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The dreamerRyan, Pam Muñoz.
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfu ...
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The Secret garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Ten-year old Mary come to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cou ...
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Magenta McPhee Bateson, Catherine, 1960-
Thinking her father needs a new interest in his life after he is laid-off of work, teenaged Magenta, ...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures Selznick, Brian.
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train s ...
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Bring me the head of Oliver Plunkett Bateman, Colin, 1962-
When the head of Saint Oliver Plunkett is stolen from Drogheda Cathedral, Eddie and his gang use the ...
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Keeper Peet, Mal.
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazili ...
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Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L. M. 1874-1942.
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and s ...
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Tall story Gourlay, Candy.
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, lea ...
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The jungle book Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Presents the three adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as w ...
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Burn my heart Naidoo, Beverly.
Matthew and Mungo, boys with a different skin color and culture, have a friendship that is tested du ...
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Listening for lions Whelan, Gloria.
"Thirteen-year-old Rachel Sheridan is left an orphan after influenza takes the lives of her missiona ...
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The Castle Corona Creech, Sharon.
Two orphaned peasant children discover a mysterious pouch, the contents of which lead them to the ma ...
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Wild wings Lewis, Gill. |
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Heidi Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901.
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in th ...
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Anacaona, Golden Flower Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief ...
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Lost in the labyrinth : a novel Kindl, Patrice.
Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half-brother, the Minotaur, at ...
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Dragons of silk Yep, Laurence, 1948-
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the ...
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The Star of Kazan Ibbotson, Eva.
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk ...
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The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen Andersen, H. C. 1805-1875
A collection of familiar and unfamiliar tales from Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, along ...
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The old man mad about drawing : a tale of Hokusai Place, François.
Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed ...
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Saba : under the hyena's foot Kurtz, Jane.
After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor's palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelve-year-old Saba ...
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Parade of shadows Whelan, Gloria.
In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ot ...
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