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By Jennifer Moore 1812 Southern Belle Meg Burton is her parents last hope of avoiding financial ruin, and a distant cousin’s kind g...

By Mary Ann Shafer “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings ...

By Sarah M. Eden Katie Macauley gave up her lifelong dream of returning to Ireland in order to make a home for herself in Hope Spring...

By Pam Munoz Ryan Esperanza thought she’d always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico—she’d always have fancy dresses, a b...

By Marcus Zusak It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, ...

By A.C. Gaughen Posing as one of Robin Hood’s thieves to avoid the evil Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her identity a secret from a...

By Katherine Marsh Jepp has never lacked in confidence and wit, despite his diminutive size. For sixteen years, he has lived a comfor...

By Willa Cather   This novel follows the life story of bishop Jean Latour and his work as a catholic in a new and untamed land of th...

By Julianne Donaldson   Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredome of bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted s...

By Avi Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my st...

By Rebecca Skloot Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken ...

By Martin Lemelman In 1989, Martin Lemelman videotaped his mother, Gusta, as she opened up about her childhood in1930s Poland and her e...

By Scott Westerfeld Alek and Deryn are aboard the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/ma...

By Gerald Lund The first volume in the series The Work and the Glory begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family. In the 1820s...

By Avi “Asta’s son” is all he’s ever been called. The lack of name is appropriate, bcause he and his mother are but poor peasants in four...

By Charles Dickens Where "Great Expectations" lacks realism, "A Tale of Two Cities" follows a record of historical e...

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti In the newly formed Third Reich, Hitler's initial political doctrine is filled with hopeful solutions ...

By Alice Hoffman Estrella de Madrigal thought she knew herself: daughter, granddaughter, dearest friend. But truth is rare in this cruel...