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McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong. 1976. DB, RC
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter
with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her. 176 pages. Gr. 5 up.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. White Darkness. 2007. DB, RC
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone, a
troubled fourteen year old, discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme’s Hole, an
opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. 400 pages. YA. GMBA 2010-2011.
McCormick, Patricia. Sold. 2006. DB, RC
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city
as a maid, only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is almost no
hope of escape. 272 pages. YA. GMBA 2009-2010.
McNeal, Tom. Far Far Away. 2013. DB
When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of
his classmate Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in
their town. 371 pages. Gr. 7 up. DCF 2014-2015.
Messner, Kate. Sugar and Ice. 2010. DB
When Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers twelve-year-old farm girl Claire a scholarship to train
with the elite in Lake Placid, she encounters a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything.
304 pages. Gr. 5 up. DCF 2011-2012.
Mignola, Mike. Joe Golem and the Drowning City. 2013.
In the Drowning City (what Lower Manhattan became after earthquakes and a rising sea level left most of
it submerged underwater) fourteen-year-old Molly McHugh's employer, the psychic medium Felix Orlov,
is abducted after a séance goes wrong, and Molly befriends Simon Hodge, a Victorian detective who's kept
himself alive with magic and steampunk mechanics, and his sidekick, the mysterious Joe Golem. 295
pages. YA. GMBA 2014-2015.
Moore, Perry. Hero. 2009.
Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to
join the very League that rejected his father; it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally
trust. 432 pages. YA. GMBA 2010-2011.
Morgenstern, Erin. Night Circus. 2011. DB.
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and
Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful
ways. 516 pages. YA & adult. GMBA 2013-2014.
+Murdoch, Emily. If You Find Me. 2013.
A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can
remember, but when Carey’s mentally ill mother disappears and two strangers arrive, Carey must face the
truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago. 288 pages. YA. GMBA 2015-2016.
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy Queen. 2006. DB, RC
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival
football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of
those around her. 274 pages. YA. GMBA 2008-2009.
Myers, Walter Dean. Shooter. 2004. LP, DB, RC, AUD
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, this story of three troubled teenagers ends in
a tragic school shooting. 256 pages. YA. GMBA 2006-2007.