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Pharaoh's Boat

by Weitzman, David

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Children of war

voices of Iraqi refugees

by Ellis, Deborah

Iraqi children discuss how the Iraq war has affected their lives.

Written in Bone

Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

by Walker, Sally M.

This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived i...

Joey Fly, private eye in Creepy crawly crime

by Reynolds, Aaron & Numberman, Neil

Have you ever had one of those moments? You know--you're trying to find a stolen diamond pencil box for your beautiful butterfly customer, your mosquito witnes...

Swish

the quest for basketball's perfect shot

by Stewart, Mark & Kennedy, Mike

A history of some notable basketball shots and players.

Troll's eye view

a book of villainous tales

by Datlow, Ellen & Windling, Terri

Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales--evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In this ant...

Vermeer Interviews

by Raczka, Bob

In this innovative look at seven paintings by Jan Vermeer, author Bob Raczka takes on the role of interviewer and the people in the paintings become his willin...

The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

by Ritter, John

Dillontown was built upon a gold mine. Yet for the villagers, life is about something even more valuable: baseball. Home to the Dillontown Nine, they would giv...

The Amaranth Enchantment

by Berry, Julie

A delightful fairytale by a lyrical new voice.When Lucinda Chapdelaine was a small child, her parents left for the royal ball and never returned. Ever since, L...

The Yggyssey

How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There

by Pinkwater, Daniel

In the mid-1950s, Yggdrasil Birnbaum and her friends, Seamus and Neddie, journey to Old New Hackensack, which is on another plane, to try to learn why ghosts a...