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Finest Kind

by Wait, Lea

WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Main...

11,000 Years Lost

by Griffin, Peni R.

Fascinated with the archaeological dig that is going on near her Texas home, eleven-year-old Esther magically travels back in time to the Pleistocene era and d...

Looking for Red

by Johnson, Angela

A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod.

Halfway to the sky

by Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

After her brother dies and her parents get a divorce, twelve-year-old Katahdin sets out to hike the whole Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine on her own.

Halfway to the Sky

by Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

After her brother dies and her parents get a divorce, twelve-year-old Katahdin sets out to hike the whole Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine on her own.

The Earth Kitchen

by Bryant, Sharon

In 1963, twelve-year-old Gwen tries to find the path to recovery in a mental ward.

Double Luck

Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan

by Lu, Chi & White, Becky

Tells the story of the author's struggles after being orphaned at the age of three and how he held on to his dream of coming to the United States as he passed ...

On Time

From Seasons to Split Seconds

by Skurzynski, Gloria

Discusses the astronomical causes of seasons, years, months and days, and how people through history have devised increasingly accurate calendars and clocks to...

Beyond Paradise

by Hertenstein, Jane

Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Lo...

Secret Letters from 0 to 10

by Morgenstern, Susie Hoch & Rosner, Gill

Ten-year-old Ernest lives a boring existence in Paris with his grandmother until a lively girl named Victory enters his class at school.