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Magic Tree House #6: Afternoon on the Amazon

Magic Tree House #6

by Mary Pope Osborne & Sal Murdocca

Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!

Vampire bats and killer ants?

That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the...

Touching Snow

by M. Sindy Felin

M. Sindy Felin’s National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting...

Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity

by Flavio Morais, Lori Marie Carlson & Manuel Rivera-Ortiz

WANTING TO BELONG. WANTING TO GO HOME. LOVE. REGRET. FAMILY LEGENDS. DREAMS. REVENGE. ENGLISH. SPANISH.

This eclectic, gritty, and groundbreaking collection of short monologues features twenty-one of the most...

Useful Fools

by C.A. Schmidt

Alonso, a dirt-poor teenager living in Peru, helps out at the public health clinic his mother, Magdalena, opened, so that he can see Rosa, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the clinic's doctor. Alonso and...

The Other Side of Blue

by Valerie O. Patterson

Cyan was named after a shade of blue, her artist mother's favorite color. The color of the sea. Since her father's death last year, she’s felt just as mercurial and dark as her namesake, and the distance between...

Hurricane

by Terry Trueman

outside, the wind is howling.

it is a monster shrieking to get inside.

outside, the rain is a solid wall of water.

everything is dark.

everything is destroyed.

everything is gone....

Everything except for the desperate...

Shadow of a Bull

by Maia Wojciechowska & Alvin Smith

Maia Wojciechowska's 1965 Newbery Medal winner about a young boy struggling with his father's legacy.

Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from...

Trails of Treachery

by Carolyn Keene

Leave it to Nancy Drew to be on the case no matter where she is....

Nancy and Bess travel to Costa Rica with George as she prepares to participate in La Ruta de los Conquistadores, a 3-day mountain bike race....

Lights, Camera, Cassidy: Hacked

by Linda Gerber

Cassidy Barnett is not your average twelve- (almost thirteen!-) year -old. While most other girls her age are worries about school and clothes and boys, Cass has spent most of her life traveling the world with...

Wanderlove

by Kirsten Hubbard

Are you a Global Vagabond?

No, but 18-year-old Bria wants to be. In a quest for independence, her neglected art, and no-strings-attached hookups, she signs up for a tour of Central America—the wrong one. Middle-aged...

Sacred Leaf

by Deborah Ellis

After finally managing to escape from being held as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation, young Diego is taken in by the Ricardos, a poor, coca-farming family who provides a safe haven while he recovers...

The Temptress Four

by Gaby Triana

Four best friends, one graduation cruise, a week of partying.

Eight days of strife and storms . . .

It's supposed to be the best eight days of their lives.

Bonds will be broken...

But when a fortune-teller predicts...