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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical...
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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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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...
The Wall
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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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A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first president.
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The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller’s son are portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to...
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The bestselling classic is now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features
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Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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When Simon’s older sister, Adèle, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a...
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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 world may be about to end, but that’s not going to stop Rex Zero from having the time of his life!
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It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon:...
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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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A Matter of Life or Death
It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has...
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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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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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Yeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys?
Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but...
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Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not...
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This inspiring memoir illuminates a dark time in China’s history through the compelling story of one teenager’s difficult, but determined, coming of age....
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With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father’s toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just...
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An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war
Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This...
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Fleeing war-torn Cambodia in 1980, Dara, her mother, and her older brother find sanctuary in a refugee settlement on the Thailand border, but when fighting...
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Full of humor and spunk – just like Esther!
“I could do that,” says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the...
