A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup

"If I could give you all one piece of advice, it would be...well, an incomplete sentence."

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Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up.

Bloomsbury, 264 pages

The Boneshaker by Kate Milford

"Strange things can happen at a crossroads."

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When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

Clarion Books, 372 pages

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

"Teachers wanted."

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Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.

Charlesbridge, 272 pages

Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst

"There once was a girl named Lulu, and she was a pain."

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Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 113 pages

The Memory Bank by Carolyn Coman and Rob Shepperson

"Don't forget your whistle!" Hope reminded Honey -- every morning of every day.

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Summary: When Hope learns that, while her memory account is seriously low, she is a champion dreamer, she stays at the World Wide Memory Bank trying to locate her sister Honey, whom their parents abandoned and told Hope to forget.

Publisher: Scholastic, 263 pages +

The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker by Louis Sachar

"Ever since I was a little kid, I've had it drilled into me that my uncle Lester was my favorite uncle."

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When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative.

Delacorte Press, 336 pages

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

"In the spring of 1865, as rain softened the hard ground, plenty of work was found for every pair of hands on the Williams plantation in Camden, Arkansas, despite the Civil War, which was still raging at the end of its fourth year."

Contents: A note to the reader -- "Bottom rail top" -- "Boys, let us get up a club" -- "I was killed at Chickamauga" -- "Worms would have been eating me now -- "They say a man ought not to vote" -- "I am going to die on this land" -- "A whole race trying to go to school" -- "They must have somebody to guide them" -- "Forced by force, to use force" -- "The sacredness of the human person" -- Epilogue : "it tuck a long time" -- Civil rights time line.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 172 pages

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

"The big question: Is Origami Yoda real?"

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Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.

Amulet Books, 141 pages

Missing in Action by Dean Hughes

"Jay Thacker was standing by the backstop."

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While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Antheneum Books, 228 pages

Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards

"Father says he comes for the fishing,
but in truth he comes to keep an eye
on other businessmen."

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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 280 pages

Storyteller by Patricia Reilly Giff

"School's over; the weekend's here."

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Summary: Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feel a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.

Random House; 164 pages

The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson

"Terrible things should never happen in springtime."

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Summary: In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.

Publisher: Clarion Books; 144 pages

The Wonder of Charlie Anne by Kimberly Newton Fusco

"Go do this, the new mama tells me, and I do it, just because."

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Summary: In a 1930s Massachusetts farm town torn by the Depression, racial tension, and other hardships, Charlie Anne and her black next-door neighbor Phoebe form a friendship that begins to transform their community.

Publisher: Random House; 264 pages