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by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4.1(1,708)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in the wild beauty of a Florida orange grove, navigates runaway pigs and colorful neighbors, finding humor, hardship, and a deep bond with the land that shapes her.
by Margaret Mahy
4.2(1,707)
Seven brothers, each with a unique supernatural gift, must unite their powers to outwit a tyrannical emperor and save their village in this illustrated retelling of a Chinese legend.
by Nancy Yi Fan
3.6(1,706)
As war rages between the blue jays and cardinals, Stone-Run Forest's fate rests on the mythic wings of Swordbird, a legendary hero whose existence might be the only hope against destruction.
by Sonya Hartnett
3.8(1,705)
In the shadow of World War I, two French sisters discover a blinded soldier and, through the shared secret of a silver donkey, are drawn into a world of ancient fables and quiet heroism as they conspire to guide him home.
by Wendelin Van Draanen
3.5(1,705)
A determined teen, armed with romance novels and a self-help guide, hunts for the perfect kiss, only to find that real-life smooches are messy, public, and complicate friendships.
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
3.6(1,704)
A Jewish teenager with forged papers risks everything as a courier in Nazi-occupied Poland, smuggling hope and lives between ghettos, then joins the desperate Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
by Minfong Ho
3.8(1,702)
In 1980 Cambodia, a young girl's journey through war and refugee camps shows the strength of the human spirit and family.
by Ben Rice
3.8(1,698)
When his sister's imaginary friends vanish, a cynical boy must learn to believe in the unbelievable to save her from a heartbreak only he can mend.
by Maggie Stiefvater
4.0(1,696)
A girl whose heart belongs to a yellow-eyed wolf must fight the encroaching winter that threatens to steal her human love back into the wild, furry unknown.
by Lois Duncan
3.5(1,696)
When a cryptic phone call shatters the fragile peace surrounding her brother and boyfriend's disappearance, Joan is pulled into a terrifying game of cat and mouse where the truth is far more sinister than their presumed deaths.
by Kashmira Sheth
3.8(1,695)
Confined to widowhood at twelve, a spoiled Indian girl discovers the quiet power of education and Gandhi's satyagraha, realizing it might just liberate both her country and herself from the shackles of tradition.
by William Shakespeare
4.3(1,688)
In the shadow of ambition and betrayal, Rome's most powerful general, Julius Caesar, discovers that even the closest friends can wield the deadliest daggers.
by Caroline Smailes
3.9(1,687)
In an abandoned Edwardian bathhouse, a lonely runaway teenager discovers a mysterious, naked woman swimming, plunging him into a dark, fantastical first love that will irrevocably transform his painful adolescence.
by Richard Powers
4.1(1,686)
A reclusive molecular biologist and a data entry clerk find their lives, and the mysteries of love, music, and science, linked by a forgotten computer program and the ghost of Bach.
by Julia Golding
4.2(1,685)
Disguised as a prissy ballerina in revolutionary Paris, street-smart Cat Royal uncovers treason and the power of the people as she navigates a web of intrigue, secret reporting, and baffling suitors, all while narrowly escaping the gallows.
by June Rae Wood
4.5(1,685)
A shy girl, Delrita, struggles with how people see her uncle with Down Syndrome. Tragedy changes their quiet life, forcing her to face her fears and learn to trust and love.
by Kate Evangelista
4.0(1,682)
A forbidden attraction to two mysterious boys plunges a young woman into a centuries-old feud between ancient civilizations hidden beneath her academy, all while a terrifying secret threatens to consume her.
by Adam Hochschild
4.3(1,682)
Twelve determined men in a London printing shop started the world's first grassroots movement, using boycotts and celebrity endorsements to end the British Empire's slave trade against strong opposition.
by Sandra Hill
3.9(1,681)
A shy chemist's life gets explosively complicated when her experimental love potion, disguised as a jelly bean, accidentally turns a wildly virile lawyer into her overwhelmingly smitten human guinea pig.
by Maxine Hong Kingston
3.7(1,680)
From railroad camps to laundry rooms, Kingston’s epic saga unfurls the paper sons' dreams and trials, tracing three generations of Chinese men battling exclusion and forging identity within the mythical yet brutal landscape of America.
by Garrison Keillor
3.8(1,679)
Return to Lake Wobegon, a comforting, quirky place where familiar faces and new characters navigate small-town life. This story reminds us that home stays with us, even when we leave.
by Nancy Holder
3.8(1,678)
To join the Pretty Little Devils, Hazel must sacrifice more than her innocence; their exclusive parties hide a sinister price for popularity.
by Meg Cabot
4.0(1,678)
Allie's excitement for a bus-riding field trip to a historic schoolhouse crumbles when she's paired with her former best friend, Mary Kay, who betrayed her before she moved.
by Rob Thurman
4.1(1,675)
A half-human monster's growing power forces him and his brother into a desperate fight for survival against supernatural forces and the monstrous darkness within him, even if it means embracing the very thing they've always fought against.