AR List 2006, 8th grade “Contemporary” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Contemporary” books are for 8th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 8th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Contemporary” books

Almond, David
* Kit's wilderness

Avi
* Nothing but the truth
* Never Mind!

Bauer, Joan
* Backwater
* Stand tall

Blume, Judy
* Deenie
* Here's to you, Rachel Robinson
* Tiger eyes

Bonham, Frank
* Durango Street

Brooks, Bruce
* Moves make the man

* Vanishing

Bunting, Eve
* Jumping the nail

Butterworth, W. E.
* LeRoy and the old man

Caldwell, V.M.
* Ocean within

Cisneros, Sandra
* House on Mango Street

Cleary, Beverly
* Fifteen

Cole, Brock
* The Goats

Cooney, Caroline
* Face on the milk carton
* What child is this?
* What Janie found

Craven, Margaret
* I heard the owl call my name

Creech, Sharon
* Ruby Holler
* Walk two moons
* The Wanderer

Curtis, Christopher
* Bud, not Buddy

Draper, Sharon
* Forged by fire

Ellis, Deborah
* Parvana's Journey

Flake, Sharon
* Begging for change
* Money hungry

Fleischman, Paul
* Fate totally worse than death

Fox, Paula
* One-eyed cat

Freymann-Weyr, Garret
* My Heartbeat

Garland, Sherry
* Cabin 102

George, Jean Craighead
* Shark beneath the reef
* Water sky

Giff, Patricia Reilly
* Pictures of Hollis Woods

Griffin, Adele
* Amandine

Griffiths, Andy
* The day my butt went psycho

Grove, Vicki
* Reaching Dustin

Hayes, Sheila
* You've been away all summer

Hentoff, Nat
* Day they came to arrest the book

Herrera, Juan Felipe
* Crashboomlove: a novel in verse

Hiaasen, Carl
* Hoot

Hinton, S. E.
* Rumble Fish
* Taming the Star Runner

Hobbs, Will
* Beardance
* Bearstone
* Downriver
* Far North
* Kokopelli's flute

Hoffman, Alice
* Green angel

Holt, Kimberly
* Keeper of the night
* When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Honeycutt, Natalie
* Ask me something easy

Howe, James
* The Misfits

Kent, Deborah
* Courage to Live

Klein, Norma
* Just friends

Koertge, Ron
* Tiger, tiger burning bright

Konigsburg, E. L.
* From the mixed-up filed of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
* Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth and me
* The View from Saturday

Lasky, Kathryn
* Memoirs of a bookbat

LeMieux, A. C.
* TV guidance counselor

Levine, Gail Carson
* The wish

Lipsyte, Robert
* The Brave

Lowry, Lois
* Find a stranger, say goodbye
* Summer to die

Mahy, Margaret
* Memory

Marsden, John
* Letters from the inside

Mazer, Norma Fox
* Silver

McDaniel, Lurlene
* Angel of hope
* Goodbye Doesn’t Mean Forever
* Lifted up by angels
* Someone Dies, Someone Lives
* Telling Christina goodbye
* Time to let go
* Too Young to Die
* Until angels close my eyes

McDonald, Janet
* Chill Wind

McKay, Hilary
* Saffy's angel

Moore, Martha
* Under the mermaid angel

Morpurgo, Michael
* War of Jenkins' ear

Myers, Walter
* 145th Street: Short Stories
* Motown and Didi

Na, An
* Step from heaven

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
* Alice the brave

Neufeld, John
* Lisa, bright and dark

O'Neal, Zibby
* Language of goldfish

Paterson, Katherine
* Park's quest
* Same stuff as stars

Patneaude, David
* Framed in Fire

Paulsen, Gary
* The Car
* Harris and Me

Peck, Richard
* Unfinished portrait of Jessica

Roberts, Willo Davis
* Buddy is a stupid name for a girl
* Undercurrents

Robinson, Margaret
* Woman of her tribe

Rodowsky, Colby
* Hannah in Between

Rostkowski, Margaret
* Moon dancer

Sachar, Louis
* Holes

Scott, Virginia
* Belonging

Shalant, Phyllis
* The Great Eye

Siebold, Jan
* Doing Time Online

Sleator, William
* Oddballs

Sones, Sonya
* Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
* What my mother doesn't know

