Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

After seeing a ballet performance, Nate decides he wants to learn ballet but he has doubts when his brother Ben tells him that only girls can be ballerinas.

After her brother dies and her parents get a divorce, twelve-year-old Dani sets out to hike the whole Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine on her own.

Despite the horror of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing, information the French resistance needs.

Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide. "Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"-- Provided...

"This inspiring chapter book biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist who played a key role in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA"--