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The Savage

by Almond, David

Age 8-9. After his dads death, Blue Baker finds comfort in writing about a savage living alone in the woods near his home, but when the savage pays a night-tim...

Likely Story

All That Glitters

by Etten, David Van

ALL THAT GLITTERS is definitely not gold as Mallory struggles to control the runaway train that is her brand-new soap opera. At the end of Likely Story, Mallor...

White Sands, Red Menace

by Klages, Ellen

It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secre...

Brooklyn Bridge

by Hesse, Karen

In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apar...

Mao's Last Dancer

by Cunxin, Li

At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academ...

The Great Race

The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908

by Blackwood, Gary L.

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Boy Who Dared

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, HITLER YOUTH, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner li...

Darkside

by Becker, Tom

Jonathan Starling's home has been attacked, his dad is in an asylum, he's running for his life, and there's nowhere to hide. Jonathan has stumbled upon London'...

Smiles to Go

by Spinelli, Jerry

Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the ...

Yellow Flag

by Lipsyte, Robert

In any race, there are drivers and, at the front of the pack, there are racers. In the final laps, it's the racer who moves his car through the sweet spot, pic...