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The Door in the Wall
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Marguerite de Angeli,Paul Champanier,Linda Stewart |
From the back cover of Scholastic Inc. copy of this book:
By Marguerite de Angeli,
recipient of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award,
the Regina Medal, and the Newberry Medal.
The bells clang above… |
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Dogsong
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Gary Paulsen |
Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.
Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns t… |
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The Underneath
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Kathi Appelt |
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reu… |
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The evolution of Calpurnia Tate
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Jacqueline Kelly |
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously c… |
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A girl named Disaster
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Nancy Farmer |
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous… |
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The One and Only Ivan
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Katherine Applegate |
Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan o… |
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These Happy Golden Years
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Garth Williams,Laura Ingalls Wilder |
The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wild… |
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
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Kelly Regan Barnhill,Isabel Murillo |
An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. |
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Piecing Me Together
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Renée Watson |
Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And she has. She accepted a sch… |
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The Giver
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Lois Lowry |
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain … |
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Wolf Hollow
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Lauren Wolk |
Even Annabelle's small Pennsylvania town has been touched by the two world wars that ravaged the world, but day to day life there has been quiet until the day a new student, Betty Glengarry, comes to… |
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Penny from heaven
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Jennifer L. Holm |
It's1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother'… |
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Other Words for Home
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Jasmine Warga |
As Jude weaves her way through a journey of being an immigrant, her pregnant mother, and leaving all she has ever known behind. As she discovers america, "*What will happen to Issa? And Babi?*" Read … |
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When you trap a tiger
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Tae Keller |
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse … |
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Red, White, and Whole
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Rajani LaRocca |
Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted… |
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The Last Cuentista
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Donna Barba Higuera |
There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.
But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred s… |
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Katherine Paterson,Katherine Paterson |
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. |
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The Black Pearl
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Scott O'Dell |
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner. |
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Tale of Despereaux
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Kate DiCamillo |
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
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Rules
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Cynthia Lord |
Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach Da… |
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