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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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The Lantern Bearers

The Roman Britain Trilogy #3

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

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Under the Persimmon Tree

Suzanne Fisher Staples Square Fish

Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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The Silver Branch

The Roman Britain Trilogy #2

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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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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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Under a Red Sky

Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

Haya Leah Molnar Frances Foster Books

Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is...

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Crossing Stones

Helen Frost Frances Foster Books

Maybe you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat. Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple...

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The Braid

Helen Frost Frances Foster Books

Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister – Jeannie, who leaves Scotland...

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The Apprentice

Pilar Molina Llorente; Pictures by Juan Ramón Alonso; Translated by Robin Longshaw Sunburst Paperbacks

In Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old apprentice Arduino's dreams of being a painter are challenged after he discovers the extreme measures the Maestro...

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The Examination

Malcolm Bosse Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Fifteen-year-old Hong and his older brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous rivals on their journey through fifteenth century China as Chen...

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A Parcel of Patterns

Jill Paton Walsh Aerial Fiction

"In 1665, a tailor in the village of Eyam received a parcel of cloth patterns from London, contaminated pieces that infected him with the plague. . .The author...

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Peril on the Sea

Michael Cadnum Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It is the summer of 1588 and a pair of unlikely shipmates is traveling on the Vixen, a privateer that will soon be drafted to join a flotilla of English ships...

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The Boxer

Kathleen Karr Sunburst Paperbacks

Hard-hitting historical fiction Ever since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five...

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Flash

Michael Cadnum Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A bungled bank robbery by two teen brothers unexpectedly intertwines the lives of four California kids and an Iraqi war vet over the course of one long,...

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Finding My Place

Traci L. Jones Farrar, Straus and Giroux

After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie, the only Black girl in her new high school, feels out of place until she befriends...

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Bug Boy

Eric Luper Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It is the summer of 1934, and even at the height of the Great Depression, money is no object for the socialites at posh Saratoga Race Course. The trouble is...

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Sonny's War

Valerie Hobbs Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper

After her father dies, fourteen-year-old Corin needs her brother, Sonny, more than ever. Sonny is quiet but he's a great listener, and Cory knows where she can...

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The Brothers Story

Katherine Sturtevant Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Teenage twins Kit and Christy have grown up amid grinding poverty in their Essex village. As Christy has been “simple” from birth, Kit is literally his...

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Emperors of the Ice

A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13

Richard Farr Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard has always dreamt of becoming an explorer. So in the spring of 1910, when Captain Robert Falcon Scott offers young “Cherry”...

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I Heard God Talking to Me

William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings

Elizabeth Spires Frances Foster Books

One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to...

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Trade Paperback : $8.95 Buy	Deep Dream of the Rain Forest Malcolm Bosse Sunburst Paperbacks Three explorers-fifteen-year-old orphan Harry Windsor, Bayang, a young Iban tribesman, and Tombong, an outcast Iban girl-find mystery and adventure in the...

Trade Paperback : $5.95 Buy	El Güero A True Adventure Story Elizabeth Borton De Treviño; Pictures by Leslie Bowman Farrar, Straus and Giroux His father's loyalty to the Mexican president deposed by Porfirio Diaz in 1876 forces a boy known as El Güero and his family into exile to the dangerous...

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Hear Us Out!

Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present

Nancy Garden Farrar, Straus and Giroux

What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening...

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Underground

Jean Ferris Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1839, visitors from miles around come to Kentucky to tour Mammoth Cave. But sixteen-year-old Charlotte, the maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, doesn’t understand...

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