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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...

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...

The Voice That Challenged a Nation

Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

by Freedman, Russell

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The Year of Secret Assignments

by Moriarty, Jaclyn

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, ...

The Canine Connection

Stories about Dogs and People

by Hearne, Betsy

Twelve short stories that reflect the varied ways that dogs and humans relate.

The Canning Season

by Horvath, Polly

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a va...

Revenge of the Whale

The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

by Philbrick, Nathaniel

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the autho...

Cheating Lessons

by Cappo, Nan Willard

When her team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved.

Lucy the Giant

by Smith, Sherri L.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as ...