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Hidden Child

by Millman, Isaac

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

The Journey That Saved Curious George

The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey

by Borden, Louise

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Listening for Lions

by Whelan, Gloria

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to...

The Prairie Builders

Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands

by III, Sneed B. Collard

Join the scientists working in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge as they work to rebuild the tallgrass prairie that once covered much of the Midwest and ...

Runny Babbit

A Billy Sook

by Silverstein, Shel

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The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

by Shulevitz, Uri

A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Ita...

Here Today

by Martin, Ann M.

In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger s...

Inkheart

by Funke, Cornelia

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters a...

Gregor the Overlander

by Collins, Suzanne

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, coc...

Maggie's Door

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life ...