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What's the Trick?

Caroline E. Walsh (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990054

A chance friendship with an elderly ex-magician helps Jared come to terms with the tensions in his own family.

The Truth Test

Lori Pollard-Johnson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990023

Searching for a way to get revenge against school bullies, overweight Jared Springer develops a truth test that ultimately teaches him the truth about friendship

The Gotcha Plot

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849552

Two boys harassed by a group of rowdy kids at school get their revenge when they stumble into the school custodian's cleaning closet and find something very unusual.

To Rainbow Valley

Irene Bennett Brown (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849996

The Baldwin family decides that they could make a better life for themselves in Oregon. This is the story of their journey to Rainbow Valley. Thirteen-year-old Cotton becomes responsible for seeing his family safely across country to Oregon where they will join his father.

United in Freedom

Marcia Lynch (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990047

African American twin brothers, one a slave on a Virginia plantation and one a free man in Pennsylvania, are reunited after years of separation when they accompany soldiers on opposing sides of the Civil War.

The King Christian Club

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849644

In a series of journal entries, a boy in Denmark recounts the role he and his friends played in the Resistance and reflects on being Jewish during World War II

The Hidden Dagger

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849576

When Walter overhears a lord's murder, he must reveal the true killer before his innocent friend is convicted.

Time Trap: Martin Luther King Jr.

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849972

While working together on a school report about the 1960s, Aleesa and Kenneth are transported to March 1968, where they suddenly realize that the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. is only days away.

Top Fin: Dolphin Dives

Addie Meyer Sanders (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990009

Kelly, one of a group of students with special needs chosen to participate in Dolphin Dives, finds her voice again after not speaking for three years when one of the animals is threatened by a very angry boy.

Twins

Marcia Lynch (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990030

After Byron receives a whipping for stealing a ham for his pregnant wife and she dies giving birth to twins, Byron decides to escape slavery via the Underground Railroad.

Who Stole the Bases?

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990061

Bret, Marty, Dwight, and the other members of the Dodgers Little League baseball team are angry and want to get even with their arch rivals, the Pirates.

The Rattlesnake Necklace

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849781

Fern learns why the Native Americans are forcing people from their farms and does what she can to help.

Rocky Mountain Summer

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849835

Fern and Roy must leave their mother in Denver to spend the summer with their Gran and Paw in the Rocky Mountains.

The Fire Carrier

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849477

A young Indian boy attends a school for Native Americans and is caught between the traditions of his people and the new ways of the white man. He is determined to get an education in order to return home and help his Native American people.

Survival at Big Shark Key

Dorothy Francis (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849941

When Grady's family moves to a deserted island in the Florida Keys, the family finds more activity than expected as a hurricane comes their way.

The Freedom Tree

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849514

Caroline learns the meaning of freedom while struggling to maintain the family cotton plantation during the Civil War.

T.J. Westin, Man of the House

Linda Sibley (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849958

T.J. can't believe it when he wins a trip to New York to be a contestant on Whiz Kid. Will he make his family proud?

Summer Friends

Jane Porter Meier (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849910

Cassie, who is spending the summer with her aunt while her parents go through a divorce, becomes friends with Joey, a boy in a wheelchair who lives nearby with his grandmother.

Sosa's Homers

Caroline E. Walsh (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849897

After Carlos and his family move from the Dominican Republic to Chicago, Carlos finds himself missing his old friends and country, but a meeting with his hero, Sammy Sosa, changes his life forever.

Tall Shadow: A Navajo Boy

Bonnie Highsmith Taylor (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849965

Tall-Shadow, a young Navajo boy, faces adverse dangers when he confronts the Big Cat, a lion who is feared by the tribe. Tall Shadow also struggles with his desire to adopt the white man's ways and his father's wish to maintain their culture.

River of Ice

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849828

As Stalin's purges and arrests increase, Sasha and his mother plan to leave Russia to join his father and older sister who have emigrated to Riga, Latvia.

Shakespeare and Me

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849859

Rosalind is mesmerized by Shakespeare's plays. She is so inspired that she decides that she wants to act in a play. But it takes running away from the orphanage to ever have the opportunity to be in a Shakespeare play. Running away from an orphanage, Rosalind joins a theater company on the way to London where she disguises herself as a boy and acts in a play by William Shakespeare.

The Buffalo Robe

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849255

As Three Willows spoke, she rose. She brought a bundle to the tiny fire. She untied the straps that held it. Then she unrolled the buffalo robe. It was large, soft and carefully tanned. Red Fox peered through the dim light of the tipi. He could see colorful drawings painted on the smooth side of the robe. Red Fox reached out to touch one scene. It was a man on horseback. He was racing across the prairie. Red Fox could almost feel the movement of the horse under the rider as they raced. That's your father, whispered Three Willows.

Summer of Secrets

Kimberly Klier (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849927

Young Sam Clemens and his friend Tom Blankenship suspect Tom's brother, Bence, has found their secret buried treasure and is involved in stealing slaves.

Soccer Blaster

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849880

While playing a soccer video game, Renny finds himself suddenly transported to a World Cup practice field, where someone is trying to sabotage the U.S. team. How can Renny help find who is to blame before disaster strikes the team?