Kids
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
jFICTION O'Dell, Scott
Kids, Classics, Historical Fiction
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
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Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
Keith O'Brien
j629.130922 O'Brien
Kids, Nonfiction
"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
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The stars beneath our feet
David Barclay Moore
jFICTION Moore, David Barclay
Kids
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
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Merci Suárez changes gears
Meg Medina
jFICTION Medina, Meg
Kids
Merci Suárez relies on her close, extended family as she goes through many changes during her sixth-grade year at Florida's Seaward Pines Academy.
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The giver
Lois Lowry
jFICTION Lowry, Lois
Kids, Science Fiction
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Number the stars
Lois Lowry
jFICTION Lowry, Lois
Kids, Historical Fiction
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
jFICTION Lewis, C. S.
Kids, Classics, Fantasy
Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Dragon pearl
Yoon Ha Lee
jFICTION Lee, Yoon Ha
Kids, Fantasy
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
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Inside out & back again
Thanhha Lai
jFICTION Lai, Thanhha
Kids, Historical Fiction, Poetry
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Added by Anne W
Added by Anne W