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Julie of the Wolves
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Jean Craighead George |
Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home,… |
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Walk Two Moons
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Sharon Creech,Alberto Jiménez Rioja |
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mothe… |
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When You Reach Me
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Rebecca Stead |
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. Th… |
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Once a Mouse
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Marcia Brown |
As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain. |
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Crispin--The Cross of Lead
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Avi |
(From Goodreads):
'Asta's Son' is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in 14th century medieval England. But this thirteen … |
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Tar Beach
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Faith Ringgold |
Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartmen… |
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Poet
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Don Tate |
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time, although not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to… |
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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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Where the Wild Things Are
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Maurice Sendak |
This is an inspired children's book about a boy's passage through tempestuous aspects of life.
Max, a naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things, wher… |
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Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
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Verna Aardema |
A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. |
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Kira-kira
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Cynthia Kadohata |
It is only kira kira for the sisters Katie and Lynn until they move to an entirely new locality. |
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The Biggest Bear
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Lynd Ward |
Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble. |
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They Were Strong and Good
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Robert Lawson |
They Were Strong and Good is a book by Robert Lawson that won the Caldecott Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1941. It tells the story of Lawson's family: where they came from… |
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Hide and Seek Fog
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Alvin Tresselt |
The worst fog in 20 years rolls in and clouds the seaside village. The boats head back to shore, the sea birds return to their roosts and the people pack up and leave the beach. For three days, every… |
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Make Way for Ducklings
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David Crommett,Robert McCloskey |
First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massa… |
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
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Robert C. O'Brien,Zena Bernstein |
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest … |
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A Corner of the Universe
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Ann M. Martin |
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. |
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