeline When a group of scientists learns how to travel through time, they enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world. F CRI *see shelf for more titles*
 

Cusick, Richie The Mall Trish notices a man hanging around the store where she works in the mall, and then he is following her everywhere tormenting her day and night. How can she escape a madman willing to kill to make her his forevermore? F CUS *see shelf for more titles*
 

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor  Crime and Punishment  Describes the resultant physical and mental depletion after a student in St. Petersburg murders an old woman, a money lender, and her sister. F DOS
 

Duncan, Lois  Don’t Look Behind You Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer. F DUN *see shelf for more titles*
 

Elkins, Aaron The Glancing Light (local Author) Chris Norgren, Seattle museum curator, investigates a two-year-old international art theft in Italy. F ELK
 

Hayes, Daniel  The Trouble with Lemons Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it. F HAY
 

Hillerman, Tony  The Blessing Way Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police and anthropologist Bergen McKee follow the horrifying trail of murder left by the Wolf-Witch. F HIL *see shelf for more titles*
 

Horowitz, Anthony Alex Rider Series: The Devil and his boy In 1593 a thirteen- year-old Tom travels through the English countryside to London, where he falls in the troupe of actors and finds himself in great danger for severe sources. F HOR *see shelf for more titles*
 

King, Stephen The Stand In 1985, after an accident at an army laboratory lets loose a virus that kills nearly the entire U.S., the survivors cross vast, horrifying wastelands to band together in Boulder, Colorado, and Las Vegas, facing off to decide the fate of the human race. Contains the unabridged text and includes illustrations. F KIN *see shelf for more titles*
 

L’Engle, Madeleine  Dragons in the Waters “Laurel-Leaf books." A thirteen-year-old boy's trip to Venezuela with his cousin culminates in murder and the discovery of an unexpected bond with an Indian tribe, dating from the days of Simon Bolivar. F LEN *see shelf for more titles*
 

Martin, Ann M.  Missing Since Monday When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.  F MAR

McNamee,Graham Acceleration Stuck working in the lost and found department of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him. F MCN
 

Nixon, Joan Lowery  The Name of the Game Was Murder When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.  F NIX *see shelf for more titles*
 

Roberts, Willo Davis  Nightmare When a falling body strikes Nick's car as he drives under an overpass, the police call the man's death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his life in danger when he tries to investigate. F ROB *see shelf for more titles*

Other Authors who write Mystery & Suspense

Avi                 
Agatha Christie          
Arthur Conan Doyle      
Dick Francis              
Sue Grafton              
John Grisham            
Virginia Hamilton         
Dashiell Hammett       
Dean Koontz
JamesPatterson
Richard Peck
Christopher Pike
Edgar Allen Poe
Phillip Pullman
William Sleator
Laurence Yep

Science Fiction @ Kamiak Library

Adams, Doug. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Earth is destroyed to allow the building of a hyperspatial express route F ADA *see shelf for more titles*

Anderson, M.T.  Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.  F AND

Asimov, Issac. Prelude to Foundation Hari Seldon possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire. F ASI

Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles 1,2,3 Man's initial space expeditions to the planet Mars take place during the latter part of the 20th century. What begins as a probe into new frontiers becomes a confrontation with the past. F BRA *see shelf for more titles*

Card, Orson Scott.  Ender’s Game
Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy. F CAR *see shelf for more titles*

Farmer, Nancy.  The Ear, the Eye and the Ar "Includes a new preface from Nancy Farmer and a discussion guide"--Cover p. 4. In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them. F FAR

Gaiman, Neil. Stardust Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved. F GAI

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Turnabout Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger, until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they are too young to do it themselves. F HAD

Halam, Ann Taylor Five Fourteen-year-old Taylor, still dealing with the fact that she is a clone produced by the same company that funds the orangutan reserve which is her home on the island of Borneo, flees with her younger brother and Uncle, the reserve's mascot, when the reserve is attacked. F HAL *see shelf for more titles*

Heinlein, Robert. Starship Trooper Follows an army recruit of the future through the toughest boot camp of the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy. F HEI

Herbert,Frank. Dune The story of a young prince, Paul Artreides, scion of a star-crossed dynasty, and of his journey from boy to warrior to ruler of a dying planet destined to become a paradise regained. F HER *see shelf for more titles*

