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Border crossing
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Jessica Lee Anderson |
Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell r… |
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Secret Saturdays
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Torrey Maldonado |
A poignant look into one fatherless twelve-year-oldÆs struggles with friendship and trust.Sean is JustinÆs best friend, at least Justin thought he was. But lately Sean has been acting differently. Se… |
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Take me with you
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Carolyn Marsden |
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated. |
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Bad kitty
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Michele Jaffe |
Meet Jasmine,1 forensic supersleuth,2 aspiring Model Daughter,3 and friend to animals.4 One second she's trying to enjoy her Vegas Vacation,5 the next she's tangled up in an outrageous adventure and … |
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Miracle's Boys
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Jacqueline Woodson |
Lafayette would do anything to have things back the way they used to be—back before their parents died and back before his brother Charlie changed so much. But things have changed and all he can do n… |
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Brendan Buckley's sixth-grade experiment
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Sundee Tucker Frazier |
As biracial Brendan Buckley enters middle school, he deals with issues with his African American father, a new girl at school, and his changing friendship with his best friend. |
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The last rainmaker
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Sherry Garland |
Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year-old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose … |
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American ace
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Marilyn Nelson |
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was prob… |
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Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters
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Margaret Dilloway |
Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology. |
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Endangered
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L. R. Giles |
"When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises"-- |
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Finding Mighty
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Sheela Chari |
Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a wor… |
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The land
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Mildred D. Taylor |
The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly-something unusual in post-Civil W… |
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Shanghai messenger
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Andrea Cheng |
A free-verse novel about eleven-year-old Xiao Mei's visit with her extended family in China, where the Chinese-American girl finds many differences but also the similarities that bind a family togeth… |
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