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The Serpent Gift

Book 3, The Shamer Chronicles

by Kaaberbol, Lene

As her brother Davin is unjustly confined to a prison and looks for a way to escape, Dina, now twelve years old, meets her father and learns whether she shares...

The Adventures of Marco Polo

by Freedman, Russell

A look at the life of Marco Polo.

Black Duck

by Lisle, Janet Taylor

Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent compe...

Freedom Riders

John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

by Bausum, Ann

How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom dur...

Dreamhunter

Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet

by Knox, Elizabeth

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a ...

Sweet Thang

by Whittenberg, Allison

In 1975, life is not fair for fourteen-year-old Charmaine Upshaw, who shares a room with her brother, tries to impress a handsome classmate, and acts as careta...

Being Bindy

by Brugman, Alyssa

Australian teenager Bindy finds it hard to cope when her best friend of many years suddenly finds other friends and interests and her divorced parents present ...

Looking for Lucy Buick

by Murphy, Rita

Following the death of her favorite adoptive aunt, Lucy goes searching for her biological family who abandoned her in an old Buick eighteen years before.

Going Going

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of...

A Thief in the House of Memory

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fr...