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The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries

by McCully, Emily Arnold

This is the true story of a determined and resourceful young man whose intimate knowledge of two cultures later led him to play an important role in the openin...

MARY INGALLS ON HER OWN -LIB

by Willard, Elizabeth Kimmel

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Mary Leaves Little House

by Willard, Elizabeth Kimmel

Mary IngalLs lost her sight after a devastating bout of scarlet fever. Now Mary has the opportunity to attend the Iowa College for the Blind, where she will ge...

Chancey of the Maury River

by Amateau, Gigi

After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa horse, finds a new home with Claire who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his eyesight deteriorates...

Edward's Eyes

by MacLachlan, Patricia

Jake is a part of an extraordinary family.He has a life filled with art, music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of basebal...

Finest Kind

by Wait, Lea

WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Main...

Maria's Story

1773

by Nixon, Joan Lowery

In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish...

On Time

From Seasons to Split Seconds

by Skurzynski, Gloria

Discusses the astronomical causes of seasons, years, months and days, and how people through history have devised increasingly accurate calendars and clocks to...

Sky Memories

by Brisson, Pat & Minor, Wendell

When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.

Dan Thuy's New Life in America

by O'Connor, Karen

Describes the experience of thirteen-year-old Dan Thuy Huynh and her family, recently come from Vietnam to live in San Diego, California, as they adapt to thei...