fiction

Wiglaf is off to Dragon Slayers' Academy and in for a first day of school he will never forget.

One fictional Midwest family is forced to leave their home during the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1993.

In the early 1700's, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.

Although he knows that his efforts to impress a beautiful student teacher and outdo his perfect older brother jeopardize his status in the losers' club that heand his best friend have started, twelve-year-old Ethan realizes that he no longer wants to be a loser.

A group of animals help a runaway slave escape his pursuers.

As a young squire, Randal seems assured of a future as a knight-until a mysterious wizard enters the castle gates.

In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it disappear from the school basement.

Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during theWar of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.

Set in the poverty-stricken South of 1933, tells the story of a Black family's struggle to hold onto the land they have owned for three generations.