Why does Pop get so angry when Deja brings up anything about the towers? Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness 9/11, but begin to realize how much it colors...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:
- Author:Gorham, VivienSummary:
When thirteen-year-old Jamie Francis's parents divorced, she and her mother moved from Halifax to the small town of River Bend, Nova Scotia. Jamie doesn't have any friends and isn't sure how she'll ever make any,...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs: for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
In the sixth book in Stephan Pastis's hilarious series, Timmy is being threatened and must rely on his new partner to solve the mystery - and possibly save his life! Timmy is in Key West, Florida, ostensibly for the honeymoon of...
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
Banishment from his life's calling can't keep a comically overconfident detective down in the latest episode by New York Times bestseller Stephan Pastis. This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details....
- Author:Pastis, StephanSummary:
Timmy is forced to hit the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and smells-like-a-tangerine criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes...
- Author:EDDY, SteveSummary:
Introduction to the beliefs, philosophy and mythology of the native Americans and how this can be applied to everyday life on the 21st century.
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
- Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:
The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so do the tensions in the San Joaquin...
- Author:Tamaki, JillianSummary:
A young girl describes where she finds colors in both the world around her and beyond what she can see.
- Author:Robinson, TonySummary:
The story of Theseus, saved from death as a baby, narrowly escaping having his legs sliced off by an axe-wielding inn-keeper, he also has time to defeat hoards of pirates and kill the Minotaur!
- Author:Rawlings, Marjorie KinnanSummary:
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
- Author:Lin, GraceSummary:
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
- Author:Cowley, Joy.Summary:
In Ireland, a young girl who cannot sing, dance, or control her temper stumbles across a faerie village, where a beautiful boy asks her to name her three wishes--but does not promise to grant them for her.
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner.
- Author:Horwitz, Sarah JeanSummary:
A stunning debut about a magician's apprentice and a one-winged princess who must vanquish the mechanical monsters that stalk the streets and threaten the faerie kingdom. Aspiring inventor and magician's apprentice Felix...
- Author:Engle, MargaritaSummary:
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
- Author:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Summary:
An exciting story of a boy's growth to manhood which gives an excellent picture of the life and culture of the North Pacific Indians in the Pre-Columbian period.
- Author:Stratton, AllanSummary:
When her parents want to put Granny in a home, Zoe decides now is the time to break free. She smuggles Granny out and together they hit the tracks on a cross-country trip to find Zoe's long-lost uncle.
- Author:Farmer, NancySummary:
Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo. Thanks to four wise and magical friends she has met along the way, the baby giraffe is managing to...