Counting Coup

by Joseph Medicine Crow Herman Viola

In this narrative autobiography from the National Geographic series, Chief Joseph Medicine Crow recounts his life growing up in his beloved Crow country. He tells of Native American culture and history...

Daughter Of The Forest

by Juliet Marillier

In this first book of the Sevenwaters Trilogy, Sorcha and her six brothers are separated by a curse when their father marries a sorceress. Only Sorcha can save them in this retelling of the Celtic "Swans"...

Diamond Willow

by Helen Frost

Diamond-shaped verse with hidden messages tell the story of twelve-year-old Willow and her spirit ancestors who watch over her as she drives her dog sled in Alaska.

Flags of Our Fathers

by James V. Bradley

By following the lives of each of the six men immortalized in the famous photograph of the flagraising over Iwo Jima, readers will realize the full impact of the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Girl With A Pearl Earring

After her father loses his sight, 17-year-old Griet becomes a maid to help with family expenses. Her artistic sense endears her to her master, the famous Johannes Vermeer, but his wife dislikes the pretty...

In The Heart Of The Sea

by Nathaniel Philbrick

The crew members of the whaleship "Essex" face a daunting situation after their ship is rammed and sunk by a sperm whale. Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the crew members attempt to survive...

The Man Who Ate The 747

A man whose whole existence focuses on facts and figures--the biggest, the fastest, the longest, the oldest--discovers that the greatest force of all might be love, which he finds to be unpredictable and...

Motherland

When fifteen-year-old Maya returns to India for the summer, she feels a sense of alienation in the home of her birth. She and her grandmother, Ammamma, deepen their relationship after Maya suffers a serious...

Nickel And Dimed

Author Barbara Ehrenreich describes how she left her normal life to live in several different cities and took different low-wage jobs to explore the difficulties faced by the working poor.

Peace Like A River

When eleven-year-old Reuben Land's brother shoots two boys and flees the state, his family begins an extraordinary journey to find him.