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The Voice That Challenged a Nation

Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

by Freedman, Russell

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Ghost Girl

A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

by Ray, Delia

Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over t...

Olive's Ocean

by Henkes, Kevin

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her...

Cold Tom

by Prue, Sally

Struggling to find a place for himself, Tom flees the elven parents who hunt to kill him and becomes involved with human "demons" in the nearby city.

Talkin' about Bessie

The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

by Grimes, Nikki

A biography of the woman who became the first licensed Afro-American pilot.

Familiar and Haunting

Collected Stories

by Pearce, Philippa

A collection of thirty-seven stories previously published in magazines or books, including tales of animals, ghosts, and everyday life.

Shaper

by Haas, Jessie

While recovering from the loss of his dog Shep, fourteen-year-old Chad tries to learn how to control the family dog Queenie with the help of a friendly new nei...

Mara's Stories

Glimmers in the Darkness

by Schmidt, Gary

Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the women and c...

The Seeing Stone

Arthur Trilogy, Book One

by Crossley-Holland, Kevin

In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legend...

The Boy in the Burning House

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, wh...