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Going Going

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of...

A Thief in the House of Memory

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fr...

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.

Pictures in the Dark

by McCord, Patricia

Sisters Carlie and Sarah live in a little old house in Spokane, Washington. It's the 1950s and the Nevilles seem like the perfect family-Dad runs a floor-clean...

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...

Leap Day

by Mass, Wendy

On her fourth Leap birthday, when she turns sixteen, Josie has a number of momentous experiences, including taking her driver's test, auditioning for a school ...

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...