Then, he was spotted dressed as a telephone repairman, trying to break into a glamorous movie star's hotel suite. Next, he was observed playing the drums at the high school band festival rehearsal.Who is Bugs Potter and why is he doing all those wild things? Maybe he's just crazy or maybe he's a star....

    It is must reading for today's youth-as well as their elders." --Studs TerkelFrom the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to life the contributions of young people throughout American history. Based on primary sources and including 160 authentic images, this handsome oversized volume highlights the fascinating stories of more than 70 young people from diverse cultures. Young readers will be hooked into history as they meet individuals their own age who were caught up in our country's most dramatic moments-Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped from his village in western Africa and forced into slavery, Anyokah, who helped her father create a written Cherokee language, Johnny Clem, the nine-year-old drummer boy who became a Civil War hero, and Jessica Govea, a teenager who risked joining Cesar Chavez's fight for a better life for farmworkers. Throughout, Philip Hoose's own lively, knowledgeable voice provides a rich historical context-making this not only a great reference-but a great read. The first U.S. history book of this scope to focus on the role young people have played in the making of our country, its compelling stories combine to tell our larger national story, one that prompts Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, to comment, "This is an extraordinary book-wonderfully readable, inspiring to young and old alike, and unique."We Were There, Too! is a 2001 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

    The attempt succeeds until Mr. Cooper asks Katie too many questions.

    Returning to the scene later he goes down a cliff path and finds a cave, and a boy waiting for him, beckoning him into a tunnel that goes under the water.

    When former Coast Guardsman Chris George and his drug-sniffing dog Mike stumble upon a package of heroin, they draw the attention of some sinister characters.

    Includes "Encyclopedia Brown Carries On," "Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All," "The Case of the Dead Eagles" and "The Case of the Exploding Plumbing." in a slip case (as pictured).

    When her parents die suddenly leaving only a little money and one-way passages to Canada, a young Scottish girl decides she and her four-year-old brother will pursue family plans to relocate without telling the authorities.

    Returning to civilian life, a man finds that the mutant birds he bred during his fifteen-year prison term are his means of gaining acceptance by society and by his fifteen-year-old daughter who thought he had been killed in the war.

    And then meet Charly, the sparkling, quick-witted girl who steps into his world and turns it upside down. Their courtship is a never-ending round of ups and downs- literally. On their first date Charly tricks Sam into taking a Ferris wheel ride, then tells the operator they're engaged! All of this seems to be a little more than Sam can cope with. But he gradually comes to appreciate Charly's point of view. From the girl who loves to laugh, he learns to do the same. He finds out for the first time what it's like to be really alive. Charly is a story of joy and spontaneity, learning and loving, and, most of all, growing.

    

    Her family moves in with her grandfather, and a special friend is struck by tragedy.An ALA Notable Children's Book.

    

    

    When her close friend since childhood murders his adoptive parents and kills himself, 17-year-old Lynn is haunted by the tragedy.

    Book divided into five different stories/novellas :Mahtymguly hakda hekaýalar -(Stories about Magtymguly)Başa-baş söweş (Hekaýa) -(Face-to-face fight)Derýada (Hekaýa) -(In river)Tylla, seniň yşkyňda (Powest) -(Tylla, in your love)Tekepbir gyz (Powest) -(Proud girl)

    

    When fifteen-year-old honor student and star athlete Anthony Hamil hangs himself, his family and classmates all ask themselves if they are to blame.

    

    Charlotte knew what she wanted and had learned how to get it. It wasn't life as a small town minister's daughter. Sissy longs to find her own way too, but before she can carve a life for herself she is forced to face the truth that Charlotte is a prostitute. How Sissy comes to terms with her feelings for the sister she's always idolized and begins to find herself makes a penetrating and telling story. Barbara Corcoran has written a fast-paced novel of two sisters, their love for one another and their independent paths toward freedom.

    Brought up in a crowded orphanage in the 1840s, and now working as a London kitchen maid, Tavy yearns for freedom and space, so when she sees a poster advertising a five pound passage to Australia for single females of good character, she jumps at the chance.