Alaska
George, Jean Craighead.  Julie.  Y FIC George
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

George, Jean Craighead.  Julie of the Wolves.  Y FIC George //  Y PB G
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Murphy, Claire Rudolf.  To the Summit.  Y FIC Murphy
Seventeen-year-old Sarah hopes that accompanying her father on an expedition to climb Mount McKinley will help to bridge the gap that has widened between them since her parents' divorce.

Vanasse, Deb. Out of the Wilderness.  Y FIC Vanasse
Josh tries to endure living in the Alaskan wilderness with his father and half-brother Nathan, but Nathan's uncompromising reverence for nature and its wild creatures causes difficulties that reinforce Josh's determination to return to city life.

Appalachia
Creech, Sharon. Absolutely Normal Chaos. Y FIC Creech/ Y PB C
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Sang Spell. Y FIC Naylor
When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler Josh decides to hitchhike across country, and finds himself trapped in a mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a group of people who call themselves Melungeons.

Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May. Y PB R / Y Fic Rylant
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

Arizona
Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. Y FIC Spinelli
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

Arkansas
Dragonwagon, Crescent. To Take a Dare. Y FIC Dragonwagon
A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.

California
Hobbs, Valerie. How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadn't Called You Back?  Y FIC Hobbs
After moving with her family from New Jersey to California in the late 1950s, sixteen-year-old Bron discovers the world of drag racing.

Koertge, Ronald.  Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright : A Novel.  Y FIC Koertge
Worried that his mother will send his beloved grandfather to a nursing home "for his own good," Jesse and some of his eighth-grade classmates accompany Pappy into the mountains near their small California town to look for the tiger tracks he claims to have seen.

Neufeld, John.  Almost a Hero.  Y FIC Neufeld
Twelve-year-old Ben Derby spends his spring break volunteering at a Santa Barbara day care center for homeless children.

Soto, Gary. Buried Onions. Y FIC Soto
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.

Colorado, Utah
Hobbs, Will. Bear Dance. Y FIC Hobbs
While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone."

Hobbs, Will. The Maze. Y FIC Hobbs
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.

Krantz, Hazel.  Look to the Hills.  Y FIC Krantz
Growing up in Colorado in the 1880s and 1890s, Sally finds that her Jewish faith has a significant effect on her social standing and her life in general.

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  High Trail to Danger.  Y FIC Nixon
In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.

Connecticut
Herzig, Alison Cragin. The Ten-Speed Babysitter.  Y FIC Herzig
In a coastal town in Connecticut, a fourteen-year-old babysitter's job is filled with suprises when his employer jets off to the Caribbean for the weekend and leaves him in charge of a toddler.

Florida
Bloor, Robert. Tangerine. Y FIC Bloor/ Y PB B
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

O'Dell, Scott.  Alexandra.  Y FIC O'Dell
While helping her crippled grandfather by diving for sponges from the family boat after the death of her diver father, Alexandra discovers that someone is using their sponges as a hiding-place for smuggled cocaine.

Peck, Richard.  Father Figure.  Y FIC Peck
After being a father figure for years, Jim and his younger brother are reunited with their divorced father and Jim is forced to find a new role for himself.

Georgia
Krisher, Trudy. Kinship.  Y FIC Krisher
In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.

Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering All the Bones.   Y FIC Rinaldi
"It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure,' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom.  But for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life..."

Hawaii
Arkin, Anthony. Captain Hawaii. Y FIC Arkin
While vacationing in Hawaii, sixteen-year-old Arron becomes involved with a tour guide, his beautiful daughter, and a ruthless developer who seeks an ancient secret hidden on the island of Kauai.

Salisbury, Graham. Blue Skin of the Sea. Y FIC Salisbury
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.

Idaho
Wyss, Thelma Hatch. A Stranger Here. Y FIC Wyss
While spending the summer in Idaho taking care of her sick aunt, sixteen-year-old Jada Sinclair meets a spirit from the past and tries to discover the reason for his return.

Illinois
Peck, Richard.  A Long Way from Chicago.  Y FIC Peck // Y PB P
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Peck, Richard.  A Year Down Yonder.  Y FIC Peck
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

Indiana
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod.  YPB T
A classic that tells the adventures of a 12 year old boy and his friends growing up in the early 1900's.

