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The Baptism

by Moses, Shelia P.

When you turn twelve in Occoneechee Neck in Jackson, North Carolina, everything changes. You get to do stuff you couldn't do when you were eleven. And it means...

Bethany Hamilton

Follow Your Dreams! (Defining Moments)

by Sandler, Michael

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Stompin' at the Savoy

The Story of Norma Miller

by Govenar, Alan

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Cecilia's Year

by Abraham, Susan & Abraham, Denise Gonzales

Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's pl...

Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind

by Stewart, Jennifer J.

Twelve-year-old Annie is reluctant to travel to a village in Nepal for her father's two-month medical mission, but once there she assists at the clinic, makes ...

Inside Grandad

by Dickinson, Peter

Gavin tries to enlist the help of selkies--seal people--to communicate with his comatose grandfather.

Rabble Rousers

Twenty Women Who Made a Difference

by Harness, Cheryl

Just in time for Women's History Month, here are short, spirited profiles of twenty women who impacted life in America by speaking out against injustice and fi...

New Year Be Coming!

A Gullah Year

by Boling, Katharine

Verses written in the Gullah dialect of the southeastern seacoast describe the months of the year and activities that characterize each.

Stopping to Home

by Wait, Lea

In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her d...

Grover G. Graham and Me

by Quattlebaum, Mary

In his eighth foster home since the death of his great-grandmother, eleven-year-old Ben becomes very attached to a baby living with the same family and worries...