Left alone by her Indian tribe when they decide to sail to the east, Karana, a young Indian girl, lives on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, where she spends eighteen years, surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance. Year after year she waits for the ship to return but it never does. Finally she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on her own or remain alone fo rthe rest of her life....

Four sisters in Lancaster County witness the secrets of their tiny home community as Leah suffers from her sister Sadie's shameful loss of innocence with an English boy and finds her own dreams of love with Jonas spinning out of control.

When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.

Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.

When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and its sequel, Julie, comes a third exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra. Julie has returned to her family, but her wolf pack has a story all its own. Fearless but inexperienced...

A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.

Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.

Pinky and Rex are seven years old. One day, Pinky can't find Rex. After Rex attends a wedding, she has a great idea. If Rex and Pinky get married, they will never have to spend another day apart.

Tells the stories of thirty-five girls who were younger than twenty years of age when they changed the history of the world through amazing accomplishments.