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Chasing Redbird

author: Creech, Sharon
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: aunts, uncles, death, grief, family life, large type books [X], kentucky, death, guilt, family [X], families

Jack Adrift

author: Gantos, Jack
When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 40
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730

Farmer Boy

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Wilder
While Laura Ingalls grows up on the western prairie, a boy named Almanzo Wilder is living on a farm in New York State.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 146
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate

author: Kelly, Jacqueline
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 131
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

Football Hero

author: Green, Tim
When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840

Sarah, Plain And Tall

author: Maclachlan, Patricia, Maclachlan, Close, Glenn
Caleb and Anna, captivated by the mail-order bride their father has invited to come live with them in their prairie home, hope that she will stay.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 578
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560

The First Four Years

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Wilder, Laura I
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 70
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030

Surviving The Applewhites

author: Tolan, Stephanie S, Tolan, Stephanie
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 123
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

Water Street

author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

The Outsiders

author: Hinton, S. E, Hinton
A teen gang in rural Oklahoma, the Greasers are perpetually at odds with the Socials, a rival group.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1525
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750

Confessions Of A Murder Suspect

author: Patterson, James
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Little House On The Prairie

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Wilder, Laura I, Lit
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 156
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760

Soccer Halfback

author: Christopher, Matt
Team rivalry threatens to spoil a budding friendship between a showy soccer player, Bryce, and soft-spoken but talented Renny.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730

A Thousand Splendid Suns

author: Hosseini, Khaled
A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: family [X], women, family life, afghanistan, families, large type books [X], large print books

Fever

author: Cook, Robin
Research scientist Charles Martel comes into conflict with the medical-industrial system when he embarks on a frantic search for a cure for his twelve-year-old daughter's leukemia.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: leukemia, family [X], chemical industry, family life, large type books [X], large print books

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