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The Secret Horses of Briar Hill

By Megan Shepherd

Young orphaned, sick British girl lives in sanatorium and sees winged horses through the mirrors. She is called on to help save the animals.

By Katherine Applegate

Story of a captive gorilla that lives in a shopping mall, as told by him. Based on a real gorilla.

By Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Wilson Bentley, obsessed with snow, developed a way to photograph snowflakes

By Johanna Reiss

10 yo Jewish girl and her sister hide from Nazis in Dutch farmhouse during WWII

By David Long

True short vignettes featuring animal war heroes

By Jean Fritz

2-part book about Leonardo da Vinci’s unrealized giant horse sculpture, and the American art enthusiast who recreated it

By Mary Jane Beaufrand

Daughter of Pazzi family suffers aftermath of her family’s attempt to assassinate Medicis, goes into hiding as a boy goldsmith apprentice

By Meindert DeJong

6 village children endeavor to entice storks back to their nests in the village

By Gary D. Schmidt

13 yo son of town’s new minister befriends African American girl who lives outside town on an island inhabited by former slaves

By Anzia Yezeierska

Young Russian Jewish immigrant woman strives to overcome poverty, struggles between old world and new world values