Annotation:Katrina Katrell escapes from her evil guardian in order to avoid having the "naughty bits" cut out of her brain by an equally evil surgeon. She joins Morty Yorgle in his search for the missing zorgles of Zorgamazoo, encountering many unusual beasts along the way. A wacky, rhyming adventure that will appeal to Lemony Snicket fans. Grade 4 - 6

Annotation:Syvia is four and a half years old when her story starts, in Poland in 1939. She is one of only 12 children to have survived in the Jewish ghetto when Lodz was liberated from Nazi occupation in 1945. Grade 5 - 9

Annotation:Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Grade 5 - 9

Annotation:Kek, a refugee from Sudan, encounters many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. Grade 4 - 9

Annotation:In journal entries to her mother who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia reveals how her life changes after she receives a gift membership to a nearby art museum. Grade 5 - 9