Touching Spirit Bear

Cole Matthews is 15 years old, and is a juvenile delinquent. His most recent crime is smashing Peter Driscal's head into the pavement, for telling the police about a robbery Cole committed. He is given a choice between going to jail or Native American Circle Justice, which will result in banishment for one year.He chooses Native American Circle Justice. On one of the first days, he is attacked by a pure white Spirit Bear. After the attack, he changes. Although he cannot take back what he did, he can prevent anything like that from happening again.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Ari lives with his mother,who he can understand,with his father, who he can't, with his younger sisters, and without his brother, who is in jail. Then one day he meets Dante, a boy at the pool who is a friend to him-the first real one he's ever had. As the two boys get to know each other and become better friends, Ari goes as far as to save Dante's life. But there is one major difference between them-Ari wants there friendship to stay a friendship, while Dante wants it to be something more.

The War That Saved My Life

It is World War II, and Ada has sneaked away from her mother in London to the countryside.  Because of her clubfoot, she had been locked away all her life so she wouldn't bring shame to her family.  When her brother Jamie is sent away for his safety due to the bombings, she runs away with him.  In the country, they meet Susan Smith, a woman who is forced to take them in.  As the war goes on, Ada makes new friends, gets her first pair of shoes,and learns to value herself, she keeps fearing her past,and trying to let go of the memory of her mother.

   

The Witch Hunter

By Virginia Boecker

Elizabeth Grey is a witch hunter. She and her friend Caleb have always obeyed the laws of the kingdom, and brought in witches and wizards to be burned at the stake. And she has good reason to. Her parents were killed in a wizard-made plague, the reason magic was outlawed in the first place. But then Elizabeth is accused of being a witch. She is sentenced to be burned at the stake, but is saved by Nicholas Perevil, the most wanted criminal in the land, the wizard who is convicted of starting the plague but escaped before he could be captured and tried. As Elizabeth is exposed to a new side of the magical world, she finds people whose families and lives were torn apart by witch hunters. She begins to wonder if magic is as bad-and witch hunting as good-as she originally thought.

This was a good book, with a creative plot, magic, and creative uses of magic, but has some mature topics.