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Far from you
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Lisa Schroeder |
Lost and alone...down the rabbit hole.
Years have passed since Alice lost her mother to cancer, but time hasn't quite healed the wound. Alice copes the best she can by writing her music, losing h… |
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Spinning through the universe
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Helen Frost |
Unforgettable students in this fifth-grade classroom reveal their private feelings about birth and death, a missing bicycle and a first kiss, as well as their thoughts about recess, report cards, fit… |
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May B.
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Caroline Starr Rose |
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier. |
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Exposed
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Kimberly Marcus |
High school senior Liz, a gifted photographer, can no longer see things clearly after her best friend accuses Liz's older brother of raping her while she was sleeping over at Liz's house. |
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Displacement
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Thalia Chaltas |
Home is supposed to be a place you belong. It's supposed to be parents who are there and siblings who bug you and a life that feels comfortable. It's not supposed to be an absentee mother or a drowne… |
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Trooper
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Meg Kearney |
Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted. |
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After the river the sun
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Dia Calhoun |
After his parents' death, his own near-drowning, and months in foster care, twelve-year-old Eckhart Lyon moves to his Uncle Al's orchard on trial but yearns for a real home, and with new friend Eva's… |
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Words with wings
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Nikki Grimes |
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps tellin… |
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Wolf and dog
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Sylvia Vanden Heede |
Wolf and Dog are cousins. Wolf is wild and Dog is tame. Wolf lives in a forest on top of a hill, while Dog lives in a house, keeping guard for his boss. Wolf and Dog have very different perspectives,… |
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Witness
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Karen Hesse |
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltra… |
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After the kiss
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Terra Elan McVoy |
In alternating chapters, two high school senior girls in Atlanta reveal their thoughts and frustrations as they go through their final semester of high school. |
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And we stay
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Jenny Hubbard |
Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her g… |
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Serafina's promise
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Ann E. Burg |
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all … |
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The red pencil
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Andrea Davis Pinkney |
"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a si… |
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Gone camping
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Tamera Will Wissinger |
"Camping is fun. Until it's time to sleep. Then, Lucy wonders, what kinds of creatures lurk in the dark? With only her brother and grandpa as tent mates, will Lucy be able to face her camping fears? … |
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Planet Pregnancy
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Linda Oatman High |
Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, and all its conflicting emotions, in this novel told in free verse. |
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The Bezert
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Maria Knier |
The Bezert has never left the safety and comfort of his island home. But when a box magically appears below his window, it proves too tempting not to take a look. By entering the box, the Bezert begi… |
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Split Image
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Mel Glenn |
A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people--students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others--about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of… |
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Keeping the night watch
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Hope Anita Smith |
A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonme… |
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God Went to Beauty School
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Cynthia Rylant |
A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist. Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Ea… |
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