Adamson, Joy

Albom, Mitch

Born Free

Tuesday's With Morrie

599 A221b

1960

LD571.B418

S383

(stacks)

This is the true story of a female lion raised from the time she was a cub by Joy and George Adamson and then returned to the wild.

Conversations of a former student with his old teacher who is dying of cancer, yet is full of life and wisdom.

Alcott, Louisa

Little Men

 A355lm

This classic children's book is the sequel to Little Women and tells about Jo and her husband's experiences teaching a group of energetic boys.

Alcott, Louisa

Little Women

DVD 885

This classic children's book tells the story of the four daughters of the March family growing up in New England during the Civil War.

Atwater, Richard and Florence

Mr. Popper's Penguins

 A8878m

c.2

This Newberry Honor Book tells the story of how Mr. Popper puts his twelve talented penguins on the stage in order to earn money.

Babbitt, Natalie

Tuck Everlasting

 B112t

This well-known children's book tells the story of the Tuck family who drink from a spring which gives them eternal life, and the girl, Winnie, who discovers their secret.

Bach, Richard

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

PS3552.A255

J6

(stacks)

Jonathan, a seagull, becomes an Outcast when he does not want to be an ordinary seagull but to learn to fly in a way that seagulls never fly.

Barrett, William

Lilies of the Field

DVD 959

Homer Smith, a black G.I., wandering around the West doing odd jobs, meets a group of German nuns living in a small town who have a dream. Homer decides to help them realize their dream.

Barrie, James

Peter Pan

B275p 1940

This children's classic tells the story of Peter Pan, the boy who never wanted to grow up.

Baum, L. Frank

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

B 964e

In this children's classic, Dorothy and her dog are swept away by a tornado to the Land of Oz and have many adventures.

Burnett, Frances H.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

B964e 

This classic children's book tells about a young English boy who goes to American to live with his grandfather.

Burnett, Frances H.

The Secret Garden

A young girl comes to live in a house on the English moors, where she meets her invalid cousin and discovers a hidden garden.

Burnford, Sheila

Burns, Olive Ann

The Incredible Journey

Cold Sassy Tree

PS 3552

.U73248 C6

1984 (stacks)

Three house pets travel through the Canadian wilderness together in order to find their way home.

A teenage boy's relationship with his widower Grandfather who marries a schoolteacher. Set in the South.

Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

In this children's classic, Alice follows a rabbit down a rabbit hole and has many adventures. This book is also a satire which would be understood more by adults than children.

Carroll, Lewis

Through the Looking Glass

Alice crosses to the other side of a mirror and enters a game of chess. This book can be understood on many levels.

Chevalier, Tracy

Falling Angels

 PS 3553

.H367F35

 2002

(browsing)

This novel takes place in England, 1901-1910 and touches on a number of characters who meet one another at a cemetery. It deals with the social changes happening at that time.

Chevalier, Tracy

The Girl with the Pearl Earring

The author has imagined a story surrounding the painting, "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" by the Dutch artist, Vermeer. This book was on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Christie, Agatha

And Then There Were None

PR6005.H66

M38 1977

(stacks)

This mystery tries to solve who killed each of the 10 guests one by one.

Christie, Agatha

Death on the Nile

Same as above

One woman steals another woman's fiancé. A murder happens on the newlywed's honeymoon on the Nile. Can Detective Poirot prove who the murder is?

Christie, Agatha

Murder on the Orient Express

Same as above

A wealthy American is murdered on the train, the Orient Express. Detective Poirot tries to find the murderer.

Cisneros, Sandra

The House on Mango Street

C59h

The book consists of many short descriptions of people and incidents in a Mexican neighborhood in Chicago.

Collier, James and Christoper Collier

My Brother Sam is Dead

 C699m

This children's novel takes place during the American Revolution, where Tim is caught between his brother, who is fighting the British, and his father, who supports the King of England.

Farley, Walter

The Black Stallion

 F231bs

In this classic children's book, a young boy is the only survivor of a shipwreck. He finds himself on an island where his only companion is a black stallion.

Filipovic, Zlata

Zlata's Diary

DR1313.32.S27

F5513 1994

(stacks)

This is a diary written by a young girl in Bosnia during the war that began in 1992.

George, Jean

Julie of the Wolves

 G3478j

This book tells the story of a 13-year-old Eskimo girl who has run away from an arranged marriage. It is also a story of her conflict between the traditional way of life and modern ways.

Gilbreth, Frank

(1) Cheaper by the Dozen

T40.G5 G5

1948a (stacks)

This is a continuation of Cheaper by the Dozen.

Gilbreth, Frank

(2) Belles on Their Toes

 T40.G53 G5

(stacks)

The authors, a brother and sister, write a humorous account of what it was like to grow up in a family of 12 children.

