Life changes for 12-year-old Rob Horton when he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel. On the very same day, he meets Sistine Bailey and learns how to trust another person for the first time in his life. Nominated for a 2001 National Book Award in the Young People's Literat... Read more

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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble. Read by David Aaron Baker. Book available. ... Read more

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Melinda Sordino finds herself an outcast at her high school for calling the cops on an end of summer party, and, although she finds comfort in her art class, she still holds a terrible secret. Jr Lib Guild. An ALA Quick Pick and Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue. ... Read more

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An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. ... Read more

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"As a child (Alice Rumphius) dreamed of travel . . . and of a house by the sea; but Grandfather had made one further request: 'You must do something to make the world more beautiful.' The simple story is accompanied by glowing pictures."--"The Horn Book." American Book Award. Ful... Read more

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Fantastically written, humorous, and deeply moving, Sherman Alexie's autobiographical first foray into the young adult fiction world follows Junior, a 14-year-old Indian whose vast physical problems and grinding poverty are outweighed by his incredible talent and refreshing, honest views on just abo... Read more

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Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain. ... Read more

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This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel's sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massach... Read more

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For over 20 years, Peter Matthiessen (THE SNOW LEOPARD) toiled on his late-career masterpiece, the trilogy of novels recounting the legendary, notorious, glorious, and nasty life of Florida outlaw, murderer, and sugar cane plantation owner Edgar J. Watson. The books--KILLING MISTER WATSON, LOST MAN'... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the... Read more

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The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America. ... Read more

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In this dazzlingly unique novel, which won the 2009 national Book Award for fiction, Colum McCann examines the trajectories of the lives of several people whose lives twist and converge around one man's transgressive act of courage--a tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.... Read more

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A calico cat, about to give birth to kittens, seeks the help of a hound dog in this story set in the East Texas Bayou. When the mother cat is killed, it is up to the hound dog to raise and protect the young kittens--even after further tragedy seemingly separates them forever. A 2009 Newbery Honor Bo... Read more

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A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. ... Read more

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Noted historian McCullough examines the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, providing a portrait of his family and a social history of a time period. Winner of the National Book Award for Biography. ... Read more

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A volume of linked stories describes the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan, in a collection that explores such themes as culture, class power, and desire. 50,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African-American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint. ... Read more

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Eudora Welty won the National Medal for Literature in 1979. A year later this award-winning volume of her short stories was published, and she was presented with the Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. This comprehensive collection, selected and introduced by Welty herself, solidifies her po... Read more

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Young Ju Park is 5 years old when her family emigrates from Korea to the United States. Young Ju has dreams that life in America will be wonderful, but as time passes, she becomes more and more aware of her father's sexism, growing depression, and increasingly violent behavior. This story traces You... Read more

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In her investigation into the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror and the War in Iraq, journalist Jane Mayer provides stunning behind-the-scenes accounts of the decision-making process at the White House and the effects on those caught up in the conflicts. Mayer reveals how the White House... Read more

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