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1960
George, Jean Craighead
My Side of the Mountain
A boy's experiences living by himself in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.
178 p. 1959
Children's Fiction Book GEORGE
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1960
Kendall, Carol
The Gammage Cup
A handful of Minnipins, a sober and sedate people, rise up against the Periods, the leading family of an isolated mountain valley, and are exiled to a mountain. There they discover that the ancient enemies of their people are preparing to attack.
283 p. 2000
Children's Fiction Book KENDALL
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1961
Schaefer, Jack
Old Ramon
A wise old shepherd teaches a young boy lessons about survival, bravery, wisdom, and friendship as he shows him how to care for a flock of sheep in the harsh Mojave Desert.
102 p. 1993
Children's Fiction Book SCHAEFER
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1961
Selden, George
The Cricket in Times Square
The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
151 p. 1960
Children's Fiction Book SELDEN
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1962
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
The Golden Goblet
A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.
248 p. 1961
Children's Fiction Book MCGRAW
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1962
Stolz, Mary
Belling the Tiger
Small twin mice, Bob and Ozzie are chosen to bell the house cat.
31 p. 2004
Children's Fiction Book STOLZ
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1962
Tunis, Edwin
Frontier Living
165 p. 1961
Children's Nonfiction Book
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1964
North, Sterling
Rascal
The author recalls his carefree life as a boy in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
189 p. 1984
Children's Nonfiction Book
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1965
Hunt, Irene
Across Five Aprils
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
223 p. 1964
Teen Fiction Book HUNT
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1966
Alexander, Lloyd
The Black Cauldron
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical Black Cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.
224 p. 1965
Children's Fiction Book ALEXANDER
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1966
Stolz, Mary
The Noonday Friends
Eleven-year-old Franny Davis has several problems involving family and friends. But the arrival of a visitor from Puerto Rico unexpectedly sets off a happy chain of events.
182 p. 1965
Children's Fiction Book STOLZ
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1967
O'Dell, Scott
The King's Fifth
Seven members of Coronado's army attempt to find the fabled city of Cibola.
264 p. 1966
Children's Fiction Book O'DELL
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1967
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Zlateh the Goat and other Stories
90 p. 1966
Children's Nonfiction Book
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1968
Konigsburg, E. L.
Jennifer Hecate Macbeth William McKinley and Me Elizabeth
Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
117 p. 1967
Children's Fiction Book KONIGSBUR
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1968
O'Dell, Scott
The Black Pearl
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
140 p. 1967
Teen Fiction Book O'DELL
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1968
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
The Egypt Game
An interracial group of children, entranced with the study of ancient Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the antique dealer-professor before they move on to new interests.
215 p. 1976
Children's Fiction Book SNYDER
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1969
Lester, Julius
To Be a Slave
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
160 p. 1968
Children's Nonfiction Book 326.0973 L
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1970
Ish-Kishor, Sulamith
Our Eddie
Teenaged Eddie tries to make up to his family for his father's lack of warmth and financial support, but seems doomed to tragedy at every turn.
183 p. 1992
Children's Fiction Book ISH-KISHO
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1971
Babbitt, Natalie
Kneeknock Rise
From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep for the annual fair, he is entranced by the fable surrounding the peak of Kneeknock Rise which claims that on stormy nights a mysterious creature raises its voice and moans. Egan is determined to find the answer to the mystery nobody else has ever dared to solve.
117 p. 1970
Children's Fiction Book BABBITT
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1971
Engdahl, Sylvia Louise
Enchantress from the Stars
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.
xiv, 288 p. 2001
Teen Fiction Book ENGDAHL
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