Title |
Author |
Grade |
Core/Sup |
Length |
Other |
Description |
The Face on the Milk Carton |
Caroline B. Cooney |
4-6 |
|
4 cassettes
5.5 hours
AB-105 |
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No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl, she immediately recognized familiar features. The little girl, a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey stared back at her. She felt overcome with shock. She was the little girl. How could it possibly be true? |
The Fighting Ground |
Avi |
4-6 |
|
3 cassettes
3.15 hours
AB-45 |
1984 ALA Notable Children's Book; NCSS/CBC Notable 1984 Children's Trade Book in Social Studies; 1984 ALA Best Books for Young Adults |
"At thirteen, Jonathan dreams of fighting in the American Revolution. Almost by accident, he is recruited into a fighting unit and experiences the reality of war, including being taken prisoner and coming to grips with his feelings about shooting to kill." -School Library Journal |
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
7-12 |
|
3 cassettes
3.5 hours
AB-106 |
|
In this classic story that inspired the hit movie Charlie, Charlie Gordon, a retarded adult who cleans floors and toilets, becomes a genius through an experimental operation. Flowers For Algernon made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a moderated television drama, and as a motion picture production. Now, full bodied and richly-peopled, Flowers For Algernon is the daring novel of a startling human experiment! |
Forged by Fire |
Draper, Sharon |
7-12 |
|
1 CD HW pk
3.75 hr
AB-296 |
|
|
Freak the Mighty |
Rodman Philbrick |
7-8 |
|
3 cassettes
3.75 hours
AB-2 |
|
Told through Max’s voice, this quirky story follows the two remarkable friends on their brave and hopeful odyssey. Although Maxwell Kane is enormous, and he’s been in special classes all through school, this year…eighth grade, things are going to be different. When Max hoists his new friend, Kevin, onto his shoulders, they become invincible. Johnny Heller’s narration brings out both the humor and the pathos of this unique story. |
Free Fall |
Joyce Sweeney |
4-6 |
|
5 cassettes
6.25 hours
AB-107 |
|
Joyce Sweeney, winner of ALA awards and the Delacotte Press Prize, combines realistic dialogue, fast-pace action, and perilous challenges into a cave adventure that will immediately satisfy young adults’ appetite for action. |
Freedom Road |
Howard Fast |
7-12 |
|
7 cassettes
9.75 hours
AB-15 |
|
When the eight-year period of black and white freedom and cooperation in the South was destroyed, it was destroyed completely. Not only were material things wiped out and people slain, but the very memory was expunged. Powerful forces did not hold it to be a good thing for the American people to know that once there had been such an experiment and that the experiment had worked. All the essentials of this story are true; white men and black men lived together, worked together, and built together. In many places, they died together, in defense of what they had built. |
The Friends |
Kazumi Yomoto |
4-6 |
|
4 cassettes
5 hours
AB-4 |
|
In Japan, as Kiyama and his two friends prepare for the entrance exams for junior high school, they become obsessed with the desire to see what a dead person looks like. They begin spying on an old man who lives alone, the old man is no fool. Before long, the boys realize that he is watching them. The resulting relationship changes each of their lives. |
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