Grades 6 - 8: Fiction

These books can be found in the Youth Section in rows 116 - 120.

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Jerome likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball.  When Jerome meets Bix -- mysterious and moody, but a great athlete he decides to teach Bix his game. He can tell that Bix has the talent, and all he's got to do is learn the right moves.

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

When a twelve year old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology and a particularly nasty troll.

Three children set out to find King Arthur’s Grail, touching off a struggle between the forces of good and evil, the Light and the Dark.

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.

A ruthless villain victimizes the family of 12-year-old Nathan on the frontier.   He is determined to avenge the wrongs on his own.

When 16-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance from Washington State to California, Maine, and Florida.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

A series of adventures in which a cast of heroic animal characters encounter danger, hairbreadth escapes, mystery and despicable villains.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast, at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

History literally comes to life in this romantic fantasy, when orphaned Peggy goes to live with her uncle--and discovers Revolutionary War ghosts.

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a sense of himself.

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

A black family living in the South during the 1930's is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.

Because of his bragging--and his great skill at thievery--Gen lands in the King's Prison, shackled to the wall of his cell. After months of isolation, kept sane only by his sharp intelligence, Gen is finally released only because he knows where a priceless treasure is hidden.  However, Gen is just as cunning as his captors and nobody’s fool.

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

The Mennyms are a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human.

Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.