Orca young readers

Life in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi is difficult for ten-year-old Safiyah, who makes money by selling items from the garbage dump. However, the stack of glossy magazines she finds inspires her to create a mural on the side of her tin shack that brings hope to her and her grandmother, Cucu.

Tansy, with the help of her best friend, begins to cope with problems in her life, including her mother's depression and the fact she cannot stand her elderly babysitter.

When it comes to cross-country running, Jake does everything right. He eats all the right foods, trains like crazy and reads articles about running in his spare time. There's nothing easy about running, but the hardest part for Jake is that, at the end of the day, Spencer Solomon always wins first place.

Before beginning his training as a Seeing Eye dog, Shakespeare, a labrador retriever who understands human speech, is placed for his first year of life with a foster child who has never learned to love.

Addy, who has worn hearing aids her entire life, is eager to excel when she enters the sixth grade, but she feels conflicted when she joins the school's running club with her best friend Lucy and finds she is a more gifted runner than her friend.

When tree climbing is banned at her townhouse complex, Bree assumes a new role in her community: activist and advocate.

Murphy and his three friends are nervous about trying out for the soccer team at their new school, but a diagnosis of leukemia proves more challenging than anything they encounter on the field.

After Nick and Kia are kicked off a basketball court by bullies, they get revenge by finding a perfect teammate for a tough game of three-on-three.

A December holiday spent at a remote isolated cabin without utilites and with a girl her age who loves hockey is not what Emily had in mind as she and her aunt Hannah travel north.