After his mother dies and his father falls into a deep depression, young Skiff Beaman knows that he will have to be in charge of the family and so sets out to make money by catching the giant blue fin tuna.

The sensitive and often humorous story of an adolescent boy who begins to find himself after the people he has always depended on have let him down.

Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.

In 1963, when her mother abandons the family to become an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice.

This short, sometimes graphic story carries layers
of meaning, evoking the complicated legacies of the South and the new world coming in the war's terrible wake.

Through an odd twist of fate, a stubborn twelve year old boy named Koji is kidnapped by a secret ninja clan and taken to its hidden camp high in the mountains. He wants desperately to return home, but that is forbidden..

An imaginative tale of one boy's struggle to preserve the spirit of the game he loves.

Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it.

An engrossing novel of pioneer survival based on a true incident.

A biography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues, as told by his daughter.

Happily living with Gram and her little brother at the Avocado Acres Trailer Rancho, talented soap carver Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw, labelled by her classmates as "nothing special," finds her life forever changed by the return of her mother, who has been gone for seven years.

An eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical—and not so typical—middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems.

The year is A.D. 793. In the next months, Jack and his little sister, Lucy, are enslaved by Olaf One-Brow and his fierce young shipmate, Thorgil. With a crow named Bold Heart for mysterious company.