Soto, Gary
* The afterlife
* Baseball In April

Spinelli, Jerry
* Crash
* Maniac Magee
* Stargirl
* Who put that hair in my toothbrush?
* Wringer

Strasser, Todd
* Here comes heavenly

Tashjian, Janet
* Multiple choice

Thesman, Jean
* The Rain Catchers

Tolan, Stephanie
* Ordinary miracles
* Surviving the Applewhites

Tomey, Ingrid
* Nobody Else Has to Know

Voigt, Cynthia
* Runner

Weeks, Sarah
* So B. It

Wesley, Valerie
* Where Do I Go from Here?

Whelan, Gloria
* Homeless bird

White, Ruth
* Belle Prater's boy

Wilson, Nancy
* Flapjack waltzes

Wittlinger, Ellen
* Gracie's girl

Wolff, Virginia
* True believer

Woodson, Jacqueline
* Behind you
* Hush
* I hadn't meant to tell you this
* Miracle's Boys

Zindel, Paul
* The Undertaker's gone bananas

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Classic” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Classic” books are for 8th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 8th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Classic” books

Bagnold, Enid
* National Velvet

Barrie, James M.
* Peter Pan

Defoe, Daniel
* Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles
* A Christmas Carol

Gipson, Fred
* Old Yeller

London, Jack
* Sea Wolf
* White fang

Montgomery, L. M.
* Mistress Pat

Sewell, Anna
* Black beauty

Steinbeck, John
* The Pearl

Verne, Jules
* Around the world in eighty days

Webster, Jean
* Daddy long legs

Wiggin, Kate Douglas
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Biography” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Biography” books are for 8th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 8th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Biography” books

Brown, Warren
* Colin Powell (Black Americans of Achievement)

Camp, Carole
* Sally Ride: First American Women in Space

Christopher, Matt
* At the plate with Ken Griffey Jr.
* On the Court…Grant Hill
* On the Ice with …Wayne Gretzky

Coffey, Ellen
* John D. Rockefeller: richest man ever

Cole, Michael
* Walt Disney: creator of Mickey Mouse

Coren, Michael
* JRR Tolkien: the man who created the LOTR

Daniel, Susanna
* Jane Yolen

Dash, Joan
* World at her fingertips: story of Helen Keller

Dickinson, Joan
* Bill Gates: Billionaire Computer Genius

Dolan, Sean
* Johnny Cash (Pop Culture Legends)

Durrett, Deanne
* Dominique Moceanu (People in the News)

DuTemple, Lesley
* Jacques Cousteau

Edelson, Edward
* Gregor Mendel

Fleischman, Paul
* Phineas Gage

Freedman, Russell
* Lincoln: a photobiography

Freedman, Suzanne
* Vanessa Williams

Greenfield, Howard
* After the Holocaust

Hargrove, Jim
* Abraham Lincoln
* Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Lyndon Baines Johnson

Harrington, Geri
* Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Hawk, Tony
* Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder

Hill, Anne
* Denzel Washington ( Black Americans of Achievement)

Hill, Christine
* Robert Ballard

Hull, Mary
* Rosa Parks

Hurst, Heidi
* Jennifer Lopez

Jakoubek, Robert
* Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jimenez, Francisco
* Breaking through

Kallen, Stuart
* Rolling Stones (People in the News)
* Rosie O'Donnell (People in the News)

Kent, Zachary
* Calvin Coolidge
* William McKinley

Kherdian, David
* The Road From Home

Klein, Jeff
* Mario Lemieux: Ice Hockey Star

Kramer, Barbara
* Neil Armstrong: The First Man on the Moon

Kwan, Michelle
* Michelle Kwan: heart of a champion

Lazo, Caroline
* Gloria Steinem: feminist Extraordinaire

Levin, Pamela
* Tyra Banks

Mah, Adeline
* Chinese Cinderella

Markham, Lois
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Meltzer, Milton
* Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power

