Books
for Battle 2003
Book List
Skellig by David Almond
Paperback: 182 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.52 x 7.60 x 5.18
Publisher: Yearling Books; ISBN: 0440416027; (September 2000)
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated
old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who
is something like a bird and something like an angel.
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Shadow Spinner by Susan
Fletcher
"Paperback: 217 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 7.71 x 5.16
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks; ISBN: 0689830513; (November 1999)
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in
ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's
life.
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Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs
Paperback: 208 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 7.55 x 5.23
Publisher: Camelot; ISBN: 0380725371; Reprint edition (July 1998)
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds
himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking
for Spanish treasure.
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When Zachary Beaver Came to
Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
" Paperback: 227 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.60 x 7.60 x 5.15
" Publisher: Young Yearling; ISBN: 0440229049; Reprint edition (April 10,
2001)
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and
his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the
fattest boy in the world.
Skullduggery by Kathleen Karr
" Paperback: 227 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x 7.56 x 5.21
" Publisher: Hyperion Press; ISBN: 0786816988; Reprint edition (August
2002)
In 1839, twelve-year-old Matthew's job as assistant to the phrenologist Dr.
Cornwall takes him up and down the Eastern Seaboard and to Europe, as they rob
graves and try to find out who is following them and why.
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Goose Chase by Patrice
Kindl
Paperback: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x 6.78 x 4.20
Publisher: Puffin; ISBN: 0142302082; Reprint edition (October 2002)
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted
goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers,
before learning exactly who she is.
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No More Dead Dogs by
Gordon Korman 
Paperback: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x 7.59 x 5.21
Publisher: Hyperion Press; ISBN: 0786816015; (October 2002)
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending
rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped
up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the
play but his life as well.
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The Girls by Amy Goldman
Koss
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.41 x 7.84 x 5.14
Publisher: Puffin; ISBN: 0142300330; Reprint edition (April 2002)
Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative
hold one of the group exerts on the others, and the hurt and self-doubt that
it causes them.
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Esperanza Rising by
Pam Munoz Ryan
Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.70 x 7.59 x 5.31
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; ISBN: 043912042X; Reprint edition (May 2002)
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege
in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must
adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the
Great Depression.
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Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
Mass Market Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x 7.02 x 4.21
Publisher: Pocket Books; ISBN: 0689839693; Reprint edition (January 2001)
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world
which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach,
she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.
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