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The Donner Party

A Doomed Journey

by McNeese, Tim

In the mid-1840s, a group of 33 settlers, their goods, and animals began moving west by wagon train from Springfield, Illinois, to California. After stopping i...

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

by Cochrane, Mick

For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdraw...

Soldier's Secret

The Story of Deborah Sampson

by Klass, Sheila Solomon

During the Revolutionary War, a young woman named Deborah Sampson disguises herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.

Young Samurai

The Way of the Warrior

by Bradford, Chris

Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan, his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by a legendary master swordsman ...

The Alaska Highway (Building America

Then and Now)

by Kupperberg, Paul

In early 1942, the first of more than 18,000 U.S. military and civilian workers and countless tons of equipment were shipped across Canada and Alaska to one of...

Abraham Lincoln (Leaders of the Civil War Era)

by Koestler-Grack, Rachel A.

Born to two uneducated farmers, Abraham Lincoln came from meager origins and had only 18 months of formal education. Yet, he worked himself up from farmer to r...

Something Happened

by Logsted, Greg

"All around me I see people laughing, joking, and walking around with these huge, goofy smiles plastered on their faces. I've begun to wonder how they do it, a...

Hollywood & Maine

by Whittenberg, Allison

With a new boyfriend, her own room (finally!), and a modeling agency trying to convince her to sign with them, Charmaine Upshaw’s life is just about perfect....

Shut Up!

by Reynolds, Marilyn

SYNOPSIS, Shut Up!, by Marilyn ReynoldsWhen their mother gets sent to Iraq with her National Guard Unit, seventeen-year-old Mario Barajas and his ten-year-old ...

Antsy Does Time

by Shusterman, Neal

Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the...