Pub Date: Oct 19, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 18
At the end of Chains (2008), Isabel rescues her friend Curzon from Bridewell Prison and rows away from Manhattan in their escape from slavery.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 12 - 18
Fifteen-year-old Abdul, an Iraqi Kurd, has escaped war-torn Baghdad and traveled for four months across six countries only to hit a dead-end in the Jungle in Calais, a community of migrants trying to survive in squalid shanties with winter coming.
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Both a prequel and a sequel to Sharp North (2006), this multiple-time-period dystopia can stand on its own for readers willing to accept some confusion until the world of the novel emerges.
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Pub Date: Nov 22, 2008
Age Range: 9 - 13
Thirteen-year-old Kevin hasn't a clue how to take photographs, but by accident and then deceit he wins first prize in a photo contest: a trip to Manitoba to photograph polar bears in the wild.
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Pub Date: Nov 15, 2008
Age Range: 8 - 12
The turning point of the American War of Independence came when the Continental Army emerged from the "starving winter" at Valley Forge as a "tested and toughened" fighting force.
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Pub Date: Jun 26, 2007
Age Range: 9 - 12
With the impending threat of global warning as an ominous backdrop, teens from very different worlds find they have much in common.
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