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Picture Books | Intermediate
Fiction | Young Adult Fiction
The books recommended below were published within the
last two years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual
child is the real criterion.
Picture Books
Suggested grade level listed with each entry
Swift written and illustrated
by Robert J. Blake (Philomel)
When a bear hunt goes awry, it's up to Johnnie and his dog Swift
to make their way across the Alaskan landscape to fetch help for
Johnnie's stricken father. Grade level: K–3. 48 pages.
 
Intermediate Fiction
Suggested grade level for each entry: 4–6. Night
of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury (Lamb/Random)
Even-tempered narrator Dylan and "bad boy" Louie discover
much about themselves as they help their fellow Boy Scouts survive
a tsunami in Hawaii. 191 pages.
Peak by Roland Smith (Harcourt)
Natural-born climber Peak is pushed by his estranged father to be
the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest. 246 pages.
Blind Mountain by Jane Resh Thomas
(Clarion)
While on a hike, Sam lets a pine bough snap back into his father's
face, then must overcome the dangers of the mountain when his father
is temporarily blinded. 117 pages.
Young Adult Fiction
Suggested grade level for each entry: 7 and up. Wilderness
by Roddy Doyle (Levine/Scholastic)
Dubliners Johnny and Tom, vacationing in Finland, set off into the
frozen wilderness on dogsleds to search for their missing mother.
211 pages.
The Winter Road by Terry Hokenson
(Front Street)
After Willa crashes her Cessna in the Canadian bush, imagined conversations
with her distant father and deceased brother provide her with the
grit to continue. 175 pages.
The White Darkness by Geraldine
McCaughrean (HarperTempest)
Aided by imaginary conversations with the long-dead explorer Titus
Oates, fourteen-year-old Sym survives a trip to Antarctica made
perilous by her eccentric uncle’s machinations. 373 pp.
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth
Pfeffer (Harcourt)
Sixteen-year-old Miranda’s journal entries document the cataclysmic
aftermath of an asteroid knocking the moon closer toward Earth.
337 pages.
The Trap by John Smelcer (Holt)
In the Alaskan Arctic, Albert Least-Weasel stumbles into his own
wolf-trap while his grandson Johnny fights for honor in a community
that has turned from tradition to nihilism. 170 pages.
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