 | Title: The remarkable journey of Prince Jen Author: Lloyd Alexander Summary: Bearing six unusual gifts, young Prince Jen embarks on a perilous quest and emerges triumphantly into manhood. |
 | Title: The tale of Despereaux Author: Kate DiCamillo Summary: The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
 | Title: The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle Author: Avi Summary: As the lone young lady on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. |
 | Title: Bandit's moon Author: Sid Fleischman Summary: Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s. |
 | Title: Williwaw! Author: Tom Bodett Summary: In their father's absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw. |
 | Title: Homesick, my own story Author: Jean Fritz Summary: The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's. |
 | Title: The incredible journey Author: Sheila Burnford Summary: |
 | Title: My side of the mountain Author: Jean Craighead George Summary: A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship. |
 | Title: Gregor the Overlander Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. |
 | Title: Running out of time Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Summary: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children. |
 | Title: The ballad of Lucy Whipple Author: Karen Cushman Summary: In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get home. |
 | Title: Ghost canoe Author: Will Hobbs Summary: 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. |
 | Title: Devil's bridge Author: Cynthia DeFelice Summary: Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard. |
 | Title: Jackie's Wild Seattle Author: Will Hobbs Summary: Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie's Wild Seattle. |
 | Title: Weasel Author: Cynthia DeFelice Summary: Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as the weasel and makes a suprising discovery about the concept of revenge. |
 | Title: Nightmare mountain Author: Peg Kehret Summary: Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. |
 | Title: Climb or die Author: Edward Myers Summary: After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, must scale a mountain to find help. |
 | Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins Author: Scott O'Dell Summary: Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast. |
 | Title: Hatchet Author: Gary Paulsen Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
 | Title: Mr. Tucket Author: Gary Paulsen Summary: |
 | Title: Night of the twisters Author: Ivy Ruckman Summary: A fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends. |
 | Title: Abel's island Author: William Steig Summary: Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home. |
 | Title: The cay Author: Theodore Taylor Summary: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. |