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Eight seconds
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Jean Ferris,Jean Ferris |
Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay. |
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Alice on the outside
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change. |
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Walker's Crossing
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement. |
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The EGGbees
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Olivia Echeverria-Bis |
On a faraway planet, the EGGerson family is visited by relatives from a nearby country, MEGGxico, and although some of their shells are brown and some are white, the cousins soon discover that they h… |
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Saturnalia
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Paul Fleischman |
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to… |
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Wind on the River
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Laurie Lawlor |
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, wher… |
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Color Me Dark
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Patricia McKissack |
An ordinary girl living extraordinary events. Her family, Love, characterizes her comfortable, secure world in Bradford Corners, TN. Until Uncle Pace is murdered by the KKK.
The Author gradually e… |
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Bernie Magruder & the bats in the belfry
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous In… |
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The mystery of the poison pen
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Gayle G. Roper |
Twelve-year-old Alysha, an African American, is appalled that someone in her church would leave poison pen notes about a baby with AIDS, and is determined to find the culprit, while also facing more … |
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Brains for lunch
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K. A. Holt |
At a middle school where zombies, blood-sucking chupacabras, and humans never mingle, "lifer" Siobhan and Loeb, a zombie who likes to write haiku, share an attraction. Story written entirely in haiku. |
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Mayfield Crossing
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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for … |
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Journey home
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Yoshiko Uchida |
A Japanese American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family tr… |
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Torchlight
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Carol Otis Hurst |
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on h… |
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A perfect snow
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Nora Martin |
Seventeen-year-old Ben must deal with a violent white-supremacy hate group in his small Montana town because his father and his friends are involved with it. |
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How huge the night
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Heather Munn |
In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they… |
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Gran at Coalgate
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Winifred Cawley |
Jinnie, a straight-laced English school-girl of the twenties, learns about life when she goes to stay with her grandmother in the north. |
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Edgar Allan
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John Neufeld |
When the Fickett family decides to adopt a little black boy, they are faced with threats, angry phone calls, a burning cross on the lawn, and an ultimatum from their oldest daughter. |
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Circle of fire
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William H. Hooks |
Shortly before Christmas, 1936, eleven-year-old Harrison overhears a notorious local bigot planning a Ku Klux Klan raid on a band of Irish tinkers camped nearby and realizes he must do something to p… |
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Maria takes a stand
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Norma Jean Lutz |
In 1914, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the war in Europe increases general hostility towards German Americans, twelve-year-old Maria Schmidt finds inspiration in the women's suffrage movement and dec… |
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Dinosaur trouble
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Dick King-Smith |
Nosy and Banty are friends, so it's a pity that their families are so rude about each other. But when the terrible Tyrannosaurus rex arrives, the dinosaur families join forces to help one another out… |
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