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When a flash flood leaves Zack and his younger foster brother stranded at home, it's up to Zack to make sure they survive.

In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Poppy and her brother are home alone when a nearby wildfire builds and threatens to burn down their farm.

Brewer's story features a 500-year-old Ghosthead Oak, whose stately presence has borne witness to the rise and fall of generations, to the hopes and dreams of untold lives, and to the births and de

Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.

Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, "Soul Mountain" is a novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.

Twenty years after her bipolar brother's penchant for chasing tornadoes leads to deadly consequences, Karena Jorge finds out that he has escaped from a psychiatric ward, prompting her to join a ban

In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer.