Fiction

A Gathering of Days is Joan W. Blos' novel that serves as a fictional version of a New England girl's journal. This journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is a classic historical romance that takes place during the French Revolution. A swirling tale with Dickens' characteristic wide-ranging cast of characters, the story follows the aftermath of the release of...

The Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton--a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. In 1861, America is on the cusp of war, and young Jethro Creighton is...

Meet the All-of-a-Kind Family -- Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie -- who live with their parents in New York City at the turn of the century. Together they share adventures that find them searching for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front...

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned - a...

Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry's beloved novel about a boy who would do anything to paint is now available in a refreshed paperback edition. Benjamin West was born with an extraordinary gift-the gift of creating paintings of people,...

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life of spying, plotting,...

This novel tells of a young Hungarian prince during World War II who must endure Nazi occupation of his country while seeking to honor his family heritage.   Used in the Notgrass "From Adam to Us" Curriculum.

Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsmith like their father in this exciting tale of ancient Egyptian mystery and intrigue. Newbery Honor Book

The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord Of The Rings! Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves, and Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage...

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. The comic genius...

Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1944 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the...