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Odd Man Out

by Ellis, Sarah

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Throwing Stones

by Collier, Kristi

In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing...

The Adventures of Marco Polo

by Freedman, Russell

A look at the life of Marco Polo.

What the Moon Saw

by Resau, Laura

Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a...

Victory

by Cooper, Susan

Two Children,Two Struggles,One Battle...One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a her...

Weedflower

by Kadohata, Cynthia

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Ind...

Black Duck

by Lisle, Janet Taylor

Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent compe...

Small Steps

by Sachar, Louis

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting pla...

Hidden Child

by Millman, Isaac

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Marooned

The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe

by Kraske, Robert

Marooned on a South Pacific island, Alexander Selkirk survived in complete solitude for more than four years. After his rescue in 1709 he became the real-life ...