Carol Gorman

In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.

Jerry Flack, recently-elected sixth-grade president, organizes an Elizabethan festival at school but accepts a challenge from a bully that may mean he will once again be considered a "dork."

When the boy Amy is babysitting swears he witnessed a kidnapping, Amy isn't sure whether she should believe his crazy story Thirteen-year-old Amy Whipple is forced to babysit the son of her dad's most important client, and she is prepared for a boring weekend with a boring eight-year-old. On a trip to the park, Malcolm runs ahead, and when Amy catches up with him, he swears he has just seen the kidnapping of Jennifer Smith from his class. Malcolm...

When his uncle invents a time machine that can summon people from the past, T.J. has his hands full with a seventeenth-century pirate. T.J. O'Brien witnesses a break-in behind the library. But when he sees the burglar - a real, live pirate - he realizes he can't go to the police. They'd never believe him! He decides to talk it over with his eccentric uncle Ainsley. But when he arrives at Ainsley's house, he finds the pirate sitting on the floor, eating...

Lizard Flanagan is stunned when she is chosen as a model for the local fashion show - this tomboy in a dress has her work cut out for her. When Lizard Flanagan finds out about a trip to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs play - for only fifty dollars - she is thrilled. It's her big chance to see her favorite team in action! But how is she supposed to come up with fifty dollars before the trip? Lizard couldn't care less about the local teen fashion...

Discusses aspects of the issue of pornography, including problems that arise when trying to define what material is dangerous to society, what should be outlawed, and should the individual have the right to decide for himself.

Convinced that the fatal accident she witnessed at the basketball game was not accidental, thirteen-year-old Chelsey, a paraplegic, and her unusual friend Jack join forces to prove it was a deliberate murder.

"Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman shares her harrowing experience of being wrongly accused of terrorism. Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her communityand the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew....

"Continuing this propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman once persecuted by the Taliban shares her journey to becoming a community activist. As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta's school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends...