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The Donner Party

A Doomed Journey

by McNeese, Tim

In the mid-1840s, a group of 33 settlers, their goods, and animals began moving west by wagon train from Springfield, Illinois, to California. After stopping i...

Soldier's Secret

The Story of Deborah Sampson

by Klass, Sheila Solomon

During the Revolutionary War, a young woman named Deborah Sampson disguises herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.

Abraham Lincoln (Leaders of the Civil War Era)

by Koestler-Grack, Rachel A.

Born to two uneducated farmers, Abraham Lincoln came from meager origins and had only 18 months of formal education. Yet, he worked himself up from farmer to r...

Shut Up!

by Reynolds, Marilyn

SYNOPSIS, Shut Up!, by Marilyn ReynoldsWhen their mother gets sent to Iraq with her National Guard Unit, seventeen-year-old Mario Barajas and his ten-year-old ...

Antsy Does Time

by Shusterman, Neal

Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the...

Zombie Blondes

by James, Brian Ll

From the moment Hannah Sanders arrived in town, she felt there was something wrong. A lot of houses were for sale, and the town seemed infected by an unearthly...

The Pretty One

by Klam, Cheryl

All Megan Fletcher had wanted was to be like her sister Lucy: a beautiful, thin girl whom everyone at the Chesapeake School for Performing Arts worshipped and ...

Love, Stargirl

by Spinelli, Jerry

Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter...

A Darkling Plain

by Reeve, Philip

While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.

The Passage

by Killgore, James

IT IS LATE SPRING of 1862 and the Civil War is raging. Eager to serve on behalf of the South, sixteen-year-old Sam Wood of Yazoo City, Mississippi, forges his ...