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A Gift from Childhood

Memories of an African Boyhood

by Diakité, Baba Wagué

Baba Wagué is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassaro to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tra...

The Dreamer

by Ryan, Pam Muñoz

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Heart of a Shepherd

by Parry, Rosanne

Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his fathe...

The Underneath

by Appelt, Kathi

An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many oth...

Chancey of the Maury River

by Amateau, Gigi

After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa horse, finds a new home with Claire who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his eyesight deteriorates...

When I Crossed No-Bob

by McMullan, Margaret

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and...

Ain't Nothing but a Man

My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

by Nelson, Scott Reynolds

Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are o...

Marie Curie

by Krull, Kathleen

Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that s...

Whale Port

by Foster, Mark

Long before the invention of electricity or the discovery of underground reservoirs of fossil fuels, people depended on whale oil to keep their lamps lit. A fe...

Leepike Ridge

by Wilson, N. D.

While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of...