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Beowulf

A Hero's Tale Retold

by Rumford, James

A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, an...

The Wednesday Wars

by Schmidt, Gary D.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in ...

The Red Shoe

by Dubosarsky, Ursula

Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally ...

Rex Zero and the End of the World

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his p...

How It Happened in Peach Hill

by Jocelyn, Marthe

When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ...

The Green Glass Sea

by Klages, Ellen

It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When s...

Larklight

A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space

by Reeve, Philip

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The Black Room

Book Two of the Dark Ground Trilogy

by Cross, Gillian

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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...

Memories of Survival

by Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal & Steinhardt, Bernice

A story of surviving the Holocaust in Poland, illustrated in a collection of embroidered panels, and told in the survivor's own words.