Calico Bush is the story of Marguerite, a French immigrant to the United States who is orphaned soon after her arrival. With no family to...

Minli's family lives in the valley of Fruitless Mountain, where they are very poor and must scrounge daily to have enough to eat. Insp...

Named Tulip at birth by the mother who abandoned her, Hope Yancey chose a new name for herself when she was twelve years old. Now sixteen,...

From the moment Holling Hoodhood's seventh grade teacher, Mrs. Baker, learns that he is Presbyterian and therefore does not attend rel...

When Ella of Frell was born, a well-intentioned but misguided fairy named Lucinda gave her a terrible gift: that of unerring obedience t...

Ellen's father has been ill recently, and the doctor has recommended some time away to regain his strength and mental health. Therefor...

Despite feeling wary of making the trip, Joel begs and pleads with his father to be allowed to bike to Starved Rock with his best friend, ...

Gen, a master thief, has been thrown in prison in Sounis after stealing the king's ring and bragging about it in a wineshop. He rece...

When Fooley the Brave, a Minnipin explorer, returned home from traveling to the Land Beyond the Mountain, he brought with him many artif...

In My Father's Dragon , the narrator's father, Elmer Elevator, has an adventure (as a child) going to rescue a dragon from Wild Is...

Published in picture book format, but written at the middle grade level, and divided into chapters, this brief tale tells of Dutch twins, ...

Mississippi "Mibs" Beaumont and her siblings are different from other kids. In their family, when a child becomes a teenager, ...

In this 1937 Newbery Honor novel by Velveteen Rabbit author Margery Williams, teen sisters Kay and Garry have moved from the city into a f...

One day, while walking home from school, young Quaker girl Dionis "Dencey" Coffyn joins in with some of her schoolmates in throw...

26 Fairmount Avenue was published in 1999, and it was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2000. Written by beloved children’s illustrator Tomie De...

After the fall of Saigon, Ha, her mother, and older brothers flee their home in Vietnam and travel to the United States, where they do t...

Kenny Watson is the middle child of the "Weird Watson" family, between sweet younger sister Joetta and delinquent older brothe...

Times are hard in 1935, and Turtle's mother, a housekeeper, finds herself working for a woman who despises children. Unable to affor...

"There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain." This is the mantra Jonathan uses to comfort himself on the long and lonely journey ove...

Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has always thought of herself as Hattie-Here-and-There. Orphaned at a young age, she has been bounced fr...