Quick view Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan By the age of 12, Charlotte Parkhurst knows the world of the 1860s holds more opportunities for boys than girls. So she cuts off her hair, dons boys' clothing, and begins a new life that gives her many privileges, including the right to vote. View Details
Quick view Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy... View Details
Quick view My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier Young Tim Meeker is caught between his brother's patriotism and his father's Tory sympathies in this story of the American Revolution. View Details
Quick view Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan When Esperanza and her mother are forced to flee their home in a bountiful region in Mexico to a Mexican labor camp in California, they must adjust to life without fancy clothes or servants. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance... View Details
Quick view City of the Rats by Emily Rodda The international bestselling series returns for a new generation with a fresh look and bonus content from the legends of Deltora. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine--three companions with nothing in common but their hatred of the enemy--are on a perilous quest... View Details
Quick view The Angel Tree by Daphne Bendis-Grab Every Christmas in the small town of Pine River, a tree appears in the town square, but nobody knows where it comes from. This year, four kidsNLucy, Joe, Max, and CamiNare determined to solve the mystery and find out the true identity of the town's... View Details
Quick view Favorite Greek Myths by Mary Pope Osborne Here are twelve Greek myths, retold in an accessible style and magnificently illustrated with classic elegance. Full color. View Details
Quick view Book of Time by Guillaume Prevost In the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, 14-year-old Sam Faulkner searches for his missing father. But when Sam slips an old coin into a statue, he's swept back to 800 A.D. Scotland, where he must find both the statue and another coin so he can return to... View Details
Quick view The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick Twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost... View Details
Quick view The Capture by Katherine A Applegate It was bad when Jake found out his brother was one of them. A Human-Controller. A slave. But that was nothing compared to this. When the Animorphs decide to visit the Yeerks' new base, it seems simple. But then they get caught and Jake falls--just for a... View Details
Quick view Catwings by Guin Ursula K Le Now available individually in new digest-sized paperback editions, the first four books in Le Guin's magical series chronicle four young cats with wings who leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live. View Details
Quick view Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd Ten-year-old Mattie copes with the loss of her father and her mixed feelings towards her mother who is under pressure to support the family. View Details