By Atinuke

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She can't wait to fly across the world and visit her granny in Canada. But can she find enough warm clothes for the cold winter weather? And will her family miss her?

By Jennifer Holm

May Amelia Jackson lives in Washington State in 1900, but she just can't act the part of a proper young lady. Working a muddy farm on the rainy Nasel River isn't easy -- especially when you have seven brothers and a pappa who proclaims that Girls Are Useless. May Amelia jumps at the chance to earn her father's respect when he asks her to translate for a gentleman who's interested in buying their land and making them rich. Could this really be the end of the farming life for the Jacksons? May Amelia's about to learn one thing for certain: She's got more sisu -- that's Finnish for "guts" -- than seven boys put together!

By Jack Gantos

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mother loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with an unusual chore -- typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded this utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax. Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels...and possible murder.

By Eugene Yelchin

Ten-year-old Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. Perhaps Sasha does not want to be a Young Pioneer after all. Is it possible that everything he knows about the Soviet government is a lie?

By Richard Peck

Helena is big-sister mouse to three younger siblings, living a snug and well-fed life within the ancient walls of the Cranston family home. When the Cranston humans decide to sail away to England to find a husband for one of their daughters, the Cranston mice stow away in the name of family solidarity. And so begins the scamper of their lives as Helena, her siblings, and their humans set sail on a life-changing voyage into the great world of titled humans...and titled mice, and surprise endings for all.

By Candace Fleming

On May 21, 1937, the most famous female pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe at its widest point -- 27,000 miles in all. Just six weeks later, over the Pacific Ocean, she disappeared. In alternating chapters, Candace Fleming masterfully moves between Amelia's life -- as a child, a woman, and a flier -- and the search for her missing plane. The author takes the readers along on the search -- onto coast guard cutters sitting in the Pacific Ocean and into the living rooms of ordinary Americans. With stunning photographs, maps of Amelia's route, and handwritten documents throughout, the story of Amelia Earhart's disappearance feels every bit as dramatic and real as it did back in 1937.