F WOO	George Washington's Spy (a Time Travel Adventure) (age 9-12) by Elvira Woodruff war ... action ... historical Publisher comments: Ten-year-old Matt Carlton and six friends are accidentally swept back in time--to Boston in 1776! The British now occupy the city, and redcoat guards are everywhere! While the boys are being held captive by a den of Patriot spies, the girls have been taken in by a wealthy Tory family. The pox is rampant; danger lies around every corner--and there's no hope for returning home to their own time. How will these seven children survive?
F WOO	George Washington's Socks (age 9-12) by Elvira Woodruff war ... action ... historical Publisher comments: A mysterious rowboat transports five adventurous kids back in time to the eve of the Battle at Trenton where they experience the American Revolution. Through encounters with Hessian soldiers, revolutionaries, and even George Washington himself, Matthew, Quentin, Hooter, Tony, and Katie watch history unfold before their eyes as they see first-hand, the grim realities of war and the cost of freedom.
F WIN	The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader (age 9-12) by Ryder Windham war ... science fiction ... adventure ... action The full story of Anakin Skywalker, from his birth in slavery to his death as the powerful Darth Vader ... told for the first time in its entirety. Spans all six Star Wars movies and includes pieces of the story that fill in the gaps.
F WAT	Star Wars, Jedi Quest Series (age 9-12) by Jude Watson war ... science fiction ... adventure ... action Fourteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker is strong in the ways of the Force. His lightsaber skills are exceptional, and his piloting is legendary. He should be an ideal Jedi apprentice. And yet, there is so much he still has to learn. It is up to Obi-Wan Kenobi to teach him these things. But on a mission to a planet threatened by a toxic disaster, Obi-Wan and Anakin are separated. Anakin and three other apprentices ¿ one of them his rival ¿ must work together in order to survive. Anakin's instincts are clear...but are they right? Anakin Skywalker's destiny will determine the future of a galaxy. These are the events that form his fate. title: The Way of the Apprentice title: The Trail of the Jedi title: The Dangerous Games title: The Master of Disguise title: The Moment of Fear title: The Shadow Trap title: The Moment of Truth title: The Changing of the Guard title: The False Peace title: The Final Showdown title: The School of Fear
	Star Wars Series (age 9-12) war ... science fiction ... adventure ... action The Jedi Knights battle the forces of evil in these exciting Star Wars novelizations. title: The Glove of Darth Vader by Paul Davids F DAV title: Mission from Mount Yoda by Paul Davids F DAV title: Queen of the Empire by Paul Davids F DAV title: Zorba the Hutt's Revenge by Paul Davids F DAV title: Prophets of the Dark Side by Paul Davids F DAV title: The Lost City of the Jedi by Paul Davids F DAV title: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace by George Lucas F LUC title: Star Wars. Obi-Wan's Foe: Revenge of the Sith by Jane B. Mason F MAS title: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by Patricia Wrede F WRE
F MEY	Black Radishes (age 9-12) by Susan Lynn Meyer historical ... war ... identity Publisher comments: Gustave doesn't want to move from the exciting city to the boring countryside, far from his cousin Jean-Paul and his best friend, the mischievous Marcel. But he has no choice. It is March of 1940, and Paris is not a safe place for Jews. When Paris is captured by the Nazis, Gustave knows that Marcel, Jean-Paul, and their families must make it out of the occupied zone. And when he learns that his new friend Nicole works for the French Resistance, he comes up with a plan that just might work. But going into Occupied France is a risky thing to do when you are Jewish. And coming back alive? That is nearly impossible.
F REI	Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution (age 9-12) by Seymour Reit war ... historical ... action ... adventure Catalog: Frustrated with life under seige in George Washington's army, nineteen-year-old Will Knox and his brother Colonel Henry Knox undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the dead of winter.
F RYS	Search Behind the Lines (age 9-12) by E. Ryss adventure ... historical ... war Catalog: Two children face the perils of the German occupation of Russia during World War II.
F SHE	The Little Riders (age 9-12) by Margaretha Shemin war ... adventure ... historical Publisher comments: "Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She would do anything to protect them, anything. And on night she risks her life to prove it. Set during the Second World War when the German army occupied Holland, The Little Riders is an exciting, moving adventure story.
F CUL	The Backyard Ghost (age 9-12) by Lynn Cullen war ... school ... friendship ... spooky Eleanor's desperate attempts to break into the popular crowd at her new school are complicated by her discovery that her back yard is haunted by a Civil War ghost.
F LOV	Three Against the Tide (age 9-12) by D. Anne Love war ... adventure ... family ... historical ... voyages/journeys After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.
F BAN	Abraham's Battle: a Novel of Gettysburg (age 9-12) by Sara Harrell Banks war ... historical In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.
F KER	Greetings From Planet Earth (age 9-12) by Barbara Kerley war ... family ... historical Publisher comments: If you had one minute to describe life on Earth, what would you say? It's 1977, and Theo and his class are creating a golden record inspired by the one Voyager 2 will carry into space as a greeting from Earth. But as Theo searches for an original answer to his teacher's question, other questions begin to surface: What happened to his father in Vietnam? And why has his mother been keeping secrets all these years?