Kansas
Gaeddert, LouAnn Bigge.  Friends and Enemies.  Y FIC Gaeddert
In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Mennonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason, as they argue about the war.

Paulsen, Gary. The Monument.  Y FIC Paulsen
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.

Kentucky
Bunin, Sherry. Dear Great American Writers School.  Y FIC Bunin
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Lee's letters to a correspondence school describe her life in a small Kentucky town during World War II and her growth as a person and as a writer.

Cannon, Bettie Waddell.  A Bellsong for Sarah Raines.  Y FIC Cannon
Surrounded by the warmth of new-found relatives and friends in a small Kentucky town, fourteen-year-old Sarah is eased of the sadness of her father's suicide in Detroit during the Depression and finds a way to celebrate his life.

Creech, Sharon.  Chasing Redbird.   Y FIC Creech / Y PB C
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.

Lyon, George Ella.  Borrowed Children.   Y FIC Lyon
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.

Stiles, Martha Bennett.  Kate of Still Waters. Y FIC Stiles
A young girl chronicles the joys and problems of her family's life on their farm in central Kentucky.

Louisiana
Buckey, Sarah Masters. The Smuggler's Treasure. Y FIC Buckley // J PB B
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.

Holt, Kimberly Willis.  My Louisiana Sky.  Y FIC Holt
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Maine
Corcoran, Barbara.  Annie's Monster.  Y FIC Corcoran
Delighted when her prayers for an Irish wolfhound are answered, thirteen-year-old Annie, living in a small Maine town where her father is an Episcopal minister, soon finds herself in trouble when she tries to deal with the consequences of the large dog's playful curiosity.

Fox, Paula. Western Wind : A Novel.  Y FIC Fox
Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently.

Voigt, Cynthia.  Tree by Leaf.  YPB V
A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.

Maryland
Rinaldi, Ann.  Amelia's War.   Y FIC Rinaldi
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.

Cummings, Priscilla. A Face First.  Y FIC Cummings
Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island.

Massachusettes
Avi.  Blue Heron.  Y FIC Avi
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.

Michigan
Blos, Joan W.  Brothers of the Heart : A Story of the Old Northwest, 1837-1838.  Y FIC Blos
Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.

Minnesota
Paulsen, Gary. The Foxman.  Y FIC Paulsen
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

Qualey, Marsha.  Everybody's Daughter.  Y FIC Qualey
Unable to decide between two attractive boys, seventeen-year-old Beamer is forced to examine how growing up in a commune in the north woods of Minnesota has shaped her personality.

Weaver, Will.  Farm Team.  Y FIC Weaver
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.

Weaver, Will. Hard Ball: A Billy Baggs Novel.  Y FIC Weaver
A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.

Mississippi
Forman, James D.  Freedom's Blood.  Y FIC Forman
A fictionalized account of the murder of three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, in Mississippi, during the summer of 1964.

Matas, Carol, 1949. The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War.   Y FIC Matas
In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.

Taylor, Mildred D.  The Road to Memphis.  Y FIC Taylor
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

Missouri
Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Caught in the Act.  YPB N
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  A Family Apart.   YPB N
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

Nebraska
Cather, Willa.  O Pioneers! YPB C
This classic novel tells the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebraska farm.

Conrad, Pam. My Daniel. Y FIC Conrad
Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.

Conrad, Pam. Prairie Songs. Y FIC Conrad
Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.

New England
Cormier, Robert. Fade. Y FIC Cormier
Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.

Cormier, Robert. Frenchtown Summer. Y FIC Cormier
A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

Cormier, Robert. In the Middle of the Night. Y FIC Cormier
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father.

Voigt, Cynthia. Homecoming. Y FIC Voigt/ Y PB V
Abandoned in a parking lot by their mother, who left them with a bag of sandwiches and the address of a distant great-aunt, Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy Tillerman embark on an arduous and eventful journey.

