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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis,Alberto Jimenez Rioja,aa,Reginald André Jackson	It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own i…	OL115602W
Dogsong	Gary Paulsen	Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns t…	OL14850223W
Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech,Alberto Jiménez Rioja	After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mothe…	OL14937643W
When You Reach Me	Rebecca Stead	Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. Th…	OL15012031W
Bomb	Steve Sheinkin	In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific rac…	OL16216256W
Crispin--The Cross of Lead	Avi	(From Goodreads): 'Asta's Son' is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in 14th century medieval England. But this thirteen …	OL16813162W
Echo	Pam Muñoz Ryan	Otto se pierde en un bosque prohibido cuando de repente se encuentra con tres misteriosas hermanas. En ese momento, su destino quedará ligado a una insólita búsqueda que entraña una profecía, una pro…	OL17342476W
Moon over Manifest	Clare Vanderpool	Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out som…	OL17709944W
Surviving Hitler	Andrea Warren	Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret t…	OL1813150W
The tarantula scientist	Sy Montgomery	Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath birdeating tarantula.	OL1819435W
Sachiko	Caren Stelson	This striking piece of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six year old Sachiko Yasui's miraculous survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong a…	OL20036919W
The Last Cuentista	Donna Barba Higuera	There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred s…	OL25483601W
Kira-kira	Cynthia Kadohata	It is only kira kira for the sisters Katie and Lynn until they move to an entirely new locality.	OL3295462W
The Black Pearl	Scott O'Dell	In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.	OL4466815W
The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman	Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiq…	OL679348W
A Corner of the Universe	Ann M. Martin	The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.	OL818121W