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I, Amber Brown

by Danziger, Paula & Ross, Tony

Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned pr...

Good sports

winning, losing, and everything in between

by Kauchak, Therese & Bendell, Norm

Provides advice on being a great teammate, a good winner, and a gracious loser, as well as dealing with coaches and other aspects of playing sports.

Pa Lia's First Day

by Edwards, Michelle

On the first day of second grade at her new school, Pa Lia Vang discovers that things are not as bad as she had feared.

Jason's Gold

by Hobbs, Will & Norey, Virginia

When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.

The Great Divide

A Mathematical Marathon

by Dodds, Dayle Ann & Mitchell, Tracy

Eighty people begin to race in the Great Divide, but each new challenge divides the number of racers in half.

A Stolen Life

by Curry, Jane Leftwich

In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing vo...

The Mary Celeste

An Unsolved Mystery from History

by Yolen, Jane & Stemple, Heidi E. Y. & Roth, Roger

A young girl relates the facts that are known about the unexplained disappearance of the crew on the ship Mary Celeste in 1872, and challenges the reader to so...

Poof!

by O'Brien, John T.

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A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink

What Is a Noun?

by Cleary, Brian P. & Prosmitsky, Jenya

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of nouns, from "gown" and "crown" to "boat", "coat", and "clown."

If You Hopped Like a Frog

by Schwartz, David M. & Warhola, James

Introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals.