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The Diamond of Darkhold

by DuPrau, Jeanne

When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hope...

The Smile

by Napoli, Donna Jo

In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about t...

White Sands, Red Menace

by Klages, Ellen

It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secre...

The Midnight Twins

by Mitchard, Jacquelyn

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Brooklyn Bridge

by Hesse, Karen

In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apar...

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Jane Goodall

by Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta

Biography of Jane Goodall who at age twenty-six started a six-month project at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on Lake Tanganyika, Africa which became her ...

Playing with Flying Keys

by Lang, Lang & French, Michael

Life story of Lang Lang, a Chinese pianist, from his early days of poverty and sacrifice to his coming-of-age as a renowned musician.

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...

Genius Squad

by Jinks, Catherine

After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from th...

Child of Dandelions

by Nanji, Shenaaz

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