Myers, Walter Dean
* Greatest: Muhammad Ali

Neimark, Anne
* Myth maker: JRR Tolkien

Nicholson, Lois
* Oprah Winfrey (Black Americans of Achievement)

Osinski, Alice
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Woodrow Wilson

Peck, Ira
* The Life and Words of Martin Luther King Jr.

Pelzer, Dave
* Child called "It"
* Lost boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family

Pietrusza, David
* Michael Jordan (People in the News)

Presnall, Judith Janda
* Oprah Winfrey (People in the News)

Robinson, Sharon
* Jackie's nine: Jackie Robinson's values to live by

Rummel, Jack
* Langston Hughes

Russell, Sharman
* Frederick Douglass

Ruth , Amy
* Louisa May Alcott ( A&E Biography)

Schulmam, Arlene
* Muhammad Ali: Champion

Shapiro, Miles
* Maya Angelou (Black Americans Of Achievement)

Stauffer, Stacy
* Will Smith (Black Americans of Achievement)

Stewart, Whitney
* The 14th Dalai Lama: Spiritual Leader of Tibet
* Sir Edmund Hilary: To Everest

Stine, R. L.
* It came from Ohio: my life as a writer

Uschan, Michael
* Tiger Woods (People in the News)

Weaver, Robin
* John Grisham (People in the News)

Woog, Adam
* Bill Gates (People in the News)
* Steven Speilberg (People in the News)

Wright, David
* John Lennon: The Beatles and Beyond

Wukovits, John
* Jim Carrey (People in the News)
* Stephen King (People in the News)

Yannuzzi, Della
* Ernest Hemingway: writer and adventurer

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Adventure” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Adventure” books are for 8th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 8th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 8th grade “Adventure” books

Bodett, Tom
* Williwaw!

Campbell, Eric
* Shark callers

George, Jean Craighead
* My side of the mountain

Henderson, Aileen
* Treasure of Panther Peak

Hite, Sid
* It's nothing to a mountain

Hobbs, Will
* Down the Yukon
* Jason's gold
* Leaving Protection
* Wild Man Island

Holman, Felice
* Slake's limbo

Murphy, Claire
* To the Summit

Paulsen, Gary
* Dogsong
* The Haymeadow
* The Island

Phleger, Marjorie
* Pilot Down, Presumed Dead

Read Magazine, eds.
* Read for your Life

Roth, Arthur
* Iceberg hermit

Smith, Roland
* Jaguar

Taylor, Theodore
* Odyssey of Ben O'Neal
* Teetoncey
* Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal

Zindel, Paul
* The Doom stone
* Loch

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Suspense” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Suspense” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Suspense” books

Bunting, Eve
* Is anybody there?

DeFelice, Cynthia
* Ghost of Fossil Glen
* Light on Hogback Hill

Hahn, Mary Downing
* Doll in the garden
* Time for Andrew: a ghost story

Kehret, Peg
* I'm not who you think I am
* Horror at the haunted house

Martin, Ann
* Missing since Monday

Napoli, Donna Jo
* Three days

Philbrick Rodman
* The Fire pony

Service, Pamela
* Phantom Victory

Snyder, Zilpha
* The Unseen

Woodruff, Elvira
* Ghosts don't get goosebumps

Wright, Betty
* The Dollhouse Murders
* Ghost in Room 11
* The Ghost comes calling
* Ghosts beneath our feet

Yolen, Jane
* The Bagpiper's Ghost

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Sports” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Sports” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Sports” books

Fogelin, Adrian
* Crossing Jordan

Gutman, Dan
* Honus and me

Hoffius, Stephen
* Winners and losers

Mackel, Kathy
* MadCat
* Season of comebacks

Nelson, Vaunda
* Mayfield Crossing

Christopher, Matt
* Dirt bike runaway

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Science fiction” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Science fiction” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Science fiction” books

Brittain, Bill
* Wings

Butts, Nancy
* Door in the lake

Christopher, John
* The city of gold and lead
* The pool of fire

DuPrau, Jeanne
* The city of Ember

Haddix, Margaret
* Among the Barons
* Among the Betrayed
* Among the Brave
* Among the Hidden
* Among the Imposters
* Running Out of Time

Hall, Lynn
* If winter comes

Hesse, Karen
* Music of dolphins

L'Engle, Madeleine
* Ring of endless light
* Troubling a star
* Wrinkle in time

Lowry, Lois
* The Giver

Mackel, Kathy
* From the horse's mouth

Peck, Richard
* Lost in cyberspace

Sobol, Donald
* My name is Amelia

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Romance” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Romance” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Romance” books

Naylor, Phyllis
* Alice in Rapture, sort of

Conford, Ellen
* Crush

Miklowitz, Gloria
* War between the classes

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Non-fiction” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Non-fiction” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Non-fiction” books

Ada, Alma
* Under the Royal Palms

Axelrod, Toby
* Rescuers Defying the Nazis

Ballard, Robert
* Exploring the Bismarck

Blumberg, Rhoda
* What's the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase

Branley, Franklyn
* Sun and the solar system

Cefrey, Holly
* AIDS (Epidemics)

Chandler/Graham
* Alternative energy sources
* Guardians of wildlife
* Kids who make a difference
* Natural foods and products
* Protecting our air, land, and wate
* Recycling

Clay, Rebecca
* Space travel and exploration
* Stars and galaxies

Compiled by the Anne Frank House
* Anne Frank in the world, 1929-1945

Cooper, Jason
* Yellowstone (Natural Wonders)

Dewey, Jennifer
* Mud matters: stories from a mud lover

Egan, E. W.
* France…in pictures

Fisher, Leonard Everett
* The Oregon Trail

Gedatus, Gus
* Gangs and violence
* Hate
* HIV and AIDS
* Mononucleosis
* Stalking
* Travel safety
* Violence in public places
* Violence in schools
* Violence in the media

Gelman, Amy
* Buzz on Beauty: A Girl's Guide to looking and Feeling Your Best

Graves, Bonnie
* Alcohol use and abuse
* Anorexia
* Drug use and abuse
* Fitness
* Tattooing and body piercing
* Tobacco use

Green, Meg
* Everything you need…credit cards

Green, Robert
* Vive La France: The French Resistance During World War 2

Gregson, Susan
* Healthy eating
* Premenstrual syndrome
* Skin care
* Stress management

Hampton, Wilborn
* Kennedy assassinated: The world mourns

Havelin, Kate
* Assertiveness: How can I say what I mean?
* Child abuse: Why do my parents hit me?
* Dating: What is a healthy relationship?
* Family violence: My parents hurt each other
* Incest: Why am I afraid to tell?
* Peer pressure: How can I say no?
* Sexual harassment: This doesn't feel right!

Jones, Ron
* Acorn people

Kallen, Stuart
* Exploring the origins of the universe

Keyishian, Elizabeth
* Everything…know about smoking

King, David
* Al Capone and the Roaring Twenties

Kirby-Payne, Ann
* Refuse to Use: A Girl's Guide to Drug and Alcohol

Koslow, Philip
* The Seminole Indians

Kupperberg, Paul
* Tragedy of the Titanic

Lauber, Patricia
* Seeing Earth From Space

Levchuck, Leslie

* Fuel Up! A Girl's Guide to Eating Well

Lindop, Edmund
* Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson
* James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt
* Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
* Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman

Marquette, Scott
* America Under Attack

Marsh, Carole
* Asteroids, comets and meterors
* Unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life

