Banner in the Sky
by James Ramsey Ullman | 
Thunderbolt's Waxwork
by Philip Pullman | 
One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox | 
Gone-Away Lake
by Elizabeth Enright | 
Incident at Hawk's Hill
by Allan W. Eckert | 
The Fledgling
by Jane Langton | 
Summer of the Monkeys
by Wilson Rawls | 
The Silver Pencil
by Alice Dalgliesh | 
Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen | 
Cat Running
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 
The Wanderer
by Sharon Creech | 
The Great Elephant Chase
by Gillian Cross | 
Go Saddle the Sea
by Joan Aiken | 
Black Star, Bright Dawn
by Scott O'Dell | 
Where the Lilies Bloom
by Vera Cleaver |
Seven Little Australians
by Ethel Turner | 
The King's Fifth
by Scott O'Dell | 
The Witches of Worm
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 
Mama's Bank Account
by Kathryn Forbes | 
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls |
Ramon cannot believe what he has just found in an oyster he's brought up from an underwater cave where the Manta Diablo, the monster devilfish, lurks. Ramon is holding a pearl. Not just any pearl, but the most fabulous gem he or anyone else has ever seen.But neither sixteen-year-old Ramon nor his father foresees the trouble that such a pearl can bring. It will be young Ramon who must stop the monster he has unleashed.