Hughes, Monica.  Invitation to the Game Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game. F HUG

Lowry, Lois  The Giver Newberry Medal, 1994 Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.  F LOW

Sagan, Carl.  Contact
Scientist Eleanor Arroway risks her life and reputation in an attempt to respond when radio telescopes on Earth receive a signal indicating the existence of life twenty-six light-years away in the vicinity of the star Vega. F SAG

Verne, Jules.  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
An adaptation of the nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.  F VER

Wells, H. G.  The Time Machine
"First published in 1895"--T.p. verso. A scientist invents a machine that transports him far into the future where he discovers a changed world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks. F WEL

Wells, H. G.  The War of the Worlds An intellectually-superior race from Mars invades the Earth with plans to enslave human beings.  F WEL

Teen Issues @ Kamiak Library

Almond, David. The Fire Eaters  Despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future. F ALM *see shelf for more titles*

Anderson, Laurie Halse Twisted  After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts Also: Speak & Catalyst F AND

Barrie, Barbara. Adam ZigZag  Adam, who is dyslexic and has great difficulty with his homework, struggles to find the right school, resist the lure of drugs, and the jealousy of his older sister Caroline. F BAR

Bechard, Margaret.  Hanging on to Max. When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone. F BEC

Brooks, Kevin. Kissing the Rain Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder. F BRO *see shelf for more titles*

Caletti, Deb. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another. R CAL *see shelf for more titles*

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver. F CHB

Cohn, Rachel.  Gingerbread. After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.    F COH

Coleman, Evelyn. Born in Sin Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor. F COL

Cooney, Caroline B.  What Janie Found. While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper. F COO *see shelf for more titles*

Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War  A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. F COR *see shelf for more titles*

Dessen, Sarah  Just Listen  Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. F DES *see shelf for more titles*

De Lint, Charles. The Blue Girl.  De Lint tackles magic and the afterlife in a suburban high school setting in this inventive if somewhat convoluted tale. F DEL

Draper, Sharon M.  Tears Of A Tiger The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car and many others in the school. F DRA *see shelf for more titles*

Ferris, Jean.  Of Sound Mind. Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent. F FER

Fleischman, Paul. Seek  Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer. F FLE

Flinn, Alexandra.  Breathing Underwater. Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father. F FLI *see shelf for more titles*

Frank, E. R.  America: A Novel. America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret. F FRA

Frost, Helen.  Keesh’s House.  The house in the title isn’t really Keesha’s; it belongs to Joe.  His aunt took him in when he was 12, and now that he’s an adult and the owner of the place, he is helping out kids in the same situation.  F FRO

Going, K.L. Sanit Iggy Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents. F GOI

Green, John. Looking for Alaska  Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. F GRE

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–time Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother F HAD

Halpin, Brendan.  Donorboy.  A teenage girl becomes the ward of her sperm-donor father after losing both of her gay parents in a bizarre accident.  Slowly Rosalind and Sean cobble together an uneasy relationship that allows them to coexist and finally respect each other. F HAL

Hautman, Pete.  Godless.  Jason is a smart 15-year-old, an agnostic-leaning-toward-atheism, who resists following in the footsteps of his devoutly Catholic father.  Getting clocked under the water tower by the nasty and unpredictable Henry leads Jason and his friend Shim to combine their talents to posit a new religion.   F HAU *see shelf for more titles*

Heneghan, James. The Grave Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine. F HEN

Hartnett, Sonya Surrender As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.         F HAR

Hesser,T.S. Kissing Doorknobs Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.      F HES

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders  The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' deaths, and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.       F HIN

Holt, Kimberly. When Zachary Beaver came to Town During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. F HOL *see shelf for more titles*

Johnson, Maureen.  The Key to the Golden Firebird.  Poignant and laced with wry humor, this novel follows the Gold sisters as they cope with their father’s sudden death from a heart attack.  F JOH

Jones, Patrick.  Things Change.  Alternating the perspectives of 16-year-old Johanna and her emotionally disturbed boyfriend, this psychologically involving novel gives a frank, up-close look at a textbook case of dating violence.  F JON

Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-Kira Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. F KAD

Koertge, Ronald.  Stoner & Spaz.  A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman. F KOE

