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Messenger
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Virginia Frances Schwartz |
Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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The life of glass
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Jillian Cantor |
Before he died, Melissa's father told her about stars. He told her that the brightest stars weren't always the most beautiful—that if people took the time to look at the smaller stars, if they looked… |
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Verbena
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Nanci Kincaid |
"Set in contemporary small town America, this is the story of Verbena Martin Eckert McHale ("Bena," for short), an indomitable woman who is damned - but not doomed - by the bad behavior and bad luck … |
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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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Alice the Brave
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
The summer before eighth grade, Alice tries to confront her fears, not the least of which is a fear of deep water. |
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Lovingly Alice
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Fifth grade is tumultuous for Alice as she tries to help others through the many changes occurring at home and in school, including learning about sex when Rosalind gets her period and shares a book … |
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Struts and frets
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Jon Skovron |
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend… |
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The traitor game
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B. R. Collins |
Fifteen-year-old Michael and his friend Francis both feel betrayed when someone at their private school learns of Evgard, a secret fantasy world they created together, but when a sadistic bully becom… |
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Pip, the story of Olive
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Kim Kane |
A story about fitting in and finding the strength to be yourself.Olive is an only child. She lives by the sea in a ramshackle old house with her mother, Mog--successful, busy, and hardly ever at home… |
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Calder pride
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Janet Dailey |
The Long-Awaited Addition to the Beloved Calder Series from the Queen of the Western Romance!Cat is a Calder, through and through: proud, headstrong, intelligent, and beautiful. When her fiance is ac… |
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Prey
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Lurlene McDaniel |
A teacher is supposed to impart a love of learning and a thirst for knowledge. It's a bit different with Ms. Lori Settles. All the kids are talking about how hot she is--and she is especially interes… |
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Diary of a witness
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Catherine Ryan Hyde |
One day, something's going to snap. . . .Ernie doesn't have a lot of friends at school. Just Will. They have stuff in common--like fishing. But more important, they have common enemies: the school jo… |
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A portrait of Pia
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Marisabina Russo |
As childhood friendships change, her brother's schizophrenia worsens, and her mother's latest boyfriend seems likely to become her stepfather, twelve-year-old artist Pia Crossley tries to gain contro… |
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Who is Felix the Great?
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Ronald Kidd |
When the fate of a once prominent person becomes the topic of an eleventh-grade English report, Tim chooses one of baseball's finest shortstops as his subject. |
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Rachel Spinelli punched me in the face
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Paul Acampora |
When fourteen-year-old Zachary and his father move to Falls, Connecticut, he spends a summer falling in love, coming to terms with his mother's absence, and forming eclectic friendships. |
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Saving Zasha
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Randi G. Barrow |
In 1944 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia… |
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Double act
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A brilliant new cover look for this fantastically popular Jacqueline Wilson title about sparky twins Ruby and GarnetNo-one can ever be like a mother to us.NO-ONE. NO-ONE AT ALL.ESPECIALLY NOT STUPID … |
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The illustrated mum
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A powerful novel of two sisters who have to cope with living in a very dysfunctional household where their tattoo-crazy mum has real difficulties in coping. A new edition with new cover look and intr… |
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Family ever after
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Margaret Daley |
Three foster kids fall into Noah Maxwell's lap and turns his life upside down. The successful businessman knows nothing about children, so he hires single mom Cara Winters to help care for his new br… |
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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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