2004 Young Adult Sequoyah Masterlist

Bell, Hilari. A Matter of Profit. HarperCollins, 2001 (Grade 6-8). Weary of war, Ahvrem bargains with his father to travel to a conquered planet and investigate the assassination plot against the emperor and save his sister from her own devices.

Brashares, Ann. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Delacorte, 2001. (Grade 6-9). Four best friends who must spend their summer apart discover magical pants that transform their lives and create a bond stronger than any of them have ever felt before.

Cooney, Caroline B. Ransom of Mercy Carter. Delacorte, 2001. (Grade 6-9). Eleven-year-old Mercy Carter, kidnapped along with 100 other settlers during an Indian raid on her Massachusetts settlement in the winter of 1704, learns to appreciate the Kahnawake way of life and must decide whether to return to her former life or to remain with her Mohawk captors

Flinn, Alex. Breathing Underwater. HarperCollins, 2001. (Grade 8-9). When sixteen-year-old Nick is forced to attend counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, he discovers that the phrase “like father, like son” can be a terrifying reality.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. The Demon in the Teahouse. Philomel, 2001. (Grade 6-9). In this sequel to The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn, fourteen-year-old Seikei poses as a teahouse attendant to discover who is murdering geishas and setting fires in Japan’s capital city of Edo.

Kerr, M.E. Slap Your Sides. HarperCollins, 2001. (Grade 6-9). Family, friends and neighbors are drawn into the conflict between religious freedom and patriotic fervor during World War II as the Quaker beliefs of a conscientious objector create turmoil for fourteen-year-old Jubal Shoemaker.

McDonald, Joyce. Shades of Simon Gray. Delacorte, 2001.(Grade 7-9). Trapped in a coma after crashing his car into a tree where an innocent man had been lynched 200 years before, seventeen-year-old Simon finds himself fluctuating between time and space in this suspenseful thriller.

Mikaelsen, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear. HarperCollins, 2001. (Grade 6-9). Guilty of beating Peter Driscal, who now might have permanent brain damage, fifteen-year-old Cole Matthews’ punishment is to spend a year alone on an isolated Alaskan island as part of the Native American system of Circle Justice.

Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard. Clarion Books, 2001. (Grade 6-8) In medieval Korea, thirteen-year-old orphan Tree-ear longs to become apprenticed to the cranky master craftsman Min and hopes to prove himself worthy by successfully carrying samples of Min’s pottery to the royal palace.

Pierce, Meredith Ann. Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood. Viking, 2001. (Grade 6-9). Hannah, a young healer in love with a knight who has been turned into a fox by the wizard of the Tanglewood forest, journeys to find someone who can reverse the spell.

Schmidt, Gary D. Straw Into Gold. Clarion Books, 2001. (Grade 6-8) In this alternate version of the Rumpelstiltskin story, eleven-year-old Tousle and his blind companion set out to answer a riddle that will save innocent lives and reunite the boy with his mother, the queen.

Taylor, Mildred D. The Land. Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2001. (Grade 7-9). After the Civil War, Paul-Edward, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between two worlds as he pursues his dream of owning land.

Van Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped. Knopf, 2001. (Grade 6-9). In their eighth grade year, Bryce and Juli, two incompatible teenagers who have been across-the-street neighbors since the second grade, see a reversal in their feelings and a change in their perceptions of each other.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True Believer. Atheneum, 2001. (Grade 6-9). Fifteen-year-old LaVaughn, an inner-city girl struggling to get out of the projects and into college, has earned her place in advanced classes and after-school programs.

Wulffson, Don. Soldier X. Viking, 2001. (Grade 8-9). After being wounded during World War II fighting for the German army, sixteen-year-old Russian soldier Erik, who realizes that the sights, sounds and smells of war are almost more than he can bear, trades his clothing for an enemy uniform, changing not only his role in the war, but his life.