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Crispin

At the Edge of the World

by Avi,

Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musica...

Ingo

by Dunmore, Helen

As they search for their missing father near their Cornwall home, Sapphy and her brother Conor learn about their family's connection to the domains of air and ...

The Loud Silence of Francine Green

by Cushman, Karen

In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently...

Green Jasper

by Grant, K. M.

Having returned to a politically unstable England after the Crusades, brothers Will and Gavin--with the help of the red horse Hosanna--attempt to rescue their ...

Emil and Karl

by Glatshteyn, Yankev

In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them eve...

Freedom Riders

John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

by Bausum, Ann

How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom dur...

The Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two

by Riordan, Rick

Percy and his friends set out to find his best friend, Grover, who is held prisoner on an island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, before heading out to save ...

Dreamhunter

Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet

by Knox, Elizabeth

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a ...

The Cannibals

by Lawrence, Iain

Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, ...

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

by Bateman, Colin

When the head of Saint Oliver Plunkett is stolen from Drogheda Cathedral, Eddie and his gang use their wits to search for the relic while trying to outsmart th...