Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics

Fresh, innovative, and loaded with laugh-out-loud wit and humor, Just Grace is a series that stands out from the pack, just like Grace herself.

The penultimate episode in the Sisters Eight saga!

And hide is what Anna does throughout the course of this amazing book.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Moscos Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze!

Baseball Heroes is the first book in the middle grade nonfiction series Good Sports, about the inspiring life stories of major league athletes who have overcome obstacles in the course of their life and careers.

Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer.

Is there no rest for the travel worn and weary?

A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls.

A resilient and quirky colony of church mice fears another Great X more than they fear cats.

It's the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer.

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.

Rebeccas the tough one, always chastising the other Eights for not bucking up when trouble arises.

Will Nikki and Deja's friendship survive a race for student body president?

Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say.

Between his summer baby-sitting job, his anxieties about talking to girls, and his increasing sense that his family is, well, embarrassing, twelve-year-old Harris is having a stressful summer.

Forced to accompany their parents on their honeymoon in Spain, new stepsisters Amy and Felix find the animosity between them escalating, especially when Felix's boasting about family wealth to Grace, the mysterious world traveler, results in the kidnapping of the girls and their younger brother.

Gordy couldn't be more unhappy about moving back to his hometown of College Hill, where everybody knows his family's troubled history.

Jamaica was friends with everyone in school - except for Russell.

As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees.

With real wit and heart, Gary Soto takes readers into the lives of young people in ten funny, heartbreaking tales.

What do Gaby Lopez, Michael Robles, and Cynthia Rodriguez have in common?

Thirteen-year-old Danny and his family are struggling to make ends meet in New York during the Great Depression.

On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimpall long armed, big eared, and gangly.

Who else but Mary Poppins can lead the Banks children on such extraordinary adventures?

Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist.

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It all starts when Marisa picks up the wrong cell phone.

2011 National Book Award FinalistAs a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him.

Meredith Willis is suspicious of Adrien, the new guy next door.

Out of sight, out of mind.

What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold?

In 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.

Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater's story of how Neddie, a shaman, a ghost, three pals, and a maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

The Sisters Eight are back in a new adventure!

At Penford High School, Brittany Taylor is the queen bee.

Like the game of baseball, life is quirky and unpredictable, as Shane Hunter discovers in the spring of his sophomore year.

Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonista fat high school journalist named Mitchveteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel.

In this sixth installment in the Just Grace series, Grace and Mimi have a secret .

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.

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Its been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earths climate.

Luke was not eager to accompany his best friend, Hayden, and the cocky new kid, Russell, up to the cliff that night.

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.

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Henry Smiths father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.

After reading thisnew book about Just Grace you will know how to .

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Best-selling author, Susan Beth Pfeffer, delivers a riveting companion to Life As We Knew It in this enthralling tale that follows seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he fights to survive in the aftermath of apocalyptic events in New York City.

Now that her father is dead, CeCe McGill is left to wonder why he risked his life for the ragged slaves who came to their door in the dead of night.