The Spy with the Red Balloon

The Spy with the Red Balloon

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Balloonmakers

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807529348

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Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.


The Spy with the Red Balloon

The Spy with the Red Balloon

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Aw Teen

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807529386

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Magic meets the Manhattan Project in this prequel to the award-winning novel, The Girl with the Red Balloon.


The Girl with the Red Balloon

The Girl with the Red Balloon

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Aw Teen

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807529331

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Sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum time-travels to 1988 East Berlin, where she meets members of an underground guild who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the wall, and learns that someone is using dark magic to change history.


Promise Me Something

Promise Me Something

Author: Sara Kocek

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 080756642X

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As if starting high school weren't bad enough, Reyna Fey has to do so at a new school without her best friends. Reyna's plan is to keep her head down, help her father recover from the car accident that almost took his life, and maybe even make some friends. And then Olive Barton notices her. Olive is not exactly the kind of new friend Reyna has in mind. The boys make fun of her, the girls want to fight her, and Olive seems to welcome the challenge. There's something about Olive that Reyna can't help but like. But when Reyna learns Olive's secret, she must decide whether it's better to be good friends with an outcast or fake friends with the popular kids. . . .before she loses Olive forever.


This Rebel Heart

This Rebel Heart

Author: Katherine Locke

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0593381270

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A tumultuous tale of the student-led 1956 Hungarian revolution set in a colorless post-WWII Budapest—where the magical Danube river has plans of its own—from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. “A haunting, beautiful read that centers queer Jewish characters.” —BuzzFeed In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force.


Spy in the Sky

Spy in the Sky

Author: Kathleen Karr

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Published: 1997-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786822393

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When Northerner Thaddeus Lowe lands his huge balloon in South Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, ten-year-old orphan Ridley Jones joins up with him and the two set out to find a way to use Lowe's balloon to help the North.


The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan

The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan

Author: Patricia Bailey

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0807581445

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2018 Oregon Book Award Winner—Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature 2018 WILLA Literary Award Winner—Children's/Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Category A plucky heroine's search for justice in the lawless West. Life in a Nevada mining town in 1905 is not easy for thirteen-year-old Kit Donovan, who is trying to do right by her deceased mother and become a proper lady. When Kit discovers Papa's boss at the gold mine is profiting from unsafe working conditions, she realizes being a lady is tougher than it looks. With a man's hat and a printing press, Kit puts her big mouth and all the life skills she's learned from reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to work, defying threats of violence, and finds that justice doesn’t always look like she imagined it would.


Under the Ashes

Under the Ashes

Author: Cindy Rankin

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0807536369

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Eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan is staying with her aunt in San Francisco when the Great Quake strikes. In a city that's broken and burning, she must find a way to survive. Eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan would rather race the boys, chase skunks, and read about bandits than act like a lady. So her parents send her to her maiden aunt in San Francisco to be tamed and refined. But when an earthquake hits and she's separated from her aunt, Littlebeth must use her fearless nature and quick-thinking to survive in a city that's broken and burning.


Biggie

Biggie

Author: Derek E. Sullivan

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0807507288

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2015 Top Ten Sports Books for Youth, Booklist Biggie is about one loner's imperfect chase of perfection. Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of his hometown's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand why someone would be happy getting two hits in five trips to the plate. "Forty percent, that's an F in any class," he would say. As Biggie's junior year begins, the girl of his dreams, Annabelle Rivers, starts to flirt with him. Hundreds of people have told him to follow in his dad's footsteps and play ball, but Annabelle might be the one to actually convince him to try.


Future Shock

Future Shock

Author: Elizabeth Briggs

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0807526835

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2017 Westchester Fiction Award Elena Martinez has hidden her eidetic memory all her life—or so she thinks. When powerful tech giant Aether Corporation selects her for a top-secret project, she can't say no. All she has to do is participate in a trip to the future to bring back data, and she'll be set for life. Elena joins a team of four other teens with special skills, including Adam, a science prodigy with his own reason for being there. But when the time travelers arrive thirty years in the future, something goes wrong and they break the only rule they were given: do not look into their own fates. Now they have twenty-four hours to get back to the present and find a way to stop a seemingly inevitable future from unfolding. With time running out and deadly secrets uncovered, Elena must use her eidetic memory, street smarts, and a growing trust in Adam to save her new friends and herself.