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Heir Apparent

by Velde, Vivian Vande

While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to ...

Stand Tall

by Bauer, Joan

Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and...

Once upon a Marigold

by Ferris, Jean

A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and d...

The House of the Scorpion

by Farmer, Nancy

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled ...

Before We Were Free

by Alvarez, Julia

In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of th...

Ten Miles from Winnemucca

by Wyss, Thelma Hatch

When his mother and her new husband take off on a long honeymoon and his new stepbrother throws his belongings out the window, sixteen-year-old Martin J. Mille...

Wild Man Island

by Hobbs, Will

After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admira...

Left for Dead

A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

by Nelson, Pete

Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young bo...

When My Name Was Keoko

by Park, Linda Sue

With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threaten...

Hush

by Woodson, Jacqueline

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.