-At the Edge by Larry Verstraete     

     Daring acts in desperate times.  When people face crisis situations, they must make critical life or death decisions.  More than twenty incredible true stories show people facing wrenching choices, and the decisions that had to be made.

 

- Where's My Stuff? by Samantha Moss  

     Free time is great unless you spend all of it searching for something.  Inside you will learn to systematically organize your stuff and your time.

 

- We Want You to Know:  Kids Talk About Bullying by Deborah Ellis

     What do kids really think about bullying?  How does it feel to be excluded for being different, to be told you're not good enough, or to be pursued relentlessly for no reason?  What circumstances encourage some kids to bully others?  How have kids' lives changed because of bullying and how do they think it could have been stopped?  These kids have something to say.  It's time to listen.

 

- The Monkeyface Chronicles by Richard Scarsbrook

     Born with an extreme facial deformity, Philip was an easy target for stares, sneers, and bullying.  Though medical scientist named his condition Van der Woude syndrome, his classmates just called him Monkeyface.  This is Philip's story of revenge.

 

- The McGillicuddy Book of Personal Records by Colleen Sydor

       Lee knows how to set personal records that are sometimes quite bizarre.  Record-setting is Lee's way to break out of the mold and escape being ordinary.  But when he's confronted with the greatest challenge of his life, saving his pesky friend from a freakish but certain death, will Lee have what it takes.

 

-  Jailbird Kid by Shirlee Smith Matheson

     Angela Wroboski's dad is being released from a two year sentence in Fort Gavin Prison.  He arrived home with an attitude and confident that this time he's going straight.  When Angela learn that a crime is being planned that could blow apart her family, she must quickly decide how to intervene.

 

-  The Second Trial by Rosemarie Boll

     What do you do when your father becomes the enemy of your family?  Danny's father convicted of abusing his mother and now they must go into a victim protection program.  He has to leave his home, friend and the love of his grandparents to move to a new city and new school.  Even a new name.  If the normal rules no longer apply, why not break them?

 

-  The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty

     In the summer of 1980, the citizens of Banff, Alberta, were shocked when a man staggered out of the bush, terribly injured in a bear attack.  Thus began a story that would make headlines worldwide.  Despite the massive hunt that followed, the Whisky Creek mauler evaded park wardens and struck again and again.

 

-  Men For the Mountains by Sid Marty

     Sid Marty was a mountain climber, rescue team member, firefighter, wildlife custodian, and advisor to tourists, adventurers, and people passing through.  In these pages he writes of the heroism and folly drawn from life in the high country, and the result is a witty, compulsively readable, and often hilarious collection of stories.

 

-  Lead Babies by Joanna Cerazy and Sandra Cottingham

     Lead poisoning is causing an epidemic of learning behavior problems in our children. Despite decades of concern about lead's toxicity, the lead industry flourishes, putting unborn children and people of all ages at risk from a multitude of seemingly harmless sources.