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The Silver Blade

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: N/A:

Seller ID: 9780545292528

ISBN: 0545292522

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

By: "Boyne, John"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: David Fickling Books:

Seller ID: 9780385751537

ISBN: 0385751532

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank." --USA Today

Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.

But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this de...
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"Blood on the River: James Town, 1607"

By: "Carbone, Elisa"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Puffin Books:

Seller ID: 9780142409329

ISBN: 0142409324

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it's hard to know who's a friend or foe. As he learns the language of the Algo...
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Life And Times. Atticus Of Rome

By: "Denenberg, Barry"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.:

Seller ID: 9780439524537

ISBN: 0439524539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

April Morning

By: "Fast, Howard"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553273229

ISBN: 0553273221

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

"Invites comparison with Crane's Red Badge of Courage . . . Ithink this is an even better book."--The New York Times

When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the...
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Faithful

By: "Fox, Janet"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Speak:

Seller ID: 9780142414132

ISBN: 0142414131

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Sixteen-year-old Maggie Bennet's life is in tatters. Her mother has disappeared, and is presumed dead. The next thing she knows, her father has dragged Maggie away from their elegant Newport home, off on some mad excursion to Yellowstone in Montana. Torn from the only life she's ever known, away from her friends, from society, and verging on no prospects, Maggie is furious and devastated by her father's betrayal. But when she arrives, she finds herself drawn to the frustratingly stubborn, handsome Tom Rowland, the son of a park geologist, and to the wild romantic beauty of Yellowstone itself. ...
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Maggie's Door (Nory Ryan)

By: "Giff, Patricia Reilly"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Yearling:

Seller ID: 9780440415817

ISBN: 0440415810

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.

Maggie's Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination--the home of Nory's sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America.

Patricia Reilly Giff calls upon her long research into Irish history and her great powers as a storyteller in this deeply involving, riveting stand-alone companion novel to Nory Ryan's Song.
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Blood Red Horse (The deGranville Trilogy)

By: "Grant, K. M."

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens:

Seller ID: 9780802777348

ISBN: 0802777341

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

You need three things to become a brave and noble knight:
A warhorse.
A fair maiden.
A just cause.

Will has a horse-a small chestnut stallion with a white blaze in his brow. Ellie is a fair maiden, but she's supposed to marry Will's older brother, Gavin. And as for the cause, King Richard is calling for a Crusade. The Knights of England must go to the Holy Land to fight.

Will and Gavin will go. Blood will be shed. Lives will be taken. But through it all, two things will be constant-Ellie, and a blood-red horse called Hosanna. . . .

Summer of My German Soldier

By: "Greene, Bette"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Puffin / Penguin:

Seller ID: 9780141306360

ISBN: 014130636X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

An emotional, thought-provoking book from multi-award-winning author Bette Greene.

When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart. Although she's Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi--but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own, who understands and appreciates her in a way her parents never will. And Patty is willing to risk losing family, friends--even her freedom--for what has quickly become the most im...
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Titanic: The Long Night

By: "Hoh, Diane"

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Scholastic:

Seller ID: 9780590331234

ISBN: 059033123X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Ghost In Tokaido Inn

By: "Hoobler, Dorothy, Hoobler, Thomas"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Puffin:

Seller ID: 9780698118799

ISBN: 0698118790

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A priceless ruby has been stolen and an innocent family framed for the crime. Can Seikei prove himself a worthy samurai by uncovering the real thief?- Nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young-Adult Mystery- Named to five State Award Lists- An ALA Best Book for Young Adults- An IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice- "Parent's Choice Silver Medal recipient- A "Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon selection
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Dawn Rider

By: "Hudson, Jan"

Price: $1.60

Publisher: Point:

Seller ID: 9780590449878

ISBN: 0590449877

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Search and Destroy

By: "Hughes, Dean"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Simon Pulse:

Seller ID: 9781416953715

ISBN: 141695371X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

RICK WARD WANTS TO GO TO WAR.

And he's not sure why. Maybe he's running from his dad and his crazy temper. Maybe he's running from his girl, who seems to think he's more of a joke than a man. Or maybe he's just running -- to find himself.

But after Rick ventures into the Vietnam jungle, he discovers that no one -- not protestors, politicians, or writers -- has got a clue. War is far bigger, scarier, and more complicated than anything he ever could have imagined.
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The Trumpeter of Krakow

By: "Kelly, Eric Philbrook"

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Scholastic Trade:

Seller ID: 9780590436830

ISBN: 059043683X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: very good

True North

By: "Lasky, Kathryn"

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780590205245

ISBN: 0590205242

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Now in paperback, this is Lasky's stimulating, acclaimed historical novel set in pre-Civil War America. Two girls risk their lives on the Underground Railroad and must keep on the right course -- true north.
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Escape from Egypt

By: "Levitin, Sonia"

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Puffin:

Seller ID: 9780140375374

ISBN: 0140375376

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War

By: "McLaren, Clemence"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Simon Pulse:

Seller ID: 9780689873973

ISBN: 0689873972

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Two women, one war.
Helen, at age twelve, is not prepared to deal with her famous beauty: to have the face that will launch a thousand ships, kill fifty thousand men, and cause the fall of the world's greatest city. But when she is kidnapped by Theseus of Athens, she begins her journey into womanhood and finds passion strong enough to start the Trojan War.
Cassandra has the gift, or curse, to predict the future. When she forsees the ruin of her family and city that Helen's arrival in Troy will cause, she is outraged. Yet she cannot help being drawn to Helen.
As the war ra...
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"Marie, Dancing Pa"

By: "Meyer, Carolyn"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Graphia:

Seller ID: 9780152058791

ISBN: 0152058796

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Marie van Goethem, a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer in the famed Paris Op ra, has led a life of hardship and poverty. For her, dancing is the only joy to counter the pain inflicted by hunger, her mother's drinking, and her selfish older sister. But when famed artist Edgar Degas demands Marie's presence in his studio, it appears that her life will be transformed: He will pay her to pose for a new sculpture, and he promises to make her a star.

As Marie patiently stands before Mr. Degas each week, she dreams about supporting her family without being corrupted like most young dancers. She dre...
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Den of the White Fox

By: "Namioka, Lensey"

Price: $1.50

Seller ID: 9780152012830

ISBN: 0152012834

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Who is the White Fox? Is he merely the mysterious, charismatic leader of a doomed political rebellion? Or is he a powerful spirit, taking revenge on the occupying force that desecrated his shrine? And who-or what-shoves Zenta off a cliff on a dark and misty night? Two unemployed samurai in sixteenth-century feudal Japan find themselves engaged in an adventure charged with trickery and political intrigue.

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Land of Hope (Ellis Island)

By: "Nixon, Joan Lowery"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Laurel Leaf:

Seller ID: 9780440215974

ISBN: 0440215978

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls--Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. The three quickly become friends as they share their visions of the future and endure life on the overcrowded ship.

Once they reach Ellis Island the girls must separate and Rebekah and her family settle in New York on the Lower East Side. Instead of finding streets paved with gold, they slave seven days a week in a sweatshop. Will Rebekah find the co...
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