When You Reach Me - by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, “The $20,000 Pyramid,” a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal.
100 Cupboards - by N.D. Wilson
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open into other worlds.
Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand - by Gail Carson Levine
In the sequel to Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, three fairies from Never Land must deliver a wand they promised to the mermaid who has threatened to flood their home in Fairy Haven.