Mattern, Joanne
* Record Breakers

Mucciolo, Gary
* Everything…know about birth control

Murphy, Jim
* Boys' War

Newton, David
* Black holes and supernovae

O'Neill, Laurie
* Wounded Knee: the death of a dream

Parks, Peggy
* Veterinarian (Exploring Careers)

Peacock, Judith
* Anger management
* Asthma
* Bipolar disorder
* Cerebral palsy
* Compulsive overeating
* Depression
* Diabetes
* Epilepsy
* Juvenile arthritis
* Leukemia
* Teen suicide

Pringle, Laurence
* Animal monsters

Reybold, Laura
* Everything you need…dangers of tattooing and body piercing

Rochman, Hazel, ed.
* Bearing witness: stories of the Holocaust

Rue, Nancy
* Everything you need...peer mediations

Schwartz, Alvin
* Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Seuling, Barbara
* To be a writer

Sherrow, Victoria
* Joseph McCarthy and the Cold war

Silverstein, Alvin
* Food chains
* Photosynthesis
* Plate tectonics
* Symbiosis

Spies, Karen
* Everything you need to know about diet fads

Sullivan, George
* In the line of fire: eight women war spies

Temple, Bob
* Haiti (Discovering the Caribbean)

Weiss, Stefanie
* Everything…Being a Vegan

Woods, Samuel
* Everything…know about STDs

World Book Editors
* Christmas in Brazil
* Christmas in Britain
* Christmas in Canada
* Christmas in Denmark
* Christmas in France
* Christmas in Ireland
* Christmas in Italy
* Christmas in Russia
* Christmas in Spain
* Christmas in Switzerland
* Christmas in the Holy Land
* Christmas in the Philippines
* Christmas in Today's Germany
* Christmas in Washington, D. C.

Wulffson, Don
* Kid who invented the popsicle

Yolen, Jane
* Here there be dragons
* Here there be witches

Zeinert, Karen
* McCarthy and the Fear of Communism in American History

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Mystery” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Mystery” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Mystery” books

Bellairs, John
* Secret of the Underground Room

Delaney, Mark
* Vanishing chip

Dixon, Franklin
* Castle Conundrum
* Crime in the Cards
* Daredevils
* Double Jeopardy
* End of the Trail
* Farming Fear
* Game Called Chaos
* Ghost of a Chance
* Hidden Mountain
* Hide-and-Sneak
* Kickoff to Danger
* No way out
* Passport to Danger
* Past and Present Danger
* Skin & Bones
* Speed times five
* Test Case
* The case of the psychic's vision
* The dangerous transmission
* The mystery of the black rhino
* Training for trouble
* Trouble times two

Gutman, Dan
* Abner and Me
* Babe and Me
* Jackie and me
* Mickey & me
* The Edison Mystery

Hahn, Mary Downing
* Dead man in Indian Creek

Hildick, E. W.
* Purloined corn popper
* Serial sneak thief

Kidd, Ronald
* Second Fiddle

Nixon, Joan Lowry
* Search for the shadowman

* Shadowmaker

Roberts, Willo
* Kidnappers: A Mystery, The

Rubinstein, Gillian
* Under the cat's eye: a tale of morph and mystery

Smith, Roland
* Sasquatch

Van Draanen, Wendelin
* Attack of the Tagger

* Secret identity

Voigt, Cynthia
* The Vandemark mummy

Woodruff, Elvira
* Secret funeral of Slim Jim the snake

Wright, Betty Ren
* Moonlight man

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Historical Fiction” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Historical Fiction” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Historical Fiction” books

Avi
* Crispin: the Cross of Lead
* Fighting ground

Bartoletti, Susan
* Coal miner's bride: the diary of Anetka Kaminska

Beatty, Patricia
* Eight mules from Monterey

Blakeslee, Ann
* Different kind of hero

Brink, Carol Ryrie
* Caddie Woodlawn
* Magical melons

Bruchac, Joseph
* Journal of Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee boy

Bunting, Eve
* Spying on Miss Muller

Burks, Brian
* Runs With Horses

Collier, James
* Who is Carrie?

