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Red Hot Salsa

Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States

by Carlson, Lori Marie

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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...

George Washington

An Illustrated Biography

by Adler, David A.

Our first president has become an icon, but Washington the man has always remained a mystery, even today. Already a national hero in his early twenties-well be...

Fleshmarket

by Morgan, Nicola

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr...

Pagan's Vows

by Jinks, Catherine

Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the Frenc...

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...

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...