A feed of all Black-Eyed Susan Winners at Howard County Library System

101 ways to bug your parents /

Author: Wardlaw, Lee,
ISBN: 0803719019;9780142403402
Year: 1996
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When his parents call off the family vacation and enroll their son in a creative writing class instead, twelve-year-old Steve comes up with a wacky moneymaking project.
Subjects: Moneymaking projects - Fiction. - Family life - Parent and child
Call number: JF WAR

The 6th grade nickname game /

Author: Korman, Gordon.
ISBN: 0786823828;0786851902;9780786851904
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates, try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting to the football coach who has become their new teacher.
Subjects: Nicknames - Fiction. - Humorous stories - Schools
Call number: JF KOR

The 7 professors of the Far North /

Author: Fardell, John,
ISBN: 039924381;0142407356
Year: 2005
Date added: 10/06/2005
Summary: Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding t
Subjects: Science fiction. - Adventure and adventurers - Fiction. - Arctic regions - Fiction
Call number: JF FAR

Abby takes a stand /

Author: McKissack, Pat,
ISBN: 0670060119
Year: 2005
Date added: 07/10/2006
Summary: Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
Subjects: Nashville (Tenn.) - Race relations - Fiction. - African Americans - Segregation - Civil rights demonstrations - Tennessee - History - 20th century
Call number: JF MCKI

The Araboolies of Liberty Street /

Author: Swope, Sam.
ISBN: 051757411;9780374303907;9780758770547
Year: 1989
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The kids of Liberty Street join forces to help the Araboolies when mean General Pinch orders them to move because they look different.
Subjects: Prejudice - Fiction. - Toleration
Call number: E SWO

A bad case of stripes /

Author: Shannon, David,
ISBN: 0590929976
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.
Subjects: Popularity - Fiction. - Individuality
Call number: E SHA

Basho and the river stones /

Becoming Naomi Leon /

Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz.
ISBN: 0439269695;9780439269971
Year: 2004
Date added: 09/30/2004
Summary: When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
Subjects: Great-grandmothers - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction - Family problems - Mexican Americans - Mexico
Call number: JF RYA

Breathing underwater /

Author: Flinn, Alex.
ISBN: 0064472574;0060291990;9780064472579
Year: 2001
Date added: 10/04/2001
Summary: Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
Subjects: Anger - Fiction. - Child abuse - Dating violence - Diaries - Fiction - Fathers and sons
Call number: YA FLI

Click, clack, moo : cows that type /

Author: Cronin, Doreen.
ISBN: 0689832133;9780689832130
Year: 2000
Date added: 09/26/2000
Summary: When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Subjects: Caldecott Medal. - Cows - Fiction. - Typewriters - Domestic animals
Call number: E CRO

Cody unplugged /

Author: Duffey, Betsy.
ISBN: 0670885924;0141312408
Year: 1999
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Concerned that his television and video habits have gotten out of hand, Cody's parents send him to Camp Bear where he learns to experience real life rather than virtual reality.
Subjects: Camping - Fiction.
Call number: JF DUF

The Dark Hills divide /

Author: Carman, Patrick.
ISBN: 0439700930
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/28/2005
Summary: When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie beyond the wall.
Subjects: Forests and forestry - Fiction. - Human-animal communication - Magic - Forest animals
Call number: JF CAR

Defiance /

Author: Hobbs, Valerie
ISBN: 0374308470
Year: 2005
Date added: 10/06/2005
Summary: While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
Subjects: Hope - Fiction. - Cancer - Cows - Poets - Country life - Death
Call number: JF HOB

Diary of a wombat /

Author: French, Jackie.
ISBN: 0618381368
Year: 2003
Date added: 10/30/2003
Summary: In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors.
Subjects: Wombats - Fiction. - Diaries - Fiction
Call number: E FRE

Ella enchanted /

Author: Levine, Gail Carson.
ISBN: 0060275111;0060275103;0064407055;9780064407052;0590920685;0060558865;9780060275105
Year: 1997
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Newbery Medal.
Call number: JF LEV

Fourth grade rats /

Author: Spinelli, Jerry.
ISBN: 0590442430;9780590442442
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a "rat," to be a grown up fourth grader.
Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction. - Schools - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF SPI

