Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
By: Jeff Lantos
4.00
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Paul Revere's daring midnight ride made him an instant celebrity, right? Wrong! At first, no one in…
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1. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade
3.85
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- american revolution
- american revolutionary war
- nonfiction
2. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)
By: Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells li… read more
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- middle grade
- juvenile
"THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!"-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)
"I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!"-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)
"Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She…"-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)
3. Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
By: Kirby Larson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, 16-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travel… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- juvenile
"Home is not a building, but a feeling of belonging."-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
"Sometimes it takes a big dream to wake up a small town."-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
"I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience."-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
"Sometimes the biggest battles we face are within ourselves."-Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
4. The Courage Test
By: James Preller
4.04
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Will has no choice. His father drags him along on a wilderness adventure in the footsteps of legend… read more
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- middle grade
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- history
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6. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
By: Phillip Hoose
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nati… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- middle grade
- nonfiction
7. Ungifted
By: Gordon Korman
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It's usually more like Don't t… read more
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- middle grade
8. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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- history
9. Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
By: Greg Pizzoli
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book ReviewBest Illustrated Children's Book of 2015 In the early 1900s, Robert Mil… read more
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10. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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11. The Running Dream
By: Wendelin Van Draanen
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning and inspiring novel. When Jessica's dreams are shattered, she puts herself back to… read more
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12. City Spies (City Spies #1)
By: James Ponti
4.31
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose h… read more
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- middle grade
"Justice doesn’t require a membership card. Just a sense of right and wrong."-James Ponti, City Spies (City Spies #1)
13. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)
By: Gabrielle Meyer
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more
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- historical
14. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
By: Neal Shusterman
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman presents a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
15. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- history
- nonfiction
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
16. The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more
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- historical
- middle grade
17. A First Time for Everything
By: Dan Santat
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more
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18. Across the Desert
By: Dusti Bowling
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot strand… read more
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19. The Labors of Hercules Beal
By: Gary D. Schmidt
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more
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- middle grade
- juvenile
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal
20. The Canyon's Edge
By: Dusti Bowling
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father g… read more
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- poetry
- middle grade
21. Northwind
By: Gary Paulsen
3.58
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The story of a young person's battle to stay alive against the odds, where the high seas meet a coa… read more
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- middle grade
- juvenile
22. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
By: Daniel Nayeri
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- juvenile
"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
23. The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Scholastic Focus)
By: Joshua M. Greene
4.07
Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of history's most powerful acts of resistance. Here, author Joshu… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Beastly Beauty
By: Jennifer Donnelly
3.69
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gend… read more
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"If you want to know a person, don't ask to hear their truth. Listen to their lies."-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty
"You must do one thing and one thing only--become the person you were meant to be. No matter how daunting that task may be. Otherwise, your life is not a life; it is merely a long, protracted death."-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty
25. The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
By: Eugene Yelchin
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner With a masterful mix of comic timi… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II
By: Adam Gidwitz
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the firs… read more
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27. What We Hide (Tupelo Grove #1)
By: Colleen Coble
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Savannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated s… read more
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28. Clues to the Universe
By: Christina Li
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is buildi… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
"Why had I ever thought my dad would be the superhero? Mom had been standing in front of me all along, holding our world up on her shoulders."-Christina Li, Clues to the Universe
"Those were just successes. But how many failures did the scientists have to see? How many times did their rockets not orbit the planet, or not take off at all? How many times had they dreamed about l…"-Christina Li, Clues to the Universe
29. The Beatles Couldn't Read Music? (Wait! What?)
By: Dan Gutman
4.32
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of My Weird School : a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biograph… read more
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30. Jupiter Rising
By: Gary D. Schmidt
4.59
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is… read more
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31. Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
By: Jeff Lantos
4.00
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Paul Revere's daring midnight ride made him an instant celebrity, right? Wrong! At first, no one in… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- middle grade
- american revolution
- american revolutionary war
- nonfiction
- juvenile
