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The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

by Birdsall, Jeanne

The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Rodrick Rules

by Kinney, Jeff

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Ro...

The True Meaning of Smekday

by Rex, Adam

When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to fi...

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Voices from a Medieval Village

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Elijah of Buxton

by Curtis, Christopher Paul

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and...

Eggs

by Spinelli, Jerry

Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each oth...

Outside and Inside Woolly Mammoths

by Markle, Sandra

Describes the anatomy of life of the woolly mammoths as well as why they became extinct.

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo

An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea

by Montgomery, Sy

Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees.

A Drowned Maiden's Hair

A Melodrama

by Schlitz, Laura Amy

At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her...

What If You Met a Knight?

by Adkins, Jan

Forget jousts and quests and dragons—a real knight had real work to do, lots of mouths to feed, and trouble could ride over the hill at any moment. Castles w...