Albatrosflügel und Kolibrifedern (Illustriertes Buch) (Deutsche Ausgabe)
by Tommaso Zaramella
As a dedicated runner, a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people until the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team gradually helps him see the value of giving and receiving.
Bullied because of the English father he barely remembers, fourteen-year-old Liam gladly leaves Connemara, Ireland, in 1901 with his uncle and sister, but his problems follow them to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, until he finds a way to leave the past behind.
Alice on the Outside (Alice, #11) (Alice Books)
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Naylor
Alice likes her life, but she senses things are changing. She is getting bored by her best friends Elizabeth and Pamela's constant chatter about clothes and make-up, and sometimes she feels excluded from their conversations. Her relationship with Patrick is becoming more complicated, too. From her cousin Carol, Alice learns that there are no easy answers to some of her questions about life. Then a school experiment and a new friend with a painful secret reveal some unsettling truths about the wo...
La Abeja de Mas (Alfaguara Infantil)
by Andres Pi Andreu and Kim Amate
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
by Deborah Hopkinson
Sibert Honor author, Deborah Hopkinson, illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism er...
El Pez Arco Iris y La Balena Azul/Rainbow Fish and Th
by Marcus Pfister
Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.
Voices for Freedom (American Adventures)
by Gloria Whelan and Gwenyth Swain
Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.
Having grown up knowing nothing about her artist mother's estranged family, thirteen-year-old Kiara spends the summer getting acquainted with her cousins and trying to understand her complex and cranky grandmother.
