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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure

by Murphy, Jim

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The Duel

The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr

by George, Judith St.

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were intertwined for some twenty-five years, with their resentments and misunderstandings culminating in a tragic duel.

Crossing to Paradise

by Crossley-Holland, Kevin

When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to Lo...

Ever

by Levine, Gail Carson

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash pro...

The Aurora County All-Stars

by Wiles, Deborah

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their cou...

The Adventures of Marco Polo

by Freedman, Russell

A look at the life of Marco Polo.

Dreamhunter

Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet

by Knox, Elizabeth

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a ...

Broken Song

by Lasky, Kathryn

In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the r...

The Amulet of Samarkand

The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One

by Stroud, Jonathan

Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovela...

Ben Franklin's Almanac

Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life

by Fleming, Candace

Brings together eighteenth century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin.