In 1948 Hollywood--a treacherous world of tough-talking private eyes, psychopathic movie stars, and troubled starlets--sixteen-year-old Alice tries to find a young runaway who's the sole witness to a beating that put her sister Annie in a coma.

In 1839, Charlotte Brown is sold north to Kentucky, where she becomes a maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, falls in love with one of the tour guides there, and gets involved in the Underground Railroad.

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a story based on the life of Madam C.J. Walker, America's first female self-made millionaire. Sarah is the first person in her family who wasn't born into slavery in Delta, Louisiana. But being free doesn't mean that Sarah doesn't have to work. She cooks, she cleans, she picks cotton, she does laundry, and she babysits. And when she works, she wraps up her hair. One day, Sarah's hair starts...

At the University of Barchester, where Arthur Prescott works as an English professor, his one respite is his time spent nestled in the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. When American Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester charged with the task of digitizing the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken. He sets out...

"Martha's Vineyard, 1898. Five years ago, Ida Russell had walked the halls of Boston's Museum School, enrolling in art courses and showing a talent for watercolors. But Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of Vineyard Haven and wife to Ezra, who has become inattentive and unreliable. Ezra runs a salvage company with Mose Barstow, but he prefers their nightly card games at the pub. It comes as no surprise when Ezra leaves abruptly for another...

Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.

Meet Addy is a kids' learning kit assembled to facilitate fun and learning and includes 3 Addy chapter books, and 1 Addy doll with accessories. Learn about American history by reading these American Girl books and playing with Addy!

"A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."-- Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. The Gestapo is determined to make the shtetele she lives in "free of Jews." Now she, her friend Leon, and...