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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 ...

Boris

by Rylant, Cynthia

A series of poems describes a pet cat, Boris, and the companionship between Boris and his owner.

Montmorency on the Rocks

Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?

by Updale, Eleanor

In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solvin...

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 ...

Finding Grace

by Brugman, Alyssa

Undecided about her future after graduating from high school, an Australian girl takes a job caring for a brain-damaged woman. RACHEL HAS JUST graduated from h...

Margaux with an X

by Koertge, Ron

YA. Margauxis the prettiest girl in her school, blazingly intelligent, and witheringly apathetic. Known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, she ...

So B. It

by Weeks, Sarah

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out w...

Stitches

by Huser, Glen

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Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories

by Yee, Paul

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Parasite Pig

by Sleator, William

Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, is taken to the planet J'koot, along with his friend Katie, by extraterrestrials intent on playing the ...