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Antsy Does Time

by Shusterman, Neal

Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the...

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Jane Goodall

by Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta

Biography of Jane Goodall who at age twenty-six started a six-month project at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on Lake Tanganyika, Africa which became her ...

Freshman for President

by Condie, Ally

Fifteen-year-old Milo J. Wright and his best friend, Eden, are crazy to even consider participating in the election for President of the United States of Ameri...

Truancy

by Fukui, Isamu

In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, ...

Ever

by Levine, Gail Carson

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash pro...

Whirlwind

by Klass, David

In Firestorm, the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, seventeen-year-old Jack Danielson saved the world’s oceans, but at great personal cost – his parents...

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Reaching Helen Keller

by Miller, Sarah

At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf a...

Camp Rules

by Roter, Jordan

Freezing lakes, kitchen duty, canteen . . . chauffeurs? At Fern Lake Camp, no ensemble is complete without Prada sunglasses, and unwilling newcomer Penny Moore...

Tantalize

by Smith, Cynthia Leitich

When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries t...

Wildwood Dancing

by Marillier, Juliet

Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.