Black Star, Bright Dawn
by Scott O'Dell | 
The Killing Sea
by Richard Lewis | 
Island's End
by Padma Venkatraman | 
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi | 
Shadow on the Mountain
by Margi Preus | 
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
by John Boyne | 
Leaving Blythe River
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Never Fall Down
by Patricia McCormick | 
The Seventh Most Important Thing
by Shelley Pearsall | 
Carry Me Home
by Sandra Kring | 
A Corner Of The Universe
by Ann M. Martin | 
The Well of Sacrifice
by Chris Eboch | 
Incantation
by Alice Hoffman | 
The Color of My Words
by Lynn Joseph | 
Nobody's Slave
by Tim Vicary | 
Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson | 
Sacajawea
by Joseph Bruchac | 
Miss Spitfire
by Sarah Miller | 
The Red Umbrella
by Christina Diaz Gonzalez | 
Crossing the Wire
by Will Hobbs |
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors-a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.