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As war between Israel and Lebanon breaks out in 2006 and her compulsory service in the Israeli army draws near, teenaged Aggie considers joining an elite female combat unit.

When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.

A ten-year-old northern girl encounters the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction.

 Having successfully foiled a Nazi plot to kidnap one of the British Royal Family, brothers Jack and George are on the move again— this time to England. The brothers end up in Bletchley Park, the hub of the British spy network. True to form, Jack and George soon discover a plan to strike at the heart of the British war effort by sabotaging British intelligence. Will they be able to thwart another deadly Nazi plot?

Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.

When the Civil War breaks out, two cousins, Lizzie and Rosanna, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict until the war reunites them in the town of Gettysburg.

First Stories: Mulan is the perfect introduction for young children to this classic tale.Push, pull and turn mechanisms bring Mulan's brave adventure to life, as she transforms into a soldier, trains for battle and rides her white horse. This well-loved tale is beautifully imagined for a new generation by children's illustrator Yi-Hsuan Wu.Little ones can collect more books in the First Stories series, including Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Rapunzel.

Now available in Spanish! An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this “lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification” (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile. Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile—until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn’t quite know...

A sweet, poignant story about the passing of time and an enduring friendship between a girl and her teddy bear. Katie and Edward do everything together. They especially love to play in the old summer house in the garden. Katie and Edward listen as the adults around them talk about an impending war but in the summer house it all seems far away. One day Mother comes hurrying down to the summer house and grabs Katie by the hand. Katie has no time to also grab Edward. Edward sits and watches as th...