Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Does My Head Look Big in This? When sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full-time, everyone has a reaction.

Abouzeid, Chris. Anatopsis. "Princess Anatopsis Solomon finds herself on an unlikely quest with her demigod-tutor through worlds inhabited by magic immortals, a rebel army, and the last dog in the universe." - Ingram (grades 6-8)

Alexander, Lloyd. The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio. With Baksheesh, the world’s worst camel-puller, Carlo leads a caravan through the realm of Keshavar. Robbed of all but his underdrawers, mistaken for a mighty warrior and then for a crown prince, Carlo risks his life for a prize that may not even exist. - Publisher (grades 7-8)

Avi. The Traitor's Gate. When John Huffam's father is arrested as a debtor, he must rely on John to clear his name. But things in 19th century London are not as they seem, and people are not who they claim to be. (grades 6-8)

Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson. Peter and the Starcatchers. In this prequel to Peter Pan, "orphan Peter and his friends are sent off to become servants of evil King Zarboff III of Rungoon. But their ship is taken over by pirates, led by the infamous Black Stache, and soon everyone finds themselves on an uncharted island with crocodiles, mermaids and a trunk full of magical "starstuff" that many are willing to kill for." - Kliatt (grades 6-7)
Also Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Rundoon.

Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks, A Summer tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy. The Penderwick girls and their father spend their summer vacation at a cottage in the Berkshires, sharing adventures with their snobbish landlady's son. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Children's Literature. (grades 6-7)

Blume, Lesley M. M.  Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters.  Cornelia, eleven years old and lonely, learns about language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world. (grades 6-7)

Bode, N. E. The Anybodies. Fern discovers that she was raised by the wrong family and is actually a shapeshifting Anybody. Spending her first summer with her real dad, a rather inept shapeshifter, her task is to help him locate the lost book "The Art of Being Anybody" before it is found by the evil Miser.
(grades 6-7)
Also, The Nobodies, The Somebodies, The Slippery Map.

Boniface, William. The Hero Revealed. Everyone in Superopolis has some extraordinary powers; everyone but Ordinary Boy, that is.
(grades 6-7)
Also, The Return of Meteor Boy?

Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker. After being taught in a boarding school that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. (grades 7-8)

Buckley, Michael. The Fairy Tale Detectives. After seemingly having been abandoned by their parents, the sisters Grimm find themselves immersed in a mystery, aided and impeded by fairy tale characters of all sorts. (grades 6-7)
Also, The Unusual Suspects, The Problem Child, Once Upon a Crime, Magic and Other Misdemeanors, Tales from the Hood.

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. The Earth is under attack and the survival of the human species depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens.  Recruited for military training, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin’s childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. (grades 7-8)

Compestine, Ying Chang. Revolution is not a dinner party. Young Ling, the daughter of two doctors, must fight to retain her identity when an officer of the Communist Party moves into her home. (grades 6-8)

Couloumbis, Audrey. The Misadventures of Maude Marche: or Trouble Rides a Wild Horse. "When Sallie and her sister Maude escape their guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they begin an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about in her dime novels. This time however, the "wanted woman" isn't a dime-novel villian, it's Maude!" - Publisher. (grades 6-8)
Also, Maude Marche on the Run.

Creech, Sharon. Castle Corona. Two children discover a lost pouch that will lead them to Castle Corona and their true identities. (grades 6-7)

Di Camillo, Kate. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. After he is thrown overboard during an ocean voyage, a china rabbit has a series of adventures from the ocean floor to the home of a sick child. (grades 6-7)

Feinstein, John. Last Shot: A FInal Four Mystery. Two teenage sportswriters try to uncover a blackmail scheme at the NCAA Final Four. (grades 7-8)
Also, Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl, Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open

Fleischman, Sid. Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini. The story of how Ehrich Weiss, the son of an impoverished rabbi, transformed himself into the legendary Harry Houdini. (grades 6-8)

Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. Maggie's father, a bookbinder, can "read" ficitonal characters to life, but when one character comes out of a book, someone else must go in! (grades 6-8)
Also Inkspell.

Gaiman, Neal. Interworld. Joey Harker can get lost in his own house, but one day he takes a wrong turn and ends up in another dimension. (grades 7-8)

Gardner, Sally. I, Coriander. Coriander tells the story of her childhood in seventeenth-century London—and of her discovery that she has inherited magical powers from her mother, who was a fairy princess. (grades 6-8)

Grogan, John. Marley: A Dog Like No Other. Marley, a golden lab, is the "worst dog in the world", but is much loved by his human family. (grades 6-8)

Harper, Suzanne. The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney. Sparrow, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, has psychic powers that she would like to forget, but a young ghost won't let her. (grade 8)

Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. - Publisher (grades 6-7)

Horvath, Polly. The Canning Season. Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual characters. (grades 7-8)

