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When I Crossed No-Bob

by McMullan, Margaret

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and...

Ain't Nothing but a Man

My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

by Nelson, Scott Reynolds

Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are o...

Marie Curie

by Krull, Kathleen

Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that s...

Whale Port

by Foster, Mark

Long before the invention of electricity or the discovery of underground reservoirs of fossil fuels, people depended on whale oil to keep their lamps lit. A fe...

The True Meaning of Smekday

by Rex, Adam

When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to fi...

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Voices from a Medieval Village

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Elijah of Buxton

by Curtis, Christopher Paul

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and...

Outside and Inside Woolly Mammoths

by Markle, Sandra

Describes the anatomy of life of the woolly mammoths as well as why they became extinct.

Leepike Ridge

by Wilson, N. D.

While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of...

On the Wings of Heroes

by Peck, Richard

A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the prev...