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Experience a classic tale of adventure and youthful resilience with Harry Castlemon's "Guy Harris, the Runaway." This 19th-century juvenile fiction masterpiece follows the journey of Guy Harris, a spirited young boy who feels trapped by his family circumstances. Driven by a longing for autonomy...

Marty had just finished burying a dead robin near the tall wooden fence that surrounded the Hutchinson back yard and the house next door. Suddenly she heard it—knock, knock, knock—three knocks coming from the other side of the wall. For a moment Marty was too petrified to move. Knocking on a wall was something a crazy person might do and some people said old Mrs. Hutchinson was crazy, living alone with an unmarried daughter and seeing no one.

The War Between the States has been going on for almost three years and shows no signs of stopping. When Elise befriends a man whose son chose to fight with the South, her best friend, Vera, becomes angry. She turns her back and tells the other students at school not to play with Elise. As the months pass, Elise wonders if she'll ever win back her friends. And as the war finally nears its end, what will she and her brother, Daniel, do when they discover a secret that could destroy Vera's world?

Winifred (Winnie) Kincaid and her cousin, Jesse Forester, find it difficult to believe that many of their friends accept the hateful views of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan demonstrates a hatred for those who are Jewish. When Winnie shows kindness to a young Jewish immigrant named Divora Liberman, her classmates at school (including Winnie’s best friend, Verna) are angry. Divora can barely speak English, her heavy accent is hard to understand, and she wears a funny scarf on her head, but the biggest strike against her is that she’s Jewish. So Divora is shunned.

Lydia Schmidt believes it’s unfair that boys get to have all the fun, take risks, and accomplish great feats while girls have to be prim and proper. It’s for that reason she is an emphatic believer in the woman’s right to vote. Unexpected doors open to Lydia to actually walk out her beliefs and serve in the suffragette movement. Though it brings her great pride, her stance isn’t always appreciated among her school friends.

Remy travaille dans les mines d'argent de Sainte-Marie. Un jour qu'il est bien fatigué apparaissent sous ses yeux de drôles de bêtes - des rats ? - qui parlent et... lui volent son goûter ! En remontant à la surface, il a conscience qu'un grand danger menace les mineurs. Mais personne ne...

“A dazzling plot with characters who are rich and real and unforgettable.”—Lynda Mullaly Hunt, New York Times best-selling author of Fish in a Tree ★ School Library Journal, starred review Is a hidden diary the key to an unsolved secret from the American Revolution? It’s 1979 and...