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Empire State Building

by Mann, Elizabeth B. & Witschonke, Alan

Discusses the history, design, and construction of New York City's Empire State Building.

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...

Mind Games

by Grunwell, Jeanne Marie

Each of the six members of Mr. Ennis's Mad Science Club presents a report of his or her experiences working on a science fair project to investigate ESP, which...

Rabble Rousers

Twenty Women Who Made a Difference

by Harness, Cheryl

Just in time for Women's History Month, here are short, spirited profiles of twenty women who impacted life in America by speaking out against injustice and fi...

A Stone in My Hand

by Clinton, Cathryn

Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her older bro...

Anthropologist

Scientist of the People

by Batten, Mary

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Celebrating Ramadan

by Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane

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Walk Across the Sea

by Fletcher, Susan

In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old E...

The War Within

A Novel of the Civil War

by Matas, Carol

In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the...

How Many Days Until Tomorrow?

by Janover, Caroline & Fremaux, Charlotte

Spending a month on a remote island in Maine with his teasing older brother and grandparents he hardly knows is not Josh's idea of a great time. But that's wha...