Frindle /

Author: Clements, Andrew,
ISBN: 0689806698;0689818769;9780689818769;978689806698
Year: 1996
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Subjects: Words, New - Fiction. - Teacher-student relationships - Schools
Call number: JF CLE

Fudge-a-mania /

Author: Blume, Judy.
ISBN: 0440404908;0142302309;9780525469278;0525446729;0525469273;9780425193822;0425193829;9780142408773
Year: 1990
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.
Subjects: Family life - Fiction. - Humorous stories - Brothers - Fiction - Vacations
Call number: JF BLU

The Giant Rat of Sumatra, or, Pirates Galore /

Author: Fleischman, Sid,
ISBN: 0060742380;9780060742409
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/18/2005
Summary: A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
Subjects: Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Fiction. - San Diego (Calif.) - History - 19th century - California - 1846-1850 - Pirates
Call number: JF FLE

The giver /

Author: Lowry, Lois.
ISBN: 0395645662;0440219078;9780440237686;0385732554
Year: 1993
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Science fiction.
Call number: YA LOW

Go away, big green monster! /

Author: Emberley, Ed.
ISBN: 0316236535;9780316236539
Year: 1992
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.
Subjects: Toy and movable books. - Fear - Fiction. - Color - Bedtime - Monsters
Call number: E EMB

Hanging on to Max /

Author: Bechard, Margaret.
ISBN: 0761315799
Year: 2002
Date added: 09/26/2002
Summary: When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.
Subjects: Teenage parents - Fiction. - Teenage fathers - Fathers and sons
Call number: YA BEC

Harvey Potter's balloon farm /

Author: Nolen, Jerdine.
ISBN: 0688078885;9780688078874;0688078877
Year: 1994
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons.
Subjects: Tall tales. - Balloons - Fiction. - Farm life
Call number: E NOL

Holes /

Author: Sachar, Louis,
ISBN: 0440419468;0374332657;9780374332662;9780440414803;0440414806
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency - Fiction. - Homeless persons - Buried treasure - Newbery Medal. - Friendship
Call number: JF SAC

Hurry and the monarch /

Author: O Flatharta, Antoine.
ISBN: 0375830030
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/19/2005
Summary: Hurry the tortoise befriends a monarch butterfly when she stops in his garden in Wichita Falls, Texas, during her migration from Canada to Mexico. Includes facts about monarch butterflies.
Subjects: Monarch butterfly - Fiction. - Wichita Falls (Tex.) - Butterflies - Turtles
Call number: E O FL

I wanna iguana /

Author: Orloff, Karen Kaufman.
ISBN: 0399237178
Year: 2004
Date added: 10/06/2004
Summary: Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.
Subjects: Iguanas as pets - Fiction. - Letters - Mothers and sons - Pets
Call number: E ORL

I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you /

Author: Carter, Ally.
ISBN: 1423100034;9781423100041
Year: 2006
Date added: 08/18/2006
Summary: As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Subjects: Boarding schools - Fiction. - Spies - Schools
Call number: YA CAR

If you come softly /

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline.
ISBN: 0399231129;0698118626;0142406015;9780142415221
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Subjects: Interracial dating - Fiction. - African Americans - New York (N.Y.) - Family life - Schools
Call number: YA WOO

Jeremy Thatcher, dragon hatcher : a magic shop book /

Author: Coville, Bruce.
ISBN: 0152007482;0152046143;0833595695;9780671747824;0671747827;9780152062521
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
Subjects: Size - Fiction. - Dragons - Drawing - Pets - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF COV

Jim Thorpe's bright path /

Author: Bruchac, Joseph,
ISBN: 158430166
Year: 2004
Date added: 06/29/2004
Summary: A biography of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, focusing on how his boyhood education set the stage for his athletic achievements which gained him international fame and Olympic gold medals. Author's note details Thorpe's life after college.
Subjects: Thorpe, Jim, - Athletes. - Indians of North America - Biography
Call number: JB THORPE B

Just another ordinary day /

Author: Clement, Rod.
ISBN: 0060276673
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Amanda's ordinary day has her riding to school with a Tyrannosaurus rex, having lunch with an alien, sailing a pirate ship at library, and riding home on an elephant.
Subjects: Humorous stories - Animals - Fiction - Schools - Fiction.
Call number: E CLE

Leaf Man /

Author: Ehlert, Lois.
ISBN: 0152053042
Year: 2005
Date added: 10/17/2005
Summary: A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him.
Subjects: Winds - Fiction. - Leaves
Call number: E EHL

The liberation of Gabriel King /

Author: Going, K.L.
ISBN: 039923991;9780142407660
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/05/2005
Summary: In Georgia during the summer of 1976, Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African American girl who is facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade.
Subjects: Self-confidence - Fiction. - African Americans - Best friends - Race relations - Prejudices - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF GOI

The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq /

Author: Winter, Jeanette.
ISBN: 0152054456
Year: 2005
Date added: 01/27/2005
Subjects: Baker, Alia Muhammad. - Librarians - Iraq. - Libraries - Iraq War, 2003.
Call number: J020.92W

Mama Panya's pancakes : a village tale from Kenya /

Author: Chamberlin, Mary,
ISBN: 1841481394
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/19/2005
Summary: Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around.
Subjects: Generosity - Fiction. - Africa
Call number: E CHA

The million dollar kick /

Author: Gutman, Dan.
ISBN: 0786807644;0786815841;9781423100829
Year: 2001
Date added: 03/13/2002
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Whisper, who hates sports, is torn when she gets a chance to win a million dollars by kicking a goal against a local soccer hero.
Subjects: Contests - Fiction. - Sports - Soccer
Call number: JF GUT

The mysterious matter of I.M. Fine /

Author: Stanley, Diane.
ISBN: 0688175465;9780380733279;0380733277
Year: 2001
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author.
Subjects: Books and reading - Fiction. - Magic - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: JF STA

No talking /

Author: Clements, Andrew,
ISBN: 1416909834;9781416909835;9781416909842
Year: 2007
Date added: 07/06/2007
Summary: The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Subjects: Behavior - Fiction. - Communication - Contests - Fiction - Schools
Call number: JF CLE

The old Willis place : a ghost story /

Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
ISBN: 0618430180;0618897410;9780618430185;9780618897414
Year: 2004
Date added: 10/12/2004
Summary: Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil,
Subjects: Brothers and sisters - Fiction - Haunted houses - Fiction. - Friendship - Ghosts
Call number: JF HAH

Once upon a cool motorcycle dude /

Author: O'Malley, Kevin,
ISBN: 0802789471;9780802789471
Year: 2005
Date added: 03/31/2005
Summary: Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.
Subjects: Authorship - Fiction. - Fairy tales. - Humorous stories - Motorcyclists - Giants - Princesses
Call number: E O'MA

Piggie pie! /

Author: Palatini, Margie.
ISBN: 0395716918;9780395716915
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie, but when she arrives she can't find a single porker.
Subjects: Humorous stories - Witches - Fiction. - Domestic animals
Call number: E PAL

Point Blank /

Author: Horowitz, Anthony,
ISBN: 039923621;014250050;9780142406120;0142406120
Year: 2002
Date added: 05/29/2002
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Subjects: Orphans - Fiction. - Cloning - Spy stories. - Schools
Call number: YA HOR

Polo's mother /

Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
ISBN: 0689865554
Year: 2005
Date added: 10/06/2005
Summary: Polo the cat finds his mother and tries to impress her with his courage as he and the other members of the Club of Mysteries set out on new adventures.
Subjects: Cats - Fiction. - Mothers - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF Nay

Rosa /

Author: Giovanni, Nikki.
ISBN: 9780805071061;0805071067
Year: 2005
Date added: 10/17/2005
Subjects: Caldecott Medal. - Women - Biography. - Parks, Rosa, - African Americans - Civil rights workers
Call number: JB PARKS G

Rotten teeth /

Author: Simms, Laura.
ISBN: 0395828503
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When Melissa takes a big glass bottle of authentic pulled teeth from her father's dental office for a show-and-tell presentation, she becomes a first-grade celebrity.
Subjects: Show-and-tell presentations - Fiction. - Schools
Call number: E SIM

