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The True Meaning of Smekday

by Rex, Adam

When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to fi...

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Voices from a Medieval Village

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Venom

by Singer, Marilyn

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The Wild Girls

by Murphy, Pat

When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the...

Book of a Thousand Days

by Hale, Shannon

When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a...

Elijah of Buxton

by Curtis, Christopher Paul

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and...

Emi and the Rhino Scientist

by Carson, Mary Kay

"Story of how the endangered species breeding expert Terri Roth struggled for years to help a rare Sumatran rhino named Emi become a mother. ... Follow the rol...

The Aurora County All-Stars

by Wiles, Deborah

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their cou...

Night of the Howling Dogs

by Salisbury, Graham

In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake...

Darkwing

by Oppel, Kenneth

Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.