Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: giver
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-09-10
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440237688
ISBN-13: 9780440237686

When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver--who alone holds memories of pain and pleasure in life. Now there can be no turning back from the truth. Paperback.When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver--who alone holds memories of pain and pleasure in life. Now there can be no turning back from the truth. Paperback.

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: circle, readers, stargirl
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-05-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440416779
ISBN-13: 9780440416777

"She was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona’s Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned by her, including our 16-year-old narrator Leo Borlock: "She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower,

Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: stars, number
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1998-02-09
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440227534
ISBN-13: 9780440227533

The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours the Danish resistance, population and police arranged a small flotilla to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account to bring this courageous tale to life. She brings the experience to life through the eyes of 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles Ellen&#

Author: Elizabeth Alder
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: shadow, king
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 1997-07-07
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0440220114
ISBN-13: 9780440220114

Young Welsh serf Evyn’s dream of becoming a storyteller is shattered when he is attacked by ruffians who cut out his tongue and murder his father, but he determinedly works hard and serves under Earl Harold of Wessex. Reprint. AB. SLJ. K. VY. "

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: night, middle
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-08-11
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0440226864
ISBN-13: 9780440226864

Denny Colbert is forced to move frequently and forbidden normal teenage privileges because of an incident that took place before his birth, during which his father was involved in an accident that killed twenty-two children. Reprint. PW. NYT. H. VY. AB. "

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: circle, readers, shop, rag
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-05-13
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440229715
ISBN-13: 9780440229711

This final novel from the grand master of young-adult fiction is one last jewel in the literary crown of Robert Cormier, who died in November 2000. In it he continues to explore the themes that are so characteristic of his work: guilt and forgiveness, misuse of authority, and the corruption of innocence. But a new book from Cormier is always a surprise, and here he gives us a brilliant evocation of the detective story, in a narrative that centers on the interrogation of a murder suspect. A 7-year-old girl has been battered to death, and there are no suspects, no leads. The police, under politi

Author: Sonia Leviti
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: relations, strange
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 044023963X
ISBN-13: 9780440239635

A summer in paradise. That’s all Marne wants. That’s all she can think of when she asks her parents permission to spend the summer in Hawaii with Aunt Carole and her family.But Marne quickly realizes her visit isn’t going to be just about learning to surf and morning runs along the beach, despite the cute surfer boy she keeps bumping into. For one thing, Aunt Carole isn’t even Aunt Carole anymore—she’s Aunt Chaya, married to a Chasidic rabbi and deeply rooted in her religious community. Nothing could be more foreign to Marne, and fitting into this new culture—