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Caged Eagles

by Nelly Heitman

The much-awaited sequel to Walters’ award-winning War of the Eagles (1998), this story continues the tale of what happens to fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima and his family after the Canadian government has ordered all... Read More

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The Tempering

by Christine Canfield

From the moment of his birth he’d heard the throb of the mills. It was as much a part of him as the sound of his heart beating beneath his skin. The Tempering is the story of one young man’s transition from schoolboy to workingman,... Read More

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Witches' Night Out

by Carol Lynn Stewart

Bethany Salem will stop at nothing to find the murderer of her boyfriend Joe. Her father, a New York City police detective, can’t stop her. Certainly her father’s power-mad lawyer girlfriend, the “Bitch from the East,” can’t... Read More

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Summer Battles

by Linda Salisbury

Small for her age, eleven-year-old Kath is tired of being treated like a little kid. She resents being sent with a younger sister to visit her preacher grandfather, “Grando,” in Peaceable, Illinois, instead of taking what appears to... Read More

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Head Above Water

by Linda Salisbury

Skye Johnson and her brother, Sunny, are teenage characters that deserve more than one book. She’s sixteen and a half, a good student and swimmer trying to make the state championships. She has confidential girlfriends, a healthy, but... Read More

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Firegold

by Nelly Heitman

An intriguing debut novel, Calhoun’s Firegold captures the imagination as readers follow the adventure-filled story of Jonathon Brae, the unraveling of the mysterious poem about the legendary Firegold and how Jonathon and the poem are... Read More

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