The Dewpoint Show by Barb Howard
  Leonard likes to observe the world around him.  But a special friendship with Vivian, the old lady next door, teaches him that living is not just something you watch...it's something you do.

The Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby Dagg
  With their family home facing foreclosure, seventeen-year-old Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, need to raise a lot of money fast---not easy for women in 1896.  Together they come up with a plan to walk the 4600 miles from Mica Creek, Washington, to New York City and if they can do it in seven months, a publisher has agreed to give them $10,000.  This is based on a true story.

Unidentified by Rae Mariz
    In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katy "Kid" Dade struggles to figure where she fits in and if she wants to.

Dragons of Silk by Laurence Yep
  Four generations of Chinese and Chinese American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.

Murder Afloat by Jane Leslie Conly
   In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger whose captain has no qualms about murdering any crewmen who fail to meet his standards.