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Young Jim’s life is about to change due to  the abrupt arrival of an old sea dog named Captain Charles Johnson. And a good thing too, as the family inn has hit rough times. The pressure to sell to the wealthy community bullies, the Mo

 ****Inspired by Leonardo's Notebooks, author Grey creates a portrait of the famous painter and inventor as imaginitively seen through the eyes of his faithful young servant Giacomo. Much of the plot concerns the completion of the fresco, th

MT Anderson's Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, has won a Printz Honor Award as well as the  National Book Award for Young People's literature, and quite deservedly so. TMany librarians and educators question if teens iwll volunta

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