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Mao's Last Dancer

by Cunxin, Li

At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academ...

Darkside

by Becker, Tom

Jonathan Starling's home has been attacked, his dad is in an asylum, he's running for his life, and there's nowhere to hide. Jonathan has stumbled upon London'...

Who Was First?

Discovering the Americas

by Freedman, Russell

"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage...

Book of a Thousand Days

by Hale, Shannon

When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a...

The Wild Girls

by Murphy, Pat

When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the...

The Aurora County All-Stars

by Wiles, Deborah

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their cou...

Walker Evans

Photographer of America

by Nau, Thomas

Determined to "capture life has he saw it," Walker Evans (1903-1975) became one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, shooting in the New York C...

Up Close

Robert F. Kennedy Up Close

by Aronson, Marc & Cooper, Ilene & Levine, Ellen & Neimark, Anne E.

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Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies

A History of Spies and Espionage

by Coleman, Janet & Museum, International Spy

A look into the secret history of spies and espionage throughout the years.

Throwing Stones

by Collier, Kristi

In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing...