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  • Cryptid Hunters

    by Roland Smith

    After their parents are lost in an accident, thirteen-year-old twins Grace and Marty are whisked away to live with their uncle Wolfe—an uncle that they didn’t even know they had. Intimidating Uncle Wolfe is an anthropologist who has dedicated his life to finding cryptids—mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct or nonexistent. Just as the twins and their uncle are getting to know one another, Wolfe finds... (more)
  • Listen!

    by Stephanie S. Tolan

    Charley knows a lot about pain. She endures it when she walks on her newly shattered leg, she sees it when her father buries himself in an eighty-hour work week, and she runs from it when she sees photographs her mother took before her death. Then one day, Charley meets a wild, abused dog that knows as much about pain as she does, and, despite herself, she feels an immediate connection and vows to help him. But... (more)
  • Rules

    by Cynthia Lord

    Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order to stop his embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a paraplegic boy, and Kristi, the next-door... (more)