New Hampshire
Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days : A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32. Y FIC Blos / Y PB B
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Duffy, James. The Graveyard Gang. Y FIC Duffy
During the summer after seventh grade, life in a small New Hampshire town improves for Amy, when new friendships help her deal with her father's death, her mother's emotional problems, and the accusation that she killed a local boy.

New Mexico
Mazzio, Joann.  Leaving Eldorado.  Y FIC Mazzio
In the late 1890s, after her gold-mad father abandons her in the small New Mexico Territory mining town of Eldorado, fourteen-year-old Maude struggles to survive and to hold onto her dream of becoming an artist.

New York
Avi. Don't You Know There's A War On?  Y FIC Avi
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

Danziger, Paula. Remember Me to Harold Square. J FIC Danziger
When Frank spends the summer with Kendra and her family in their New York City apartment, a friendship develops as the two teenagers set off on a scavenger hunt exploring the city's museums, restaurants, and other landmarks.

Frank, Lucy.  I Am an Artichoke. Y FIC Frank
Working as a mother's helper in New York City, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of a troubled relationship between an eccentric writer and her anorexic daughter.

Griffin, Adele. The Other Shepards. Y FIC Griffin
Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief.

Lasky, Kathryn.  Dreams in the Golden Country : The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl. Y FIC Lasky.  Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.

Roth-Hano, Renée.  Safe Harbors.  Y FIC Roth-Hano
Having survived the Nazi occupation of France, teenaged Renée goes to live and work in New York and, while there, begins to come to terms with her Jewish identity and her war experiences.

Shusterman, Neal. Speeding Bullet : a novel. Y Fic Shusterman
After becoming famous and getting the attention of the daughter of a wealthy New York City developer following his rescue of a little girl from a speeding subway train, Nick looks for other people to rescue.

Wolitzer, Hilma. Introducing Shirley Braverman.  Y FIC Wolitzer
The adventures of a sixth-grader growing up in Brooklyn during World War II.

North Carolina
Oughton, Jerrie. Perfect Family. Y FIC Oughton
When Welcome, a fifteen-year-old girl living in a small town in North Carolina during the 1950s, finds out that she is pregnant, she faces some important decisions.

Taylor, Theodore. The Weirdo.  Y FIC Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.

North Dakota
Brooke, Margaret. Jake's Orphan.   Y FIC Brooke
When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother.

Ohio
Fleischman, Paul. The Borning Room.Y FIC Fleischman
Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Takeoffs and Landings. Y FIC Haddix
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.

Oklahoma
Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.  Y FIC Hesse  // Y PB H
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl yearsof the Depression.

Myers, Anna.  Ethan Between Us.  Y FIC Myers
In an Oklahoma oil drilling camp in 1960, fifteen-year-old Clare finds her relationship with her best friend threatened by her new romance with Ethan, a boy carrying a dark secret.

Myers, Anna.  Fire in the Hills. Y FIC Myers
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman.

Thomas, Joyce Carol. Marked by Fire. YPB T
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.

Oregon
Kimmel, Eric A. One Good Tern Deserves Another.  Y FIC Kimmel
After the death of his stepfather, fourteen-year-old P.B. Floyd moves with his mother from Oklahoma to the Oregon coast, where he makes friends with a beautiful young birdwatcher, gets a job at a marine aquarium, and adjusts to the possibility of a new stepfather.

Pennsylvania
Alexander, Lloyd.  The Philadelphia Adventure.  Y FIC Alexander
In 1876, on the eve of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, twenty-year-old Vesper Holly and her friends clash yet again with the archfiend Dr. Helvitius, whose evil schemes plunge them into danger in the wild Pennsylvania countryside.

Clark, Clara Gillow. Nellie Bishop.  Y FIC Clark
In a tough Pennsylvania canal town in the late 1800s, thirteen-year-old Nellie Bishop faces an overwhelming struggle for freedom and dignity as she confronts an abusive mother, a drunken father, and an unwanted marriage.

DeFord, Deborah H.  An Enemy Among Them. Y FIC DeFord
A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German American family from Pennsylvania.

Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the Divide.  Y FIC Lasky
In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.