Collier, James and Chris
* War comes to Willy Freeman

Cormier, Robert
* Other bells for us to ring

Denenberg, Barry
* Early Sunday morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows
* One eye laughing, the other weeping: the diary of Julie Weiss

Doherty, Berlie
* Street child

Donahue, John
* Island far from home

Fleischman, Paul
* Borning room

Garland, Sherry
* Valley of the moon: the diary of Maria Rosalia de Milagros

George, Jean Craighead
* Julie
* Julie of the wolves

Gregory, Kristiana
* Seeds of hope: the Gold Rush diary of Susanna Fairchild

Hesse, Karen
* A Light in the storm

Holt, Kimberly
* My Louisiana sky

Hotze, Sollace
* Circle unbroken

Janke, Katel
* Survival in the Storm

Jimenez, Francisco
* Circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

Karr, Kathleen
* Great turkey walk

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie
* As long as there are mountains

Lasky, Kathryn
* Journal of Augustus Pelletier: the Lewis and Clark expedition

Lyons/Branch
* Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies

Matas, Carol
* After the war
* Daniel's story

Mazer, Harry
* Boy at war: a novel of Pearl Harbor
* Boy no more

McKissack, Patricia
* Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love

Murphy, Jim
* My face to the wind: the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie teacher

Nelson, Vaunda
* Beyond Mayfield

Nolan, Peggy
* Spy who came in from the sea

O'Dell, Scott
* Black Star, Bright Dawn
* Island of the blue dolphins
* My name is not Angelica
* Thunder rolling in the mountains

Osborne, Mary Pope
* My secret war: the World War II diary of Madeline Beck

Park, Linda
* A Single shard

Paulsen, Gary
* The Cookcamp
* Mr. Tucket

Peck, Richard
* Fair weather
* A Long Way from Chicago

Philbrick Rodman
* Journal of Douglas Allan Deeds: the Donner Party

Propp, Vera
* When the soldiers were gone

Rylant, Cynthia
* Blue-eyed daisy, A

Snicket, Lemony
* Lemony Snicket: the unauthorized biography

Taylor, Mildred
* The Mississippi Bridge

Taylor, Theodore
* Timothy of the cay

Uchida, Yoshiko
* Jar of dreams

White, Ellen
* Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, USMC
* Voyage on the great Titanic: the diary of Margaret Ann Brady
* Where have all the flowers gone? Diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty

Wise, William
* Nell of Branford Hall

Wisler, G. Clifton
* Caleb's choice
* Red Cap

Woods, Brenda
* Red Rose Box

Yep, Laurence
* Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: a Chinese miner

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Fantasy” books

This is a list of the acceptable Accelerated Reading books shown on the Marathon Middle/High School website. These “Fantasy” books are for 7th grade youngsters.

By the way, since the 7th grade AR List is sooooo long, I had to break it into a separate list for each “Type” of book. Adventure stories are together, history stories are together, mysteries are together, & so on.

I discovered that the blogging software can’t handle all these tables and/or hyperlinks. Blogger keeps saying that there’s an error because the page size is too great for Blogger to handle it. Oh well, no more hyperlinks directly to every book. Sorry about that. I was trying to make it quick and easy for you to request a book.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can open a separate Tab for Marathon Library’s web site, www.keyslibraries.org, highlight the title you’d like from this list, and Paste it into the library’s Seach Title box. If the Monroe County Libraries have that title, you’ll be able to Request it by going to My Account and entering your card number from the back of your card.

So, get your library card ready (you’ll need your card number to request books) & decide which books you want to have sent to you. Don’t forget to pick out the proper library when you get to the Request Confirmation screen. If you come here to get your books, you’ll want to make sure it says the Pick Up Location is Marathon Library.

Remember, when the book shows up at our library, we’ll call you at home & tell you it arrived. Be sure we have your correct telephone number so we can get in touch with you. If you want to, you can call us at 743-5156 to make sure we have your correct phone number in our computer. Otherwise, how we call you when your book comes?