Jocelyn, Marthe. How it Happened in Peach Hill. Annie is her mother's reluctant assistant as they move across the country performing their clairvoyant act, but when they arrive in Peach Hill, N.Y. things begin to change. (grades 6-7)

Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira Kira. This Newbery Award winner chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. (grades 7-8)

Keehn, Sally M.  Gnat Stokes and the Foggy Bottom Swamp Queen. In Mary's Cove, Tennessee, in 1869, twelve-year-old Gnat Stokes decides to prove she's not just a trouble maker by rescuing a boy who was spirited away seven years earlier by the evil Swamp Queen of Foggy Bottom. (grades 7-8)

La Fevers, R. L. Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos. "Theodosia Throckmorton has her hands full at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. Her father may be head curator, but it is Theo who is able to see all the black magic and ancient curses that still cling to the artifacts in the museum." Publisher. (grades 6-7)

Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. After having been shuttled between relatives for years, sixteen-year-old Hattie leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. (grades 7-8)

Leonard, Elmore.  A Coyote's in the House.  Three canine friends, including fading movie star Buddy, loner Antwan, and pampered Miss Betty, who privately envy each other's lives of comfort, wild freedom, and family, find out about friendship and life. (grades 6-7)

Levine, Gail Carson. Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg. Before she can learn of her special talent, Priscilla, the newest fairy in Never Land, is sent on a quest that is essential to preserving the land's secret of youth. (grades 6-7)
Also, Fairy Haven the the Quest for the Wand.

Lowry, Lois.  Gossamer. Learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save  an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. (grades 6-8)

Lyons, Mary E. Letters From a Slave Boy: the story of Joseph Jacobs. Told through letters to his family and friends, this recounts Joseph's struggle to gain freedom and the hardships that come with it. (grades 6-8)
Also, Letters From a Slave Girl: the Story of Harriet Jacobs.

Lupica, Mike. Heat. When someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws, Michael, who has no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, finds his secret world blown wide open. (grades 7-8)
Also, The Big Field, Miracle on 49th Street.

Madden, Kerry.  Gentle's Holler. In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first. (grades 6-8)

Martin, Anne M. A Dog's Life : the autobiography of a stray.  Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. (grades 6-7)

Mieville, China. Un Lun Dun. When Zanna and Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of London and into Un Lun Dun, it seems that an ancient prophecy is about to come true. (grades 7-8)

Napoli, Donna. Bound. In this Chinese Cinderella story, Xing-Xing's stepmother binds and mutilates the fourteen year old's feet so that she might marry well. (grades 7-8)

Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn. Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. - Publisher (grades 6-8)
Also, Darkwing, Skybreaker.

Peck, Richard. A Year Down Yonder. The Depression is over, but, as her parents can't afford to keep her with them, Chicago-bred Mary Alice has been sentenced to a year-long stay in rural Illinois with her rough and gruff grandmother, Soon, however, she becomes Grandma's partner in crime, helping to carry out crazy schemes to benefit friends and avenge enemies. (grades 6-8)
Also, A Long Way From Chicago.

Pinkwater, Daniel. The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood and Saved Civilization. When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not exactly sure how. (grades 6-7)

Primavera, Elise. The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls. A mysterious pair of ruby red slippers leads Ivy Diamond and her three neighbors on an unforgettable adventure. (grade 6)

Resau, Laura. What the Moon Saw. Spending the summer in Mexico with grandparents she had never before met, Clara discovers much about about her family and herself. (grades 6-8)

Riordan, Rick. Lightning Thief. Percy Jackson, age 12, discovers he is the son of a Greek god in the worst possible way. When he accidentally vaporizes his pre-Algebra teacher on a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his cover as a normal human is blown and his adventures begin. (grades 7-8)
Also, Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, Battle of the Labyrinth.

Sage, Angie. Magyk. Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, while that same night his father finds an abandoned baby girl. The Heaps take her in, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But what is Jenna's true identity, and what really happened to Septimus? (grades 7-8)
Also Flyte, Physik, Queste.

Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This Caldecott winning illustrated novel tells the story of orphan Hugo Cabret, who lives a secret life in a Paris train station. (grades 6-7)

Tolan, Stephanie. Surviving the Applewhites. Jake Senple, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. - Publisher (grades 7-8)

Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. (grades 7-8)
Also, Pretties, Specials, Extras.

Whelan, Gloria. Chu Ju's House. In order to save her baby sister from being sent to an orphanage due to China's two-child per family law, fourteen year old Chu Ju leaves home to make her way in the world. (grades 7-8)
Also Homeless Bird.

Whitehouse, Howard. The Strictest School in the World. No one has ever escaped from St. Grimelda's school, but Emmaline is determined to get out, despite the obstacles she faces. (grades 6-7)
Also, The Faceless Fiend.

Yang, Gene Leun. American Born Chinese.
The first graphic novel to win a Michael L. Printz award, American Born Chinese follows a boy's attempts to be comfortable with who he is. (grades 6-8)