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This realistic novel was written by a first-time teen author no older than the characters she depicted. The story remains as hard-hitting and important today as when it was published in 1967.
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, this is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
The story of young Panchito and his trumpet, this novel is one of the most widely anthologized stories in Chicano literature.
A timely, heart-racing action-adventure about the War on Terror and the bond between brothers.
Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom.
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?
With perceptiveness and compassion, Sharon Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastating tragedy.
A terrifying account of the Nazi death-camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his god.
This classic novel tells the tale of an unusual friendship between two very different men: the mentally challenged and sometimes violent Lennie, and his loyal yet reluctant caretaker George.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
In this high-stakes crime thriller, an ordinary theft goes horribly wrong when a girl falls asleep in her mother's car—and wakes up kidnapped.
When Johnny, a silversmith's apprentice, violates the law by working on Sabbath Day, his hand is maimed by hot silver and he must find a new profession. His search lands him in the middle of America's fight for freedom.
An evocative story based on the accounts of Holocaust survivors.
A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings.
An unflinching account of how obsessive-compulsive disorder dismantled 15-year-old Allison Britz's life-until she asked for help and fought for clarity. “An important voice” -SLJ
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Celebrating the way that books and stories unite people in the face of tragedy, this haunting, weighty, and transformative book is impossible to forget.
When a planeload of British schoolboys crash-lands on a deserted Pacific island, the surviving boys struggle to create order among themselves so that they have a chance at being rescued. Much discussed and debated, this influential book has kept readers talking for more than a generation.
Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this powerful novel shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from a single violent moment, ripped from the headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
A true classic of American literature, The Great Gatsby celebrates a heightened sensibility to the promises of life, an American capacity for hope that remains unsullied even by the falsity of what it pursues.
Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested. As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patron's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards.
