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The Ballad of Sir Dinadan

by Morris, Gerald

Though he would rather pursue his talent as a musician, eighteen-year-old Dinadan is forced to follow his older brother Tristram's path and become a knight. Se...

Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster

The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine

by Marrin, Albert

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Fossil Fish Found Alive

Discovering the Coelacanth

by Walker, Sally M.

Describes the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be extinct, and subsequent research about it.

The Dungeon

by Banks, Lynne Reid

Driven by his grief over the loss of his family and by his longing for adventure, Bruce MacLennan sets out from Scotland for China, where he buys a young girl,...

Once upon a Marigold

by Ferris, Jean

A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and d...

Wild Man Island

by Hobbs, Will

After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admira...

The Chimpanzees I Love

Saving Their World and Ours

by Goodall, Jane

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The Great Whale of Kansas

by Jennings, Richard

While digging a hole in his back yard, an eleven-year-old Kansas boy finds the fossilized remains of a gigantic prehistoric animal, a discovery that brings bot...

Witch Child

by Rees, Celia

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Pur...

The Buccaneers

by Lawrence, Iain

Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he wor...