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The Teacher's Funeral

A Comedy in Three Parts

by Peck, Richard

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes ove...

Malka

by Pressler, Mirjam

In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced ...

Everything on a Waffle

by Horvath, Polly

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpr...

Cold Feet

by DeFelice, Cynthia C. & Parker, Robert Andrew

After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him.

The Ashwater Experiment

by Koss, Amy Goldman

Twelve-year-old Hillary, who has traveled across the country all her life with her parents who sell crafts, finds herself facing a stay of nine whole months in...

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the [cf4]Endurance[cf3]

by Armstrong, Jennifer

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally ...

Letters from Rifka

by Hesse, Karen

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a...