Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics

Born between a board fence and a set of trash cans, the hero of this absorbing novel by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry is a lowly stray dog.

Chris Creed grew up as the class freakthe bullies' punching bag.

Why is it, Terence wondered, that the things you know most surely are always the things you can't demonstrate to any one else?

The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.

Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trickso when they learn that their grandmother's sleepy Vermont inn has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little ';haunting' of their own.

Mary Downing Hahn combines powerful characters, dark secrets, and breathtaking suspense in a compelling Civil War-era story readers won't soon forget.

Grace can do a lot of things.

"e;'La frontera'.

Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli's family, despite the fact that she was born a slave.

If Howard had known the old hag was a witch, he never would have taunted her.

Roberta Ritter has been waiting for a knight in shining armor for most of her humdrum life.

The Outlaws, the toughest gang in school, follow Danny Sullivan to Alcatraz Island after he unintentionally thwarts one member's attempt to mug an old woman.

A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression.

A 2005 Newbery Honor Book It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine.

Welcome to a forest filled with water.

When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina.

Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball.

Look, Mick, he said, youre going to find out from somebody in the gym, so you might as well find out from me.

Everyone's favorite Grace is back.

The third-grader Grace Stewart gets stuck with the name Just Grace when she tries to distinguish herself from the three other Graces in her class.

The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowrys popular Gooney Bird series!

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.

A biography of the 19th century Frenchman who developed Braille.

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather.

In Lois Lowrys Newbery Medalwinning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world.

Irrepressible Anastasia is in junior high now and participating in the "e;Values"e; curriculum through which students learn to make moral decisions.

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.

Anastasia's seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud nobly aid her.

All the good things in Margarets world are collapsing, one by one, like a row of dominoes.

From the author of Gym Candy comes a novel of football and bullying, finding friends and finding courage.

If you ever went to Catholic school, or never went to Catholic school, you need to read this funny, smart, kid-true book.

Mercer Buddie wants two things in this world: a girlfriend and the chance to prove to his master falconer father that he's not a flake.

Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight, and threats from a girl bully in school.

What would happen if your parents went missing?

Orphan gangs in London's Cheapside?

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Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama.

';Do not ignore a call from me when you know I am feeling neurotic about a boy.

Someone is smuggling secrets out of the Kennewicketts'lab and sabotaging their experiments, putting everyone at the Amazing Automated Inn at risk.

Daniel doesnt believe the woods behind his new home are haunted by an evil witch and her terrifying beast.

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.

Journey to the wave-battered coast of the Pacific Northwest tomeet some of the engineers and scientistsworking to harness the punishing force of our oceans, one of the natures powerful and renewable energy sources.

The traditional Emperor's Journey is meant to be uneventful.

Stay on the roads.

';No one gets something for nothing.

Future scientist Madeline Little is dreading the start of middle school.

In this funny, action-packed middle grade novel from the author of the American Girl Luciana books,Alison gets invited to be on her dad's reality show, Survivor Guy, and faces important realities about her family, self-reliance, and learning to work together with friends.

Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block.

Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren't Fair.

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.