Koja, Kathe.  Straydog.  The story of a high school outcast who volunteers at an animal shelter while not at school. She develops a bond with a feral collie brought into the shelter one day. F KOJ

Lubar, David.  Dunk. Chad, hoping to work out his frustrations and his anger by taking a summer job as a dunk tank Bozo on the boardwalk at the New Jersey shore, comes to a better understanding of himself and the uses of humor as he undergoes training in the fine art of insults.  F LUB

Lynch, Chris.  Freewill.  Despite the redemptive themes suggested by its title and its division into three sections expansively entitled “Faith”, “Hope” and “Charity”, Lynch’s latest novel focuses on the dark and murky corners of its main character’s psyche. F LYN

Marchetta, Melina L.  Saving Francesca.  Life has changed for Francesca.  A new school, new friends, a mother battling severe depression, and a crush on a guy who already has a girlfriend are a few of the complications she is facing.  The trials continue throughout the year, and a conflict with her father brings everything to a head.  At that point, Francesca begins to understand what really matters, who her friends are, and most importantly, who she is. F MAR

McDonald, Joyce.  Swallowing Stones.  When 17-year-old Michael discovers that he has accidentally killed the father of a schoolmate, he wrestles with his own guilt until he can no longer keep his terrible secret.  A compassionate story focusing on both the killer and the family left to grieve the loss of a father and husband. F MCD

McCormick, Patricia.  Cut. While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better. F MCC

Mikaelsen, Ben.  Touching Sp0irit Bear. After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. F MIK

Myers, W.D. Monster While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. F MYE *see shelf for more titles*

Naidoo, Beverley.  The Other Side of Truth. Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.  F NAI

Oates, Joyce Carol. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl. When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid. F OAT

Picoult, Jodi.  My Sister’s Keeper.  The story of two sisters, the unbreakable bond they share and how totally entwined they have been all their lives until a crucial decision threatens to tear them apart and ends up changing their lives forever. F PIC

Paulsen, Gary. The Car.  Used to being ignored, Terry, 14, is now alone.  With tools and mechanical know-how, he works to complete a kit car that his father had begun to assemble.  When it was finished Terry decided to drive it from Cleveland to Oregon to see his uncle. He is joined by a couple of Vietnam vets on the way and they encounter interesting people and places. F PAU

Rapp, Adam.  Under the Wolf, Under the Dog. Sixteen-year-old Steve Nugent struggles to make sense of his mother’s terminal breast cancer and his brother’s suicide.  He used to go to a gifted school, but is now in a facility for disturbed kids where he doesn’t really fit in.  Keeping a journal, in which he recalls his confused and violent past, Steve is left to figure out who he is by examining who he was. F RAP

Rosoff, Meg. How I Live Now To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. F ROS

Thomas, Rob.  Rats Saw God.  In his first novel Thomas lays bare the pain, awkwardness and humor at the heart of one teenager’s search for identity.  Disillusionment at home and the betrayal of his first love send Steve York spiraling from scholar to stoner.  His last chance for academic redemption lies in writing a 100-page paper for his new guidance counselor, a narrative that becomes the framework for this novel. F THO

Trope, Zoe Please don’t Kill the Frshman A memoir of the then-fifteen-year-old author's high school experience to that point, in which diary entries reflect her struggles, angst, and rebellion.   F TRO

Trueman, Terry. Stuck in Neutral Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him. F TRU

Volponi, Paul Black and White Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. Also: Rooftop  F VOL

Wallace, Rich. Playing Without The Ball: A Novel In Four Quarters. Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend. F WAL

Werlin, Nancy. Black Mirror: A Novel. Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school. F WER *see shelf for more titles*

Wild, Margaret. One Night In this novel written in free verse and narrated by alternating characters, a teenaged girl decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night stand" results in pregnancy. F WIL

Wolff, Virgina. True Beliver Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen year old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it.        F WOL *see shelf for more titles*

Woodson, Jacqueline.  Behind You.  A stand-alone sequel to  the wrenching romance, If You Come Softly, Woodson’s characters are dealing with grief and picking up the pieces of their lives after the death of 15-year-old Jeremiah (Miah) Roselind. F WOO

Zarr, Sara Story of a Girl a Novel During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.      F ZAR

Zephaniah, Benjamin. Gangsta Rap When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare. F ZEP