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Outcast

Rosemary Sutcliff; Illustrated by Richard Kennedy Sunburst Paperbacks

When a Roman ship is wrecked off the coast of Britain, an infant, Beric, is the only survivor. He is rescued by a British tribe who raise him as their own...

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The Shining Company

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Life is secure and peaceful for young Prosper, second son of Gerontius, until the day Prince Gorthyn arrives with his hunting party. Prosper's unusual daring...

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Tristan and Iseult

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Tristan defeats Ireland's greatest warrior and gains the friendship of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who entrusts him with a very special mission: to sail...

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Warrior Scarlet

Rosemary Sutcliff Sunburst Paperbacks

In Bronze Age Britain, young Drem must overcome his disability-a withered arm-if he is to prove his manhood and become a warrior.

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At the Sign of the Star

Katherine Sturtevant Sunburst Paperbacks

The tale of a bookseller's daughter Meg Moore is the motherless and only child of a bookseller with a thriving business in Restoration London-and that makes...

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Upon the Head of the Goat

A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

Aranka Siegal Sunburst Paperbacks

Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.

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The Tree of Life

Charles Darwin

Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly...

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Boxes for Katje

Candace Fleming; Pictures by Stacey Dressen-McQueen Melanie Kroupa Books

Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinary After World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like...

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Operation Clean Sweep

Darleen Bailey Beard Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Mom for mayor! Election day is fast approaching, and twelve-year-old Cornelius Sanwick discovers a secret: his mom is running for mayor! That would be...

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The Breaker Boys

Pat Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The son of a wealthy Pennsylvania coal mine operator, Nate Tanner resents being shipped off to boarding school. Anger -- mainly at his father and stepmother --...

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Sword Song

Rosemary Sutcliff Sunburst Paperbacks

Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home...

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The Wall

Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Sis Frances Foster Books

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...

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Wings

William Loizeaux; Pictures by Leslie Bowman Melanie Kroupa Books

At first it looks like a small gray ball of fluff, its head a cloud of frizzy feathers, fine as dandelion seeds. The baby bird isn’t even strong enough to...

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How I Learned Geography

Uri Shulevitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father...

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Dawn and Dusk

Alice Mead Farrar, Straus and Giroux

For as long as thirteen-year-old Azad can remember, the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he lives in the predominantly Kurdish town of Sardasht, has been at war...

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Tasting the Sky

A Palestinian Childhood

Ibtisam Barakat Melanie Kroupa Books

Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my...

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The Gardener

Sarah Stewart; Illustrated by David Small Square Fish

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to...

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A Family Secret

Eric Heuvel; Translated by Lorraine T. Miller Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper

While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother,...

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The Search

Eric Heuvel, Ruud van der Rol, and Lies Schippers; Translated by Lorraine T. Miller Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper

Esther remembers her own experience of the Holocaust as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, and recounts to her grandson Daniel and his friend Jeroen how she...

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The Lantern Bearers

The Roman Britain Trilogy #3

Rosemary Sutcliff Square Fish

The barbarians are coming! The Lantern Bearers is the 1959 winner of the Carnegie Medal in Literature.

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The Silver Branch

The Roman Britain Trilogy #2

Rosemary Sutcliff Square Fish

More than a century after The Eagle of the Ninth leaves off, two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British emperor....

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Claudette Colvin

Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose Square Fish

Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...

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The Eagle

The Roman Britain Trilogy #1

Rosemary Sutcliff Square Fish

The bestselling classic is now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features

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