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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...

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...

Diary of a wimpy kid

the last straw

by Kinney, Jeff

Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.

Shadowed summer

by Mitchell, Saundra

In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides ...

Scat

by Hiaasen, Carl

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