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Life in a new country and caring for a little brother who's sick make Nina struggle to fit in at school. But when she joins an art club and finds new friends, she becomes the Trading Card Queen.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 1.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Olsen is a young white man in the 1960s who meets his first Black friend, Arnold, in Army boot camp. When a tragedy separates the two men, Olsen learns that it's never too late to be a good friend.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Lily's favorite place is the forest near her home. But when her forest is taken from her, will she find beauty somewhere else or try to fix what's broken?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 5.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Angela thinks she knows every corner of her beloved Pike Place Market, but she discovers there's a whole other, magical Market waiting to be explored at night.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Pike Place Market in Seattle is a magical place...especially at night. Angela knows this. She can't wait to visit it again to see if her first visit really happened, or if it was a dream.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Erin dreads moving to India from her native London. She feels shy and helpless at her new school until she meets smart, capable Vennela. Their friendship ends up being a lifeline for both of them.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
A mother and daughter find their relationship is tested as they adjust to a new culture and language, but they both learn that a little understanding goes a long way.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Emmeline's dangerous secret is safe until Richard Pratt threatens to reveal the truth. When someone tries to kill Pratt, Emmeline becomes the main suspect... but who is the real murderer?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 2.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Bailey takes a walk through the forest to find inspiration for an essay, but new friends and dangerous adventures in a magical world take her on an exciting journey home.
Interest Level: Late Elementary Reading Level: 1.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Moira's son Henry, who has autism, loves his new puppy like he's never loved anything before. When a stranger shows up claiming to be the puppy's real owner, Moira is faced with a painful decision.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Abby's classmates have great topics for their family history projects. Their families are so much more interesting than hers, or so she thinks, until she begins asking the right questions.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 2.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Divided in Land but Together in Heart: A Tale of Cyprus
Living on opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, two teen girls—one of Turkish descent, one of Greek descent—become friends with a shared goal: to bring together old friends and new.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
A teenage girl faces a life-or-death problem. No one can seem to help her, that is, until she meets a boy with autism who ends up changing her life forever.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 2.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Mx. Rogers (pronounced MIX Rogers) returns to school following their gender reassignment with a short tale from the ocean that they've written to help explain their new identity to their students.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Yijia's fifth-grade self has a knack for attracting attention from Mrs. Lou... but not the good kind of attention. One moment stands out in particular, one that she just can't ever forget.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
A famine threatens the village, and Fayola will do anything to keep her son from going hungry. Her situation quickly goes from bad to worse . . . but perhaps fortune will smile on her in the end.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 5.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Mateo's best friend Kat Nguyen breaks up with him, and he’s far from over it. He has to win her back, but how? The 1950s book "5 Steps to Win Her Heart" just might be the answer he’s looking for.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
When Aubree suggests stealing their rival school's mascot before the big game tomorrow night, she doesn't think Finn will actually take her up on it. This is sure to be a night to remember.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Aunt Delly has always told Noelle that naughty children get taken away. When Noelle comes to find herself "stolen" by the roaders, it's nothing like what she'd been told.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Twelve-year-old Itanya works in a Kenyan factory with her mother in order to scrape by. Her dream is to eat and learn and live like a "normal child," but that dream feels so far from reach.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Zach uses his imagination to create a movie script about the Drake family. Maddy objects to Zach’s notion that, “all stories are true and some of them actually happened.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 2.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
In the final installation of The Drake House Outhouse, Maddy and Zach have wrapped up their version of what happened in their corner of the world back in the days of the early pioneers.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Samar struggles to fit in when she starts school in America after living in Egypt. Can she help her friend Mina put aside religious prejudices by being a friend herself to those different from her?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Andrew is ill and because of this, his world grows smaller every day as his parents try to keep him safe. All he needs is one person to understand that there's more to living than staying alive.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Every time Jana gets used to a place and really starts to like it and make new friends, her mom tells her it's time to leave. Is this really happening again?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Asa and her fellow fairies live happily in their small village. However, Asa must travel to the Cereus Palace when nearby fairy villages are suddenly destroyed . . . and her village might be next.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 5.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
They used to play together. They were best friends before they were separated by their countries, their tribes, and the war between them. Will Orchidea's and Roziel's paths ever cross again?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
With her dark skin and coiled hair, Alicia doesn't look like the woman on the magazine cover. This leads her to question beauty: what does it mean to be beautiful? Is she? Can she ever be?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Valuable jewelry is stolen along with a scrapbook containing an old man's memories of being held as a boy in a Japanese-American internment camp in WWII. It's up to the People Movers to investigate.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Noah is angry, and getting bullied at his new school doesn't help. But when he befriends the principal's daughter, Noah learns how art and friendship can help him heal.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Lester, a skeptical young man, is patrolling the village cemetery for his first night as the graveyard lookout. He expects a silent night, but it ends up being anything but quiet.
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 4.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
The Palace is old and sad. People fear it and for good reason. Every year, a lottery is held in town to determine who will be sent to The Palace as a sacrifice to keep the evil at bay.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
“Oh yeah? I'll show you!” hollered Davy over the din of students heading to class. “I can get a prom date JUST LIKE THAT!” The question is . . . can he?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Everyone deserves a place to feel welcome and safe—it’s common sense. Perry, Gael, Dawson, Marina, and Valentina fight for the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