F BEA	Charley Skedaddle (age 9-12) by Patricia Beatty war ... identity ... historical Publisher comments: In this powerful story, based on real-life Civil War records and memoirs, young Yankee deserter Charley Quinn learns that his flight from his first battle doesn't brand him a life-long coward.
F MAT	Daniel's Story (age 9-12) by Carol Matas bigotry ... war ... survival ... historical Publisher comments: A young Jewish boy recalls life in Hitler's Germany. First his family is forced out of their home in Frankfurt and sent on a long journey to the Lodz ghetto in Poland, and then to Auschwitz--the Nazi death camp. Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust. This book was written in conjunction with an exhibit called "Daniel's Story: Remember the Children" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
F BAX	River of Ice (age 9-12) by Linda Baxter war ... historical Catalog: Sasha and his mother try to find a way to escape World War II-era Russia to join the rest of their family in America. sequel: River of Amber
F BOY	Charlie Pippin (age 9-12) by Candy Dawson Boyd war ... illness/loss ... friendship ... family Catalog: Spunky eleven-year-old Charlie hopes to understand her rigid father by finding out everything she can about the Vietnam War, the war that let him survive but killed his dreams.
F DOW	Shooting the Moon (age 9-12) by Frances O'Roark Dowell family ... war ... historical Publisher comments: Jamie thinks her father can do anything.... Until the one time he can do nothing. When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can't wait to get letters from the front lines describing the excitement of real-life combat: the sound of helicopters, the smell of gunpowder, the exhilaration of being right in the thick of it. After all, they've both dreamed of following in the footsteps of their father, the Colonel. But TJ's first letter isn't a letter at all. It's a roll of undeveloped film, the first of many. What Jamie sees when she develops TJ's photographs reveals a whole new side of the war. Slowly the shine begins to fade off of Army life - and the Colonel. How can someone she's worshipped her entire life be just as helpless to save her brother as she is?
F HOP	Jungle Scout: A Vietnam War Story (age 9-12) by Tim Hoppey war ... historical Publisher comments: In the late 1960s, sixteen-year-old Lam Hung guides an American platoon through South Vietnam, but seeing as how Lam was once a member of the Viet Cong, his job leading the men around the dangers hidden in the jungle might not be as difficult as earning the men's trust.
F SPE	Calico Captive (age 9-12) by Elizabeth George Speare family ... war ... historical Early one morning in the year 1754 the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, was shattered by shrill war whoops and the terror of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day which had promised new happiness, found herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War. It was a horrowing march north. Miriam could only force herself to the next stopping place, the next small portion of food, the next icy stream to be crossed. What waits at the end of the trail--besides an Indian quantlet and a life of slavery?
F SMI	Elephant Run (age 9-12) by Roland Smith adventure ... action ... war ... historical In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family's teak plantation. But as soon as Nick arrives, trouble erupts in this remote Burmese elephant village. Japanese soldiers invade, and Nick's father is taken prisoner. Nick is stranded on the plantation, forced to work as a servant to the new rulers. As life in the village grows more dangerous for Nick and his young friend, Mya, they plan their daring escape. Setting off on elephant back, they will risk their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese POW camp. In this thrilling journey through the jungles of Burma, Roland Smith explores the far-reaching effects of World War II, while introducing readers to the fascinating world of wild timber elephants and their mahouts.
F PAR	Keeping Score (age 9-12) by Linda Sue Park friendship ... historical ... war ... sports Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball, but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties of the game. Unfortunately, Jim Maine is a Giants fan, but it's Jim who teaches Maggie the fine art of scoring a baseball game. Not only can she revisit every play of every inning, but by keeping score she feels she's more than just a fan: she's helping her team. Jim is drafted into the army and sent to Korea, and although Maggie writes to him often, his silence is just one of a string of disappointments: being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the early 1950s meant season after season of near misses and year after year of dashed hopes. But Maggie goes on trying to help the Dodgers, and when she finds out that Jim needs help, too, she's determined to provide it. Against a background of major league baseball and the Korean War on the home front, Maggie looks for, and finds, a way to make a difference.
F MOR	War Horse (age 9-12) by Michael Morpurgo action ... animals ... war ... historical This moving story tells of the truest of friendships in the worst of wars, as a horse is sold from his farm, taken from the gentle boy who was his master, to serve in the military during World War I.
F MOR	The Mozart Question (age 9-12) by Michael Morpurgo survival ... historical ... family ... the arts ... war A boy's passion for music unlocks a painful secret, and draws his family together, in a multilayered tale. Like any young boy, Paolo becomes obsessed with what he can't have: in his case, a violin. Hidden away in his parents' room, it beckons the boy to release the music inside it. The music leads Paolo to a family secret, a story of World War II that changed the course of his parents' lives. But once the truth is told, the family is reunited in a way no one had thought possible. this is a story about sharing the joy of music from one generation to the next and about music's power to transform and heal.
