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The Batboy

by Lupica, Mike

It is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the ch...

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Stories by the Book

by Paulsen, Gary

Ten short stories in which the lives of young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.

Jim Bowie

frontier legend, Alamo hero

by Haley, James L.

Describes the tumultuous times in early Texas history that formed the character of Jim Bowie, who is known both for inventing the Bowie knife and for fighting ...

Tsunamis

by Thompson, Luke

Defines tsunamis and describes the geologic forces that cause them, as well as the damage they can inflict when the huge walls of ocean water strike land.

A Special Fate

Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust

by Gold, Alison Leslie

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the order...

The Terrorist

by Cooney, Caroline B.

Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a...

The Frog Princess of Pelham

by Conford, Ellen

When a kiss from Danny turns Chandler, a wealthy but lonely orphan, into a frog, Danny's humorous attempts to change her back into a human land the pair on a t...