Should he put the gravely injured dog out of his misery? The look in the animal's eyes says he's not ready to die. It turns out that Kavik's a champion sled dog, and soon he makes a full recovery. When his rightful owner finds out Kavik is alive, he wants the dog back. But Kavik has other ideas. Swiftly paced from the first page . . . dramatic and absorbing. The Horn Book"

    She has rings in her ears and she sometimes comes to school in a little wagon."Kizzy Lovell is a gypsy girl. She has her gran and her horse, Joe, and she doesn't need anything else. Then Gran dies, her wagon burns, and Kizzy is left all alone - in a community that hates her.

    The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.For five years, Esther and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future.

    By taking gardening jobs, catching bats and thieves, diving for bricks in a swimming pool, and inciting the interest of some helpful friends, a young boy makes his daydream of owning a jeep come true.

    During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese boy must free the "Man in the Box," a captured American soldier, and bring him to safety.

    Stacy and Bruce begin to have difficulty as Bruce is perplexed by Stacy's desire to associate with people who he considers to be lowlifes. Ben's personality begins to change as he becomes involved with a slinky carhop named Holly.

    Paris, Milan, London—Shannon has been everywhere, but somewhere along the way, she realizes she’s really…nowhere.Having graduated from high school and about to board yet another flight for yet another destination, Shannon is offered an alternative: stay in Portland, Oregon, with her parents’ close friend and help his law firm investigate a group of strangers living near the local university. A will with a substantial inheritance is being contested, and Shannon’s task is to gather information on the unlikely recipients of the money.Using an assumed name and working as a waitress in a diner, Shannon finds herself entirely on her own for the first time in her life; and as the long summer days go by, she tries to sort out who she really is and what her future holds.Originally published in 1968 and newly released as part of Nancy Pearl’s Book Crush Rediscoveries, Greensleeves is a smart and timeless tale of how far people must go to find themselves.

    The German invasion of Norway in 1940 brings tragedy to the life of teen-aged Ingeborg and at the same time reveals the carefully guarded secret of her heritage.

    A fourteen-year-old girl tries to reconcile her dreams and hopes for the future with the harsh and often unpleasant realities of life in the African American section of town.

    A twelve-year-old boy with a psychological speech defect gradually develops a schizophrenic withdrawal after moving from Los Angeles to live with his mother in New York following the divorce of his harsh and detached parents.

    It is Ted who threads her life with laughter and love. It is Ted who drifts away like smoke, with never a letter or a phone call to let her know where he is or when he is coming back ... And it is Ted who introduces her to Peter Lawrence.

    After a surprise attack by raiders they find themselves alone with two wounded camels, little water, and unsure of their whereabouts.

    Under its shamrock-green body was a fifty-seven Chrysler 392, overbored to four point zero three zero. And that was just the beginning of Finnegan's dream car. Would you believe that car would go 157 miles per hour? And that Larry Cooke would drive it?

    Cassie is a swinger and so is the rest of her family, much to the confusion of two Moroccan exchange students who thought they were being placed with a typical American family.

    A sixteen-year-old boy rescues an orphaned puma kitten, helps his grandfather turn their unused farm into a wildlife refuge, makes a difficult decision to put the cat into a roadside zoo rather than let it roam free to be shot by a vicious neighboring poacher, and then decides he must teach his pet to live in the wilderness.

    

    He considers himself the "All-American" failure until he meets Mrs. Orpha Woodfin, an eighty-year-old neighborhood eccentric who helps him to see the value of being an individual. Originally published in 1968 - the same year as Paul Zindel's The Pigman and the year after S.E. Hinton's The Outsider - The Dream Watcher heralded the beginning of books written specifically for young adults.

    When the medics tell him he can't fly again, he thinks up a scheme that'll get him back on the firing line - a scheme so crazy he'll have to disappear to make it work!

    While spending a winter away from family and boy friend, a sixteen-year-old girl of the 1820's develops new affections that are equally difficult to leave.

    During the year following her parents' divorce, a sense of financial and emotional security gradually returns to a ten-year-old Swedish girl as she learns to accept her mother's new beau.

    They encounter the unexpected, the unknown, the unbelievable.The Oceanauts plunge deep into the mysteries of Inner Sapce - on the most vital mission of all time: to find a final refuge for mankind!

    Zagami and Frances Fitzpatrick Wright - all originally published in the American Girl magazine.

    But it was no accident that his clothes were searched when he swam there, and that he and Susan were followed when they returned to explore. It turned out that the inlet was not completely deserted: two solitary brothers lived on Dolphin Point, and they seemed to resent intruders. Pete who worked in his father's fish market, knew enough to realize their "fishing" operation had to be a front for something else-something that would account for the body a scuba diver that washed up on the beach a few days later...

    While helping his two uncles on a winter fishing trip in the Arctic seas, a sixteen-year-old Norwegian boy, faced with the deadly perils of the black frost, proves his courage and manhood by saving the lives of his uncles and four Russian pilots.