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By Lauren Brooke. 2000
Although Amy is helping out with the horses at Heartland again, she still feels guilty about her mother's death. To…
make matters worse, she is trying to care for Spartan, the horse she and her mother rescued before the accident. For Amy, Spartan is an everyday reminder of the wreck. And Amy is a reminder for Spartan as well. Finally, Amy realizes that Spartan will never forgive her until she forgives herself.By Lauren Brooke. 2006
Spunky, vivacious Lani Hernandez is excited to be back at school with her friends and horses after winter break. Then…
Lani receives a letter from home: Her parents are concerned about her grades and want her to transfer to another school where the extracurriculars won't be as distracting. Upset but determined, Lani sets out to change her parents' minds. When she sprains her wrist riding, she's able to devote more time to studying -- until she gets involved in planning a charity event. If the event is a success, will Lani be able to convince her parents that Chestnut Hill is the place for her?By Avi. 1977
Following the Revolution, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the captive of a ruthless man who has set up his own "nation,"…
supported by piracy, on a remote part of the New Jersey coast.By James C. Dekker. 2008
Fifteen-year-old Megan's brother is dead, apparently a random victim of violence. As Megan digs deeper, she finds that Danny was…
"known to police" and that nobody wants to solve the crime.By Karin Gundisch, James Skofield. 2001
In 1902 in a small German town a traveler turns up singing songs about America. The land sounds like paradise,…
and young Johann Bonfert is excited when his own family plans a life overseas. They set out from a small town in Central Europe in search of a better life in America. But for ten-year-old Johann, the journey across the Atlantic to Youngstown, Ohio, is much more than a change of home and homeland. Johann's whole family is changing, with new jobs, a new language, and new struggles. Everything is different in America. Rich people want to stay thin, the milk cows have American names, and the very air, which at home smelled of hay and rain, here smells only of soot. But finally, as he writes about his new life and begins to realize just how far he has come, "Johnny" also begins to feel that at last he is an American. Through the plain-spoken, affecting voice of Johann, prize-winning author Karin Gundisch and celebrated translator James Skofield capture the stark truths faced by German-speaking immigrants and the heartening family bonds that saw them through--experiences as true today as they were a hundred years ago." This book is full of a young boy's thoughts and dreams and very interesting details about the way people lived in the United States and Germany over a hundred years ago. It contains lyrics of songs used to encourage and discourage immigration, short versions of German children's stories and a few footnotes.By James D. Cockcroft. 2000
The vibrancy and passion of contemporary Latino artists in the United States are celebrated in this book from award-winning writer…
James D. Cockcroft. Discover the context--political and social--in which their work has been created. Describes the evolution of Latino art in America through discussion of various artistic movements and important Latino artists.By Jacqueline Woodson. 1994
The Ghostwriters look for clues as to what is hidden in an old book that is more valuable than gold…
to the Jenkins family, and who stole the book at the family reunion.By Alice Walker. 1970
By Johanna Hurwitz. 1986
Happy to spend his summer vacation at home in the city, eight-year-old Jay is horrified by his parent's plan to…
spend two weeks in the Vermont woods sharing a house with another family.By Walter Dean Myers. 2007
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1980
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1998
When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler Josh decides to hitchhike across the country, and finds himself…
trapped in a mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a group of people who call themselves Melungeons.By Walter Dean Myers. 2003
Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon is returning to Harlem after 7 months at an exclusive prep school. He never wanted to leave…
the city in the first place - especially not to walk the hallowed halls of a mostly white New England school.By Libba Moore Gray. 1993
Fifty years have passed since Miss Elizabeth was a girl, but she still remembers Willie Rudd, the black housekeeper who…
helped raise her. She remembers the feel of sitting in Willie Rudd's lap while the housekeeper sang to her. And she remembers how Willie Rudd scrubbed the floor on her hands and knees. What would Miss Elizabeth say to Willie Rudd if she were alive today? She decides to write her a letter telling her how things would be different. Now Willie Rudd would come in the front door -- not the back. She would ride in the front of the bus with Miss Elizabeth, and they could sit together at the movies. The two of them would have a wonderful time. And in her heartfelt letter, Miss Elizabeth has the chance to tell Willie Rudd something she never told her while she was alive -- that she loved her.By Elvira Woodruff. 1997
By Francesco Sedita. 2007
Meet Cassie Knight. Bubbly, stylish, and super-friendly, she's the fashion queen at her Texas school. But when her father's job…
moves the family to cold, snowy Maine, Cassie's in for a huge culture shock.By Johanna Hurwitz. 2000
By Joan Lowery Nixon. 2001
The year 1775 is an explosive one -- both for the colony of Virginia and 11-year-old John Nicholas's family. The…
tensions are rising between England and the colonies, and Virginians disagree on how to act. Like many, John's father, Robert Carter Nicholas, hopes to find a peaceful solution, but John's older brother George and his company of the Williamsburg militia think Virginians need to fight for their rights. John feels caught in the middle between the two people he admires most. Can they both be right?By Cecil Castellucci. 2007
Dad's an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter's a buttoned-up neat freak who'd rather be anywhere else.…
Can this summer be saved? Now that she's exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she'll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she's spending two weeks with her father -- punk name: the Rat -- a recovering addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn't want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat's place is a mess and he's not like anything she'd call a father, Katy won't make a fuss. After all, she is a nice girl, a girl who is quiet and polite, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. Or is she? From the author of BOY PROOF and THE QUEEN OF COOL comes an edgy new L.A. novel full of humor, heart, and music.By M. T. Anderson. 2006
A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED. It…
sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother -- a princess in exile from a faraway land -- are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments -- and his own chilling role in them. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. WInner of the National Book Award