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Hitler Youth

Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the you...

Eager

by Fox, Helen

Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.

The Voice That Challenged a Nation

Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

by Freedman, Russell

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A Hat Full of Sky

by Pratchett, Terry

Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high ...

So B. It

by Weeks, Sarah

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out w...

Ghost Girl

A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

by Ray, Delia

Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over t...

Dreaming in Black & White

by Jung, Reinhardt

A boy dreams that he is a student during the period of the Nazi Third Reich in Germany, where he is persecuted for being physically handicapped.

Lucy the Giant

by Smith, Sherri L.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as ...

The Boy in the Burning House

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, wh...

Fair Weather

by Peck, Richard

In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Ex...