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The Window

by Dorris, Michael

When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the fam...

Some of the Kinder Planets

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

A collection of nine stories by the popular Canadian author, including "The Night of the Pomegranate," "Save the Moon for Kerdy Dickus," and "The Hope Bakery."

It's Perfectly Normal

A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

by Harris, Robie H. & Emberley, Michael

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Lydia, Queen of Palestine

by Orlev, Uri & Halkin, Hillel

Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, a...

Cut from the Same Cloth

American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale

by San Souci, Robert D. & Yolen, Jane & Pinkney, J. Brian

A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawing from folktales, popular stories, and ballads.

The Boggart

by Cooper, Susan

After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brough...

Letters from Rifka

by Hesse, Karen

In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a...

Talking with Artists

by Cummings, Pat

Fourteen distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer encouragement...

The Wright Brothers

How They Invented the Airplane

by Freedman, Russell & Wright, Wilbur & Wright, Orville

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Baseball in April and Other Stories

by Soto, Gary

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.