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Gorilla Doctors

Saving Endangered Great Apes

by Turner, Pamela S.

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Permanent Rose

by McKay, Hilary

While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently di...

Hitler Youth

Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the you...

A Dream of Freedom

The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968

by McWhorter, Diane

In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of ...

The Sea of Trolls

by Farmer, Nancy

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless...

Indigo's Star

by McKay, Hilary

Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the sch...

Science Verse

by Scieszka, Jon

When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but scienc...

Ghost Girl

A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

by Ray, Delia

Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over t...

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...

Cold Tom

by Prue, Sally

Struggling to find a place for himself, Tom flees the elven parents who hunt to kill him and becomes involved with human "demons" in the nearby city.