F AVI	Iron Thunder: the Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac: a Civil War Novel (age 9-12) by Avi war ... historical When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of iron. Tom becomes assistant to the ship's inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Union army has very important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate "sea monster" ... another ironclad ... the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float. Everyone else calls it "Ericsson's Folly" or "the iron coffin." Meanwhile, Tom's position as Ericsson's assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin....
F UCH	Journey Home (age 9-12) by Yoshiko Uchida war ... family ... bigotry ... historical After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
F HOO	The Winds of Mars (age 9-12) by H. M. Hoover action ... war ... science fiction When rebel forces strike against her father, the all-powerful president of Mars, teenage Annalyn finds her comfortable existence turned upside-down and her life threatened from unexpected sources.
F MUK	Gay-Neck: the Story of a Pigeon (age 9-12) by Dhan Gopal Mukerji war ... adventure ... animals ... historical The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
F GIF	Willow Run (age 9-12) by Patricia Reilly Giff war ... family ... historical Meggie Dillon's life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned in because he's German, and people might think he's a spy. Is it true? Could Grandpa be taken away? Meggie's father has announced that they must help the war effort and move to Willow Run, Michigan, where he'll work nights in a factory building important war planes that will help fight the enemy in Europe. Willow Run will be the greatest adventure ever, Meggie thinks. There she meets Patches and Harlan, other kids like her whose parents have come here to do their part in the war. And there she faces questions about courage, and what it takes to go into battle, like Eddie, and how to keep hope alive on the home front.
F MYE	Patrol: an American Soldier in Vietnam (age 9-12) by Walter Dean Myers war ... poetry ... historical In a gripping and powerful story-poem, the award-winning author takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier in an alien land who comes face-to-face with the enemy. Strikingly illustrated with evocative and emotionally wrenching collages by Caldecott Honor artist Ann Grifalconi, this unforgettable portrait captures one American G.L's haunting experience.
F TUN	The Kid Comes Back (age 9-12) by John Roberts Tunis war ... sports A baseball player heroically fights to overcome a handicap received in combat.
F ORL	The Island on Bird Street (age 9-12) by Uri Orlev war ... survival ... historical During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
F ORL	The Man From the Other Side (age 9-12) by Uri Orlev war ... survival ... historical Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
F JAC	James Printer: a Novel of Rebellion (age 9-12) by Paul Samuel Jacobs war ... adventure ... historical Although he has lived and worked as a printer's apprentice with the Green family in Cambridge, Massachusetts for many years, James, a Nipmuck Indian, finds himself caught up in the events that lead to a horrible war.
F HUN	Across Five Aprils (age 9-12) by Irene Hunt war ... family ... growing up ... historical Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
F SCH	The Shadow Children (age 9-12) by Steven Schnur war ... spooky ... historical While spending the summer on his grandfather's farm in the French countryside, eleven-year-old Etienne discovers a secret dating back to World War II and encounters the ghosts of Jewish children who suffered a dreadful fate under the Nazis.
F COV	The Ghost Wore Gray (age 9-12) by Bruce Coville war ... historical ... spooky ... mystery Sixth-grader Nina Tanleven convinced her architect father to let her best friend Chris go with them to stay in the old inn he's restoring. On the afternoon they arrive, the girls find a faded Civil War photograph of a very handsome Confederate soldier. Nina and Cris are stunned when the ghost of the young soldier suddenly appears at the dinner table that night! They realize he's the ghost who they've heard haunts the inn. When he appears to them again--no one else can see him--Nina and Chris know that the ghost is trying to tell them something. But what? To find out, the girls begin investigating the old country inn. And soon they are swept up in a frightening mystery that began more than one hundred years ago--a mystery involving danger, greed, a hidden room... and a buried treasure!
F TES	Almost Forever (age 9-12) by Maria Testa war ... family ... historical ... poetry What are the days like when your father goes to war? A young girl's story of the year her father is in Vietnam unfolds in spare but beautiful free verse.
F FOR	Johnny Tremain (age 9-12) by Ester Forbes war ... adventure ... historical A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War. Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with James Otis, John Hancock,and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting currents and undercurrents that were to lead to the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington.
F NAY	Boys Versus Girls Series (age 9-12) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor war ... realistic ... humor ... friendship Disgusted that a family with three girls moves into the house across the river, nine-year-old Wally and his three brothers declare a practical joke war on the girls. title: The Boys Start the War and The Girls Get Even title: The Boys Start the War title: The Girls Get Even title: The Boys Return title: The Girls' Revenge title: A Traitor Among the Boys title: A Spy Among the Girls title: Boys In Control title: The Girls Take Over title: Boys Against Girls
F LEW	The Chronicles of Narnia (age 9-12) by C. S. Lewis war ... family ... fantasy ... adventure In the first book of this series, ``The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever. title: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe title: The Magician's Nephew title: The Horse and His Boy title: Prince Caspian title: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader title: The Silver Chair title: The Last Battle

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