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Raven Summer

by Almond, David C.

A captivating new novel from Printz Award winner David Almond.Liam and his friend Max are playing in their neighborhood when the call of a bird leads them out ...

A Faraway Island

by Thor, Annika

Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-...

Signal

by DeFelice, Cynthia

After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an a...

White Heat

The Perfect Fire Trilogy, Book Two

by Grant, K. M.

Picking up where Blue Flame left readers, Raimon has escaped the pyre and is hiding deep within the mountains of the Occitan. He longs to follow Yolanda to Par...

Once Was Lost

by Zarr, Sara

Samara Taylor used to believe in miracles. She used to believe in a lot of things. As a pastor's kid, it's hard not to buy in to the idea of the perfect family...

Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

by Sanderson, Brandon

When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to see that he is, in fact...

Joe Rat

by Barratt, Mark

In the dark underbelly of Victorian London a boy named Joe scavenges for scraps in the rat-infested sewers of the East End. They call it ‘toshing’. / Vicio...

Half-Minute Horrors

by Rich, Susan

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The Dust Bowl Through the Lens

How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster

by Sandler, Martin W.

The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and disaster. The worst ecological disaster in our nation’s history turned more than 100 million acres of fertile land a...

The Doom Machine

by Teague, Mark

When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle Bud are busy trying to fix a car driven by Dr. Shumway and her dau...