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We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn. Maggie’s Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination - the home of Nory’s sister, Maggie, in Brooklyn....

Nothing's going right for Ronald - he drops his pencils, inadvertently squirts water on Joy’s dress, mistakenly eats Jimmy’s sandwich, misses the ball during recess, loses his ice cream money, and drops Miss Tyler’s plant. But his teacher helps him get over his bad day with a note....

A contemporary and irresistible story from Patricia Reilly Giff. Lidie lives in Jales, Brazil, where she’s free to ride, to be a wild girl, and to dream of going to live with her father and older brother, Rafael, in New York City. Finally Lidie is 12 - time to leave Brazil for New York....

Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, she'll do everything in her power to make sure they stay together....

The shock of icy water as a boat crashes onto rocks feels real; so does the castle high above him that is almost hidden in the mists....

Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street, where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built....

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by....

This heart-wrenching novel in verse describes the life of a poor girl surviving the Irish Land War and the everyday challenges she experiences....

Sewing! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk....

When Lily meets Albert, a refugee from Hungary, during the summer of 1944, they begin a special friendship....

Sirens! A scary sound, especially to Siria, whose brave Pop is a firefighter....

It's 1944. World War II is raging. Jayna's big brother, Rob, is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady....

Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm....

This week the kids at the Zizag Afternoon Center are being creative, and trying new things. But that's not so easy for Destiny. All of her ideas turn into disasters....

Mitchell really doesn't want to go camping with the other kids at the Zigzag Afternoon Center. Sleeping in the woods with creepy crawly things, coyotes, and bears? Yikes....

In the fourth book in the Zigzag Kids series, it's showtime at the Zelda A. Zigzag Afternoon Center....

When Charlie hears that special buzz in his head, he knows it means one thing: An idea for a new invention. But Charlie's ideas tend to backfire - such as the flying feet that don't really fly. If only Charlie could make his inventions work....

Discovery Week at the Zigzag Afternoon Center! Everyone writes their discoveries on a big sheet of paper in the hallway....

Number One Kid. That’s what Mitchell McCabe’s favorite T-shirt says...

Meggie Dillon's life has been turned upside down by World War II....