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Just for You! -- Young People Who are Brave

What's to be done when the grown ups are on the wrong track to solving a problem, or just plain wrong? For these young people, it is time to put their heads and hearts into action!

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  • It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely…
    Book, 2010New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010. — FICTION BRADLEY
  • Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved father, until the fateful day when she crosses paths with Belgian immigrant…
    Book, 2020[Toronto] : Tundra Books, [2020] — J FICTION JOCELYN
  • Ada and her brother are prisoners in their own London home, and their jailer is an abusive mother. Ada has a club foot, and never leaves her apartment. When Germans bomb their city, Ada braves the outside world and takes her brother to safety in…
    Book, 2015New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., [2015] — J FICTION BRADLEY
  • When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, Little Charlie, who is anything but "little," agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of slaves on the run. Cap'n Buck…
    Book, 2018New York : Scholastic Press, 2018. — J FICTION CURTIS
  • The year is 1915. The Scilly Isles, north of Cornwall, England, are somewhat sheltered from the war that rages on the continent, but not completely. Alfie Wheatcroft and his father find a girl stranded on the isolated island of St. Helen's. She is…
    Book, 2015New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2015. — TEEN FICTION MORPURGO
  • A dying man's last words pull an inquisitive young man and his beautiful companion into a dangerous web of lethal secrets.
    Downloadable Video, 2009[United States]: RLJ Entertainment, 2009. — eVideo hoopla