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"An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago’s Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club."

Tyler honors the people who helped him cope with bullying and who inspired him to turn his pain into paint on the canvas.

Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She's one of the privileged - she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land.…

Knowing that two friends are lying and keeping secrets about the night another friend killed herself, seventeen-year-old Ella searches for the truth.

Dorothy Elmhirst Straight is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history.

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins…

An anthology of diaries written by children in Nazi-occupied Europe. Covering the entire war and the breadth of Europe, the diaries record their day-to-day life. Descriptions are given of ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs,…

A fairy tale written by Ford Madox Ford at the age of 18.

What interests a child? Is it only chocolates, dolls or the latest gadgets, even mobile phones? Or, is jiving to the latest music videos, being bombarded on music channels day-in-day-out, the only thing they are interested in?
We know the polite…

Lena Mukhina was a 10-year-old schoolgirl when the Germany army invaded the USSR in 1941 and besieged her home town of Leningrad. She survived the siege and returned to Leningrad after the war.