After admiring the zebras while on a trip to the zoo with her aunt, Sarai develops stripes on her own body.

No longer indentured, seventeen-year-old Will has spent a year on the Teasdale's farm working and learning to trust God when, in 1769, his old friend Tommy arrives in Boston as a British conscript and asks Will to help him desert.

This visceral survival story pits Willa against both arctic temperatures and her own self-doubt. She'll need more than snow boots and her pilot's training if she ever wants to see home again. Seventeen-year-old Willa hates the knight's helmet ...

In Clover, Texas, in the late 1950s, high-schooler Frankilee deals with a devious and manipulative, not to mention prettier and more talented, foster sister, a boyfriend she does not want, and a community divided over school integration.

In Victorian London, a boy known as Joe Rat scrounges for valuables which he gives to "Mother," a criminal mastermind who considers him a favorite, but a chance meeting with a runaway girl and "the Madman" transforms all their lives.

A dance between the fantastic world of an abandoned teenager's superhero-fed imagination and the harsh reality of his life.HONORSJunior Library Guild selection

In 1952 eight-year-old Peti's Hungarian relatives come to live with his family. When the librarian invites Peti to go with her on a tour of a stop on the Underground Railroad, Peti comes back with a new resolve .

A Hungarian girl comes to terms with being a Jew during WWII. HONORS Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Ohioana Book Award finalist in the Juvenile category ?Ohioana Library Association Books for the Teen Age ...

When a strange substitute teacher comes to the exclusive Worthington School in Manhattan, she inspires wealthy student Claude Maxwell-Cunningham and scholarship student Medea Ramon to work for the good of others.