National Network for Equitable Library Service

Eight-year-old Gideon Mercer loves to help people, but she has leukemia. When her illness goes into remission at Christmas, she is sure this miracle is a gift from God.

When the husband and wife team of Walt and Jocelyn Gaines travel to South America to contribute their archaeological expertise at a newly uncovered Mayan site, no one could predict what happens nex

Officer Zoe Barrow is busy training new recruits when one of her cadets is found dead--and violated.

When the new highway being constructed avoids Wanderer Springs, the town is left to wither in the dust.

Radio personality Kevin Brace, the "Voice of Canada," confesses to murder--but the case is far from closed.

On the Sunday afternoon of the Santa Barbara festival in Cuenca, the great Plaza de Toros roars with the boisterous cheers of a full house.

Twelve-year-old Steven is determined to put an end to his family's misery and find the remains of his uncle, who was believed to be murdered as a child by a local pedophile.

Nathan Winer never knew what happened to his father, who disappeared one rainy night when Nathan was seven.

After discovering that her husband has lost all of their money and left her broke, Bonnie Duke Cullman is abandoning her comfortable life in Atlanta to teach at a community college in rural Alabama

Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown.

14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prison

Edmund, a 17-year-old counterfeiter's apprentice, leaves the criminal job to join Sir Nigel on the Crusade, only to find out it is not as adventurous and heroic as he thought it to be.

Shy, overweight Susan Calloway knows she has nothing in common with the five other students in the after school group counseling sessions she's forced to attend to avoid expusion.

When Nita and Kit, two teenage wizards, lose a young friend, Kit goes searching for him. Meanwhile, Nita is grappling with mysterious dreams and disturbing messages.

Early in the 25th century, humans ignited a fierce war with the hydrogues.