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Small Steps

by Sachar, Louis

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting pla...

Marooned

The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe

by Kraske, Robert

Marooned on a South Pacific island, Alexander Selkirk survived in complete solitude for more than four years. After his rescue in 1709 he became the real-life ...

Our Eleanor

A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life

by Fleming, Candace

There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentu...

Only You Can Save Mankind

by Pratchett, Terry

Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Ma...

Defiance

by Hobbs, Valerie

While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

Hitler Youth

Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the you...

The Search for Belle Prater

by White, Ruth

In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missi...

Shadow Life

A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family A Friend Called Anne

by Denenberg, Barry & Maarsen, Jacqueline van

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Secrets of the Sphinx

by Giblin, James Cross

Discusses the Great Sphinx on the Giza plateau of Egypt, presenting research and speculation about it origins and future.

Buttermilk Hill

by White, Ruth

When Lindy's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own w...