Crunch by Leslie Connor

"I saw it like this: A single worker at some faraway oil refinery with his head tilted down, peering into a pipe, waiting for one more drop that never came."

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Summary: The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.

Publisher: Harper Collins; 328 pages

The War to End All Wars - World War I by Russell Freedman

"Those who lived through World War I called it the Great War because of its massive scale: some two dozen countries joined the conflict, which swept across continents and killed perhaps 20 million people."

Contents:

Murder in Sarajevo -- Armed to the teeth -- To Berlin! To Paris! -- "The most terrible August in the history of the world" -- Stalemate -- The technology of death and destruction -- Life and death in the trenches -- Over the top -- The Battle of Verdun -- The Battle of the Somme -- The war at sea -- Mutiny, revolution, and the collapse of armies -- "Lafayette, we are here!" : America joins the fight -- The last offensive and the collapse of empires -- Losing the peace.=

Publisher: Clarion Books; 176 pages

As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins

"Wait a minute.

Was the --had the train just moved?"

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Summary: A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.


Greenwillow Books; 352 pages