Returning to civilization after his isolated journey of survival in the wilderness, Brian Robeson feels very much out of place and can't seem to cope as a high school student, so he makes the decision to return to the North where he can discover his real life's destiny.

Fourteen-year-old Lizzy Allison and her younger brother Timothy are stranded in the frozen Adirondacks during one of the worst snowstorms of the century. Battling the untamed perils of nature, they embark on a heart-stopping journey of courage, strength, and endurance against all odds.

Author Gary Paulsen tells the real stories of the adventures that inspired him to write the Brian Robeson stories in the novels "Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, " and "Brian's Return." He describes how he made his own bows and arrows, takes readers on his first hunting trips, and shares special memories, such as the time he met a moose who made their encounter personal. Recipes are included.

"Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!"

News of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason in New York City, prompting him to abandon his paperboy job and embark on a dangerous 10,000 mile journey to strike it rich.
 

After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan refuses to believe that there are no survivors.  He discovers a ghostly canoe, a stranger, and a skeleton that may help to unlock ancient treasures.

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country. Since women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, or go to school, or work outside the home, the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.  Followed by Parvana's Journey and Mud City.

Like many girls her age in India, 13-year old Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But in a grim turn of events, Koly finds herself cast out into a current of cruel tradition. Her future seems lost, but Koly, bewildered and brave, sets out to forge her own exceptional future. Unabridged.

For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, 13-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream.

Catherine is not your average damsel in distress!  She keeps a diary in which she records her efforts to escape marrying all the repulsive men her father has chosen for her, as she struggles to accept the usual role of women in the Middle Ages.

In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.

Rosemary has nowhere to go when her beloved mother dies. She has never met her father--the outlaw Robin Hood. So she changes her name to Rowan, disguises herself as a boy, and make a perilous journey to Sherwood Forest in search of her lost father.

In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.

Lorelei is no princess, just a blacksmith's daughter whom Prince Nicholas wants to marry.  Can Lorelei pass all of the tests that prove she is worthy of this honor?

Shy and fearful Princess Addie must face the monsters of Bamarre--ogres, specters, gryphons, and dragons--as her sister's fate hangs in the balance.

Winner of the Newbery Award and named as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and ALA Notable Book for Children, Lowry's unforgettable tale introduces 12-year-old Jonas, who is singled out by the "perfect" Community to be trained by The Giver. (Written before Gathering Blue)

Young Matty lives in a "perfect" world that values honesty, yet he hides a developing healing power that he can't explain or understand.  (Brings together characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue)

Luke lives in isolation and fear as a third child living in a society that allows only 2 children per family.

Melly and Anny Beth have gotten shots that make them grow younger by the day in Project Turnabout. But soon they will be too young to take care of themselves and they need to find help--before time runs out.

Read about young Harry's adventures, trials, and triumphs at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In the prequel to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Digory and Polly discover a secret passage that links their houses and are tricked into vanishing out of this world and into the World of Charn, where they wake up the evil Queen Jadis. There, they witness the creation of the Land of Narnia as it is sung into being by the Great Lion, Aslan.

In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

When Mr. Fab's sub doesn't show up, his sixth grade class takes a vote and decides to run the class by themselves.  Many voices show that "Kids Rule!"

Tree is six foot, three and a half inches tall and still growing. He's never really fit in, but with the help of his grandpa and the new girl at school, Tree begins to realize that he can stand tall and be himself, no matter where he is.

Five short stories capture a moment when someone's life changes - when a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been like, and what they can become.

Macey has always loved the Connecticut town where her grandparents live, especially now that the neighbors' perfect grandson Austin has moved in. Macey decides to research the history of a burned-out barn across the street for a school report, but no one wants to answer any questions. And when a friend becomes a victim of violence, Macey must discover her own true colors.

Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.

In 1960, ruby Bridges becomes the first African-American child to integrate her elementary school.  This is her story of that year, with excerpts from newspaper articles, interviews, and photographs.

After 12-year-old Lucas Whitaker loses his whole family to consumption he learns of a bizarre "cure". When he takes a job as apprentice to the town doctor, he learns about the scientific approach to healing, but seeing so many die, he desperately wants to help other families try the cure that might have saved his family.

From Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli comes a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid. For as long as Palmer LaRue can remember, he has dreaded the day he turns ten--the day he'll take his place beside the other ten-year-old boys in town and become a wringer. Will he find the courage to stand up to his town?

This latest novel from the acclaimed author of The Cay follows two young Inuit brothers as they struggle for survival on an ice floe adrift in the Arctic Ocean. Includes a map, a glossary of Inuit words and phrases, and an Author's Note.

David faces a storm roaring across the Pacific and the terror of being alone in the dark hundreds of miles from home in a 22-foot fiberglass boat with little food and no flares.  Then there are those sharks and whales...