Bauer, Joan. Peeled.
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates
a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
Clements, Andrew. The School Story.
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novella, her friend Zoe helps
her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's
mother works as an editor.
Frederick, Heather Vogel. The Mother-Daughter Book Club.
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities
pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little
Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
Friedman, Robin. How I Survived My Summer Vacation.
Determined to write a novel during the summer before he starts high school,
thirteen-year-old Jackie struggles to write beyond the first sentence.
Funke, Cornelia. Inkdeath.
The Adderhead, his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo, has
ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense
is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay, Mo's fictitious double, whose identity
he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and
the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. Can anyone save this
cursed story?
Paulsen, Gary. Shelf Life: Stories by the Book.
Ten short stories in which the lives of young people in different circumstances
are changed by their encounters with books.
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.