Ten to Fourteen, 2009 List
Deaf and blind from the age of three, Laura Bridgman's education in the 1840's laid the foundation for Helen Keller's successes some 50 years later. One of the co-authors of this fascinating biography is blind and partially deaf herself.
Sold as a slave to a Tory family in 1776, 13-year-old Isabel, struggling to free herself and her slow-witted younger sister, soon faces daunting choices.
As 17-year-old Helmuth Hubener awaits the executioner, he recalls the actions that led to his death sentence: listening to English language radio and spreading pamphlets in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s.
Her mother’s mental illness, a friend’s cancer, and her own dyslexia don’t keep 12-year-old Addie from looking on the bright side of life even though home is a trailer and she misses her stepfather and two younger sisters.
What's on your dinner table? This photo essay compares the weekly food supply for 25 families in 21 countries around the world and offers an opportunity to reflect on the vast differences in our lives.
Scientists are able to peer into the past as global warming and retreating glaciers gradually reveal the remains of early humans. An intriguing companion to the author's earlier Bodies from the Ash and Bodies from the Bog.
When their cousin, Salim, vanishes—seemingly into thin air—while riding on the London Eye, Ted and his older sister Kat investigate, methodically eliminating theories generated by 12-year-old Ted's "big brain" and its unique operating system.
When Jamie's older brother enlists, the prospect of sending their only son to Vietnam dismays her parents. See audio edition for more.
Twelve-year-old Omakayas reaches puberty, travels north toward others of her Ojibwe tribe, and endures a starving time in this third story in The Birchbark House series which also features pencil sketches by the author.
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