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Ten-year-old Winnie discovers a family who drank from a spring that keeps them from ever aging or dying.

A robot washes up on a remote island and learns to survive by befriending the animals.

A boy who loves candy finds that everything he touches with his lips turns to chocolate.

A fifth grader invents a new word for "pen," and it spreads far beyond his classroom.

Hank, the self-appointed Head of Ranch Security, investigates a murder on the ranch.

Nonfiction about the teenage girls who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during WWII.

A biography of Louis Braille, who lost his sight as a child and invented a reading system for the blind.

This nonfiction guide for kids traces advertising from ancient Greece to today, breaking down tactics like celebrity endorsements, mascots, and stealth marketing aimed at children, along with ways to push back as a smarter consumer.

Girls from a mountain village are sent to an academy to prepare one of them to marry the prince.

The boyhood of Benjamin West, a Quaker boy in colonial Pennsylvania who grew up to be a famous painter.

Book one of the Viking Quest series: an Irish girl is captured by Viking raiders.

In 1900 North Carolina, an orphaned girl moves in with her uncle and discovers a secret tunnel in his house.

A picture book in which a wooden puppet learns his worth comes from the woodcarver who made him.

Four friends are given magical candy by a new shop owner, and they find out the gifts come with a price.

After her tribe evacuates a remote California island and her brother is killed, twelve-year-old Karana is left behind and spends years surviving alone, learning to hunt, build shelter, and befriend a wild dog.

This illustrated nonfiction book explores real animal partnerships, like the turtle that cleans a hippo's skin and the bird that picks food from a crocodile's teeth, showing how unlikely pairs help each other survive.

A family of six-inch-tall people with mouse-like tails lives secretly inside the walls of the Bigg family's house, scavenging scraps and narrowly avoiding discovery as they look out for each other.

The unruly Herdman siblings return, this time loose on an entire school year instead of just the Christmas pageant, upending one classroom tradition after another at their elementary school.

Two brothers carry a secret message for George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

Laura recounts a year of her family's pioneer life in a Wisconsin log cabin in the 1870s, from butchering hogs and making maple syrup to Christmas with her sisters and Pa's fiddle.

McKinley, a sled-pulling malamute in a small Colorado town, must choose between loyalty to his human family and the neighborhood dogs he protects, and the wild wolf trying to lure him into her pack.

A biography of the missionary who went to China and led orphans to safety during the war.

A year in the life of a young Ojibwe girl on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

A novel in verse about a girl bullied for her weight who learns to take up space.

This Newbery Medal-winning biography traces Abraham Lincoln's life from his frontier childhood through the presidency and assassination, illustrated throughout with period photographs and his own words.

During the Irish potato famine, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan scrapes together food and courage to keep her family and neighbors alive after the crop fails and her father is stranded at sea.

Greystone Secrets book one: three siblings learn of kidnapped children who share their names and birthdays.

During WWII, a boy donates his beloved dog to the military's Dogs for Defense program.

A woman finds a small, unmarked gravestone inscribed only "Tilly" and is forced to confront a secret from nine years earlier -- an abortion she never told anyone about -- in a story about grief, guilt, and the possibility of forgiveness.

A middle schooler has to decide whether to stand up to the girl bullying a classmate.

In 1967, a seventh grader spends Wednesday afternoons with a teacher he's sure hates him, reading Shakespeare.

In a world ruled by villainous superhumans, a teen joins a group of rebels who hunt them.

A Polynesian boy who fears the sea sets out alone in a canoe to prove his courage.

In 1920s Louisiana, a boy witnesses a crime tied to bootleggers and must decide whether to speak up.

In 1971, a Little League team takes in a boy with autism, and the season changes all of them.

A girl disguises herself as a boy to ride with Kublai Khan's horses across Mongolia.

The diary of a Jewish teenager hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation.

The four March sisters -- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy -- grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War, navigating first loves, family hardship, and their own ambitions as they come of age together.

A Chinese farmer rises from poverty to wealth while his ties to the land and family are tested.

A man looks back on his friendship with a Bohemian immigrant girl on the Nebraska prairie.

A shepherd boy travels from Spain to Egypt in search of treasure and his personal legend.

A glassblower is pulled into danger when a friend dies and leaves behind a mysterious videotape.

This history for teen readers covers the causes, battles, and aftermath of World War I, from the assassination that sparked it to the trench warfare and treaties that reshaped Europe.

Schoolboys stranded on an island try to govern themselves, and it falls apart into violence.

Letters from a senior demon coaching his nephew on how to lead a man away from faith.

A narrative history of the final days of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination.

Farm animals overthrow their farmer, then watch their revolution turn into a new tyranny.

The memoir of a Dutch Christian family who hid Jews during WWII and the sisters' survival in a concentration camp.

A boy abandoned by his mother slowly builds a relationship with his distant father.

A friar investigates the lives of five people killed when a bridge collapses in 18th-century Peru.