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In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the color pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs.

Society of School Librarians International Honor Book Deborah Ellis has been widely praised for her gripping books portraying the plight of children in war-torn countries.

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award In this urban adventure story, Khyber, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood, sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious

A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers.

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is

The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is ParvanaA war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust

Based on interviews with a young woman forced to flee Iran because of her sexual orientation, Moon at Nine is a tense and riveting novel that shines a light on an issue of social injustice that con

A person doesn't have to do anything important to get recognition anymore; it's enough to know someone who does. Parasitic fame.

In this sci-fi middle school adventure by the New York Times bestselling author of the Origami Yoda series, one girl and one robot team up to save their school From the minds of Tom Angleberger, th

From the New York Times bestselling power couple Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell comes this wacky new chapter-book series about a crime-solving Venus flytrap, launching with two books!

Inspector Flytrap and Nina the Goat return in a set of mysteries involving the president of the United States and a very large horse statue that mysteriously attracts a threat from outer space.

At McQuarrie Middle School, the war against the FunTime Menace-aka test prep-wages on.

The final Origami Yoda case file from the kids at McQuarrie Middle School!

Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the Scho

This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Duncan is very angry.