The Starplace
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| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0060821183 |
This story begins with shoes.
This story is all for true.
This story walks. And walks. And walks.
To the blues.
Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1562477609 |
History Mysteries are a fantastic way to introduce children and pre-teens to historical topics. One of the reasons I am so fascinated with history is because of these books and the American Girl books in general. Each one provides a snapshot into a specific historical event or theme, and builds a fictional...
| Author | Suzanne Fisher Staples |
| ISBN | 0064409791 |
This is an Indian story, a magical story, about a girl named Parvati who is born with the fire of music inside her. As she grows, the strangest things seem to happen in her presence and soon it is clear that her heart is full of the dance - classical Indian dance and her destiny leads her to a school that can develop...
| Author | Annie Dalton |
| ISBN | 1584855177 |
London, 1592
Girls must always be good and stay at home. But when you are a boy, the whole world can be your home. Men build houses and ships and sail off to discover strange new lands. But women must stay indoors, sewing stitches so fine that no one will ever see them. Our work is only visible if we...
| Author | Charles Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0060012749 |
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.
Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 1584855193 |
After the deaths of her parents, 12-year-old Chou Spring Pearl is taken into the home of her father's wealthy benefactor. Unlike most Cantonese girls, Spring Pearl has learned to read and write, but she must now learn a new skill-how to survive in Master Sung's hostile household. While the Second Opium...
| Author | Catherine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0142402354 |
Susan Calloway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates - and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for the nearly expelled.
School is bad enough, but facing...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 1416903275 |
In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of the first attack, the entire native population living west of Unimak Island...
In the Face of Evil In the autumn of 1940, Anna Hirsch, her friends, and her family are rounded up by the Nazis and deported from Germany into France. They are placed in Gurs, a refugee camp where conditions are inhuman. But even worse is the terror that the Jews will be relocated to one of the Nazi death camps.
Relief...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0763611999 |
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
| Author | Ron Koertge |
| ISBN | 0763617423 |
In a startling, often poignant student journal, acclaimed poet and novelist Ron Koertge creates a suburban high school both familiar and terrifying.
The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the surface: there’s the Smart One, the Fat Kid, Social Conscience, Bad...
| Author | Robie H. Harris |
| ISBN | 0763624330 |
"Alternately playful and realistic, Emberley's. . . . art reinforces Harris's message that bodies come in all sizes, shapes, and colors -- and that each variation is 'perfectly normal.'" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
When young people have questions about sex, real answers can...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440208092 |
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.
Only Sarah senses the horror.
The minute she steps through the doorway of her family’s new...
| Author | Melina Marchetta |
| ISBN | 0143305611 |
Beyond the basketball courts and classrooms of St Raph's is a gully where everything disappears forever. Danny Griggs has heard stories about a creature that lives down there. So why does he volunteer to face the Gorgon when he's been petrified of everything all his life?
A gentle story about...
| Author | Jill Dawson |
| ISBN | 0062202502 |
"Pacy and atmospheric…wickedly good."
—Marie Claire (UK)
"Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day."
—Sunday Times (London)
Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky Bunny has come to America. Acclaimed poet and author Jill...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689806574 |
From the moment she set eyes on the three Foster kids, Darcy knew being their baby-sitter would be no picnic. But the pay was twice her usual rate, and the job was only for a few hours a day - surely an experienced baby-sitter like her could handle it.
But Darcy hadn't counted on the mysterious things...
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0152167706 |
Carrie Hill hates Indians. Indians killed her parents and ruined her life.
With nowhere else to go, fifteen-year-old Carrie signs on to help care for the family of Beaver Dick Leigh, an English trapper. To her dismay, Carrie discovers that Beaver Dick's wife, Jenny, is a Shoshoni Indian! But as...
| Author | Megan McDonald |
| ISBN | 1584850922 |
I thought this book did a good job keeping a lot of history in this fictional story. It was so interesting to learn how important glassblowing was to the early colony of Jamestown, and how some of the events relating to it in the story were actually true. I don’t even really remember learning about indentured...
| Author | Nicholas Allan |
| ISBN | 0375830308 |
Never before have the facts of life been presented in such an accessible—or novel—way. Our hero is Willy, a little sperm who lives inside Mr. Browne with 300 million friends. Every day Willy practices for the Great Swimming Race. And when the day arrives, he swims faster than his 300 million friends...
| Author | Sherry Shahan |
| ISBN | 0440413737 |
What begins as a two-night camping and kayaking trek in the untamed Alaskan wilderness turns into a test of survival for Cody and her cousin Derek. While their mothers are in Juneau picking up supplies for Yakutat Lodge, the cousins sneak off in an old pickup. The taste of freedom is soon tainted when Cody's...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0064407616 |
Is Mary home for good?
It is the spring of 1818 and Mary O'Shea has returned from England to her beloved Mackinac Island. She loves her life on the family firm and knows that she chose wisely in declining a marriage proposal from James Lindsay, a young duke she met during her travels. She is also...
| Author | Stanley Gordon West |
| ISBN | 0965624773 |
In this companion novel to Until They Bring The Streetcars Back, Stanley West transports the reader to 1949 Minneapolis/St. Paul-- those memorable days of corner grocery stores, big band music, and filling stations that check the oil and wash the windshield. Against this nostalgic backdrop, West...
| Author | Lisa Tawn Bergren |
| ISBN | 0880707259 |
Dr. Christina Alvarez arrived on the Caribbean island of Robert s Foe to find her ancestor s sunken ship, and the evidence that could lead to one of the greatest nautical discoveries of the century. But when the only man who could help her turns away, headstrong Christina battles to win his trust and assistance....
