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A QUEST - STAY ALIVE, KEEP FAMILY SAFE, AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, KEEP MOVING WEST. Young but determined, the man of the family too soon, Jake Zane comes of age with the help of a massive mute escaped slave. It's conquer the wilderness, protect...

Fifteen-year-old Adriana Nicu lives in the sheltered world of Bucharest, Romania, in the year 1987. Under the rule of Communist president Nicolae Ceaușescu, citizens of Bucharest live with the eyes and ears of the government ever present. Adriana's future, which will involve becoming an...

In the opening pages of this historical novel, sixteen-year-old Kate Harding is desperately trying to assist her mother who is about to give premature birth to a child in their home in the small colonial community of Victoria in 1861.The experience is gruelling for...

In seventeenth century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the "Rose of Devon," a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland. Philip's bold spirit...

"You can't throw too much style into a miracle, and you, my friend, are a miracle," Mark Twain says to Fedor Adrianovitch Jefticheff, also known as Jo-Jo The Dog Faced Boy. Fedor lives, travels, works, and loves among the haunting cast of performers in...

The world is on fire and war is coming.Astrid Barberi has escaped Noritia and has been given refuge with her allies in Perygand. Though finally reunited with her loved ones, no one is safe yet. Her husband, Julian de Batonia, is relentless and will...

The influence of Shakespeare on American culture is unequivocal. And despite its youth, young adult literature has grown into a literary force majeure. Considering the widespread popularity of both Shakespeare and young adult literature, their pairing can offer teachers and students a wide array...

A youth in Jacobean England who has lost his memory and doesn't know whether he is a werewolf or not. He knows only that he must get rid of his "wolf" - whatever it is - before it kills him and the girl he...

One wrong move, one misstep, and the course of a life can be changed for ever. Annie Perry is born beside the coal-muddied canals of the Black Country at the height of the industrial revolution. At nine years old she is sold for six...

Everyone has heard of Gettysburg, but for sheer ferocity of fighting, it is tough to match the horrendous stories of what happened in the fight for Tennessee in the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga. This is the story of two very different armies,...

A QUEST - STAY ALIVE, KEEP FAMILY SAFE, AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, KEEP MOVING WEST. Young but determined, the man of the family too soon, Jake Zane comes of age with the help of a massive mute escaped slave. It's conquer the wilderness, protect...

The thrilling adventure story based on the writings of the Bront children, by the bestselling author of Witch Child When Tom is in a coma, his friend Milo decides that he can be a guinea pig for a new gaming device - a device...

"I cry for all of us who bear the burden of these times."Aaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii One day at the river changed everything.So begins the terror from the pale ones who remake the lands and the people to suit their pale vision. But the ghost woman and...

Eva Mueller is twelve years old when her father announces that the family is leaving Russia and immigrating to America. Although they have lived in Russia their whole lives, they have always considered themselves Germans who live in Russia. In 1763, the Russian ruler,...

Tales from the Greenwood District is a series of short fictional stories that adds color and dimension to Black Wall Street before the Tulsa Massacre. Each tale takes place right after World War I, when blacks were called to war only to return to...

In the medieval country of Noediem, Francois Cassel is squire to the knight Lauchant, who, with a company of the King's Guard, sets off to rid the southern regions of a raiding band from neighbouring Ballenrue. Lauchant is injured in an encounter with the...

Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy--spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractions, her visions intensify--visions of three girls dressed...

Everyone knows how clouds are formed: evaporation, accumulation, condensation, and (eventually) precipitation. However, very few know that human souls behave in much the same way.In the 1930s, Garden City, Kansas, bore little resemblance to its name. Suffering from the longest continuous drought in the...

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect four episodes, from prehistory through the far future, in this Michael L. Printz Honor Book. In prehistory, a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs. Tens of centuries later, the treacherous waters of...

This imaginative and intricately illustrated fiction book for young adults (and adults), is a trip back into the history of the Pacific Northwest when Native Americans still populated the northern coast of Oregon. As the sole survivor of a shipwreck centuries ago, Professor Eff...

Brenda Heller & Jimmy Adams 10605 A piercing scream stopped him in his tracks. By instinct he dropped to a squat. He caught his breath as he had ignored the flooding room and now felt the icy water press against his chest. The noise...

A young girl raised in an Irish industrial school accidentally learns that the woman she spends an annual summer holiday with is her birth mother.Author: Heidi DanieleISBN-10: 1943006946ISBN-13: 9781943006946Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2019Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Voice of Youth...

In 1744 David Cameron, a Scottish boy, and Tomah, Chief of the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), are sold into slavery on a Virginia plantation. They team up for a daring escape and, thanks to Tomah's knowledge and bravery, outwit their pursuers. They head north through the...

If history is your game, this is the book for you. The offers the reader with a collection of of stories from the history. A great book for the younger generation to learn more about World HistoryAuthor: George Cary EgglestonISBN-10: 9386367971ISBN-13: 9789386367976Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage:...

