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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 ...

A Faraway Island

by Thor, Annika

Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-...

Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

by Sanderson, Brandon

When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to see that he is, in fact...

Joe Rat

by Barratt, Mark

In the dark underbelly of Victorian London a boy named Joe scavenges for scraps in the rat-infested sewers of the East End. They call it ‘toshing’. / Vicio...

The Doom Machine

by Teague, Mark

When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle Bud are busy trying to fix a car driven by Dr. Shumway and her dau...

The Champion of Children

The Story of Janusz Korczak

by Bogacki, Tomek

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children...

Dani Noir

by Suma, Nova Ren

If this were a movie, you'd open to the first page of this book and be transported to a whole other world. Everything would be in black and white, except maybe...

The Man Who Flies with Birds

by Vogel, Carole Garbuny & Leshem, Yossi

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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

by Compestine, Ying Chang

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Operation Yes

by Holmes, Sara Lewis

No one in her sixth-grade class knows quite what to make of Ms. Loupe, with her short hair, her taped square "stage" on the floor, and the interest in improvis...