On the brink of manhood, Josh's world is filled with studies and life with Aunt Lou and the menfolk, along with an occasional fishing trip thrown in. When a new teacher arrives, Josh thrives under his encouragement--as well as from the attentions of the theacher's pretty daughter. Josh faces important questions about life and love--and about himself.

A thirteen-year-old girl living in an 1880 Colorado gold-mining town witnesses the hardships of her community as she assists her father, the town doctor.

"In 1950, ninth-grader Joe Kaufmann stumbles into a torrid, one-sided affair with band classmate Alyssa Broderick at Boynton Junior High School in Ithaca, New York. This seemingly sweet, fresh-faced hussy seduces Joe. He naively falls in love with her and is blind to her cruel manipulation. Joe's turbulent school year continues when in November, three students attack him when he refuses to cheat for them on a geometry test. Although he recovers physically...

"At age ten, Audrey Hepburn evaded the Nazis. What was Roberto Clemente doing at that age? Or Albert Einstein? Lively text and striking illustrations present some of history's most famous figures in a whole new light"--

"Set in 1953, [this book] explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary hardship. Their meeting is inevitable, devastating, and ultimately healing. Their stories, a collection of events, are each on their own harmless. But together, one after the other, they change the world"--Page 4 of cover.

In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being a Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.

The First Volume in G.R Burns' Epic Saga the Bloodline of Kings. "Bahira and her beloved younger brother have been captured by the murdering Urudu. She doesn't know why, she doesn't know where they are headed, she feels a breath away from losing everything she holds dear...and she's right. Can Areoch, the son of an Ancient Sumerian King, find his love Bahira in time to save her? In a world where faint echoes of oral tradition are all that...

Co-written by Eric Walters and Godfrey Nkongolo, Light a Candle weaves non-fiction with fiction to tell the story of a boy coming of age in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro and his father, the chief of their tribe. The boy climbs the mountain against his father's wishes to fulfill a request of the country's first leader, Julius Nyerere, to light a candle on the top of the mountain and unify the mainland of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar as...

This lyrical middle grade historical novel set during the Great Depression from award-winning author L. M. Elliott is a moving tale of the spirit of American persistence, found family, and the magical partnership between girl and horse. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!

Bea wakes to Daddy's note in a hayloft, where he abandoned her with her little sister after the stock market crash took everything:

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