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Quest for the Tree Kangaroo

An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea

by Montgomery, Sy

Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees.

Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round

Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

by Rappaport, Doreen

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A Drowned Maiden's Hair

A Melodrama

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her...

Finest Kind

by Wait, Lea

WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Main...

Manga Claus

The Blade of Kringle

by Marumas, Nathaniel

A disgruntled employee, dark elven magic, and a horde of cursed toys threaten to put an end to Christmas just as the North Pole is getting ready for the hap-ha...

Dizzy

by Winter, Jonah

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The Pinhoe Egg

A Chrestomanci Book

by Jones, Diana Wynne

Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to...

What If You Met a Knight?

by Adkins, Jan

Forget jousts and quests and dragons—a real knight had real work to do, lots of mouths to feed, and trouble could ride over the hill at any moment. Castles w...

Water Street

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they wan...

Escape!

The Story of the Great Houdini

by Fleischman, Sid

A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his e...