The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope
By: David Kherdian
3.90
Format: 144 pages,
David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted b…
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1. The Contender
By: Robert Lipsyte
3.64
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highsc… read more
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- school
"It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. "-Robert Lipsyte, The Contender
2. The Moves Make the Man
By: Bruce Brooks
3.70
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumpe… read more
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- childrens
- school
3. The Great Brain (Great Brain, #1)
By: Mercer Mayer , John D. Fitzgerald
4.17
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-to… read more
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- historical
- childrens
4. Parallel Journeys
By: Eleanor H. Ayer , Alfons Heck , Helen Waterford
4.03
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- school
- historical
- nonfiction
5. Gone-Away Lake
By: Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Summer has a magic all its own. When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she exp… read more
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- childrens
"Things are always happening to my socks. One's always going off someplace. I don't know why."-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake
"Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom."-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake
"Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture, and that's probably gone to pieces by now. Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does; and weather helps it."-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake
"Mr. Payton was at work on his pipe again, lighting and coaxing it. "They need constant attention, pipes, like babies and guinea hens," he said, and sucked in the smoke."-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake
6. China's Long March
By: Jean Fritz
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Hardcover
In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the Long March. It is from their recol… read more
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- biography
- history
- childrens
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- nonfiction
7. A General Theory of Oblivion
By: José Eduardo Agualusa , Daniel Hahn
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the eve of Angolan independence an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her apartmen… read more
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8. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
By: Esther Hautzig
4.18
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemi… read more
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- historical
9. The Snow Goose
By: Paul Gallico
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, THE SNOW GOOSE, is set… read more
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- childrens
10. The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope
By: David Kherdian
3.90
Format: 144 pages,
David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted b… read more
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- memoir
- history
- childrens
- school
- historical
- nonfiction
11. How to Ruin Your Life By 30: Just Follow These 9 Easy Steps!
By: Steve Farrar
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
We all have an internal alarm clock that goes off when we're about to make a bad decision... Some o… read more
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- nonfiction
- school
12. World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today
By: Richard J. Maybury
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
The explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the beginning of a chain reactio… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- school
13. Children of the River
By: Linda Crew
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, … read more
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- school
14. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
By: Jean Fritz , DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Turtleback
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16. Understood Betsy
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
4.22
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more
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- historical
- childrens
- school
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy
17. The Wednesday Wars
By: Gary D. Schmidt
2.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero.The Wednesday… read more
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18. The Wave
By: Todd Strasser , Morton Rhue
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Waveis based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, Calif… read more
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19. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
By: Jan Greenberg , None
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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21. Father's Arcane Daughter
By: E.L. Konigsburg
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach … read more
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22. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
By: Candice Millard
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author of Destiny of the Republicand The River of Doubt, a thrilling… read more
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24. Hope Was Here
By: Joan Bauer
4.01
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope's not sure w… read more
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- childrens
- school
"The sad heart needs work to do."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"Revenge of the Giant Grill Man."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter."-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
25. The Great Gilly Hopkins
By: Katherine Paterson
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry… read more
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26. God spoke Tibetan; the epic story of the men who gave the Bible to Tibet, the forbidden land
By: Allan Maberly
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is the true story of the men who gave the Bible to the people of remote, forbidden Tibet in th… read more
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27. A Night Divided
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.34
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more
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"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided
28. 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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"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
29. The Story That Cannot Be Told
By: J. Kasper Kramer
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade debut that weaves together folklore and history to tell the story of a girl finding … read more
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30. The Six-Day Hero
By: Tammar Stein
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Motti knows that war is coming. Israel is only nineteen years old, the same age as Motti's brave ol… read more
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31. A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, Really): An Adventure for the Curious Into Bodies, Womanhood, Time, Pain and Purpose—And How to Have a Better Time of the Month
By: Rachel Jones
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The average woman has 500 periods in her lifetime. And whether yours are mildly annoying, utterly d… read more
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- nonfiction
