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by Jerry Spinelli
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsMaster storyteller Jerry Spinelli has written a dizzingly inventive fable of growing up and letting go, of leaving childhood and its imagination play behind for the more dazzling adventures of adolescence, and of learning to accept not only the sunny part of day, but the unwelcome arrival of night, as well.
by Carol Lynch Williams
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsKyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her ...
by Suzanne Collins
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsPowerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collinss groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
by Moying Li
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in Chinas history as it tells the compelling story of one girls difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
by Edward Bloor
Published Dec 2009
Read ReviewsBy 2035 the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and kidnapping has become a major growth industry in the United States. The children of privilege live in secure, gated communities and are escorted to and from school by armed guards. But the security around Charity Meyers has broken down...
by Michelle Paver
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsWhen a horrifying sickness threatens all the forest clans, 12-year-old orphan Torak must embark on a hero's mission to save them. This stand-alone sequel to Wolf Brother pits a vulnerable boy with special powers against an unseen menace.
by G.P. Taylor
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsAn apocalyptic battle between good and evil is vigorously, violently fought in British author G.P. Taylor's suspenseful, action-packed fantasy.... a pageturner bursting with magic and myth. (Ages 11 and older).
by Zizou Corder
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsFrom an exciting new mother/daughter writing team comes the first part of a captivating adventure trilogy full of heroes, villains, and astounding events.
by Jeanne DuPrau
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsPart mystery, part adventure story, this novel provides science fiction for those who do not like science fiction. Ages 9+
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