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Best Shot in the West

The Adventures of Nat Love

by MCKISSACK, Patricia C. & McKissack, Frederick L.

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One Crazy Summer

by Williams-Garcia, Rita

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though...

The Champion of Children

The Story of Janusz Korczak

by Bogacki, Tomek

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children...

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...

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...

Elijah of Buxton

by Curtis, Christopher Paul

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and...

The Last Dragon

by Mari, Silvana De

Struggling to survive in a postapocalyptic world after his village is destroyed, Yorsh, the earth's last elf, must embark on a perilous quest to decipher a pow...

A Maze Me

Poems for Girls

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

Life is a tangle of twisting paths. Some short. Some long. There are dead ends. And there are choices. And wrong turns, and detours, and yield signs, and instr...

Four Pictures by Emily Carr

by Debon, Nicolas

Emily Carr's life story is told in this highly original picture book.

Space Race

by Waugh, Sylvia

When he learns that he and his father must soon leave Earth, eleven-year-old Thomas Derwent is upset, but a terrible accident that separates the two of them ma...