Anna and her family have only one hope left to escape certain doom. It’s 1936 and life is becoming dangerous for the Jews of Krakow. As incidents of violence and persecution increase day by day, Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but...
Juvenile fiction
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary: - Author:Hrab, NaseemSummary:
After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bozorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bozorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a...
- Author:Thorpe, KikiSummary:
The Disney Fairies star in a magical all-new early chapter book series for kids ages 6 to 10—The Never Girls!Lainey dreams of talking to animals. Kate craves adventure and excitement.Mia loves dresses, roses, and anything beautiful....
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge that it draws the family to the garden shed...
- Author:Rose, SimonSummary:
Eric is sent to spend the summer with Septimus Trinket, the father he barely knows, in the remote village of Middle Wogglehole, where strange things happen, and soon he and his friend Jessica must battle evil in an unfamiliar world.
- Author:Bond, Gwenda, Rowe, ChristopherSummary:
The action-packed sequel to The Lost Legacy, which Booklist called “Monstrous fun!”
Living in a hotel full of monsters isn’t always easy, especially when all the adults have fallen under an evil spell! Stephen and his friends... - Author:Scieszka, Jon.Summary:
A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.
- Author:Kerrin, Jessica ScottSummary:
When a new book arrives at the library with a secret code written inside, Derek, with the help of his friends, follows the clues from one novel to the next and makes a discovery that may help him get past a terrible loss.
- Author:Freeman, MarthaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California's Calaveras County, teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in underground caves, and tries to help her people.
- Author:Zindel, PaulSummary:
High school sleuths P.C. Hawke and Mackenzie Riggs quickly regret their decision to take a killer calculus class at Columbia University. Not only is their math work more than anything they've ever tried before, but their professor loves...
- Author:Ibbotson, EvaSummary:
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in...
- Author:Connolly, MarcyKate, Haring, DanSummary:
Neil Gaiman meets How to Train Your Dragon in this beautifully illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy, his trusted dog, and his best friend, as they race to save the stars before their light is extinguished for good. When the world...
- Author:Becker, LindseySummary:
The stars in the sky have come to life to defend themselves against those who want to harness their powers. Much to her surprise, Honorine is the crux of it all, the center of an epic clash between magic and science, the old ways and...
- Author:Moore, David BarclaySummary:
A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel that's been described as a "fast and furious read in which we meet some amazing people,...
- Author:Baldwin, CindySummary:
Ivy Mae Bloom is almost thirteen years old, her name is almost a complete sentence, and her family's RV is almost a home. That's one too many "almosts" for Ivy. She desperately wants a place to put down roots, but it...
- Author:Skuy, DavidSummary:
Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a...
- Author:Lawrence, LorienSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there's something off about her neighbors. She calls them "the Oldies" because they've lived on Goodie Lane for as long as anyone can remember, but they never seem to age. Are they vampires? Or...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.
- Author:Hicks, Faith ErinSummary:
Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political...
- Author:Cervantes, JenniferSummary:
A contemporary adventure based on Maya mythology from Rick Riordan Presents!Zane Obispo spends every day exploring the sleeping volcano in his backyard. "The Beast," as he calls it, is the one place where he can escape other...
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