Gray, Elizabeth

Greene, Bette

Adam of the Road

Summer of My German Soldier

 V785a

In this Newberry Medal book, a young boy travels the roads of thirteenth century England with his dog and his father, a minstral. When they suddenly disappear, he searches for them

When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during world War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart.

Hautzig, Esther

Hemingway, Ernest

The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia

The Old Man and the Sea

PS3558.A77

Z5

(stacks)

PS3515.E3704

(stacks)

Taken prisoner by the Russians in 1941 and shipped by cattle car to a forced-labor camp, Esther, her mother, and her grandmother managed to stay together and to keep each other alive through near starvation.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel takes place in Cuba and tells about the battle of an old fisherman to catch a powerful fish.

Hersey, John

A Bell for Adano

PS3515.E3704

(stacks)

This Pulitzer-prize winning novel tells the story of Major Joppolo who is charged with running the town of Adano in occupied Italy near the end of World War II.

Hersey, John

Hiroshima

D767.25.H6H4

1985

(stacks)

This nonfiction book tells what happened when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima i n 1945 through the memories of the survivors.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsaki

Farewell to Manzanar

E184.J3H63

(stacks)

This is a memoir of what it was like to be a child in the Japanese internment camps in the U.S. during World War II.

Hughes, Robert

Running with Walker

RJ506.H84

2003

(stacks)

Robert Hughes, a professor in the Truman College Communications Department, has written a memoir about difficulties and joys of raising his autistic son, Walker.

Konigsberg, E.L.

The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

In this well-known children's book, a brother and sister run away and hide out in a museum.

Konigsberg, E.L.

The View from Saturday

 K82v

This Newberry Medal Book is about the relationships between four sixth grade students who are members of the Academic Bowl team of their school.

Kosinski, Jerzy

Being There

PS3561.08

B41972

(stacks)

This satire of American society tells of how Chance, a gardener with limited mental abilities, becomes a presidential advisor and heir to a Wall Street financier.

L'Engle, Madeleine

A Wrinkle in Time

 L566w

This Newberry Medal Book is about how Meg, her brother Charles, and their friend, Calvin, try to find Meg and Charles' father by traveling through the fifth dimension (time travel).

Lewis, C. S.

Maclean, Norman

Chronicles of Narnia

A River Runs Through It

PS 3563.

A317993 R5

The adventures of Peter, Lucy, Susan and Edmund in the land of Narnia.

Maclean writes about fly fishing with his brother in the Big Blackfoot River. This is fiction based on personal experience.

Naylor, Phyllis

Shiloh

 N333sh

In this Newberry Medal Book, a young boy tries to help a dog, Shiloh, who belongs to a neighbor who abuses him.

O'Dell, Scott

The Island of the Blue Dolphins

 Od231

This Newberry Medal Book is based on the true story of an Indian girl who, during the evacuation of an island off the coast of California, jumps ship to stay with her younger brother.

Paterson, Katherine

Bridge to Terabithia

 P296b

This Newberry Medal Book is about the friendship between a fifth grade boy and girl, the magical kingdom, Terabithia, which they invent, and a tragedy that occurs.

Paterson, Katherine

Jacob Have I Loved

 P296j

This Newberry Medal Book is about Louise's feelings of competition with her twin sister, Caroline.

Raleigh, Michael

Body in Belmont Harbor

The author, Michael Raleigh, a professor in the Truman College Communications Department writes about how Detective Paul Whelan tries to discover the connection between two murders in the Uptown area of Chicago.

Raleigh, Michael

Death in Uptown

The author, Michael Raleigh, a professor in the Truman College Communications Department writes about how Detective Paul Whelan searches for the killer of his friend, who had been interviewing derelicts in Uptown.

Raleigh, Michael

In the Castle of the Flynns

The author, Michael Raleigh, a professor in the Truman College Communications Department, tells the story of a young boy, newly orphaned, growing up in an Irish neighborhood in Chicago in the 1950s.

Raleigh, Michael

Killer on Argyle Street

Detective Whelan searches for a missing teenage boy in the Argyle Street area of Uptown.

Raleigh, Michael

Maxwell Street Blues

The author, Michael Raleigh, a professor in the Truman College Communications Department writes about how Detective Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find the murderer of his boyhood friend, who sold goods in Chicago's flea market, Maxwell Street.

Raleigh, Michael

Riverview Murders

The author, Michael Raleigh, a professor in the Truman College Communications Department writes about how Detective Whelan investigates the connection between two deaths, 50 years apart, at Riverview, Chicago's popular amusement park.

Richter, Conrad

The Light in the Forest

This novel takes place in Colonial America and tells the story of a boy who was captured by the Delaware Indians at the age of four and was adopted and raised by them. At 15, he is forcibly returned to his original family and cannot adjust.

