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Louisa

The Life of Louisa May Alcott

by McDonough, Yona Zeldis

When Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was published in 1868 it was an instant success. Louisa drew on her experiences in writing the novel, but there’s a l...

My Invisible Sister

by Colin, Beatrice & Pinto, Sara

Ten-year-old Frank and his family have moved nine times in eleven years, and Frank has had it. This is the last move. No more new schools and new friends. This...

Noonie's Masterpiece

by Railsback, Lisa & Frieden, Sarajo

Fantastic illustrations with a fresh, contemporary look enrich this debut novel about a 10-year-old aspiring artist stuck living with an aunt, uncle, and cousi...

Does It Really Take Seven Years to Digest Swallowed Gum?

And Other Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask

by Donovan, Sandy

It takes seven years to digest swallowed gum. A penny placed on a train track can cause a train to derail. The average human consumes four spiders per year whi...

Ubiquitous

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

by Sidman, Joyce

From the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems . . .Ubiquitous (yoo-bik-wi-tuhs): Something that is (or seems to ...

Alchemy and Meggy Swann

by Cushman, Karen

Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann, newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was ...

Warriors in the Crossfire

by Flood, Nancy Bo

On the island of Saipan, in the South Pacific, the second world war is a distant idea. The Japanese have governed the island for twenty-five years and they mix...

The Batboy

by Lupica, Mike

It is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the ch...

Mockingbird

by Erskine, Kathryn

In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Dev...

The Mysterious Howling [The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place]

by Wood, Maryrose

Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line wit...