Shackleton's Stowaway
by Victoria McKernan | 
The Killing Sea
by Richard Lewis | 
The King's Fifth
by Scott O'Dell | 
The Undertaker's Gone Bananas
by Paul Zindel | 
Island's End
by Padma Venkatraman | 
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi |
Plain Kate
by Erin Bow | 
Black Duck
by Janet Taylor Lisle | 
Shadow on the Mountain
by Margi Preus | 
Black Star, Bright Dawn
by Scott O'Dell | 
Wonder Show
by Hannah Barnaby | 
Sister to the Wolf
by Maxine Trottier | 
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
by John Boyne | 
Leaving Blythe River
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson | 
A Corner Of The Universe
by Ann M. Martin | 
Never Fall Down
by Patricia McCormick |
So far from the Bamboo Grove
by Yoko Kawashima Watkins | 
The Seventh Most Important Thing
by Shelley Pearsall | 
Carry Me Home
by Sandra Kring |
Near the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is a leading physicist building the atomic bomb. Stephen realizes the dangers involved when one of the scientists becomes hospitalized as a result of working with the project. The scientist alerts him to disasters that could come from The Gadget. Stephen feels it is up to him and his friend Tilanov