Quick view Earthquake Terror by Peg Lehret After Jonathan's mother breaks her ankle on a family camping trip, Jonathan and his younger sister are left alone on a deserted island. Then a devastating earthquake hits and siblings must fight for their lives. View Details
Quick view Clash of the Sky Galleons by Paul Stewart In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy. But when Quint breaks the rules and heads out to Open Sky on his own, he runs into the great sky leviathans known as... View Details
Quick view The diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau Lina and Doon go back underground to the dying city of Ember as bestselling author DuPrau juxtaposes yet another action-packed adventure with powerful themes about hope, learning, and the search for truth. View Details
Quick view Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Now in paperback--Ibbotson's hair-raising novel introduces orphaned Maia, sent from England to Brazil in the early 1900s to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation. Illustrations. View Details
Quick view A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne When Professor Von Hardwigg and his nephew Henry discover a mysterious parchment, little do they know that it will change their lives forever. View Details
Quick view Abby Takes a Stand: 1960 by Patricia McKissack Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, readers see what life was like for a black child in Nashville in 1960, when she couldn't get served a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Illustrations. View Details
Quick view Jump Into the Sky by Shelley Pearsall In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper... View Details
Quick view A Faraway Island by Annika Thor Winner of the Batchelder Award, this beautiful novel about war, displacement, identity, and the universal joys and sorrows of growing up enriches the literature of the Jewish experience during World War II. Translated from the original Swedish. View Details
Quick view The Harmonica by Tony Johnston A father's gift of a harmonica brings a young boy comfort and ensures his survival. Inspired by the life of a Holocaust survivor, this award-winning book is now in paperback. Full color. View Details
Quick view Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker Warsaw, Poland, 1941. WWII has been raging for two years when Jacob's aunt takes him to meet Alex, a Christian man who will pretend to be his father. This is a fictionalized account of the four years Jacob spent with the Roslan family in daily terror of... View Details
Quick view Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. View Details
Quick view The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania. View Details