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Sweet Thang

by Whittenberg, Allison

In 1975, life is not fair for fourteen-year-old Charmaine Upshaw, who shares a room with her brother, tries to impress a handsome classmate, and acts as careta...

Broken Song

by Lasky, Kathryn

In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the r...

Including Alice

by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment.

So B. It

by Weeks, Sarah

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out w...

The Amulet of Samarkand

The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One

by Stroud, Jonathan

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovela...

Ben Franklin's Almanac

Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life

by Fleming, Candace

Brings together eighteenth century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin.

Project UltraSwan

by Osborn, Elinor

Describes the life of large trumpeter swans, how they nearly became extinct, and efforts to help them relearn migration routes and to reintroduce them to the e...

Gathering the Dew

by Ho, Minfong

After the Communists take over Cambodia and her family is torn from their city life, twelve-year-old Nakri and her older sister attempt to maintain their hope ...

Once upon a Marigold

by Ferris, Jean

A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and d...

Wild Man Island

by Hobbs, Will

After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admira...