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Odd Boy Out

Young Albert Einstein

by Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

A Hat Full of Sky

by Pratchett, Terry

Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high ...

Ghost Girl

A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

by Ray, Delia

Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over t...

Four Pictures by Emily Carr

by Debon, Nicolas

Emily Carr's life story is told in this highly original picture book.

Keeper of the Doves

by Byars, Betsy

In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father contin...

What Charlie Heard

by Gerstein, Mordicai

Describes the life of American composer Charles Ives, who wrote music which expressed all the sounds he heard in the world, but which was not well received dur...

The Boy in the Burning House

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, wh...

Fair Weather

by Peck, Richard

In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Ex...

Asteroid Impact

by Henderson, Doug

Text and illustrations explore the theory that the collision of an asteroid with the Earth ended the Cretaceous Period and caused the extinction of the dinosau...

Space Race

by Waugh, Sylvia

When he learns that he and his father must soon leave Earth, eleven-year-old Thomas Derwent is upset, but a terrible accident that separates the two of them ma...