Cathy Randall

With help from a new friend, a misfit at a fancy private school secretly enrolls at a public school as a foreign exchange student.

With help from a new friend, a misfit at a fancy private school secretly enrolls at a public school as a foreign exchange student.

Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.

A dyslexic girl seeks to win her distant father’s attention by taking on an ultra-marathon.

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.