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Rex Zero and the End of the World

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his p...

How It Happened in Peach Hill

by Jocelyn, Marthe

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ...

The Last Dragon

by Mari, Silvana De

Struggling to survive in a postapocalyptic world after his village is destroyed, Yorsh, the earth's last elf, must embark on a perilous quest to decipher a pow...

Thumb on a Diamond

by Roberts, Ken

The kids from New Auckland are dying to see something outside of their little villiage. Then, Thumb come up with a plan to form a baseball team so the kids can...

The Black Room

Book Two of the Dark Ground Trilogy

by Cross, Gillian

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Memories of Survival

by Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal & Steinhardt, Bernice

A story of surviving the Holocaust in Poland, illustrated in a collection of embroidered panels, and told in the survivor's own words.

Revenge of the Witch

The Last Apprentice, Book One

by Delaney, Joseph

Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, ...

Criss Cross

by Perkins, Lynne Rae

Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning ...

The Game of Silence

by Erdrich, Louise

Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.

A Maze Me

Poems for Girls

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

Life is a tangle of twisting paths. Some short. Some long. There are dead ends. And there are choices. And wrong turns, and detours, and yield signs, and instr...