HEALER

811.52 GRA

Granfield, Linda. In Flanders fields : the story of the poem by John McCrae.

Doubleday, [1996].

Q 598.9 JOH

Johnson, Sylvia A. Raptor rescue! : an eagle flies free. Dutton, [1995].

Note: Patient S-137 at the Gabbert Raptor Center (TRC) in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a bald eagle with a gunshot wound. The bird's treatment and recovery are the framework upon which Johnson builds two connected stories. One is about raptors: what they are, how they live, and why they are threatened. The other takes readers to TRC for a first-hand look at wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release. Clear and informative full-color photographs allow readers to follow veterinarians and volunteers into surgery, flight rooms, the kitchen, and eventually outside as recovering birds regain their strength. Education is part of the TRC mission and the public celebration of the release of S-137 and seven other rehabilitated raptors is colorful and compelling.

B Ban

Hinman, Bonnie. Benjamin Banneker : American Mathematician and Astronomer.

Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House, [2000].

Note: "A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself

mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington,

D.C.".

B BAN

Litwin, Laura Baskes. Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician.

Springfield, NJ: Enslow, [1999].

Note: A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself

mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington,

D.C.

B BELL

Pasachoff, Naomi E. Alexander Graham Bell : making connections. New York: Oxford

University Press, [1996].

Note: Examines the personality as well as the thought processes which led this

inventor to his discoveries which have helped our understanding of the

natural world.

B BELL

Weaver, Robyn. Alexander Graham Bell. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, [2000].

Note: Examines the life and work of the man known as the inventor of the

telephone, discussing his family, education, his various inventions, and his

work with the deaf.

B GANDHI

Severance, John B. Gandhi, great soul. New York: Clarion Books, [1997].

B MUIR

Wadsworth, Ginger. John Muir, wilderness protector. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner,

[1992].

Note: A biography of the naturalist and explorer who helped found the Sierra

Club and was influential in the development of our national park system.

B MUIR

Ehrlich, Gretel. John Muir: Nature’s Visionary. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, [2000].

Note: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread," wrote Muir, who walked away from the hubbub of humanity and immersed himself in the wild until an "evangelistic urge" induced him to come down from his beloved Sierras and share his belief in the sanctity of wilderness. Muir fought to protect Yosemite and other natural wonders more than a century ago, and though so much has been lost since, the damage would be far more horrific without Muir's poetic and pioneering writings and passionate conservationist efforts.

SC TWELVE

Mazer, Harry. Twelve shots : outstanding short stories about guns. New York:

Delacorte Press, [1997].

Fic Bar

Barron, T. A. Heartlight. 1st Tor ed. New York: TOR, [1994].

Note: Kate and her grandfather use one of his inventions, combining psychic

power with quantum physics, to travel faster than the speed of light on a

mission to save the sun from a premature death.

Fic Bau

Bauer, Joan. Sticks. New York: Bantam, [1997].

Notes: Ten-year-old Mickey's chances of winning the pool tournament improve when a mysterious man moves into town who not only is a pool ace himself, but who also knew Mickey's pool champion father.

Fic BROOKS

Brooks, Bruce. The moves make the man : a novel. 1st ed. New York, N.Y: Harper &

Row, [1984].

Note: A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a

precarious friendship.

Fic CALHOUN

Calhoun, Dia. Aria of the sea. 1st ed. [Delray Beach], Fla: Winslow Press,

[2000].

Note: In the magical kingdom of Windward, thirteen-year-old Cerinthe arrives at

the Royal Dancing School, where she finds herself torn between the two

careers of dancer and healer.

Fic CAM

Campbell, Eric. Place of lions. New York: Harcourt Brace, [ 1991].

Note: "A plane crash in Tanzania leaves Chris responsible for the survival of

his father and the pilot, both badly injured. After a suspenseful

confrontation with a pride of lions, the boy sets off on foot to search for

help and finds that his journey is paralleled by that of an aging lion.

Fic Cru

Crutcher, Chris. Chinese handcuffs. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1989].

Note: Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old

Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend

Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.

Fic CURTIS

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy. New York: Delacorte Press, [1999].

Note: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the

Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the

man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of

Grand Rapids.

Fic Cus

Cushman, Karen. Matilda Bone. New York: Clarion Books, [2000].

Note: Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of

medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various

aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.

Fic DAV

Davis, Owen. Just Like Martin. New York: Puffin, [1995].

Notes: Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.

Fic Def

DeFelice, Cynthia C. The ghost of Fossil Glen. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus

and Giroux, [1998].

Note: Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in

her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help.

Fic DeF

DeFelice, Cynthia C. The ghost and Mrs. Hobbs. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus

and Giroux, [2001].

Note: Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires,

eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which

claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria

worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

Fic DICKINSON

Dickinson, Peter. Healer. New York: Delacorte, [1983].

Note: Although grudgingly aware that ten-year-old Pinkie has extraordinary

powers to heal, sixteen-year-old Barry becomes increasingly convinced that

she is an unwilling participant at the healing sessions run by her

enterprising stepfather.

Fic Far

Farmer, Nancy. A girl named disaster. New York: Puffin Books, [1998, 1996].

Note: While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage,

Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and

starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African

spirits.

Fic FARMER

Farmer, Nancy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm : a novel. New York: Orchard Books,

[1994].

Note: In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and

put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their

special powers to search for them.

Fic FURLONG

Furlong, Monica. Wise Child. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf, [1987].

Note: Abandoned by both her parents, nine-year-old Wise Child goes to live with

the witch woman Juniper, who begins to train her in the ways of herbs and

magic.

