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First Shot

by Sorrells, Walter

As David enters his senior year of high school, a family secret emerges that could solve the mystery of why his mother was murdered two years ago.

Don't call me Ishmael

by Bauer, Michael W.

Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new...

Don't Call Me Ishmael

by Bauer, Michael W.

Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new...

Satchel Paige

Striking Out Jim Crow

by Sturm, James L. & Tommaso, Rich

Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him ou...

Mississippi Jack

Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and the Lily of the West

by Meyer, Louis

In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississ...

Cassandra's Sister

by Bennett, Veronica

A fictionalized biography of Jane Austen focusing on her early life growing up with her sister Cassandra in a large country parsonage family in southern Englan...

Useful Fools

by Schmidt, C. A.

A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor village children, becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb the clinic, killing ...

The Restless Dead

Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural

by Noyes, Deborah

In this companion volume to "Gothic! ten original dark tales" discover why we fear the undead.

I Want to Live

The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

by Lugovskaya, Nina & Lugovskai︠a︡, Nina & Bromfield, Andrew

"... offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin's Russia, where fear of arrest was a fact of daily life."--Inside flap of dust jacket.

Dream Factory

by Barkley, Brad & Hepler, Heather

Alternating chapters present the view points of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falli...