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This novel centers on the unlikely friendship between two boys, Jacob Mueller and Mike McCallum. Jacob seems to be from a different world.

In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, w

In JUST JULIE, Julie’s idolized older brother is accused of murder. When she refuses to attend his trial, her shattered family is bewildered.

Kip is addicted to the pure adrenaline rush that hits when the stakes are high and the bets are laid down.

Sometimes it’s okay to ignore the rules or break the law. In fact, it’s essential!

Editor Melanie Little brings together seven outstanding women — including Susan Olding, Jessica Raya, and Saleema Nawaz — to write brilliant, powerful accounts of father-daughter relationships duri

Willie Sutton was casing a bank when he noticed that the manager looked a lot like Sutton himself, so he walked into the vault, loaded up with banknotes, and calmly walked out. D.B.

Françoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to get by.

Sam, an Israeli teen whose leg may have to be amputated, and Yusuf, a Palestinian teen who has lost his left eye, find themselves uneasy roommates in a Jerusalem hospital.

As long as there have been people willing to believe the unbelievable, people have been duped.

Armed with this lively guidebook, students will be ready to face the often daunting prospect of conducting serious research in the information age.

In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home.

Fifteenth-century Spain is a richly multicultural society in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians coexist.

During a picnic overlooking the Nile, 14-year-old scribe Nebi spots the riders first. Led by the treacherous Count Nimlot, the raiding party slaughters Nebi’s master, the region’s head of police.

If you act like Marlene, you end up like Marlene — messed up, lonely and broke. No wonder Samantha rejects her mother’s lifestyle.