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Thumb on a Diamond

by Roberts, Ken

The kids from New Auckland are dying to see something outside of their little villiage. Then, Thumb come up with a plan to form a baseball team so the kids can...

The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow

by Umansky, Kaye

Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along th...

The Prairie Builders

Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands

by III, Sneed B. Collard

Join the scientists working in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge as they work to rebuild the tallgrass prairie that once covered much of the Midwest and ...

A Maze Me

Poems for Girls

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

Life is a tangle of twisting paths. Some short. Some long. There are dead ends. And there are choices. And wrong turns, and detours, and yield signs, and instr...

The Pepins and Their Problems

by Horvath, Polly

The reader is invited to help solve the Pepin family's unusual problems, which include having a cow who creates lemonade rather than milk and having to cope wi...

The Crow-Girl

The Children of Crow Cove

by Bredsdorff, Bodil

After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences that exem...

Four Pictures by Emily Carr

by Debon, Nicolas

Emily Carr's life story is told in this highly original picture book.

Strange Mr. Satie

by Anderson, M. T.

Introduces the life of the French composer, Erik Satie, who spent his entire career challenging established conventions in music.

Circle of Doom

by Kennemore, Tim

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie uses ingredients both ordinary and not so ordinary to make a series of magic potions, to the growing astonishment of her younger broth...

Locomotion

by Woodson, Jacqueline

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home,...