Carol Gorman

In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.

Starting middle school in a new town, brainy Jerry Flack changes his image from "dork" to "cool kid, " only to discover that he'd rather be himself.

When the boy Amy is babysitting swears he witnessed a kidnapping, Amy isn't sure whether she should believe his crazy story Thirteen-year-old Amy Whipple is forced to babysit the son of her dad's most important client, and she is prepared for a boring weekend with a boring eight-year-old. On a trip to the park, Malcolm runs ahead, and when Amy catches up with him, he swears he has just seen the kidnapping of Jennifer Smith from his class. Malcolm...

An International Reading Association Children's Choice: When high school student Holly Baldwin is murdered, her friends decide to consult a Ouija board - with disastrous consequences When her classmates throw a party soon after the brutal murder of their friend Holly, Jessica can't believe they could be so insensitive. But the festivities turn dark when several girls sitting at a Ouija board receive a frightening message about Holly's death - and...

When his uncle invents a time machine that can summon people from the past, T.J. has his hands full with a seventeenth-century pirate. T.J. O'Brien witnesses a break-in behind the library. But when he sees the burglar - a real, live pirate - he realizes he can't go to the police. They'd never believe him! He decides to talk it over with his eccentric uncle Ainsley. But when he arrives at Ainsley's house, he finds the pirate sitting on the floor, eating...

After witnessing a murder, Julia is forced to keep quiet - until she receives a message from the dead boy and realizes she's in even more danger than she suspected. Julia reluctantly joins her cousin Nikki and her friends for a night of partying. Climbing into the hills, they spot Heath, a strange guy from school, and they chase him into a dilapidated cabin. Julia watches, horrified, as Nikki's friends set fire to the old building and wait for Heath...

"A young activist opens a window for young readers into his fight for equal education, racial justice, and economic equity. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Haitian immigrants, Frantzy Luzincourt has dedicated his life to service and the empowerment of youth voices. When he was fifteen, Frantzy became the founding president of his high school's Black Student Union, where he advocated for more Black male teachers and for bringing social justice into...