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Can You Guess My Name?

Traditional Tales around the World

by Sierra, Judy

A collection of fifteen folktales from all over the world, including stories that resemble "The Three Pigs," "The Bremen Town Musicians," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

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.

Life on Earth

The Story of Evolution

by Jenkins, Steve

Provides an overview of the origin and evolution of life on earth and of what has been learned from the study of evolution.

Keeper of the Doves

by Byars, Betsy

In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father contin...

Earthborn

by Waugh, Sylvia

Upon suddenly learning that her parents are researchers from another planet and they must leave in seven days or risk discovery, twelve-year-old Nesta decides ...

Up on Cloud Nine

by Fine, Anne

While Stolly struggles to regain consciousness in a hospital bed, Ian recalls some of their best and worst times together as he writes a biography of his eccen...

Peacock and Other Poems

by Worth, Valerie

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Saffy's Angel

by McKay, Hilary

After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy...

What Charlie Heard

by Gerstein, Mordicai

Describes the life of American composer Charles Ives, who wrote music which expressed all the sounds he heard in the world, but which was not well received dur...

Dirty Laundry Pile

Poems in Different Voices

by Janeczko, Paul B.

A scarecrow, washing machine, cow, and other objects and animals express themselves in this collection of poems.