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How It Happened in Peach Hill

by Jocelyn, Marthe

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ...

Larklight

A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space

by Reeve, Philip

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Day of the Scarab

Book Three of the Oracle Prophecies

by Fisher, Catherine

As she works to return peace to Two Lands, Mirany travels through the Gates of the Underworld.

Ask Me No Questions

by Budhos, Marina

Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2...

Skybreaker

by Oppel, Kenneth

Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumor...

Memories of Survival

by Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal & Steinhardt, Bernice

A story of surviving the Holocaust in Poland, illustrated in a collection of embroidered panels, and told in the survivor's own words.

Elsewhere

by Zevin, Gabrielle

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sea of Trolls

by Farmer, Nancy

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless...