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Secret star
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Nancy Springer |
Fourteen years old, dirt-poor, and unable to remember anything that happened to her before she was ten, Tess is happy living with her wheelchair-bound stepfather, until a scarred young man finds her … |
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Babylon Boyz
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Jess Mowry |
Dante, Pook, and Wyatt, 8th-graders in a rundown West Oakland, California school plagued by guns, gangs, drugs and violence as well as inept or indifferent teachers, don't have many choices in life. … |
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Keep holding on
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Susane Colasanti |
Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide. |
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Tony's last touchdown
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Benjamin Jarman |
Although he is the best linebacker in town, Tony must make a difficult choice between continuing to play football and helping his family when his mother loses one of her two jobs, his younger brother… |
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The glass collector
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Anna Perera |
In Cairo, fifteen-year-old Aaron makes a living out of gathering garbage; as a member of the despised Zabbaleen, this is his fate. But Aaron has dreams. Every day he dreams of Rachel. He dreams that … |
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No Ordinary Day
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Deborah Ellis |
Valli is an orphan who lives on the streets of Kolkata, India. No matter how bad her life seems, there are people who are worse off than her - the lepers. And then, one day, she finds out that she al… |
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I am Rembrandt's daughter
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Lynn Cullen |
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope… |
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Firestorm!
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Joan Hiatt Harlow |
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when th… |
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Those shoes
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Maribeth Boelts |
All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing. Though Jeremy's grandma says they don't have room for "want," just "need," when his old shoes fall apart at… |
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The contest
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Caroline Stellings |
Rosy, a poor, eleven-year-old, half-Mohawk girl from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada enters an Anne of Green Gables look-alike contest in hopes of winning a set of Anne books, and gains a new friend and de… |
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Being Fishkill
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Ruth Lehrer |
Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fi… |
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The story of Hurry
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Emma Williams |
A young donkey, named Hurry because he is always "on the trot," witnesses the sadness and suffering of the children in occupied Gaza and helps the only way he can--by letting the zookeeper paint stri… |
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The heart is not a size
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Beth Kephart |
Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. . . . Or are they?When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along… |
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Pilgrim Street
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Hesba Stretton |
Two poor young brothers struggling to survive in nineteenth-century Manchester, England, begin to see their lives in new perspectives as they learn about God and Jesus Christ. |
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Linda's lie
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Bernard Ashley |
Linda's lie to hide her family's poverty brings her personal agony. |
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The Traitors' Gate
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Avi |
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are … |
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Money hungry
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Sharon G. Flake |
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again. |
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Star of light
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Mary Mills |
In a mountain village in Morocco, an Englishwoman transforms the lives of her visiting niece, a blind baby girl, and an eleven-year-old boy through her work as a missionary nurse. |
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Poor as church mice
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Roselyn Ogden Miller |
Twelve-year-old Nora and her younger sister and brothers struggle to stay together and to someday be reunited with their mother after they travel from New York City to Nebraska on the orphan train in… |
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Die Unberührten
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Robert Schneider |
Im Jahre 1922 im kleinen Vorarlberger Dorf St. Damian. Die 7-jährige Antonia wächst in heiler Welt mit ihren drei Schwestern auf. Der Vater vergöttert seine fünf Frauen, fördert besonders Antonias de… |
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