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Burnford, Sheila |
Sheila Burnford's timeless children's classic is the courageous and heartwarming story of three runaway pets. Instinct told them the way home lay to the west, and so the brave young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese cat set out through the Canadian wilderness, risking… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Lenski, Lois |
In this classic Newbery Honor Award book, Lois Lenski authentically reconstructs the fascinating story of Mary Jemison's capture, flight, and early years with the Seneca Indians. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Vernon, Louise A. |
Johann Gutenberg is working on printing the first Bible with type. Twelve-year-old Hans Dunne is planning on being a scribe and copying the Bible by hand. But circumstances change and he finds himself working in Gutenberg's shop as an apprentice printer. Soon Hans finds himself in the middle of… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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O'Dell, Scott |
The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. A haunting and unusual story based on the fact that in the early 1800s an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone on a rocky island far off the coast… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Drucker, Malka |
Warsaw, Poland, 1941. WWII has been raging for two years when Jacob's aunt takes him to meet Alex, a Christian man who will pretend to be his father. This is a fictionalized account of the four years Jacob spent with the Roslan family in daily terror of being caught. With… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
The Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the "Mowgli" series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth and… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
A classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Vernon, Louise A |
The story of George Fox, founder of the Quakers, as told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Tommy Stafford and his sister Celia. George Fox was constantly being persecuted. He was imprisoned, beaten, and ridiculed, but this only increased the number of his followers. The Stafford family decided to make the… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Burkholder, Mary |
These short stories are about challenges, struggles, and tough choices faced by young teens. You may recognize some of them ... in your own life. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Vernon, Louise A. |
The King James Bible is surrounded by a mystery. Everyone wants to know who the secret editor is who published the work of fifty-four different translators. Before Nat Culver finds answers to his questions, he is plunged into a series of baffling incidents. Could it be another translator, jealous of… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
LITTLE HOUSE. BIG ADVENTURE. Celebrate the original nine books that started it all! When Laura Ingalls Wilder first wrote of her experiences growing up in the 1800s, no one could have predicted the impact her stories would have on generations of children to come! Follow Laura's life from the… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
Growing up in a poor New York neighborhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord Fauntleroy, and is expected to become an English gentleman. Whisked away from his mother and his… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Alcott, Louisa May |
Jo March, the irrepressible tomboy in Little Women, has grown up and married her professor to become Jo Bhaer. Together the Bhaers have established Plumfield-a warm-hearted, informal school where lessons are taught with a dose of laughter. When Nat, a young orphan joins the happy household at Plumfield, he can… |
Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Saint-Exupery, Antoine De |
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. Howard's new translation of this beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's unique, gifted style. Color and… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
It's riches to rags for Sara Crewe, the pampered but generous child of a widowed British officer. When her father dies penniless, Sara becomes a cold and hungry drudge at Miss Minchin's boarding school. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Louisa May Alcott |
Follow the adventures of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, in this much-loved classic tale. The sisters fall into one scrape after another, as tempers flare, illness strikes and their lives are filled with new experiences and loves. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own life experiences, Little Women… |
Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Stauffer, Romaine |
Christian Burkholder's life followed a peaceful routine of farming, family, and church. This was the quiet freedom his mother had been searching for when she brought her family to Pennsylvania from the Old World when he was just a lad. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Robinson, Virgil |
A biography of the great reformer who led the Protestant Reformation in Germany. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Vernon, Louise A. |
"Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched," is what the people said. And that made Gerhard Koestler smile. He knew that Erasmus had influenced Luther's thinking. He also believed both men were trying to serve God according to the Scriptures. Gerhard lived in Germany in the 1500s. After a… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Pyle, Howard |
"No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades. Right merrily they dwelt within the depths of Sherwood Forest, suffering neither care… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Betsy Byars. Paperback. |
Tom hates having to spend the summer on a farm . . . until he discovers the midnight fox. No one asked Tom how he felt about spending two months on his Aunt Millie’s farm. For a city boy, the farm holds countless terrors—stampeding baby lambs, boy-chasing chickens, and worst of… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Taylor, Mildred D. |
When Josias Williams--en route to his new job--and Stacey Logan's grandmother--about to begin a trip--are ordered off a bus in order that two white passengers may have a seat, the incident begins a nightmare that will change everyone's lives. |
Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Henry, Marguerite |
Marguerite Henrys best-known title tells the story of how a brother and sister capture two wild ponies on Chincoteague Island. Newbery Honor Book. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Yoder, Mary Elizabeth |