Savage, Deborah.  Summer Hawk. Y FIC Savage
When her rescue of a baby hawk takes fifteen-year-old Taylor to a raptor rehabilitation center in rural Pennsylvania, their offer of a summer public relations job seems a step toward her dream of becoming a journalist.

Wallace, Rich.  Playing Without the Ball.  Y FIC Wallace
Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.

Puerto Rico
Mohr, Nicholasa. Felita. J FIC Mohr
The everyday experiences of an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl growing up in a close-knit, urban community.

Mohr, Nicholasa. Going Home.  J FIC Mohr
Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico for the first time, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted.

South Dakota
Hill, Pamela Smith. Ghost Horses.  Y FIC Hill
Sixteen-year-old Tabitha, the daughter of a preacher, longs to study at a university and dig for dinosaur bones, but in South Dakota at the end of the nineteenth century such ambitions are discouraged.

Tennessee
McKissack, Pat. Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North.  Y FIC McKissack
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Texas
Ingold, Jeanette. Pictures, 1918. Y FIC Ingold
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.

Karr, Kathleen. Oh, Those Harper Girls!, or, Young and Dangerous. Y FIC Karr
In West Texas in 1869, Lily and her five older sisters participate in a series of misguided schemes to save their father's ranch.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. David's Search.  Y FIC Nixon
After eleven-year-old orphan-train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, his best friend, an ex-slave, is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku-Klux Klan.

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Shadowmaker. Y FIC Nixon
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.

Roberts, Willo Davis.  Jo and the Bandit.  Y FIC Roberts
En route to stay with her uncle in Texas in the late 1860s, twelve-year-old Jo experiences a stagecoach robbery and becomes involved with a reluctant young outlaw aiming to change his ways.

Utah
Hobbs, Will. The Maze. Y FIC Hobbs
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.

Ruckman, Ivy. No Way Out. Y FIC Ruckman
Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, nineteen-year-old Amy, her fiance, and four friends battle a flashflood.
 

Vermont
Hurwitz, Johanna. Faraway Summer.   J FIC Hurwitz
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.

Klass, Sheila Solomon. Next Stop, Nowhere. Y FIC Klass
When her mother remarries, fourteen-year-old Beth has to leave her familiar life in New York City and her new friend Josef to go live with her artisan father in Vermont.

Paterson, Katherine. Preacher's Boy.  Y FIC Paterson
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.

Peck, Robert Newton. Kirk's Law.  Y FIC Peck
A rugged life-style in the Vermont woods with a feisty old hunter called Wishbone Kirk develops the character of a 15-year-old boy.

West Virginia
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Send No Blessings. Y FIC Naylor
A teenager in a large family that lives in a trailer yearns for love, approval, an escape from endless chores, and a chance to make something of herself. When a good and decent man, seven years her senior, falls in love with her, she realizes  marriage to him could solve her problems.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Shiloh. J FIC Naylor / J PB N
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Rylant, Cynthia.  Missing May. YPB R  //  Y FIC Rylant
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

Wisconsin
Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn.  Y FIC Brink //  J PB B
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Carter, Alden R. Bull Catcher.Y FIC Carter
Pete and Jeff continue their friendship and love of baseball as they progress from ninth grade through high school in their small Wisconsin town.

Clark, Catherine.  Wurst Case Scenario.  Y FIC Clark
Courtney, a vegetarian animal-rights activist, records in her diary the events of the beginning of her freshman year at a Wisconsin college, far away from Colorado and her boyfriend Grant, surrounded by cheese- and meat-lovers.

Daly, Maureen.  Seventeenth Summer.  Y FIC Daly
Seventeen-year-old Angie finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.

Hall, Lynn.  Flyaway.  Y FIC Hall
Ariel, a high school senior in Wisconsin, dreams of running away from her domineering father who selfishly controls her life and those of her mother and sister.

Qualey, Marsha.  Revolutions of the Heart.   Y FIC Qualey
Cory's seventeenth year is marked by her mother's sudden death, the return of her hotheaded older brother, her romance with a Native American boy, and the eruption of bigotry in her small Wisconsin town.

Wyoming
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Walker's Crossing. Y FIC Naylor
While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement.

Paulsen, Gary. The Haymeadow.  Y FIC Paulsen
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.