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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...

Freedom Walkers

The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Freedman, Russell

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

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...

Odd Boy Out

Young Albert Einstein

by Brown, Don

An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Four Pictures by Emily Carr

by Debon, Nicolas

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

Strange Mr. Satie

by Anderson, M. T.

Introduces the life of the French composer, Erik Satie, who spent his entire career challenging established conventions in music.

Locomotion

by Woodson, Jacqueline

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home,...

Keeper of the Doves

by Byars, Betsy

In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father contin...

What Charlie Heard

by Gerstein, Mordicai

Describes the life of American composer Charles Ives, who wrote music which expressed all the sounds he heard in the world, but which was not well received dur...

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...