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The Guardian

by Sweeney, Joyce

Hunter has never had anyone to look out for him. His mother gave him away when he was young, he’s never known his father, and his foster mother leaves a lot ...

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Harper Lee

by Madden, Kerry

Nelle Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an instant bestseller. Two years later it was an Academy Award– winning film. Tod...

Flygirl

by Smith, Sherri L.

During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

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The Sisterhood Grows

by Brashares, Ann

Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changin...

The Great Wide Sea

by Herlong, M. H.

Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure a...

Wondrous Strange

by Livingston, Lesley

When seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow meets Sonny Flannery, she discovers he is a changeling and guardian of the gate between the faerie Otherworld an...

Emperors of the Ice

A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910–13

by Farr, Richard

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard has always dreamt of becoming an explorer. So in the spring of 1910, when Captain Robert Falcon Scott offers young “Cherry...

Blue Flame

Book One of the Perfect Fire Trilogy

by Grant, K. M.

In 1242 in the restive Languedoc region of France, Parsifal, having been charged as a child to guard an important religious relic, has lived in hiding for much...

Guardian

by Lester, Julius

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The Smile

by Napoli, Donna Jo

In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about t...