GREGOR THE OVERLANDER
by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 0439435366;$16.95;2003

Eleven-year-old Gregor’s summer takes an unexpected, adventurous turn when he and his little sister fall through the floor of the laundry room into Underland, a subterranean world inhabited by bizarre creatures. Suspense and fantasy combine in this satisfying look at expectations and responsibilities.

Suggested for ages 10 - 14
Subjects: African Americans | Brothers and Sisters | Family life | Insects

THE GREY KING (AUDIO)
by Susan Cooper
narrated by Richard Mitchley
Listening Library;ISBN: 0807261963;$25;2001

Richard Mitchley narrates The Grey King, fourth volume in The Dark Is Rising sequence, effortlessly weaving the tongue tangling Welsh words into the text and riding the currents of gathering malevolence like the wind over high crags.

Suggested for ages 8 - 14
Subjects: Arthur, King | Audio Book | Boys | Brothers and Sisters | Dogs | Girls | Magic | Siblings

OVER SEA, UNDER STONE (AUDIO)
by Susan Cooper
narrated by Alex Jennings
Listening Library;ISBN: 0807204803;$30;2001

Alex Jennings returns as narrator of Over Sea, Under Stone and Greenwitch, first and third volumes in the five-volume The Dark Is Rising sequence. The fearsome struggle between the forces of Dark and Light has never been as richly realized.

Subjects: Arthur, King | Audio Book | Brothers and Sisters | Magic | Siblings

DOVEY COE
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Atheneum;ISBN: 0689831749;$16;2000

Wealthy Parnell Caraway-the would-be suitor of lovely Caroline Coe-is found murdered and younger sister Dovey is under suspicion in this tautly constructed novel set in rural North Carolina in 1928.

Suggested for ages 12 - 14
Subjects: Brothers and Sisters | Murder | South

OLIVIA
by Ian Falconer
Atheneum;ISBN: 0689829531;$16;2000

The delightful, feisty porcine heroine Olivia is constantly on the move, building towering sand castles, imitating Jackson Pollack’s paintings on her bedroom wall, or negotiating the number of books at bedtime.

Suggested for ages 4 - 8
Subjects: Behavior | Brothers and Sisters | Childhood | Pigs

MY HEARTBEAT
by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Houghton Mifflin;ISBN: 0618141812;$15;2002

In a fresh, immediate first-person voice, 14-year-old Ellen reveals her unabashed love for her inscrutable brother and her infatuation for his best friend. A funny, honest, thoughtful, and upbeat exploration of the nature of love, family dynamics, and the ambiguities of sexual identity.

Suggested for ages 14 - 18
Subjects: Brothers and Sisters | Identity

NORY RYAN'S SONG
by Patricia Reilly Giff
narrated by Susan Lynch
Listening Library;ISBN: 0807261637;$22;2000

When Ireland’s potato crop fails, young Nory must use cleverness to save her sisters and her neighbors from death in the famine.

Suggested for ages 10 - 14
Subjects: Brothers and Sisters | Famines | Ireland | Survival

THE TROLLS
by Polly Horvath
Farrar, Straus & Giroux;ISBN: 0374377871;$16;1999

Family history unfolds for the Anderson children when eccentric Aunt Sally comes to baby-sit. While their parents vacation in Paris, Melissa, Amanda and PeeWee are introduced with humor and poignancy to the fun and peril of eating new foods, and the dark danger of trolls.

Suggested for ages 10 - 13
Subjects: Brothers and Sisters | Death