On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish Army put up little resistance, and by that afternoon Germany occupied Denmark. The German government promised the Danes that life would go on normally if they didn’t resist their new overlords...
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How we treat each other does matter; it can sometimes determine who lives and who dies. Betty Glengarry is a force of evil who suddenly arrives one day in the small Pennsylvania farming town of Wolf Hollow. Everywhere she goes, she spreads lies...
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Nightingale is not Raymie’s real last name, but it describes her well. Like Florence Nightingale, Raymie knows how to shed light and rescue the needy. She and two other girls meet at the home of a baton winner in order to learn how to twirl...
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Some of us complain about having it rough. Really? Take a look at fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs – the only girl in her house — who lives on a poor farm in Pennsylvania with her father and older brothers during the early 1900s. Here is her...
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The first time Steve sees the white-winged wasps he is sure they are really angels. Not only do they look like ethereal creatures, they can also speak to him. They say, “We’ve come because of the baby. We’ve come to help. We can fix what’s wrong...
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They meet on a narrow ledge six stories above the ground in the bell tower of their high school. At first, only one student notices, but dismisses the image because he sees only Theodore “Freak” Finch, a known nutcase. But wait! There is a girl...
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Do you know how many walking sticks were in King Tut’s tomb? Or what Marie Antoinette’s last words were? The answers are deep within the pages of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg—and they were just two of...
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Take one almost twelve-year-old girl, her dearest and only friend Pemberley, a mouse, and a very detailed reading of the mystery novels of Percival Pensive. and you’ve got a really good mystery with murder, money, and mayhem. In Nooks and...
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Families. They take care of us and they give us grief, sometimes in equal measure. For Eva, grief has contracted her heart since the death of her father two years ago in a plane accident. Her mother has thrown out every reminder of her father and...
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“West of the Moon” is a story that is partly a fairy tale and partly about much more modern themes. It is set in 19th century Norway, and is about a brave young girl, Astri, who challenges death itself in her quest for a better life. It starts...
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Dogs have served in American wars and conflicts including World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the Iraq War. During the Vietnam War, dogs were considered to be military equipment. After the war, they were considered...
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Every kid needs an Uncle Harvey. Uncle Harvey lives and breathes adventure. When Tom is dropped off by his parents at Harvey’s Greenwich Village apartment, Tom is in for the adventure of his life. Harvey is off to Peru to see if he can find some...
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