Taught to recognize patterns in seemingly random events and numbers, blind Laureth Peak and her 7-year-old brother, Benjamin, become tangled in a mystery involving their father's disappearance that re
In the third and final book in this action-packed trilogy, the Barker brothers and their good friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time. There are still mysteries to solv
Tired of being forced to participate in sports, take extra lessons and receive tutoring to become well-rounded in preparation for college, middle schooler Jack Strong stages a sit-in on his couch unti
Although he comes from a family of theater people who don't get involved in politics, ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton join Bamse's brother and participate in the Danish Resistance durin
After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and
It was August 27, 1885. In a hospital in Lima, Peru, a student named Daniel Carrion was preparing to infect himself with a dreaded disease . . . He had a small, sharp lancet ready . . . Carrion's frie
"Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their in
All These Things I’ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen-year-old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of
During the Civil War, Tommy, the son of a Presbyterian minister in Augusta, Georgia, must search his conscience to decide whether to help a Yankee soldier escape so he can return home, in a story insp
The red words painted on the trailer caused quite a buzz around town and before an hour was up, half of Antler was standing in line with two dollars clutched in hand to see the fattest boy in the worl
No Choirboy takes readers inside America’s prisons and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and uncensored—they talk about their lives in pri
When Jerry Downing, the star high school quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident the year before, Carla Jensen, ace reporte
After Beth convinces Josh to take a walk around Walden Pond in the hopes of helping him out of his spiritual rut and encouraging him to dream again, events unfold that effect Josh's life in ways he co
Kate and Lucie are best friends. Kate is neat and Lucie is messy. Kate wakes up early and Lucie loves to sleep in. But both girls love, love, love dogs! Unfortunately, Kate and Lucie live in apartment
Getting to feel at home in a new countryYoon’s name means "shining wisdom," and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to writ
Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she’s a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena rea
Relates the harrowing tale from World War I in which two towns were leveled and nearly 2,000 people killed when two warships collided in Halifax Harbour and then a blizzard dumped more than a foot of
Accompanying his Uncle Thad to sea where he helps out in the galley along with a mischievous capuchin monkey, Ray befriends the ship's cook, a former slave who is keeping a dangerous secret hidden in
Set in the current day, this is the final book in Morris Gleitzman's series that began with Once, continued with Then and is . . . Now.Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is w
A follow-up to Get Well Soon finds Anna returning from a three-week stay in a mental hospital and struggling to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments, peers who are afraid to ask
Struggling with her father's long-term coma and a wrenching decision about his life support in the final days of her sophomore year, Ellis, who is also enduring a strained relationship with her mother
Devastated to learn that a beloved elephant in the zoo where their mother works is to be euthanized to keep it from panicking if bombs are dropped nearby, Lizzie and Karl of World War II-era Dresden p
In alternating chapters, the story tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her con
When her efforts to fit in are further complicated by a meltdown in language arts class, Minnie struggles with an assignment to paint a self-portrait, questioning who she is and the family troubles sh
In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes faces danger in a train station for the dead, a museum of curiousities, and downtown Moscow as he helps his brother, Mycroft, who has been framed for murder.
Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who mysteriously disap
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, continues as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother b
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, 14-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies he
In 1957, 13-year-old Olivene Love gets tangled up in a murder mystery involving Jimmy Koppel's mother when her itinerant preaching family arrives in the small town of Binder, Arkansas, for a three-day
Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while hi
Bis wann bist du ein Mensch?Nach einem Autounfall ist Lockes Seele in einem Computer gefangen. 260 Jahre spater schlagt er in einem kunstlich rekonstruierten Korper die Augen auf – und sofort sind sei
Zachary’s mom just up and disappeared from their home in Copper Lake, Colorado. The good news is that Zachary and his dad are trying to move on, and Falls, Connecticut, is just the place for a fresh s
Travis Tacey doesn’t have it easy: his mom’s in the hospital suffering from brain trauma after a terrible car accident, and his father has lost his good sense in the aftermath and kicked him out. Home
Moving is tough. Being the new kid in school is even tougher. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen “Dodo” Bussey’s family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her.
Fifty years ago, Madeleine L’Engle introduced the world to A Wrinkle in Time and the wonderful and unforgettable characters Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe. Now their fi
Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as
Amos Kincaid is the son of a dowser—a person gifted in knowing how to “find” water deep in the ground. As a young person, Amos doesn’t reveal his gift to others; he’s not sure he wants the burden. But
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail
