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Starclimber

by Oppel, Kenneth

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Starclimber

by Oppel, Kenneth

"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can." Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert...

Children of war

voices of Iraqi refugees

by Ellis, Deborah

Iraqi children discuss how the Iraq war has affected their lives.

Written in Bone

Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

by Walker, Sally M.

This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived i...

The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies

by Lubar, David

A girl doesn’t have a date for the school dance—until her dad makes one for her in his lab. “Lily—meet Stitchy.” A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving ...

Response

by Volponi, Paul

When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.

Bull Rider

by Williams, Suzanne

All it takes is eight seconds....Cam O'Mara, grandson and younger brother of bull-riding champions, is not interested in partaking in the family sport. Cam is ...

Partly Cloudy

Poems of Love and Longing

by Soto, Gary

A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary SotoThe fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally res...

The True Adventures of Charley Darwin

by Meyer, Carolyn

The fascinating journey of a famous naturalistYoung Charley Darwin hated school—he much preferred to be outside studying birds' eggs, feathers, and insects. ...

The White Gates

by Ramthun, Bonnie

When his mother becomes the doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, twelve-year-old Tor learns of a curse placed on the town's doctors many years before by an eccentric...