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What Happened on Planet Kid

by Conly, Jane Leslie

To help her deal with her separation from her family, worry about her mother's serious operation, and suspicions about a new friend's abusive father, twelve-ye...

Earthly Astonishments

by Jocelyn, Marthe

In 1884, after being sold as a servant by her parents to a harsh school mistress, tiny twelve-year-old Josephine, who stands less than twenty-nine inches tall,...

Tucket's Gold

by Paulsen, Gary

Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their ...

Frightful's Mountain

by George, Jean Craighead

As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, incl...

The Gate in the Wall

by Howard, Ellen

In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her...

Lone Wolf

by Franklin, Kristine L.

When a large family moves into the house near where he and his father live in the woods, Perry's friendship with the oldest girl helps him come to terms with h...

Around the World in a Hundred Years

From Henry the Navigator to Magellan

by Fritz, Jean & Venti, Anthony Bacon

Examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century which resulted in more accurate maps.

Time for Andrew

A Ghost Story

by Hahn, Mary Downing

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with h...

Out of Step

by Auch, Mary Jane

After his father remarries, twelve-year-old Jeremy begins to feel that there is no place for him in a family which now includes a stepsister his age who is a s...