Fic HESSE

Hesse, Karen. A Time of Angels. New York: Hyperion, [2000].

Note: Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.

Fic JORDAN

Jordan, Sherryl. Secret sacrament. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, [2001,

1996].

Note: A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows the role

Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navorran people and the

Shinali, a role which is solidified when he becomes an Elected One and

trains to be a Healer.

Fic Keh

Kehret, Peg. Night of Fear. Topeka, KS: Econo-Clad, [1999].

Notes: Thirteen-year-old T.J. and his grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, find their lives in danger when they discover a disturbed arsonist hiding in a barn. T.J. must also cope with bullies from his school.

Fic LAW

Lawrence, Louise. Keeper of the universe. New York: Clarion Books, [1992].

Note: Seventeen-year-old Christopher is kidnapped from Earth to serve as a pawn

for Ben-Harran, a renegade Galactic Controller, in his fight against the

Council of Atui and its policies of planetary control.

Fic MAHY

Mahy, Margaret. The catalogue of the universe. 1st American ed. New York:

Atheneum, [1986, 1985].

Note: Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen

-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever

alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her

devoted friend Tycho.

Fic MATAS

Matas, Carol. The burning time. New York: Delacorte Press, [1994].

Note: After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that

sixteenth-century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy,

vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.

Fic MCCAFFREY

McCaffrey, Anne. Black horses for the king. Harcourt Brace, [1996].

Notes: Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later known as King Arthur, using his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle against the Saxons.

Fic MIKAELSEN

Mikaelsen, Ben. Stranded. Hyperion, [1995].

Notes: Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.

Fic MURROW

Murrow, Liza Ketchum. Twelve days in August. 1st ed. New York, N.Y: Holiday

House, [1993].

Note: Twelve days in August change a sixteen-year-old soccer player's

perceptions of himself, his family, girls, and gays.

Fic Pie

Pierce, Meredith Ann. Treasure at the heart of the Tanglewood. New York: Viking,

[2001].

Note: Hannah, a healer with unusual powers, leaves the wizard she has always

served and, along with her animal companions, begins a journey which

uncovers the truth about her real nature.

Fic REES

Rees, Celia. Sorceress. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, [2002].

Note: Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.

Fic REES

Rees, Celia. Witch Child. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, [2001].

Note: In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Fic SACHAR

Sachar, Louis. Holes. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1998].

Note: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a

curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish

correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend,

a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Fic SALISBURY

Salisbury, Graham. Blue skin of the sea : a novel in stories. New York, N.Y:

Delacorte, [1992].

Note: Growing up in Hawaii between 1953 and 1966, Sonny tries to come to terms

with his feelings for his fisherman father and the vast sea that dominates

his life.

Fic SPRINGER

Springer, Nancy. Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest. New York: Philomel Books, [2001].

Note: In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.

Fic STA

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shiva's fire. 1st ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux,

[2000].

Note: In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.

Fic ROSTKOWSKI

Rostkowski, Margaret I. Moon dancer. Browndeer Press/Harc, [1995].

Note: Miranda, a nature loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.

Fic Tal

Talbert, Marc. A Sunburned Prayer. New York: Aladdin, [1997].

Notes: In this journey of self-discovery, eleven-year-old Eloy makes a seventeen-mile pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chimayo, a church revered for its miraculous cures, that he hopes will save his beloved grandmother from cancer, and in the hot New Mexican countryside confronts his fears and his anger with and his love for his family.

Fic THOMAS

Thomas, Joyce Carol. Marked by fire. New York, N.Y: Avon Books, [1982].

Note: Abby, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, learns

the secrets of folk medicine from the healer Mother Barker as she grows up.

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Other Titles Recommended but not available in the school library:

Cottman, Michael. The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie. New York: Harmony, [1999].

Notes: In telling the story of the salvage of the only verifiable slave ship ever discovered, this gripping book takes the historical abstraction of the African slave trade and charges it with the immediacy of warm flesh and cold iron.

B WIL

Williams, Stanley. Life in Prison. New York: SeaStar, [2001].

Notes: The author's account of his life in San Quentin State Prison in California where he has lived in a small cell on death row for sixteen years because of a murder conviction

Wyden, Peter. Stella. Waxhaw, NC: Anchor, [1993].

Notes: What happened in Nazi Germany to turn a fondly remembered childhood Jewish classmate into a serial murderess and tool of the Gestapo? Seeking answers, Peter Wyden traveled back into his own past.

Fic BOW

Bowler, Tim. Midget. New York: Aladdin, [2000].

Notes: Subject to strange fits, physically abnormal, and psychologically disturbed from the constant torment and abuse of his older brother, fifteen-year-old Midget finds himself in control of his life for the first time when he gets his own sailboat and discovers untapped mental powers.

Fic GARDNER

Gardner, Sally. I, Coriander. New York: Dial, [2005].

Note: In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.

Fic Koe

Koertge, Ron. Mariposa Blues. Madison, WI: Demco Media, [1993].

Notes: Returning to California for the summer to help train and race thorougbreds, thirteen-year-old Graham tries to cope with the changes in his relationships with his dad and best friend Leslie and become an individual in his own right.

Fic Lip

Lipsyte, Robert. The Chemo Kid. New York: HarperCollins, [1992].

Notes: When the drugs that he takes as part of his chemotherapy suddenly transform him from wimp into superhero, sixteen-year-old Fred and his friends plot to rid the town of its most lethal environmental hazard, toxic waste in the water supply.

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