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Lydia, Queen of Palestine

by Orlev, Uri & Halkin, Hillel

Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, a...

The Great American Elephant Chase

by Cross, Gillian

In 1881, fifteen-year-old Tad, an orphan, helps a girl attempting to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, all the while pursued by two unscrupu...

The Boggart

by Cooper, Susan

After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brough...

No Dogs Allowed

by Cutler, Jane & Pearson, Tracey Campbell

Five-year-old Edward and his older brother Jason find themselves in such wild predicaments as surviving a motorcycle convention and confronting the three-heade...

Words of Stone

by Henkes, Kevin

Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and...

Letters from Rifka

by Hesse, Karen

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a...

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

by Namioka, Lensey & Kiefte, Kees de

Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he w...

The Trojan Horse

by Hutton, Warwick

A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.

Journey

by Maclachlan, Patricia L.

Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.

The Wright Brothers

How They Invented the Airplane

by Freedman, Russell & Wright, Wilbur & Wright, Orville

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.