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Cam's Quest

The Continuing Story of Princess Nevermore and the Wizard's Apprentice

by Regan, Dian Curtis

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Beowulf

A Hero's Tale Retold

by Rumford, James

A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, an...

The Siren Song

The Cronus Chronicles, Book Two

by Ursu, Anne

Inside an ordinary middle school in an ordinary city, a small redheadedeighth grader is doing something very ordinary, indeed.Ever since Charlotte Mielswetzski...

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk

by Fleischman, Sid

A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's ...

I Want to Live

The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

by Lugovskaya, Nina & Lugovskai︠a︡, Nina & Bromfield, Andrew

"... offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin's Russia, where fear of arrest was a fact of daily life."--Inside flap of dust jacket.

First Light

by Stead, Rebecca

When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his ...

Open court

by Clippinger, Carol

A thirteen-year-old tennis prodigy grapples with her seemingly incompatible desires to be an exceptional athlete and a normal teenager.

Open Court

by Clippinger, Carol

A thirteen-year-old tennis prodigy grapples with her seemingly incompatible desires to be an exceptional athlete and a normal teenager.

Eggs

by Spinelli, Jerry

Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each oth...

Dream Factory

by Barkley, Brad & Hepler, Heather

Alternating chapters present the view points of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falli...