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Woods Runner

by Paulsen, Gary

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or...

Once

by Gleitzman, Morris

Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and t...

Kiss

by Wilson, Jacqueline

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT. Sylvie is sure Carl loves her, so why hasn’t he kissed her?Sylvie and Carl have always been best friends, and Sylvie’s always...

Ashes

by Lasky, Kathryn

Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm’s favorite pastime is reading. With Adolf Hitler slowly but unstoppably rising to power, Gaby turns to her books for comf...

Calamity Jack

by Hale, Shannon & Hale, Dean

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind…with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even...

The Death-Defying Pepper Roux

by McCaughrean, Geraldine

Pepper's fourteenth birthday is a momentous one. It's the day he's supposed to die. Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer ...

Truce

The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting

by Murphy, Jim

On July 29th 1914, the world’s peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What...

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Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood

by Dahl, Roald

Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood describe summer vacations in Norway and life in an English boarding school.

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

by Compestine, Ying Chang

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The Great Death

by Smelcer, John

The Great Death arrived with the man from downriver, the one who came with the light-colored strangers and had little red spots covering his body. Thirteen-yea...