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The RICHEST KIDS IN TOWN
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Peg Kehret |
New to town and homesick for his old life, fourth-grader Peter teams up with a classmate to earn money for a trip to his old hometown but all their moneymaking schemes have unexpected results. |
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The Ashwater experiment
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Amy Goldman Koss |
Twelve-year-old Hillary, who has traveled across the country all her life with her parents who sell crafts, finds herself facing a stay of nine whole months in Ashwater, California. |
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Did you see Chip?
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Wong Herbert Yee |
After moving to the city, Kim makes some new friends while looking for her lost dog, Chip. |
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Seeing sky-blue pink
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Candice F. Ransom |
Plenty of things make eight-year-old Maddie nervous: her too-small feet, climbing high places, not always knowing what to say, and especially her new home in the Virginia countryside with Sam, her mo… |
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The ghost of Lizard Light
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Elvira Woodruff |
Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved se… |
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Pepita packs up =
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Ofelia Dumas Lachtman |
As her family prepares to move to a new home, Pepita refuses to pack her toys or say goodbye to anyone, because saying goodbye might make her cry. |
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Only you, Sierra
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Robin Jones Gunn |
Normally a confident and adventurous sixteen-year-old, Sierra returns from a missionary tour in England to a number of unsettling changes in her home and family. |
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A whisper and a wish
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Robin Jones Gunn |
Christy's family has moved to California just in time for her sophomore year of high school. But they're not in Newport Beach, where she spent the summer. Instead, they're an hour and a half away an… |
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Rex Zero and the end of the world
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Tim Wynne-Jones |
In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own … |
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A hundred days from home
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Randall Wright |
After the death of his best friend, Elam reluctantly moves with his family to the desert, where he wrestles with homesickness, loneliness, grief, and the search for new friendship. |
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Looking for Bobowicz
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater |
Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, a boy convinces his two new friends to help him track down the mysterious phantom who stole his bicycle, as well as Arthur Bobowicz, owner of a giant chicken that … |
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Maniac monkeys on Magnolia Street
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Angela Johnson |
Ten-year-old Charlie adjusts to her move to a new neighborhood when she befriends Billy, with whom she hunts maniac monkeys, braves Mr. Pinkbelly's attack cat, and digs for fossils and treasure. |
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