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Paul Fisher's parents are avid fans of his older brother Erik's promising football career. In contrast, Paul wears extremely thick…
glasses because, according to Erik, Paul stared at an eclipse. When they move to Tangerine, Florida, Paul's new friendships help him uncover what he's really known all along about Erik. For grades 6-8
Twelve-year-old Kate Sommer's life seems ruined when her dad is transferred from southern California to Pennsylvania. Kate is president of…
the sixth grade, has a cute boyfriend, and goes to the beach daily. How can she survive in the frozen tundra with no friends? For grades 5-8
Jack's father, optimistic about job opportunities, moves the family to Barbados. Though the family is happy to live on the…
island, Jack's father is both a hero who saves a drowning couple and a tormentor who keeps his household in turmoil. Jack discovers that writing in his diary is important to him. For grades 5-8
1874, Tatoosh Island, Washington. Fourteen-year-old Nathan MacAllister helps his father tend a lighthouse on Cape Flattery. During the day he…
fishes in the Pacific with a Makah Native American neighbor. Then a ship breaks up on the rocks, and the captain turns up dead. When suspicious activities occur along the shore, Nathan decides to investigate. For grades 6-9
J.D. wants to be as crafty as his older brother Tom, who is known as "The Great Brain." Although J.D.'s…
money-making schemes fail miserably, his little brain does figure out how to rescue his adopted younger brother from a desperate outlaw. For grades 4-7
In this sequel to Sound the Jubilee (DB 42885), Maddie Henry and her family travel inland from the Civil War…
sanctuary of Roanoke Island searching for a homestead. They adopt an orphaned little girl along the way, and later, learn of a sympathetic farmer willing to sell to them and to stand against the prejudiced former slave owners. For grades 6-9
Classic nineteenth-century novel portrays a changing society and prison life. William Dorrit, who owes money, lives in debtor prison at…
Marshalsea with his children Edward, Fanny, and Amy--known as Little Dorrit. Amy falls in love with and marries her middle-aged benefactor
Attorney Lily White (known as Lee) is defending a charming con man who moves from town to town seducing middle-aged…
women out of their money, and who is now accused of murdering his latest mark. In alternate passages, Lee reviews the shabby treatment in her own personal life. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller
In the Oklahoma territory after the Civil War, Cherokee Zeke Proctor accidentally kills a white man. After Zeke is cleared…
of murder by an Indian tribunal, a white posse pursues him and his son-in-law into the hills, where the two withstand a bloody siege. Strong language and violence
A humble artist, Mi Fei, confronts a ferocious dragon to save his fellow villagers. When Mi Fei successfully completes the…
three tasks set by the dragon, the danger to the countryside disappears in an unusual way. For grades K-3
Best friends Annie and Violet live on adjacent farms in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Each describes her family's hardships…
during the dust storms that sweep the area. Then Violet writes letters to Annie when she leaves with her parents, who hope to find work in California in order to keep up payments on their land. For grades 3-6
Nancy Petersheim, nine, lives with her parents, grandparents, brothers, and sisters on a farm in Amish country. Nancy loves every…
bit of Whispering Brook Farm, and she hopes her family will always live there. Nancy faces the death of a family member and the joy of a wedding. Then her father announces he might sell the farm! For grades 4-7
1902. Rebekah Levinsky, fourteen, and her family leave their home in a Russian shtetl and begin the arduous journey to…
America. On the ship, Rebekah meets Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. The girls become close friends but must separate when they reach New York. Rebekah and her family discover they have to work long days in a sweatshop to survive. Prequel to Land of Promise (DB 41344). For grades 5-8
In this sequel to Land of Hope (DB 41343), Irish immigrant Rose Carney is abandoned by her uncle and must…
travel to Chicago with Kristin Swensen's family. When she reaches Chicago, Rose finds a job as a shop girl and takes responsibility for her father's and brother's finances in order to save money for the rest of their family to come to America. For grades 5-8
Bubba, twelve, has mixed emotions about his father's return from prison in 1938. Jed Harkins doesn't seem to be the…
same man who left their North Carolina home six years earlier. Bubba struggles with his loss of status as man of the house, and he can't understand why his father now refuses to maintain his longtime friendship with their black neighbors. For grades 6-9
When Amanda, her mother, and her siblings arrive in California, they do not want to live in the gold fields…
where their father is panning for gold. So they build a small cabin in town, though it's just a stage stop and a few cabins. But when Amanda bakes one of her pies and sells it to the miners, she starts a chain of events that makes the town grow. For grades 2-4
In an old letter found in the Toronto Archives, Margaret describes the summer of 1912, when she was seven. Her…
sister was very ill, and Margaret saw her father for the first time; but what she remembers best are the timid, winged, dog-like animals that were flying around her river neighborhood. For grades 4-7
Today is Grandpa's birthday, and Gabby has made him a pair of bright orange mittens, with just a little help…
from Mama. She can hardly wait to give them to him. But on the way to the city, Gabby has her hair cut in the short, perky style of a teenager she and Mama saw on the train. Then they worry that Gabby may look too grown up. For grades K-3
When his Apache band surrenders to the army, fourteen-year-old Solito is placed in a Florida school and adopted by a…
kindly Quaker couple. After killing an intruder in defense of his new family, Solito returns to Arizona to discover his identity and clear his name. Violence. For junior and senior high readers
Episodes from the lives and dreams of two mixed-blood Native American families, the Roys and Shawanos, from Minneapolis. Klaus Shawano…
is forewarned about women who lived with antelope and how men that love these women can lose their minds. But he captures one anyway with strips of sweetheart calico. She does indeed drive him to despair. Some descriptions of sex and some violence