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Falling into place
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Stephanie Greene |
As eleven-year-old Margaret struggles to find a way of coping with the hassles of a new stepfamily, she learns that her Gran is facing similar concerns after moving to a retirement community and beco… |
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Christmas at Stony Creek
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Stephanie Greene |
The pond at Stony Creek is perfect for ice skating, and a blanket of snow is on the ground. It's almost Christmas. Pipsqueak wishes she could spend the days at the pond, then curl up in front of a gl… |
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Barnen på Bråkmakargatan
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Astrid Lindgren |
Jonas, Maria, and Lotta, the rambunctious and unpredictable Nyman children, have a year of roughhouse adventures and prove that, while they are around, anything can happen. |
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The Yearling
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as … |
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A summer of Kings
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Han Nolan |
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to l… |
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M. C. Higgins, The Great
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Virginia Hamilton |
Summary, As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills,fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they l… |
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Humbug Mountain
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Sid Fleischman |
A young boy and his wandering family foil villains and rout nasty varmints as they make a home for themselves in a beached boat on the banks of the Missouri. |
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Mouse TV
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Matt Novak |
Each member of the Mouse family wants to watch something different on television, but they discover a solution to their problem one night when the television does not work. |
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First Pink Light
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Eloise Greenfield |
A little black boy determines to stay up all night so he can welcome his father home in the morning. |
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Billy Twitters and his big blue whale problem
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Mac Barnett |
When Billy Twitters' mother follows through on her threat to buy him a blue whale if he refuses to obey, he finds himself the owner of an enormous pet that he must take with him everywhere, which doe… |
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The life of glass
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Jillian Cantor |
Before he died, Melissa's father told her about stars. He told her that the brightest stars weren't always the most beautiful—that if people took the time to look at the smaller stars, if they looked… |
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The dead-tossed waves
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Carrie Ryan |
Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She's content… |
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Maggie's monkeys
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Linda Sanders-Wells |
When Maggie reports that pink monkeys have moved into the refrigerator, her mother and father play along and accomodate the invisible visitors, much to the frustration of Maggie's older, reality-obse… |
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The smell of old lady perfume
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Claudia Guadalupe Martinez |
When sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke and her grandmother moves in to help take care of the family, her world is turned upside down. |
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Utterly me, Clarice Bean
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Lauren Child |
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective. |
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What planet are you from Clarice Bean?
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Lauren Child |
When Clarice has to do a school project on the environment, she and her family become eco-warriors in an attempt to save a tree on their street. |
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Spud
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John Van de Ruit |
It's 1990. Apartheid is crumbling. Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. And Spud Milton—thirteen-year-old, prepubescent choirboy extraordinaire—is about to start his first year at an el… |
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Outrageously Alice
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe. |
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Nuts
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Kacy Cook |
When eleven-year-old Nell finds a tiny baby squirrel on the ground in her yard, she begs her parents to let her raise it as a pet, even after the research she does shows that this is not a good idea. |
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Little Leap Forward
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Guo Yue |
In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning … |
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