Sachar, Louis

Holes

 S119h

In this Newberry Medal Book, Stanley has been unjustly sent to a detention center where the boys spend their time digging holes. The question is why?

Saroyan, William

Boys and Girls Together

PS3537.A826

B6

This humorous novel is about the difficulties of maintaining a marriage while working and raising children.

Saroyan, William

My Name is Aram

PS3537.A826

M9

This autobiographical novel tells a young boy's view of growing up in an Armenian immigrant family in California.

Saroyan, William

Not Dying

PS3537.A826

Z54

This memoir is about the changes experienced by many men when turning 50. It is about Saroyan's summer as a single parent in Paris with his daughter and son.

Saroyan, William

One Day in the Afternoon of the World

Saroyan tells about a writer who goes to New York to sell his plays and visit his children.

Saroyan, William

Papa You're Crazy

In this book, Saroyan imagines how his son experiences things when they spend their summers together.

Saroyan, William

The Human Comedy

The book takes place during World War II and tells the story of 14-year-old Homer, who delivers telegrams bearing both happy and tragic news. Homer grows in maturity as he encounters and learns to understand all kinds of people.

Saroyan, William

Tracy's Tiger

PS3537.A826

T7

This is the story of what happened in New York City when a boy's imaginary tiger became real.

Sarton, May

Joanna and Ulysses

PS3537.A832

J6 1987

Joanna, an artist in need of a vacation, goes to Greece, where she befriends a mistreated donkey.

Sarton, May

The Fur Person

PS3537.A832

F8 1978

Sarton imagines her cat's adventures on the street before she adopted him.

Sarton, May

The Poet and the Donkey

PS3537.A832

P6 1984 

This is the story of an aging poet who is no longer able to write and a donkey that has arthritis.

Sewell, Anna

Black Beauty

S516b

This classic children's book takes place in England and tells the story of the horse's life through his various owners.

Speare, Elizabeth

Calico Captive

S741c

A young girl finds herself caught up in the French and Indian War in 1754 in this children's book.

Speare, Elizabeth

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

S741w

In this Newberry Medal Book, Kit leaves her island home of Barbados to live in a strict Puritan colony in Connecticut in 1687. She befriends an old woman whom the local people consider to be a witch, and they begin to suspect Kit of being a witch, too.

Sperry,

Call It Courage

S751c

Mafatu, who lives on a Pacific island, has been afraid of the sea since his mother was killed in a hurricane. He battles to overcome his fear in this Newberry Medal Book.

Steinbeck, John

The Pearl

This story is based on a Mexican folk tale and tells what happens when a poor diver discovers the "Pearl of the World".

Steinbeck, John

The Red Pony

PS3537.T3234

1959

This is the story of a young boy growing up on a ranch in California, about his horse, and about the lessons he learns as he matures.

Steinbeck, John

Tortilla Flat

PS3537.T3234

T6 1937

This is the story of the adventures of three Mexican paisanos who live in the Tortilla Flat district of Monterey, California.

Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

T2445r 

In this Newberry Medal Book, Taylor tells the story of an African-American family struggling to stay together while facing racism in the South in the 1930s.

Travers, P.L.

Mary Poppins

T781m 1962 

Mary Poppins is an unusual nanny who leads the children she cares for on all sorts of adventures in this classic children's book.

Watson, Larry

Montana, 1948

PS3573 .A853 M66 1995

This story is told from the perspective of a young boy and involves the conflict between family loyalty and justice and attitudes toward Native Americans at that time and place.

White, E.B.

Charlotte's Web

PS3545.H5187 C536 1994

This classic children's book tells how Charlotte, the wise spider, tries to save the life of Wilbur, the pig.

White, E.B.

Stuart Little

 W5832s

The Little's second child happens to be a mouse, who, as a member of a human family, has many adventures in this well-known children's book.

White, E.B.

The Trumpet of the Swan

 W5832t

A trumpeter swan is unable to communicate but is helped by his father and a young boy in this well-known children's book.

Wiggin, Kate

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

 W655r

In this classic children's book, Rebecca has to leave her family and home, Sunnybrook Farm, to live with her aunts.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

The Little House in the Big Woods

 W673l 1953

This autobiographical children's classic is the first in a series of "Laura" books and tells of pioneer life in Wisconsin in the 1870's.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

The Little House on the Prairie

 W673lh

Second in the series, this book begins the adventures of the family as they travel westward in a covered wagon.

Zongren, Liu

Two Years in the Melting Pot

Liu Zongren is a Chinese journalist who spent two years in the Chicago area in the 1980s. This book is an account of his observations and attempts to understand American culture as well as his comparisons between American and Chinese culture.