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A Darkling Plain

by Reeve, Philip

While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.

Cowboy & Octopus

by Scieszka, Jon

Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and . . . Octopus? Yes, that's right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus—the next great pair to become a...

Pure Spring

by Doyle, Brian

It's spring in post-World War II Ottawa and Martin has found a home with Grampa Rip. He's working though he had to lie about his age to get the job. Grampa Rip...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Alexie, Sherman

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is t...

Mistik Lake

by Brooks, Martha

After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally ...

The Plain Janes

by Castellucci, Cecil

Noted young adult novelist Cecil Castellucci and artist Jim Rugg launch MINX with THE PLAIN JANES, a story about four girls named Jane who sit at the reject ta...

At Night

by Bean, Jonathan

A sleepless city girl imagines what it would be like to get away from snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air under ...

Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors

by Root, Phyllis

Clever Aunt Nancy manages to foil all those who try to get the better of her.

The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

by Alexander, Lloyd

Naive and bumbling Carlo, his shady camel-puller Baksheesh, and Shira, a girl determined to return home, follow a treasure map through the deserts and cities o...

The Lion Hunter

The Mark of Solomon, Book One

by Wein, Elizabeth E.

In a story set in Africa in the sixth century, Telemakos, King Arthur's half-Ethiopian grandson, faces great dangers when he and his infant sister are forced t...