Oh, and if you don’t already have a Monroe County library card, don’t worry. Look over in the right-hand column of this page, under the “Links” heading for Parent's Permission Slip for a child's library card at Marathon Library. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to us the next time you come to the Marathon Library, and we’ll give you a card. Then you can order all the books you want.

Pick out a bunch of books, start reading, and ENJOY!!

AR List 2006, 7th grade “Fantasy” books

* Alexander, Lloyd
Jedera Adventure
Philadelphia Adventure

* Babbitt, Natalie
Search for delicious

* Funke, Cornelia
Inkheart - J FUN

* Haddix, Margaret
Just Ella

* Hoffman, Alice
Aquamarine
Indigo

* Jacques, Brian
Bellmaker
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
Legend of luke
Long patrol
Lord Brocktree
Marlfox
Martin the warrior
Mattimeo
Mossflower
Outcast of Redwall
Pearls of Lutra
Rakkety Tam
Redwall
Salamandastron
Taggerung

* L'Engle, Madeleine
Acceptable time
Dragons in the waters
Swiftly tilting planet
The Wind in the door

* Lewis, C. S.
The Last Battle
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Out of the silent planet
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader

* Oppel, Kenneth
Firewing
Silverwing
Sunwing

* Sutcliff, Rosemary
Light beyond the forest

* Townley, Roderick
Great good thing

UPDATE : Friends of the Marathon Library Books and Coffee 2007

The Friends of the Marathon Library cordially invite you to attend the Winter 2007 Books and Coffee series. All programs will be held at Kirk of the Keys, 8877 Overseas Highway, Marathon. The programs will be on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Coffee, tea, ice water and cookies will be served at 1:00 p.m. The speakers will start at 1:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

February 13^th
Brilliant, irreverent radio personality and Key West columnist, Bill Hoebee will make us laugh with his trenchant perceptions about life in Key West. Who else do we know who judges bikini contests at the Hog's Breath saloon?

February 20^th
Noted Keys historian, John Viele will talk about his research into the lives of the early Keys pioneer women. He will also sign his many previously published books on the history of the Keys.

February 20^th
Friends of the Marathon Library
Annual Meeting, 3 p. m. at the Kirk of the Keys

February 27^th
Charming, witty poet, writer and editor of L'Attitudes, Jessica Machetta will regale us with her columns and poems.

Rosalind Brackenbury, an English novelist & poet who resides in Key West & is a regular contributor to Solares Hill, will read from her new novel, Windstorm & Flood. “The book attempts to deal with chaos and mess and new beginnings, along with the question of how do you connect with the young person who is yourself.” It is published by John Daniel & Co., with release expected in February for $15.95.

March 6^th
"Gonzo Girl" Sammie Mays, Keynoter columnist and party girl extraordinaire, will make us envy her free spirit and adventurous life, and roll with laughter as she tells stories from her career as a reporter for many publications including The National Enquirer.

March 13^th
Witty, wise and downright smart, Marathon Free Press writer Jay Saporita will give us his incisive, courageous opinions about our wonderful, always lively, and more than a little bit crazy Florida Keys.

March 20^th
Our most-loved performer, the warm, witty, perceptive Jo Lee Scarborough from the great state of Iowa will enthrall us with her review of Marley and Me.

March 27^th
Famed Marathon historian, Dan Gallagher, PhD., will present his soon to be published Marathon Matures, a collection of photographs from the 1950’s and the present day. This exciting collection captures the buildings and businesses of Marathon, “then and now”.

April 3^rd
Songwriter, performer & playwright, Ben Harrison, is also the author of Undying Love, the true & bizarre story of Count von Cosel’s after-death love affair with the lovely Elena Hoyos which took place in Key West during the 1930s. He will read from that work & from the musical comedy he co-authored, “Clouds Over Sunshine Inn,” which will be performed this May by the Marathon Community Theatre.