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Avi.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH,
and other titles.

Gary L. Blackwood.
THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER.

Christopher Paul Curtis.
THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM — 1963.

Keith Gray.
CREEPERS.

Diana Wynne Jones.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT,
and other titles.

E. L. Konigsburg.
FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER,
and other titles.

Gordon Korman.
THE CHICKEN DOESN’T SKATE,
and other titles.

Iain Lawrence.
THE WRECKERS.

Walter Dean Myers.
DARNELL ROCK REPORTING,
and other titles.

Lensey Namioka.
ISLAND OF OGRES.

Donna Jo Napoli.
STONES IN WATER.

Gary Paulsen.
HARRIS AND ME,
and other titles.

Wilson Rawls.
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS.

Louis Sachar.
HOLES.

Susan Shreve.
THE FLUNKING OF JOSHUA T. BATES,
and other titles.

William Sleator.
ODDBALLS: Stories.

Jerry Spinelli.
CRASH,
and other titles.

James Stevenson.
THE BONES IN THE CLIFF.

Theodore Taylor.
THE CAY,
and other titles.

Frances Temple.
GRAB HANDS AND RUN.

Bill Wallace.
TRUE FRIENDS,
and other titles.

Laurence Yep.
DRAGONWINGS,
and other titles.

Kazumi Yumoto.
THE FRIENDS.


Compiled by Anne Kelly, West Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library, 1999.