Grades 6-9

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
111 pages
Reading Level: 4.9 (Author suggests for middle schoolers)
Sleddogs, Alaskan Family Life, Athapascan Indians Fiction

"In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her." (Titlewave)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
184 pages
Reading Level: Young Adult
Novel in Verse
World War, Women Suffrage, Family, Friendship, Michigan

"Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement." (Titlewave)

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010
29 pages
Reading Level: 6.0
Night Poetry, American Poetry

As many things that hide in the night are described, a collection of poems celebrate the wonders, mysteries, and dangers of the night.

Candlewick Press, 2005
84 pages
Reading Level: Young Adult
Children of Immigrants, Serbian American Poetry

"Presents a collection of poems that relate a fictional story, inspired by actual events, where a young girl struggles with the difficulty of growing up in America as an immigrant from Kosova, Yugoslavia." (Titlewave)