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Dead birds singing
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After his mother is killed and his sister is badly injured in a car accident, seventh-grader Matt faces life with a new family and a deep feeling of anger. |
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Small change
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Marc Talbert |
When a band of armed men creates a disruption in the small Mexican town where Tom and his younger sister Philippa are vacationing with their parents, they flee into the hills with their new friend Ig… |
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Star of Luís
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Marc Talbert |
Just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Mexican American boy goes with his mother from Los Angeles to New Mexico to meet her family for the first time, and, while there, he discovers his family's h… |
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Heart of a jaguar
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Marc Talbert |
Balam, a Mayan boy struggling to achieve manhood, participates in fasts, prayers, and rituals to appease the gods and bring rain to his village. |
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Pillow of Clouds
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Marc Talbert |
Angry at being forced to decide which of his divorcing parents will get custody of him, Chester is further burdened with guilty feelings about the parent he is leaving behind. |
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Rabbit in the Rock
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Marc Talbert |
Bernie and Sean, a young boy at odds with his father that she secretly befriends, devise a fake kidnapping that turns out to be more successful than they expected and sets off a massive search that i… |
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The Purple Heart
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Marc Talbert |
When his wounded father is sent home early from Vietnam, Luke finds it difficult to adjust to the troubled, emotionally shaken man who seems so unlike the fearless hero of his dreams. |
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A sunburned prayer
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Marc Talbert |
As he makes a seventeen-mile pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chimayó that he hopes will save his beloved grandmother from cancer, eleven-year-old Eloy is joined by a friendly dog that helps him keep … |
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Toby
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Marc Talbert |
Toby, the child of a "slow" father and a brain-damaged mother, uses his very normal ten-year-old wits to survive peer pranks and adult do- gooders who want him placed in a foster home. |
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