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One Crazy Summer

by Williams-Garcia, Rita

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though...

War Games

A Novel Based on a True Story

by Couloumbis, Audrey & Couloumbis, Akila

Based on a true story of World War II.For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels unreal and far away. What’s real is working in his papa’s garden. Playing ...

An Eye for Color

The Story of Josef Albers

by Wing, Natasha

As a child, Josef Albers loved to watch his handyman father paint houses.When Josef grew up and became an artist, he reduced each image to its simplest shapes,...

Half-Minute Horrors

by Rich, Susan

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When You Reach Me

by Stead, Rebecca

Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhoo...

Orangutan Tongs

Poems to Tangle Your Tongue

by Agee, Jon

Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course--everyone has! It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's alway...

Ways to Live Forever

by Nicholls, Sally

Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish...

The Graveyard Book

by Gaiman, Neil & McKean, Dave

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of...

Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

Duel!

Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words

by Fradin, Dennis Brindell

In the early morning hours of July 11, 1804, two men stood facing each other on a New Jersey cliff side. One was the U.S. vice president, Aaron Burr, and the o...