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By: Markus Zusak
Format: Paperback
$27.90
It#8217;s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .brbrSet during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak#8217;s groundbreaking...
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By: Gary D. Schmidt
Format: Hardcover
$35.90
Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in THE WEDNESDAY WARS-a wonderfully witty and compelling novel about a teenage boys mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Jun...
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By: Howard Zinn
Format: Hardcover
$39.90
In volume two, Howard Zinn's lively, clear prose guides the reader through the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. Zinn continues his retelling up to the policies and resistances that have characterized the war on terror and that shape the Unit...
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By: Irene Hunt
Format: Paperback
$13.90
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By: Howard Zinn
Format: Hardcover
$37.90
Praise for A People's History of the United States: "Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive sla...
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By: Catherine Murdock
Format: Hardcover
$35.90
Benevolence is not your typical princess and Princess Ben is certainly not your typical fairy tale. With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia, who is intent on marrying her off to the fi...
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By: Linda Sue Park
Format: Paperback
$17.90
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters’ village. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage by setting off on a difficult and dangerous journey that will change his life forever.
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By: Linda Buckley-Archer
Format: Hardcover
$39.90
What happens when a seventeenth-century bad guy has twenty-first-century technology?An accident with an antigravity machine catapulted Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to 1763. A bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the eighteenth century while ...
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By: Carol Matas
Format: Paperback
$17.90
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By: Maud Hart Lovelace
Format: Paperback
$15.90
Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do--a little girl n...
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By: Gennifer Choldenko
Format: Paperback
$17.90
Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It's 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that's home to criminals like notorious es...
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By: Marc Aronson
Format: Hardcover
$41.90
Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino.Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things.We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought.Why? Where did tho...
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By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Format: Paperback
$15.90
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By: Robert Coles
Format: Paperback
$15.90
Category: Biography"Please, God, try to forgive those people. Because even if they say those bad things, They don't know what they're doing."This is the true story of an extraordinary 6-year-old who helped shape history when she became the first African-A...
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By: Susan Wise Bauer
Format: Hardcover
$53.90
What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emperor of Rome?Told in a straightforward, engaging style th...
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