"This lyrical picture book follows one boy's early morning bus ride to school and the many things he observes."--

When you're allergic to water, growing up in Hawaii isn't always paradise.

Everybody loves Jay.

I love my brother, too. Sometimes I wish I could be him—a surfing star instead of the weird kid allergic to water, the Blalahs' favorite punching bag.

But that's not the worst of it.

In the middle of the night, I dream. There's a mysterious girl who lives in a magical place and acts like she knows me

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Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.

Eleven-year-old Ethan Smith is a shy, ordinary boy who dislikes math and hard work. As he goes about his days playing computer games, escaping bullies, and living within his imagination, he finds himself wishing something exciting would happen to him. While taking a walk one afternoon, Ethans wish comes true in a way he never imagined. He is suddenly kidnapped by an elven horse in an abandoned alley and wakes up in Arkoumene, a strange world populated...

Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him for being Jewish and accept him as one of their own. While working together on a summer project, a genuine friendship is formed between Daud and Yoav, one of the Jewish boys. Unable to resist the joy of a camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known to the Jewish boys, gets drawn into a complicated situation that is based upon both the best of intentions, and youthful...

The one boy is an American Indian of the Powhatan Tribe of the Assateague and Chincoteague Islands of Virginia and Maryland during the late AD 1500 era. The one pony is one of the earliest arrivals on those islands. The two girls are Powhatan maidens who have captured the attention of the boy. After a series of trials and tribulations experienced during seven or eight years by the boy, the pony, and the two girls, all ends well.

Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learned about what it...

Pedro Pan, One Boy's Journey to America, is a tale of a 12-year-old boy's journey from Cuba to the United States. He takes part in a secret operation of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, who take freedom flights to escape oppression and tyranny. Ringing in the New Year in 1959, Pedro Infante observes history unfolding as change slowly sweeps through Havana. In 1961, at the noble sacrifice of his parents, Pedro and Pepe, his pet lizard,...

When Nazi Germany troops enter Krakow, Poland on September 2, 1939, fourteen-year-old Simon Baron learns two truths that have been hidden from him. One, the people who have raised him are not his biological parents. Two, his birth mother was Jewish. In the eyes of the Germans, despite the fact he has been raised Catholic, this makes Simon Jewish. Simon's dreams of becoming a concert violinist and composer are dashed when his school is forced...

Told through letters he writes his incarcerated father, Nelson shares his feelings, thoughts, wishes, and happenings. Includes a guide for caring adults.