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In two bilingual stories printed back to back, children reflect on how much they resemble their parents. |
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The gardener
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her. |
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The Battle of Jericho
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When Jericho is invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, he thinks his life can't get any better. As the most exclusive club in school, the Warriors give the best parties, go out with the h… |
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I Can't Take You Anywhere!
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When the klutzy Amy Audrey Perkins is as good as gold at Aunt Linda's wedding her relatives are so surprised that they have an accident. |
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Addie's long summer
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Twelve-year-old Addie eagerly awaits her cousins' summer visit to her prairie home but, once they arrive, finds things much more complicated than she had ever imagined. |
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Our first pony
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Twin brothers, Justin and Joey, buy and raise a pony of their own but when the pony foals they find themselves responsible for the care of a whole new pony family. |
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The Schernoff discoveries
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Harold Schernoff, 14-year-old science whiz and social nerd, has a theory for every problem, from dating, to bullies, to making money, to sports, to how to buy a car when you're underage. When he and … |
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Man of the family
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During the 1920s, life for Istvan, the eldest child of a Hungarian-American family, holds both joy and sadness. |
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Where is Little Reynard?
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Point-blank paintball
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Identical twins Noah and Peter Eccleston make a great team, especially when playing paintball, but when a coach offers a chance for only one to join his elite team, they must compete against one anot… |
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How to get rich on the Oregon Trail
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This whimsical recounting of one family's journey to their new homestead will give readers an appreciation of the hardships faced by all those who signed up for the great migration. These include hun… |
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Petronella saves nearly everyone
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In the spring of 1903 at her country estate, Petronella Arbuthnot faces an enormous dilemma during her sixteenth-birthday festivities as important guests disappear, kidnapping notes appear, and Uncle… |
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On guard
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Trey Smith, the captain of the Wildcats, knows he's one of the best players on the team. He doesn't worry about anything when he's on the court. But then he finds out that he knows someone on a rival… |
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The lost flower children
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After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well. |
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Where in the world is the perfect family?
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Complications in twelve-year-old Cornie's life, among them divorced parents and a new baby half-sister, help Cornie and her best friend Megan find a theme for the school photojournalism project. |
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The Kite Rider
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In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite r… |
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On a wintry morning
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A father takes his infant daughter for a sleigh ride on a winter's morning. |
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Too Many Bunnies
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Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins and their fifteen children, a rabbit family, work together to plant their garden. |
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Wild Thing
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Shadow of a doubt
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As his sophomore year in high school begins, fifteen-year-old Shadow joins the forensics team, makes new friends, and struggles to cope with the return of his older brother, who ran away seven years … |
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