Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics

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.

Winner of the 2010 William C.

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 .

Prairie Winter has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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.

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.