Quick view Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is... View Details
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Quick view Natchez Under the Hill by Stanley Applegate Fourteen-year-old Zeb survives skirmishes with horse thieves and other outlaws as he travels the dangerous Natchez Trace in 1811 while searching for his grandfather. View Details
Quick view Double Eagle by Sneed B Collard Mike is prepared for another routine summer in Pensacola with his marine biologist father. But plans suddenly change and Mike finds himself on Shipwreck Island near the site where a Confederate ship... 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... View Details
Quick view The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS" is a beautifully drawn... View Details
Quick view Casualties of War by Chris Lynch One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange. But the destruction of the jungle... View Details
Quick view Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. View Details
Quick view Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden When Ellie and her friends go camping for a week, they return home to find their country has been invaded. Ellie and the other survivors face an impossible decision: They can flee for the mountains... View Details
