Central Kansas Library System

This winner of the first Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature will make you marvel at the beauty of human connection and the irrepressible nature of love.
 
Everyone has that one line they swear they’ll never cross, the one thing they say they’ll never do. We draw the line. Maybe we even believe it.
 
Sage Hendricks was my line.
 
Logan Witherspoon...

"Polly was used to people coming and going at her house at all times of the night because her family ran an Underground Railroad station. Strangely, tonight there was more noise than usual, and Mother said noise was the enemy. That night in June 1857, Mother called urgently for Polly to get down to the secret room and bring water with her. When Polly was able to get the heavy sloshing bucket down the narrow stairs, she saw Mother kneeling by a young...

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom whitewashes a fence.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom skips his piano lesson and goes swimming instead.

Huck Finn and a runaway slave named Jim run away and float down the Mississippi River on a raft, experiencing all kinds of adventures.

Jon Sinclair and his grandmother have been flung back in time from 2010 to 1692, where Jon has been shanghaied for work as a cabin boy on a pirate ship under the command of BlackHeart, and his grandmother has disguised herself as a man to work as a cook on a rival pirate ship. Since the respective ships are captained by rivals, Jon and his grandmother may end up having to battle each other. Meanwhile, back in Missouri, Jon's grandfather tries desperately...