Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village.
Seymour Reit, the creator of Casper the friendly ghost, blends fact with fiction in this captivating tale about one woman who dared to go behind enemy lines as a spy for the Union Army.
Lena has lived her whole life near the beach walking for miles up and down the shore and breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves the problem is, she's spent her whole life just watching.
Mermaids have been sinking ships and drowning humans for centuries, and now the government is determined to put an end to the mermaid problemby slaughtering all of them.
On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring missionthis time to search for sunken Spanish gold.
After leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston--under dire circumstances, of course--Jacky Faber boards a whaling ship bound for London, where she hopes to find her beloved Jaimy.
';Carefully researched and lovingly written, Rinaldi's latest presents a girl indentured to John and Abigail Adams during the tense period surrounding the 1770 Massacre.
In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better.
The award-winning author Scott O'Dell brings Sacagawea's story to life, giving us a breathtaking account of this young heroine's role in an American saga.
Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "e;he"e; wants to meet her.
Seventeen-year-old Ryan Poitier Sharpe is a gutsy, outgoing girl who spends her summer days hurling herself out of planes at her parents' skydiving center in the Mojave Desert.
Garland, Derby, and Triple Clark spend each season traveling highways and byways in their Rambleruntil summer, when small-town Ridge Creek, Virginia, calls them back.
Join Gooney Bird as she greets every new challenge with excitement, aplomb, and a plethora of vocabulary words in this delightfully funny three-book collection.
For Cleo Berry, the people dying of the Spanish Influenza in cities like New York and Philadelphia may as well be in another countrythats how far away they feel from the safety of Portland, Oregon.
