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Quick view Anna Casey's Place in the World by Adrian Fogelin Award-winning author Adrian Fogelin follows up her critically acclaimed novel CROSSING JORDAN with the story of a young girl's trials and triumphs as she tries to find a home. With warmth and humor, Fogelin has created a memorable character in Anna, who... View Details
Quick view Leo, Dog of the Sea by Alison Hart An action-packed and heartwarming story of a hardened old sea dog on Magellan's journey to Spice Island. After three ocean voyages, Leo knows not to trust anyone but himself. But when he sets sail with Magellan on a journey to find a westward route to... View Details
Quick view A Storm Called Katrina by Myron Uhlberg  A moving story of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the people of New Orleans, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Louis Daniel hates it when Mama treats him like a baby. But when Hurricane Katrina blows through the Gulf Coast on a... View Details
Quick view Lucky Enough by Fred Bowen Trey is overjoyed when his lucky charm helps him make the travel team, but will his luck hold out? When Trey's treasured lucky charm--a piece of blue sea glass he found near his grandmother's beach house--"helps" him make it onto the Ravens... View Details
Quick view Miguel's' Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote by Margarita Engle Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who... View Details
Quick view Chasing the Nightbird by Krusta Russell Fourteen-year-old Lucky Valera is a seasoned sailor about to join the crew of the whaling ship, Nightbird. But when his estranged older brother suddenly kidnaps him and forces him into servitude as a mule spinner at the mill, his life takes a dramatic... View Details
Quick view Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller A young couple begins their married lives on the eve of the Civil War. The story of the poor people of the American South who never owned a slave nor planned to fight a war. View Details
Quick view The Bushwhacker: A Civil War Adventure pb by Jennifer Johnson Garrity While the Civil War rages in Missouri and Rebels destroy their farm home and scatter their family, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his younger sister find refuge in an unlikely place. View Details
Quick view First Dog Fala by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk While the Civil War rages in Missouri and Rebels destroy their farm home and scatter their family, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his younger sister find refuge in an unlikely place. View Details
Quick view Gabriel's Triumph by Alison Hart In the second book in the Racing to Freedom trilogy, ex-slave Gabriel faces challenges and setbacks as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey. View Details
Quick view Gabriel's Journey by Alison Hart Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky. View Details
Quick view Gabriel's Horses by Alison Hart The year is 1864 and twelve-year-old Gabriel hopes to one day become a famous horse jockey. Although he is a the son of a free black father and a slave mother, making him a slave as well he loves to help his father, one of the best horse trainers in... View Details
