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Dancing on the edge
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Han Nolan |
A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality. |
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Twenty boy summer
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Sarah Ockler |
"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"Accordin… |
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Double trouble
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Sue Bentley |
Kim can't wait for her cousin Mia and her Siamese cat, Bibi, to come visit. But when they turn up, neither cousin nor cat are half as nice as Kim remembers! Mia and her cat proceed to make Kim's week… |
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The wizard's tide
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Frederick Buechner |
An eleven-year-old boy describes the joys and sorrows of growing up in a dysfunctional family with a jobless alcoholic father during the hard times of the Depression. |
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Addie's long summer
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Laurie Lawlor |
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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Marguerite Henry |
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 things a brother knows
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Dana Reinhardt |
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is co… |
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Alligator bayou
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Donna Jo Napoli |
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand an… |
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Where is Little Reynard?
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Joyce Carol Oates |
When Little Reynard, the only orange kitten in his litter, meets some foxes, he feels more at home with them than with his own family. |
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Point-blank paintball
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Scott Ciencin |
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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Friendly tales
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Margaret Wise Brown |
Presents a collection of twenty stories and poems, including "Seven Little Postmen," "The Sailor Dog," "The Color Kittens," and selections from "The Golden Bunny." |
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Too Many Bunnies
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Tomie dePaola |
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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Dandi Daley Mackall |
After settling in Ashland, Ohio, Winnie Willis discovers a beautiful but mistreated Arabian mare who is known as Salvaje because nobody has been able to train her, and trusts in her Christian faith t… |
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The Mystery on the Ice
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Gerturde Warner,Nancy E. Krulik,Charles Tang |
The Alden children investigate when Mrs. Murray's jewels are stolen during a party for the Starlight Skating Troupe. |
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Never swim in applesauce
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Katherine Applegate |
When first-grader Roscoe Riley goes on a school field trip to an apple orchard carrying his sister's fortune-telling ball, the outlook is cloudy. |
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The Werewolf family
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Jack Gantos |
At a family reunion held when the moon is full, the Werewolf family astounds its relatives with bizarre behavior. |
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The snow globe family
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Jane O'Connor |
Two families--a large one that lives in a house and the other a tiny one that lives in a snow globe, look forward to a big snowstorm. |
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Keeping the moon
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Sarah Dessen |
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of s… |
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The quarreling book
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Charlotte Zolotow |
When Mr. James forgets to kiss Mrs. James goodbye on a rainy gray day, it sets off a chain reaction of cross feelings |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The house of the seven gables
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Jan Fields |
A prominent New England family suffering under a two-hundred-year-old curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death. |
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