Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his father’s Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety...

This book is a unique and captivating story that catches you from the first page. Told from alternating viewpoints, this novel-in-poems reveals the complexities of memory and the strength of a friendship that can overcome pain

Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch is an aspiring writer who lives in New York City's Upper East Side. A precocious and enthusiastic girl, Harriet enjoys writing and aspires to become a spy. Encouraged by her nanny, Ole Golly, Harriet carefully observes others and writes her thoughts down in a notebook as practice for her future career, which she dedicates her life to

In the wake of the war that almost brought the Nightside to total ruin, there

No The safe stood on the stage of the Euston Palace Theatre in London. It’s about Harry Houdini’s biography , the young American magician, got ready to step inside. Here we can see that he was one of hard working person.

Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it is much more tn that. Heartland is like no other place – it’s a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. It’s about girl, whose name is Amy. She thought t hat Heartland is her home. It’s a marvelous novel.

A crown pronce, enraged over the careless, destructive rule of the Saudi royal family. It is wonderful fiction of Patrick Robinson.

Two girls spend an adventurous night trapped inside the public library during a terrible blizzard.

It's a strange story, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to create a bizarre but believable landscape--a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and absurdity here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society's underdogs

Forced to leave her family at thirteen and marry someone she has never met ... Koly's parents have arranged a marriage for their only daughter and now, like many girls her age in India, she will leave home forever. She yearns to flee, but tradition dictates that it's too late to turn back. On her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed