Central Kansas Library System

"Paris, 1941: Going against her mother's orders, spirited Maggie devotes herself to the Resistance. Her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and secret midnight runs, helping Jews escape. Much to her high-society mother's disproval, she has fallen in love with Emil, a Jewish Resistance fighter who is wanted by the Nazis. The city is growing more dangerous by the day, with signs proclaiming 'No Jews' posted everywhere in the maze-like streets, and...

When Finn becomes the target of bullies at his new school, he decides to branch out from his classmates in search of a life-long friend. It isn't long before Finn befriends a mistreated dog named Marshall, who's being held in deplorable conditions. In desperate need of medical attention, Finn must help rescue Marshall from his cruel owner and help his new friend experience a miracle!

Dave the Grizzly bear lives in the shadow of his big brother, and even when he finds his own talent he is worried that the other woodland animals will laugh at him--until he finds the courage to show them all what he can do.

Small Knight goes looking for a dragon even though he is afraid to find one. Small Knight finds a dragon hiding in the bushes and takes it home to become his friend.

Billy Baker dreams to be different during the lawless western days of 1876. His family falls upon economic hardships due to their honorable belief in justice and equality. Shunned from their hometown, the Bakers find themselves frustrated and fearful of the future. Billy rescues a small red-tailed hawk from the jaws of a fox and, with the help of a befriended woodsman, nurses it back to health and trains it to become a proud hunting bird.

A biography, stressing the courage, of the first black player in professional baseball.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text encourage the reader to be brave in many situations, beginning with deciding what courage means to oneself.

"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brene Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to a...

The Hero book invites children to think about the the qualities that make people admirable and takes them on a journey to find positive role models and discover the hero inside themselves.

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.