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My thirteenth winter
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Samantha Abeel |
Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like th… |
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From snowflakes to sandcastles
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Annie Owen |
Pictures illustrate thirteen words for each month of the year. Includes questions prompting the reader to search for and find various objects. |
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Meet the real me
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Janice Kinnealy,Peggy Gavan |
Students in grades two through eight describe themselves, discussing their goals, dreams, talents, and other special qualities. |
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Oleander, Jacaranda
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Penelope Lively |
A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s… |
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The girl with no name
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Marina Chapman |
A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. This is her truly astonishing stor… |
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Mother Land
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Dmetri Kakmi |
"Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures. It is an account of how a Greek boy born o… |
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The Stardust Lounge
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Deborah Digges |
At the age of twelve, Deborah Digges's son Stephen was running in gangs, stealing cars, and bringing home guns. This is the story of the adolescence that followed, of a boy growing up quickly and agg… |
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I know my first name is Steven
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Mike Echols |
Seven Year old Steven Stayner thought it was okay to get in the car with "Reverend" Parnell because the "Reverend" has asked to speak to Steven's mother about church.What happened after that was seve… |
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Bronx primitive
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Kate Simon |
The classic, unforgettable memoir of a young girl's coming of age, "Bronx Primitive" recalls the vitality of an immigrant neighborhood through the unsentimental eyes of a child. With an unerring eye … |
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The lost boy
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David J. Pelzer |
Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had… |
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