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Juvenile fiction
- Author:Forde, PatriciaSummary:
- Author:Davies, JacquelineSummary:
Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to...
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
When Jake, a teenager, takes his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf.
- Author:Lewis, C. S.Summary:
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
- Author:Kelly, Erin EntradaSummary:
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
- Author:Richards, DavidSummary:
- Author:Ness, PatrickSummary:
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.
- Author:Stilton, TheaSummary:
The Thea Sisters investigate a mystery involving a blue-skinned boy found unconscious on the beach by Paulina.
- Author:Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:
Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.
- Author:Hughes, SusanSummary:
Moving with her father to a remote island off the coast of nineteenth-century Nova Scotia after the death of her mother, Ellie struggles with grief and loneliness in spite of a new friendship until she bonds with a wild stallion whose...
- Author:Clark, ToddSummary:
When Irwin Snackcracker leaves for school in the morning all he can think about is pizza, tater-tots, and winning first place in the booger contest. He leaps down the bannister, quickly eats breakfast before brushing his teeth and...
- Author:Collins, SuzanneSummary:
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills...
- Author:Lunn, Janet Louise SwobodaSummary:
"The third novel in the trio that began with 'The Root Cellar' and 'Shadow in Hawthorn Bay.' This is the unforgettable tale of a young girl who escapes to Canada during the American Revolutionary War, who will...
- Author:Christopher, MattSummary:
Barry McGee likes being the Hit-Away Kid, the star of the Peach Street Mudders neighborhood baseball team. In fact, he likes it so much that he's willing to cheat-just once in a while-to help his game. He tells the umpire that he...
- Author:Nash, ScottSummary:
Blue Jay and his band of avian pirates sail the skies searching for ships laden with cargo, avoiding run-ins with the dastardly crows, dodging doldrums and bad weather, and evading the long arm of the Colonial army.
- Author:MacLean, JillSummary:
"Sigrid Sugden is a Shrike, a member of one of the toughest group of girls in school. They are experts at blackmail, extortion and bullying their terrorized classmates. But one day, the Shrikes go too far. Sigrid realizes that their...
- Author:Lasky, KathrynSummary:
Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of...
- Author:Hughes, ViSummary:
When the dogs in town lose their barks, Mike and Annie set out to solve the mystery. With the scary secrets and clues they uncover from the past, can they stop the deadly curse of the graveyard hounds?