Running out of time /

Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
ISBN: 0689800843;0689812361;9780689812361
Year: 1995
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Subjects: Indiana - Fiction. - Diphtheria - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: JF HAD

Scaredy squirrel /

The sisterhood of the traveling pants /

Author: Brashares, Ann.
ISBN: 0385729332;0385730586;0440229707;9780385730587
Year: 2001
Date added: 10/29/2001
Summary: Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.
Subjects: Pants - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA BRA

Soap! Soap! Don't forget the soap! : an Appalachian folktale /

Author: Birdseye, Tom.
ISBN: 0823410056
Year: 1993
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: A forgetful boy gets himself into trouble when he repeats what each person he meets on the road says to him.
Subjects: Folklore - Appalachian Region.
Call number: E BI

Someone like you /

Author: Dessen, Sarah.
ISBN: 0670877786;0141302690;9780142401774
Year: 1998
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
Subjects: Pregnancy - Fiction. - Unmarried mothers - Friendship
Call number: YA DES

Stepping on the cracks /

Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
ISBN: 0395585074;9780380719006;9780547076607;0380719002;9780395585078
Year: 1991
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
Subjects: Bullies - Fiction. - World War, 1939-1945
Call number: JF HAH

There's a dead person following my sister around /

Author: Vande Velde, Vivian.
ISBN: 0152021000
Year: 1999
Date added: 01/24/2001
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ted becomes concerned and intrigued when his five-year-old sister Vicki begins receiving visits from two female ghosts.
Subjects: Slavery - Fiction. - Underground Railroad - Ghosts
Call number: JF VAN

Time for Andrew : a ghost story /

Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
ISBN: 0380724693;9780380724697;9780395665565;0395665566;9780618873166
Year: 1994
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.
Subjects: Families - Fiction. - Space and time
Call number: JF HAH

Traction Man is here! /

Author: Grey, Mini.
ISBN: 9780375831911;0375831916
Year: 2005
Date added: 08/23/2005
Summary: Traction Man, a boy's courageous action figure, has a variety of adventures with Scrubbing Brush and other objects in the house.
Subjects: Toys - Fiction. - Brooms and brushes
Call number: E GRE

Trading places with Tank Talbott /

Author: Butler, Dori Hillestad.
ISBN: 0807517089;0807580600
Year: 2003
Date added: 10/17/2003
Summary: Jason, who would rather work on his horror movie screenplay than learn to swim, finds an unlikely ally in Tank, the class bully, who is being forced to take ballroom dance lessons.
Subjects: Swimming - Fiction. - Dance - Authorship - Bullies - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF BUT

Trouble with trolls /

Author: Brett, Jan,
ISBN: 0399223363
Year: 1992
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: While climbing Mt. Baldy, Treva outwits some trolls who want to steal her dog.
Subjects: Dogs - Fiction. - Trolls
Call number: E BRE

The true story of the 3 little pigs /

Author: Scieszka, Jon.
ISBN: 0670827592
Year: 1989
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
Subjects: Pigs - Fiction. - Wolves
Call number: E SCI

The true story of the 3 little pigs /

Author: Scieszka, Jon.
ISBN: 0670827592;054509450;9780545094573
Year: 1989
Date added: 01/12/2012
Summary: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
Subjects: Pigs - Fiction. - Wolves
Call number: JCDBK E SCI

The web files /

Author: Palatini, Margie.
ISBN: 0786823666;078680419
Year: 2001
Date added: 05/03/2001
Summary: Ducktective Web and his partner try to quack the case of the pilfered peck of perfectly picked pickled peppers.
Subjects: Characters in literature - Fiction. - Nursery rhymes - Humorous stories
Call number: E PAL

Young Thomas Edison /

Author: Dooling, Michael.
ISBN: 9780823418688;0823418685
Year: 2005
Date added: 06/01/2006
Subjects: Edison, Thomas A. - Inventors. - Scientists.
Call number: JB EDISON D

Zen shorts /

Author: Muth, Jon J.
ISBN: 0439339111;9780439339117
Year: 2005
Date added: 03/30/2005
Summary: When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
Subjects: Caldecott Medal. - Bears - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Storytelling
Call number: E MUT