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Stompin' at the Savoy

The Story of Norma Miller

by Govenar, Alan

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The Game of Silence

by Erdrich, Louise

Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.

Looking for Seabirds

Journal from an Alaskan Voyage

by Webb, Sophie

To human eyes, the remote Aleutian Islands of Alaska look barren and rocky. The waters seem frigid, the high, sweeping winds intolerable, and the seas rolling....

Inside Grandad

by Dickinson, Peter

Gavin tries to enlist the help of selkies--seal people--to communicate with his comatose grandfather.

Olive's Ocean

by Henkes, Kevin

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her...

Mind Games

by Grunwell, Jeanne Marie

Each of the six members of Mr. Ennis's Mad Science Club presents a report of his or her experiences working on a science fair project to investigate ESP, which...

New Year Be Coming!

A Gullah Year

by Boling, Katharine

Verses written in the Gullah dialect of the southeastern seacoast describe the months of the year and activities that characterize each.

Please, Malese!

A Trickster Tale from Haiti

by MacDonald, Amy

Using his tricky ways, Malese takes advantage of his neighbors, until they catch on, after which he manages to pull an even bigger trick on them.

Stopping to Home

by Wait, Lea

In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her d...

Grover G. Graham and Me

by Quattlebaum, Mary

In his eighth foster home since the death of his great-grandmother, eleven-year-old Ben becomes very attached to a baby living with the same family and worries...