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A Gift from Childhood

Memories of an African Boyhood

by Diakité, Baba Wagué

Baba Wagué is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassaro to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tra...

Chasing Orion

by Lasky, Kathryn

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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 ...

We the Children [Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School]

by Clements, Andrew

Benjamin Pratt's school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he's going 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 ...

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...

Planet Hunter

Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths

by Wittenstein, Vicki Oransky

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Dinosaur Mountain

Digging into the Jurassic Age

by Ray, Deborah Kogan

Earl Douglass was a teenager when he first heard about the Bone Wars—the frenzied race between paleontologists to unearth and classify dinosaur fossils—and he ...

If Stones Could Speak

Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge

by Aronson, Marc

What are the secrets of the ancient stone circle? Were the carefully placed stones a burial site, an ancient calendar, a place of Druid worship...or even a sit...

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...