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Saffy's Angel

by McKay, Hilary

After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy...

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Pioneer of the Mind

by Reef, Catherine

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The Art of Keeping Cool

by Lisle, Janet Taylor

In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involve...

When JFK Was My Father

by Gordon, Amy L.

Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by ima...

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.

The Exiles in Love

by McKay, Hilary

When Big Grandma takes the four Conroy sisters on holiday as a cure for the "family failing," the girls wonder if their grandmother herself is still susceptibl...

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.

Across America on an Emigrant Train

by Murphy, Jim

Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and o...

Baby

by Maclachlan, Patricia L.

Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of the tourist season helps a family come to terms with the death of their own infant son.

The Great American Elephant Chase

by Cross, Gillian

In 1881, fifteen-year-old Tad, an orphan, helps a girl attempting to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, all the while pursued by two unscrupu...