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Criss Cross

by Perkins, Lynne Rae

Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning ...

The Game of Silence

by Erdrich, Louise

Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.

A Dream of Freedom

The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968

by McWhorter, Diane

In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of ...

A Hat Full of Sky

by Pratchett, Terry

Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high ...

So B. It

by Weeks, Sarah

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out w...

Ghost Girl

A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

by Ray, Delia

Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over t...

Olive's Ocean

by Henkes, Kevin

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her...

Dreaming in Black & White

by Jung, Reinhardt

A boy dreams that he is a student during the period of the Nazi Third Reich in Germany, where he is persecuted for being physically handicapped.

Cold Tom

by Prue, Sally

Struggling to find a place for himself, Tom flees the elven parents who hunt to kill him and becomes involved with human "demons" in the nearby city.

Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories

by Yee, Paul

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