When the Whistle Blows
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| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0803730829 |
The eccentric, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel is back in this heart-warming tale. Set...
Blessing's Bead
| Author | Debby Dahl Edwardson |
| ISBN | 0374308055 |
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374316538 |
Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.
Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family's closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families' lives have been intertwined,...
| Author | Ann E. Burg |
| ISBN | 0545080924 |
Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States,...
| Author | Rosanne Parry |
| ISBN | 0375848037 |
| Author | Karlijn Stoffels |
| ISBN | 0545069297 |
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152061940 |
Young Charley Darwin hated school—he much preferred to be outside studying birds’ eggs, feathers, and insects. And so, at the age of twenty-one, he boarded a ship called HMS Beagle and spent five thrilling but dangerous years sailing around...
| Author | Hope Anita Smith |
| ISBN | 0805072020 |
| Author | Susan Shaw |
| ISBN | 1416961291 |
HOW CAN YOU FIX THAT?
TELL ME HOW!
Anger. Sadness. Rage. Grief. Guilt.
Joey Campbell experiences them all, even though he knows what he should really feel is lucky. Lucky to have survived the fire that burned Village Park High School to the ground. Lucky...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805089365 |
As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee...
| Author | Clay Carmichael |
| ISBN | 1590786270 |
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0061836656 |
It's the day he's supposed to die.
Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer to live. But can you sidestep Fate? Jump sideways into a different life? Naïve and trusting, Pepper sets a course through...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0312378866 |
The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah
| Author | Nora Raleigh Baskin |
| ISBN | 1416935584 |
I put my fingers up to my throat and touched the pointy Star of David, my grandmother's necklace, a delicate chain made up of countless tiny links. If I wear this, will people think I am Jewish? Is that what I want to be? Seventh-grader Caroline Weeks has a Jewish mom and a non-Jewish dad. When Caroline's...
The Year of the Bomb
| Author | Ronald Kidd |
| ISBN | 1416958924 |
The Secret of the Sacred Scarab
| Author | Fiona Ingram |
| Author | Suzanne Morgan Williams |
| ISBN | 1416961305 |
Cam O'Mara, grandson and younger brother of bull- riding champions, is not interested in partaking in the family sport. Cam is a skateboarder, and perfecting his tricks -- frontside flips, 360s -- means everything until his older brother, Ben, comes home...
| Author | Kathryn Fitzmaurice |
| ISBN | 0061624977 |
| Author | Victoria McKernan |
| ISBN | 0375837507 |
Jimmy's Stars
| Author | Mary Ann Rodman |
| ISBN | 0374337039 |
| Author | Dene Low |
| ISBN | 0547152507 |
| Author | Nan Marino |
| ISBN | 1596434996 |
It's the summer of 1969, and things are not only changing in Tamara's...
Homefront
| Author | Doris Gwaltney |
| ISBN | 0689868421 |
A Thousand Never Evers
| Author | Shana Burg |
| ISBN | 0385734700 |