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Stravaganza

city of flowers
2005
Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.

Mississippi trial, 1955

2003
In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African-American from Chicago.

The Wright sister

Katharine Wright and her famous brothers
2003
Presents a brief biography of the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.

There ain't nobody that can sing like me

the life of Woody Guthrie
2002
Photographs and text chronicle the life of folk singer Woody Guthrie from his childhood in Okemah, Oklahoma, his troubled marriage, his singing career, and other related topics.

An ocean apart, a world away

a novel
2003
Yanyan, having always wanted to be a doctor, makes a difficult decision to leave the exciting Liang Baoshu behind in China and moves to New York to attend medical school.

Cheaper by the dozen

2003
Reveals the family life of the twelve Gilbreth children and their engineer father who runs the household with his unique methodology.

Mud city

2003
The story of fourteen-year-old Shauzia, who escaped from Kabul, Afghanistan and who is unhappy with her life as a refugee in a camp in Pakistan.

A killing in Plymouth Colony

2003
In Plymouth Colony in the 1630s, John continually disappoints his father, Governor William Bradford, during a difficult time as the colony faces its first murder and subsequent trial.

How to disappear completely and never be found

2002
With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

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