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Montana Ines Parsons-Jeffers has just killed her husband, Harland Jeffers—a town hero. After the deed is done, she calmly dials the police. When the officers arrive amidst the flashes of news cameras, she goes quietly. And so begins the rest of what's left of Montana's life—not that she ever really had one. She's headed for prison; there's no escaping it. It was the inevitable destination in her own escape to freedom. But there is still hope, for one man may be able to help before her flight is over.

A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Alan, a popular senior high school student, faces painful changes after a new student, Duncan "Doomed" Stein, comes to town and starts an influential underground newspaper.

An unhappy teenage girl, unable to cope with problems at home and at school, suffers an accidental blow on the head and is transported 3000 years back in time to another existence in ancient Egypt.

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by award-winning author Scott O'Dell is historical fiction set in Europe during the 1500s. In this Christian fiction book Tom Barton and his uncle Jack are smugglers who are used to breaking the law. With quick wits and secret cargo holds, they have managed to make a comfortable living. And then William Tyndale asks them to carry English Bibles along with their usual cargo. As enemy after enemy rises to oppose Tyndale's Bible translation, Tom is confronted with a choice between what he wants and what he knows to be true

A landmark work on one of the most important, but least written about Indian Wars, Hunted Like a Wolf chronicles the Second Seminole War. From 1835 to 1842, Washington waged a violent war upon the Seminole and their allies in Florida, using any measure, including treachery and fraud, to drive them from their lands. A ragged, starving handful of guerrillas, the Seminole Indians and blacks managed to resist against the invading American army ten times their number, defying the skill of six eminent generals. Respected historian Milton Meltzer explores the choices facing the Seminole as whites gradually encroached on their land, and the sacrifices they made in choosing to resist. The Second Seminole War was a war over slavery as well as territory, for living among the Seminole were black men and women—some runaway slaves, some free—willing to fight alongside their Indian brothers for the territory they considered their own. The war was the longest of the Indians Wars, and the costliest in money and human life. But most importantly, in the story of the Seminole War can be seen all the forces of America’s terrible racial history, the consequences of which we are only beginning to understand.

Confused about her life at home and at school, 14-year-old Lauren learns the importance of being her own person.

A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.

Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse

Here is a collection of brilliant stories by the greatest writers of detective fiction. From the very first example of this genre - Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" - to the present-day tales by Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen, these thirteen ingenious stories will astonish, terrify and delight. THE LAUREL-LEAF LIBRARY brings together under a single imprint outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction particularly suitable for young adult readers, both in and out of the classroom. This new series, under the editorship of M. Jerry Weiss, should also prove of great value to the general reader in search of knowledge, instruction and pleasure.

A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

When her mother remarries, an eleven-year-old learns that she can love her stepfather and her real father at the same time.

Deenie is a 1973 young adult novel written by Judy Blume. This book, like many others written by Blume, has been banned in schools for themes deemed inappropriate for adolescents; in this case, talk about masturbation and sexuality. Deenie is on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at forty-sixth.

The adventures of a sixth-grader growing up in Brooklyn during World War II.

Harriet the Spy refuses to become ruffled when an unidentified person starts leaving disturbing notes all over the quiet little beach town of Water Mill. She's determined to discover the author of the notes. And she drags her best friend, mousy Beth Ellen, into all kinds of odd and embarrassing situations in her efforts to reveal the culprit. Observing in her own special, caustic way with her ever-present notebook, Harriet the Spy is on the case. But will she be ready to face the truth when she finds it?From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the back cover: The Earth has been transformed into a wtaery breeding ground for mutants and dreaded alien Star Beasts. True humans are confined to island reservations or a life on the high seas. Few ever escape the mundane life of island existence to join the mysterious Sea-Lords. But one landsman, Dovirr Stargan, is determined to become a Sea-Lord, and he is willing to kill or die for the chance. The brutal Star Beasts who devastated the Earth have been gone for many years, but the desire for vengeance is a living force among the Sea-Lords. And when they do return to plant their eggs the Star Beasts must face the fury of the united forces of humanity... landsmen, Sea-Lords and mutants, and the new Ruler of the Nine Seas -- Dovirr Stargan.

A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester. Most of the time they have been in the school building -- in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months...and then they are caught. As society -- in the form of a zealous assistant principal -- closes in on them, Junior's fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend's well-being.

The Spanish slavers came first, later the soldiers forced the Navajos of the Canyon to join their Indian brothers on the devastation long march to Fort Sumner; through the eyes of Bright Morning, a young Navajo girl, we see what can happen to human beings when they are uprooted from the life they know

Robin des Bois, "valeureux bandit, généreux et loyal, plein de dévotion pour la Vierge mais intraitable à l'égard des évêques hypocrites et des shérifs cruels."--Cover.