Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson s Sons and for fans of Number the Stars. Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn t waste a minute she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of...

Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.

Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide. "Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"--...

"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--

After her brother dies and her parents get a divorce, twelve-year-old Dani sets out to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine on her own. Then her mother catches up with her on the trail.

Simple language and humorous illustrations show how energy comes originally from the sun and can be transferred from one thing to another.

Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and five brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mothers wants her to be.

Simple language and humorous illustrations show how forces make things move, prevent them from starting to move, and stop them from moving.

"This inspiring chapter book biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist who played a key role in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA"--

In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.