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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...

Weedflower

by Kadohata, Cynthia

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Ind...

Small Steps

by Sachar, Louis

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting pla...

Hidden Child

by Millman, Isaac

The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.

Marooned

The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe

by Kraske, Robert

Marooned on a South Pacific island, Alexander Selkirk survived in complete solitude for more than four years. After his rescue in 1709 he became the real-life ...

Our Eleanor

A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life

by Fleming, Candace

There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentu...

Only You Can Save Mankind

by Pratchett, Terry

Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Ma...

Defiance

by Hobbs, Valerie

While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.