Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition, when the ship the Endurance was crushed in a frozen sea and the men made the perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

With her beagle Henry and her new friend Quin, twelve-year-old Tee is determined to solve the mystery of "the Shadow", the ghostly animal that is believed to haunt the Alaskan wilderness near her new home in Nome.

In 1881, sixteen-year-old Mary Ingalls becomes a student at the Iowa College for the Blind, where she studies academic subjects and learns skills that will allow her to be independent and to earn a living.

Feeling more comfortable with her developing skills as a medium, eight-grader Kat looks forward to the class trip to Montreal but once there she finds herself confronted by a cast of all new ghosts and a host of other problems..

An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt in defiance of British law.

Four very different seventh grade girls have a month to put out a magazine good enough to win a competition to get funding for a new school program.

When the Boxtrolls are targeted by Archibald Snatcher, who is bent on eradicating them, the kindhearted band of trolls must turn to their adopted charge Eggs and rich girl Winnie to bridge two worlds.

School spirit: Kat's mother is a medium, and Kat has discovered that she can see spirits too. It's up to Kat and her best friend Jac to help a spirit trapped in their school cross over successfully. Can they do it without having to switch schools themselves? Scaredy Kat: Kat can see spirits, but, even worse, they can see her. Sometimes being sought out by a bunch of dead people can be pretty scary. When their exploration of the abandoned house next...