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Lucy Long Ago

Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From

by Thimmesh, Catherine

Illustrated in full color throughout with stunning compuer-generated artwork and with rare paleo photography, this story of scientific sleuthing invites us to ...

Silvertongue

by Fletcher, Charlie

The city of London is in the middle of one of its most destructive wars in history. And yet most of its inhabitants don't even know it. The battle between the ...

Bill Pennant, Babe Ruth, and Me

by Tocher, Timothy

At the start of the 1920 baseball season, 16-year-old Hank Cobb is assigned to train the New York Giants’ new mascot, a Mexican wildcat named Bill Pennant. B...

Deep in the Heart of High School

by Goldbach, Veronica

Vanna Reynolds was popular and happy back in Plano, Texas, but now she lives with her mother in a tiny apartment in San Antonio. How can she start her freshman...

Tropical Secrets

Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

by Engle, Margarita

Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own,...

DENIED DETAINED DEPORTED

by Bausum, Ann

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Lyonesse

The Well Between the Worlds

by Llewellyn, Sam

Eleven-year-old Idris Limpet, living with his family in the once noble but now evil and corrupt island country of Lyonesse, finds his life taking a dramatic tu...

The Demigod Files

by Riordan, Rick

How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's...

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

by Cochrane, Mick

For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdraw...

Diego

Bigger than Life

by Bernier-Grand, Carmen T.

"The life and work of the artist Diego Rivera is told through chronological poems that capture salient points in his life"--Provided by publisher.