A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards. Should she help him?...
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
- Author:Stratford, JordanSummary:
"Debut author Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency! Lady Ada Byron,...
- Author:Stratford, JordanSummary:
The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency was supposed to be a secret constabulary, but after the success of their first case, all of London knows that Lady Ada and Mary are the girls to go to if you have a problem. Their new case is a puzzle...
- Author:Mass, WendySummary:
It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life is Sweet candy factory,...
- Author:Williams, Laura E.Summary:
After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.
- Author:Ellis, Deborah,$dSummary:
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
- Author:Anderson, C. W.Summary:
The beauiful white Pony that Rhonda loves is going blind, and Rhonda can't bear to think that the Connemara might have to be put away. She is joyful, however, when the horse is given to her, and she earns his trust with patience...
- Author:Hunter, ErinSummary:
After facing their first battle, the remaining mountain cats must seek the Blazing Star in order to survive a new threat: a deadly disease sweeping through their territory.
- Author:Farley, WalterSummary:
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue their adventure continues in America.
- Author:Higgins, F. E.Summary:
When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In the 1840s, in Omakayas's seventh spring, she helps her Ojibwa family build a summer home on an island in Lake Superior. That winter during a smallpox outbreak, Omakayas shows her devotion to her family and learns about her...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
- Author:Poulin, AndréeSummary:
For his twelfth birthday, Thomas decides to build the biggest poutine in the world so he can get his name into the Guinness World Records and possibly convince his estranged mother to come home.
- Author:Giff, Patricia ReillySummary:
When Jilli and Jim see a big red structure being built next door, they imagine all kinds of frightening things before finding out the truth.
- Author:Kessler, Leonard P.Summary:
The animals prepare for and participate in the Big Mile Race. Double line spacing. Grades K-3.
- Author:Lupica, MikeSummary:
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
When Sophie is snatched from her orphanage bed by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), she fears she will be eaten. But the two join forces to vanquish the nine other far less gentle giants who threaten to consume earth's children.
- Author:Cooney, DougSummary:
Ernie, a twelve-year-old tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business. When he refuses to give a raise to his star employee, a tomboy named Swimming Pool, the enterprise starts falling apart. It takes the death of Ernie'...
- Author:DeFelice, CynthiaSummary:
Life is hard for 12-year-old Lucas. First Uncle Asa dies of consumption, then Lizy and Pa. Now Mama is sick. And Lucas is the only one left to take care of her and their Connecticut farm. By the time his neighbor tells him of a strange...
- Author:Reid Banks, LynneSummary:
King Midas comes to regret his wish to turn all he touches to gold. He must deal with a magician, a witch, and a dragon as he tries to undo the spell.