Quick view Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. View Details
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Quick view The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by a very rich couple whose penthouse apartment is located close to the place where the orphans' misfortune all began. This sixth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" finds the... View Details
Quick view The End by Lemony Snicket All things must come to an end. Thankfully, this includes A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The 13th and final installment in the groundbreaking series will answer readers' most burning questions: Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the... View Details
Quick view Fifteen by Beverly Cleary The worries, joys and anguish of a 15-year old's first experience with love is sensitively portrayed. View Details
Quick view Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang When China's Communist Party detains Ji-Li's father, the 12-year-old is faced with a difficult choice. View Details
Quick view Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. View Details
Quick view Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Inspired by the author's own childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam as a refugee and immigrating to Alabama, this Newbery Honor Book and National Book Award winner told in verse is sure to capture young readers' hearts and open their eyes. View Details
Quick view Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers From Printz Award-winning author Myers and Caldecott Honor artist Grifalconi comes a gripping and powerful story told in verse that takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier's haunting, unforgettable experience in Vietnam View Details
Quick view Dont You Know There's a War On? by Avi This surprising historical novel tells the poignantly humorous story of a young boy's attempt to be a home-front hero during World War II. View Details
Quick view Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff Former "Boston Globe" reporter Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission. A plane crash in the South Pacific plunges a trio of U.S. military personnel into the unknown land of jungle-clad New Guinea. View Details
Quick view The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. View Details
