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House of dolls
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Francesca Lia Block |
In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dress… |
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Big friends
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Margery Cuyler |
Big Hasuni is scared off, after he accidentally destroys a campsite while investigating the plume of smoke rising above an island; only to find a disaster waiting for him at his mountain camp upon hi… |
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Caribou Island
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David Vann |
On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying… |
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The geeks shall inherit the earth
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Alexandra Robbins |
In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction, Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popul… |
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An angel for Solomon Singer
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Cynthia Rylant |
A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true. |
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White horse
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Alex Adams |
When I wake the world is gone. Only fragments remain. And then I remember ... Then: Her life may have taken a couple of wrong turns but thirty-year-old Zoe is trying to make the best of what she has.… |
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Solomon Crocodile
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Catherine Rayner |
Solomon Crocodile's rough play prevents him from making friends down by the river until a stranger comes stomping through the reeds! |
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Serendipity and me
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Judith L. Roth |
"Sara and her father start to heal from her mother's death when a white kitten lands on their doorstep"--Provided by publisher. |
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Teeth
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Hannah Moskowitz |
"Rudy's life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote, magical island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother, Dylan. While Dylan recovers, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper int… |
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Mooncop
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Tom Gauld |
From back cover: The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the pop… |
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Why I Don't Call Myself Gay
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Daniel Mattson |
Daniel Mattson once believed he was gay. Raised in a Christian family, and aware of attractions to other boys at age six, Mattson's life was marked by constant turmoil between his faith in God and hi… |
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The desperates
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Greg Kearney |
In telling the intersecting stories of Edmund, Teresa, and Joel - all of whom leave trails of hopeful chaos in their wake - Greg Kearney has painted a blackly comic, yet surprisingly earnest, portrai… |
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Feeling left out
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Kate Petty |
New to the neighborhood, Chris feels left out of various games and social events. |
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Making friends
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Sarah Levete |
Discusses the importance of friendships, from making friends to resolving disagreements, and how to deal with feelings such as jealousy, shyness, and rejection. |
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Nobody here but me
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Judith Viorst |
With his mother on the phone, his father checking e-mail, and his sister playing with her friends, a little boy feels as if he is all alone in the house, and no matter how badly he behaves, no one co… |
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Goose
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Laura Wall |
"Sophie meets Goose at the park and the two become fast friends"--
Sophie loves to dress up and play with her dolls and swing on the swings, but she wishes she had a friend to join in the fun. |
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My love story!
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Kazune Kawahara |
Takeo Goda is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don t want him! (They want his good-looking best friend, Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accept… |
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Stephen Florida
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Gabe Habash |
"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's… |
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The haunting of Charity Delafield
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Ian Beck |
Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompki… |
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Learning to Dance
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Susan Sallis |
Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband, Jack, has left her - why, she doesn't really know. Her two sons are in Australia, and both her mother and her best friend Naomi have recently d… |
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