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Walter Wick's Optical Tricks

by Wick, Walter

Presents a series of optical illusions and explains what is seen.

Holes

by Sachar, Louis

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp i...

While No One Was Watching

by Conly, Jane Leslie

When two brothers steal a rabbit from a back yard in the rich part of town, the incident brings about their collision with other children from a background ver...

The Exiles in Love

by McKay, Hilary

When Big Grandma takes the four Conroy sisters on holiday as a cure for the "family failing," the girls wonder if their grandmother herself is still susceptibl...

The Window

by Dorris, Michael

When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the fam...

Wringer

by Spinelli, Jerry

As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

Growing Up in Coal Country

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jip

His Story

by Paterson, Katherine

While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

The Wanderings of Odysseus

The Story of 'The Odyssey

by Sutcliff, Rosemary & Lee, Alan

A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.

Galax-Arena

A Novel

by Rubinstein, Gillian

Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter, and Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth perform death-d...