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Missing on Superstition Mountain

Square Fish
It’s summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore...
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Saga of the Sioux
An Adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Henry Holt and Co.
This new adaptation of Dee Brown's multi-million copy bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, is filled with photographs and maps to bring alive the tragic...
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Breaking Stalin's Nose

Henry Holt and Co.
One of Horn Book’s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is...
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Escape by Night
A Civil War Adventure

Henry Holt and Co.
Ten-year-old Tommy and his sister Annie are intrigued by the new soldiers arriving in their Georgia town. Since the Civil War started, wounded men waiting to...
  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
A Friendship That Changed the World

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan...
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Then

Henry Holt and Co.
Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn...
  
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By These Ten Bones

Square Fish
Can her love conquer an ancient werewolf curse?
  
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Square Fish
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green...
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Dark Water Rising

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With the entire city under water, will Seth and his family make it out alive?
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Betraying Season

Square Fish
Penelope has fallen for a handsome young man. If only he wasn’t up to no good . . .

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Letters from Rifka

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A deeply felt, deeply personal story of immigration from beloved Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse.
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We Are Witnesses
Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

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Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.
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Shakespeare's Secret

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A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
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Lewis and Clark and Me
A Dog's Tale

Henry Holt and Co.
A dog's account of one of the most extraordinary expeditions of all time. "Dog and man can fit together like no others do. Lewis and I had that...
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Wonder Horse
The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse

Henry Holt and Co.
In the late 1800s, former slave and veterinarian Bill "Doc" Key realized that his new foal, Jim, was no ordinary horse. Believing in the power of kindness and...
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One-Handed Catch

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There’s no way a little thing like losing his hand will keep Norm from trying out for baseball.
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Now & Ben
The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin

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Biography and history come to life in this celebration of the inventions and ideas of Benjamin Franklin and how they’ve stood the test of time....
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The Boy Who Saved Cleveland

Henry Holt and Co.
If not for Seth Doan, the city of Cleveland wouldn’t exist today... In 1798, Cleveland, Ohio, was in danger of being wiped out by a malaria epidemic. Based...
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Rosa

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Winner of the Caldecott Honor Medal and the Coretta Scott King Medal, this picture book tribute to Rosa Parks celebrates the 50th anniversary of her refusal to...
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Neo Leo
The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu...
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Ten Mile Day
And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

Square Fish
On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's...
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Once

Henry Holt and Co.
Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and...
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Wing Nut

Square Fish
Sometimes home is found where you least expect it.
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Frozen Man

Redfeather Book from Henry Holt
When an archaeologist examines a body found frozen in the Austrian Alps, he learns something extraordinary. The well-preserved body-- and the tools and...