When Lily is a young teenager, the time comes for her and her friends to leave school and find work; some are emigrating to America, some going to work in shops. Lily is going into service in the Big House - Lissadell.Lily's employers, the...

It's 1943. Poland has just been invaded, and all the Jews are to board trains headed to the camps. They are told that they are going to work camps; but they are headed to extermination camps...After losing everything including her family, Annishia joins the...

The summer couldn't have had a worse beginning for Ruth Ann Bloomfield. But it's two months later and she's off to visit her dad in Saginaw. Her dream of having Maureen join her is realized and they wind up having one adventure after another....

Rachel Porter, captured as a child in 1838 by a band of renegade Sioux, finds it hard to adjust after she is recaptured by her minister father.Author: Sollace HotzeISBN-10: 0395597021ISBN-13: 9780395597026Publisher: Clarion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/1991Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60dReview Citation(s):...

An Indian girl struggles to survive a brutal time of change as Spaniards begin their conquest of indigenous cultures. In this beautifully written novel, Sherry Garland brings the late 1500s to life, chronicling the virtual extinction of the native Indio and the birth of...

"...a fast-paced novel that would keep a high school student reading." -SM Heacock, Retired Educator, Los Angeles Unified School DistrictIn 1795, eighteen-year-old Salvador Tenorio and his best friend, Blas, embark upon the most adventurous journey of their lives, leaving their impoverished families and painful...

Blanca's white fur marks her as different. In a sea of dark brown hides, she always stands out, and other young buffalo treat her cruelly because of it. Even her one trusted friend, Battus, disappears from her life. Blanca just wants to be normal-to...

In the first two books of the TimeWorm trilogy, an accident with a time machine of the mid-twenty-first century causes Theo and his robotic dog, Murphy, to time jump into the dangers of Nazi Germany. Theo meets a German teen named Gracie, who is...

The Thrilling Sequel to Return to SherwoodAfter fleeing Nottingham to escape King John and his hired mecenary known as Sir Hugh, Robin Hood and his remaining gang of outlaws scatter in their attempt to survive. Those in England are caught up in a battle...

Blue Baxter turns twelve in 1954 just as the school year ends, and she settles in for a long, lazy summer vacation.But when backyard garden vegetables begin to mysteriously disappear in the night, Blue's investigation leads to the discovery of three "illegal" migrant worker...

The darkest day of the year, winter solstice. The darkest year of the era, 1940 Latvia. Still, seventeen-year-old Kārlis Pērkons and friends, the Nonchalants, vow to resist the Russian occupation. Oaths are tested when Peters Kalnins is interrogated at the Corner House, Eriks Gailis...

ONE CAT. TWO GIRLS. THREE WAYS TO DIE.It's 1871. Fourteen-year-old Rose and her twin sister, Lily are on their way to Egypt. When a sinister Egyptologist joins their ship, Rose senses terrible danger. Wherever she is, there he is too, watching from the shadows....

In the spring of 1945 a mother dies, leaving four children to fend for themselves in a Dublin tenement.Nancy, the oldest, lives in dread of the family being split up. The power to send them all to industrial schools such as Artane and Goldenbridge...

Apparently, false rumors about Marie Antoinette are all the fashion in 1783. Marie Antoinette is facing hostility from the populace, inflamed by rumors circulated in pamphlets throughout Paris. The rumors claim that she has dozens of lovers, drinks the blood of poor people, holds...

From the author of Lily at Lissadell and the 'Alice & Megan', 'Eva' and 'Time After Time' seriesLissadell House, Sligo, 1913Friends Lily and Nellie work long hard hours as housemaids for the Gore Booth family in the Big House. And yet these are days...

It's hard enough dealing with the effects of World War II sending his father and grandfather to the Pacific theater, but now seventeen-year-old Jonathon Thomas has to deal with real and imaginary earthquakes. To make matters worse his school principal has warned him and...

Here, in simple, readable, lucid language suitable for a child but delightful for adults, too is the history of humanity from the first proto-humanoids to the development of the earliest alphabets. Though the details have been refined since this enchanting primer was first published...

Author: Maggie de VriesISBN-10: 1554685796ISBN-13: 9781554685790Publisher: HarperTrophyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2015Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5Point Value: 12Interest Level: Middle Grade PlusQuiz #/Name: 143441 / Hunger Journeys

Satisfied with a Grade 8 education? Not fourteen-year-old Allister McRuer. The first step to realizing his dreams requires high school, but will his father ever allow him to leave the farm and live in town to attend? Allister's one thread of hope for more...

"The Cantora," American Book Fest Best Book of the Year--Historical FictionIt all began with a rumor: An Indian girl who sang with the voice of an angel. A tiny girl, perhaps only nine years old. No one believed it at first, but the rumor...

At the SW sea, turn your back to the inn lies the key, Across the way. Stay and it will lead ye, True to the marker to set the treasure free, At last to dig in sand.In the mid 1600's, when King Charles I...

Panic grips the city There is a killer loose in New York City, and Carver Young is the only one who sees the startling connection between the recent string of murders and the most famous serial killer in history: Jack the Ripper. Time is...