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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.

Project UltraSwan

by Osborn, Elinor

Describes the life of large trumpeter swans, how they nearly became extinct, and efforts to help them relearn migration routes and to reintroduce them to the e...

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...

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...

Lucy the Giant

by Smith, Sherri L.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as ...

The Great Whale of Kansas

by Jennings, Richard

While digging a hole in his back yard, an eleven-year-old Kansas boy finds the fossilized remains of a gigantic prehistoric animal, a discovery that brings bot...

Angels Turn Their Backs

by Buffie, Margaret

Fifteen-year-old Addy panics and runs back to her room, her heart -- pounding. She can't do it. She can't go to school. Addy is afraid afraid of taking even on...