National Network for Equitable Library Service

Sixteen-year-old Peggy has gone north to plant trees for the summer. On a visit to a petroglyph site, she is abruptly transported to Notherland, an imaginary world she created when she was seven.

It is 1937 Poland, and Miriam is devastated when her grandparents tell her that they can no longer survive as a family, and that the only solution is for David to go to an orphanage.

Gladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfather, to arrive in New York and the world of political revolutionaries.

Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project.

Danny McMillan never knew that his father was abusing his mother, until a night of violence that shattered his family forever.

David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she’s still a baby. She embarrasses him in public.

Poppy is reading a story about a black cat and a witch. Suddenly, everywhere she goes she bumps into a strange-looking witch.

Bernadette Inez O’Brian Schwartz is back with her friends Annie, Keisha, and Megan, aka The Lunch Bunch.

Natalie’s passion is dance, and she’s looking forward to a summer of perfecting her technique at dance camp.

In the late 1960s Penny is the youngest of four kids, known on her street as the girl with the mean brothers.

Eve Zaremba places her street-smart heroine as the head of security in a large, urban condominium.

It is 1972, and fifteen-year-old Sabine enjoys a comfortable life as the daughter of Indian parents living in Uganda.

Sixteen-year-old Frederick has a lot of rules for himself. Like if someone calls him Freddy he doesn’t have to respond; he only wears shirts with buttons and he hates getting dirty.

Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer.