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The Savage

by Almond, David

Age 8-9. After his dads death, Blue Baker finds comfort in writing about a savage living alone in the woods near his home, but when the savage pays a night-tim...

Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones

by Sanderson, Brandon

Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing...

The Diamond of Darkhold

by DuPrau, Jeanne

When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hope...

Thanksgiving

The True Story

by Colman, Penny

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White Sands, Red Menace

by Klages, Ellen

It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secre...

Crossing to Paradise

by Crossley-Holland, Kevin

When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to Lo...

Ever

by Levine, Gail Carson

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash pro...

House of Many Ways

by Jones, Diana Wynne

When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house...

The Castaways

by Lawrence, Iain

Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted cast...

Who Was First?

Discovering the Americas

by Freedman, Russell

"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage...