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Northward to the Moon

by Horvath, Polly

Jane and her family have moved to Canada . . . but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems he does...

Calamity Jack

by Hale, Shannon & Hale, Dean

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind…with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even...

Eidi

by Bredsdorff, Bodil

Some years have passed since the Crow-Girl set off on a journey, met Eidi and her mother, Foula, along with a few others, and persuaded them to come live near ...

Whaling Season

A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist [Scientists in the Field]

by Lourie, Peter

Not all scientists live where they work, harvest their own subjects, or use information passed down from generation after generation of Inupiaq Eskimos to help...

Half-Minute Horrors

by Rich, Susan

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The Dust Bowl Through the Lens

How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster

by Sandler, Martin W.

The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and disaster. The worst ecological disaster in our nation’s history turned more than 100 million acres of fertile land a...

The Doom Machine

by Teague, Mark

When a spaceship lands in Vern Hollow, Jack's hometown, he and his no-account inventor-uncle Bud are busy trying to fix a car driven by Dr. Shumway and her dau...

The Champion of Children

The Story of Janusz Korczak

by Bogacki, Tomek

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children...

The Man Who Flies with Birds

by Vogel, Carole Garbuny & Leshem, Yossi

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John Brown

His Fight for Freedom

by Hendrix, John

Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial ...