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Tom's Midnight Garden
Tom's Midnight Garden
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.1. Author: Philippa Pearce. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.

Tom is furious. His brother, Peter, has measles, so now Tom is being shipped off to stay with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan in their boring old apartment. Then one night the landlady's antique grandfather clock strikes thirteen times, leading Tom to a wonderful, magical discovery and marking the beginning of a secret that's almost too amazing to be true. Tom discovers a special friend named Hatty and more than a summer's worth of adventure for both of them!
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
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Interest: Grades 8-12.  Author: Rosemary Sutcliff. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.

Threatened by a tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are to leave Britain forever. But Aquila, a young legionnaire, chooses to stay behind, in order to join the fight to save his native land. Rosemary Sutcliff is known for her highly acclaimed historical fiction. This book is part of a set of loosely-connected books—it follows The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch and precedes Sword at Sunset, but the themes in The Lantern Bearers are more complex than in the prior books. Issues of loss, estrangement, and loyalty are more complicated, pulling main characters in conflicting directions.  This book is very well written, and an excellent choice for those studying ancient Rome or Britain, slightly more mature readers (ages 14+) and for book club discussions - a readers guide is included under "Technical Specs" section.
Red Pony
Red Pony, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 6.1. Author: John Steinbeck. Key Award: Nobel Prize for author.

The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt, and the sun-drenched California earth told through four stories.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.0. Author: Ray Bradbury. Classic.

"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden." Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.  Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...

Fahrenheit 451, first published in 1953, is a classic science fiction book about dystopia (where the conditions of life in a society are miserable, and characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution).  This is one of three books considered to be the greatest books written about dystopia (the other two books are "1984" by George Orwell, and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley).
Man in the Iron Mask
Man in the Iron Mask, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 10.2. Author: Alexandre Dumas.

Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers, as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies..
The Mysterious Island
Mysterious Island, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 10.8. Author: Jules Verne.

With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they'll ever see civilization again-especially when they're swept off by a raging storm to the shores of an uncharted island.