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Missing on Superstition Mountain
Superstition Mountain Mysteries

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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Bridge of Time

Feiwel & Friends
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting...
  
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Paiute Princess
The Story of Sarah Winnemucca

Frances Foster Books
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her...
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Being Teddy Roosevelt

Square Fish
Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to...
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Lincoln Shot
A President's Life Remembered

Square Fish
Noted children’s book biographer Barry Denenberg, award-winning illustrator Christopher Bing, and book designer Rich Deas collaborate on an intimate portrait...
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Brooklyn Bridge

Square Fish
From the incomparable Karen Hesse comes a powerfully evocative and accessible family story, set at the turn of the century, by turns serious, funny, and with a...
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An Elephant in the Garden

Feiwel & Friends
Lizzie and Karl’s mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary...
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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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Revolver

Square Fish
A menacing stranger. Stolen gold. And a loaded gun.
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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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Letters from Rifka

Square Fish
A deeply felt, deeply personal story of immigration from beloved Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse.
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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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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We Are Witnesses
Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Square Fish
Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.
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The Gardener

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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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice

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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Shakespeare's Secret

Square Fish
A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
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I, Juan de Pareja

Square Fish
The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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Dark Water Rising

Square Fish
With the entire city under water, will Seth and his family make it out alive?
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For Girls Only
Everything Great About Being a Girl

Feiwel & Friends
Everything great about being a girl is packed into this fun and informative book.
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Puss in Boots

Square Fish
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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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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Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch

Frances Foster Books
One rainy night in 1888, a stray dog wandered into the U.S. Post Office in Albany, New York. Workers found him the next morning asleep on a pile of mail...
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The Wall
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

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...