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The Wild Kid

by Mazer, Harry

Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.

Walter Wick's Optical Tricks

by Wick, Walter

Presents a series of optical illusions and explains what is seen.

Joan of Arc

by Stanley, Diane

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.

A Year with Butch and Spike

by Gauthier, Gail

Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Cootch cousins.

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...

Wringer

by Spinelli, Jerry

As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

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.