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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Voices from a Medieval Village

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Elijah of Buxton

by Curtis, Christopher Paul

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and...

The Aurora County All-Stars

by Wiles, Deborah

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their cou...

Darkwing

by Oppel, Kenneth

Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.

Outside and Inside Woolly Mammoths

by Markle, Sandra

Describes the anatomy of life of the woolly mammoths as well as why they became extinct.

Walker Evans

Photographer of America

by Nau, Thomas

Determined to "capture life has he saw it," Walker Evans (1903-1975) became one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, shooting in the New York C...

Eager's Nephew

by Fox, Helen

In a world which has banned self-aware robots, Eager and his brilliant but headstrong nephew, Jonquil, come out of hiding to visit the Bell family, and soon be...

Odd Man Out

by Ellis, Sarah

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The Adventures of Marco Polo

by Freedman, Russell

A look at the life of Marco Polo.

Victory

by Cooper, Susan

Two Children,Two Struggles,One Battle...One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a her...