Kathleen McInerney

"Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice"--

Dragged to summer camp by her friend Charissa, twelve-year-old Gladys Gatsby, an undercover restaurant reviewer for a big New York City newspaper, finds a way to practice her cooking and restaurant reviewing skills.

"Just as Gladys Gatsby prepares to enter the complicated world of middle school, her secret gig as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic won't be a secret much longer--and Gladys must enlist the help of her Parisian aunt to be true to herself, and honest with her friends and family"--

"When Nor rescues a captured faerie in the woods, he gifts her with a magical golden thread to summon him for a favor. Instead, Nor uses it for a con--to convince villagers to buy golden straw--and attracts the suspicion of Prince Casper. Set on catching Nor in her lie, he demands she spin a room of straw into gold. If she succeeds, she'll become a queen. If she fail, the consequences will be dire. Desperate, Nor summons the faerie, launching a complicated...

Four biographies of figures who were influential in founding the United States of America, and the stories behind two important documents that shaped the new nation.

A biography of a Ukranian-born public school music teacher "whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students"--Dust cover flap.