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A Subway for New York

by Weitzman, David

A behind-thescenes look at an underground miracle On October 27, 1904, the first section of the most famous subway system in the world was opened for business....

Chasing the Falconers

by Korman, Gordon

Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison for treason -- unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to...

Gregor and the Curse of the Warm-bloods

Book Three in the Underland Chronicles

by Collins, Suzanne

Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the ...

The Lace Dowry

by Cheng, Andrea

Juli hasn't thought much about the future, but suddenly at her mother's urging she must think about it. Juli's mother has been saving money for her daughter's ...

Hattie on Her Way

by Clark, Clara Gillow

In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the c...

Ice Drift

by Taylor, Theodore W.

Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.

Here Today

by Martin, Ann M.

In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger s...

Spilled Water

by Grindley, Sally

This story takes place in modern-day China, where one girl's bravery overcomes circumstances that are extraordinary from a Western point-of-view. On the day th...

Cabin on Trouble Creek

by Leeuwen, Jean Van & Van Leeuwen, Jean

In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and ...

The People of Sparks

by DuPrau, Jeanne

Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.