Mary Elizabeth Yoder told many of these stories to her children as they were growing up. Stories about her children, stories from her own childhood, could-have-happened-stories, stories of good times and bad - all are about families and children and the important lessons they learned. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Eight years before the American Revolution, orphan Peter York is adopted by a strict Quaker farmer. Peter sees his chance to break away by capturing a runaway indentured servant for reward money. But the capture leads to consequences Peter cannot foresee. Written by a Newbery Honor-winning author. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Vernon, Louise A. |
Menno Simons was first a Catholic priest. As he read and studied the Bible, Menno began to understand the Christian life in a different way. Eventually he became an Anabaptist preacher. Soon, Menno Simons became the leader of the Anabaptists, now known as Mennonites. 138 pages. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Lowry, Lois |
When the Nazi take over Denmark in World War II, they begin to remove Danish Jews to concentration camps. Here is the story of two young friends who escape from the Nazis by pretending to part of non-Jewish families. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Gipson, Fred |
Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, Old Yeller is a timeless coming of age tale. Travis, a fourteen-year-old, is left in charge of his family’s farm when his father takes the cattle north on a drive. Travis is able to cope with a host of trials… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Pyle, Howard |
Here, Howard Pyle spins a Medieval tale of a young heir raised in a monastery, then plunged into the bitter feudal world of his father. It contains all the elements Pyle deals with so well... swordplay and daring adventure, Romance and intrigue. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Hesse, Karen |
A poem cycle that reads as a novel, this Newbery Medal winner tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the dust bowl years of the Depression. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Steinbeck, John |
The Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's nature as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Vernon, Louise J. |
Peter Cook has a good life as a bound boy and is treated like a son by his master. Everything changes the day that Peter discovers that his master has died of the dreaded disease, the black plague. Because Peter touched the corpse he is thrown out of the great… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Juster, Norton |
Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He meets such characters as the… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Collodi, Carlo |
The Adventures of Pinocchio, also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Twain, Mark |
Mark Twain's renowned tale of two boys who look alike, yet one is the royal prince, the other a miserable pauper. Then one day fate intervenes, and for awhile each has to live the other's life. Abridged. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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MacDonald, George |
Continuing the story started in The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie in given the gift of insight from his great-great-grandmother, but when he returns to the palace, he finds the ailing king surrounded by deceivers with only Princess Irene to comfort him. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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MacDonald, George |
Princess Irene's discovery of a secret stair to the top turret of the castle leads to a wonderful revelation. At the same time, the miner's son Curdle overhears a fiendish plot by the goblins who live below the mountain. It will take all of their wit and courage… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Martin, M. |
Join the Miller children as they learn about health, safety, and courtesy... from the Bible! Each story includes a Scripture passage and illustrates various aspects of prudent living. Read about the foolish joke that ended in tragedy; the embarrassing consequences of not getting enough sleep; how Timmy gets lost in… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Merrill, Jean. 9781590179369. |
Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim defeated a mighty foe. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Nesbit, Edith |
Three children, forced to alter their comfortable lifestyle when their father is taken away by strangers, move to a simple country cottage near a railway station where their days are filled with adventure. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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St. John, Patricia Mary |
When Elaine leaves her home in London to stay with the Owen family in Wales, she feels miserable and left out. It's only the little secret garden that she finds at the end of the rainbow that makes staying there seem worthwhile. And then something happens that changes everything. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Beverly Cleary |
Ramona is back... Riding the school bus alone isn’t the only new experience making third grade exciting for Ramona Quimby. From befriending a boy called Yard Ape to delivering her book report in the style of a television commercial, Ramona’s enthusiasm for life is infectious and irresistible. That’… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Cleary, Beverly |
Republication of this classic title, featuring new art and cover, celebrates the August 1999 release of the first Ramona book in fifteen years, "Ramona's World." Ramona likes to think she's a fearless first-grader, but her bravery is put to the test at every turn. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Withrow, Mindy and Brandon |
Experience history without the wooliness, and with all the wonder in this history designed for . As the world exploded into modernity with rapid changes - in transportation, in communication, in manufacturing - people around the globe faced overwhelming new challenges. As Christians arrived for the first time in other countries… |
Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Taylor, Mildred D. |
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year - the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black - to show Cassie that having a place… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Yates, Elizabeth |
Little Sarah wanders away from her family's cabin into the New Hampshire forest, and settlers come from all across the countryside to help find her. As the long days pass, the searchers grow desperate, but Sarah's father's trust in God holds firm. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Patricia MacLachlan |
This Newbery Medal–winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary… |
Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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