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Dan Gutman has won a wide and growing audience among young readers, who have eagerly devoured all the books in the sports-loving author&rsquo...

*Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Award*"In clear, measured tones, the author recounts Betty's discomfort with her home life and her work w...

In a heartwarming first-person account, dePaola retells his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. 26 Fairmount Avenue is full ...

Shelia P. Moses is a National Book Award Finalist who has brought to life the story of Dred Scott, a man born into slavery in the 1700s. In 1...

An all-consuming love affair.A family torn apart by scandal.A young author on the brink of greatness.Hideous Love is the fascinating story o...

Tomie is overjoyed because his baby sister, Maureen, is finally strong enough to come home from the hospital. Over the next months, he is in ...

The year 1940 is a very big year for Tomie-it's the start of first grade, and it's his first birthday in the new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue...

Neftal''s father wants him to be a doctor. But Neftal' is not like other children. How he reconciles his own dreams with his father's is at t...

Acclaimed author Dianna Hutts Aston delights young readers with books about real-life topics written in language they can understand. In The ...

Acclaimed author of the Parents' Choice Jim & Me, Dan Gutman adds a fictional twist to the true story of pitching legend "Satchel" Paige. Aft...

Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as pa...

Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still...

Melvin is an imaginative and noisy little boy who grows up to be Mel Blanc, Looney Tunes cartoon character pioneer and the voice behind Bugs ...

Did you know Band-Aids were invented by accident?! And that they weren't mass-produced until the Boy Scouts gave their seal of approval? 1920...

This fictionalized first-person biography-in-verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grew up to pen Do...

Early in the Civil War, 19-year-old Belle Boyd risks capture to spy for the South and her native state of Virginia. On the eve of battle, she...

Meena Harris debuts with an empowering story about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true event from ...

"It was 1973, Nixon had not yet resigned, U. S. troops were still in Vietnam. We had three channels to choose from. Drug use was casual and n...

In her debut book, Misty Copeland tells the story of a young girl--an every girl--whose confidence is fragile and who is questioning her own ...

Based on a true story about Franz KafkaInspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the...