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The silent gift
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Michael Landon |
The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrific… |
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There are no scary wolves
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Hyewon Yum |
A little boy is afraid of scary wolves without his mother, but when she is holding his hand he is much braver. |
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The well
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A. J. Whitten |
Fourteen-year-old Cooper must face a monster trapped for two centuries in a well near his stepfather's Maine vineyard or risk everything that he holds dear, including his girlfriend, Megan. |
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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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A question of trust
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Marion Dane Bauer |
After his mother leaves the family, Brad involves his younger brother in a plan to get her to come home and deals with his feelings of rejection by taking care of a newborn kitten. |
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Eli's ghost
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Betsy Gould Hearne |
Eli searches for the mother he'd long assumed dead in a huge swamp where he is sustained by the ghosts of friends from earlier days and where a brush with death causes his own ghost to leave his body… |
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A kid from Southie
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John Shea |
Desperate to help his unemployed mother, seventeen-year-old Aiden O'Connor reluctantly begins working for the Irish mob in tough South Boston, despite his coach's efforts to convince him he could be … |
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Growing pains
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Dwayne S. Joseph |
Brian Moore is a straight-A student struggling to escape the lure of the streets in Brooklyn, NY. With no father at home and a mother who works two jobs in order to keep a roof over his head and food… |
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Six ways to keep the "good" in your boy
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Dannah Gresh |
How can you teach your tween son to be honest, confident, and respectful when the world encourages him to make bad decisions and grow up too fast? The Greshes offer six proactive ways to help your bo… |
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The cloak society
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Jeramey Kraatz |
Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old in training to be a supervillain in the elite Cloak Society, becomes friends with a young superhero and begins to question where his loyalty lies. |
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Send No Flowers
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Sandra Brown |
She usually didn't play the part of damsel in distress...but this ill-fated camping trip was reducing her to roles she'd never expected to encounter. When Pierce Reynolds appeared in the midst of a t… |
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His Illegal Self
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Peter Carey |
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one d… |
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Mummy from Hell
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Kenneth Doyle,Patrick Doyle |
Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patr… |
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Kinda Like Brothers
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Coe Booth |
When his mother takes in a twelve-year-old foster boy, Jarrett is forced to share his room and his friends with the new boy. |
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Based on a true story
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Elizabeth Renzetti |
Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her l… |
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When Otis courted Mama
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Kathi Appelt |
While his life seems perfectly good as it is, Cardell, a young coyote, learns to tolerate--and even like--the coyote that is courting his mother. |
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Know the night
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Maria Mutch |
"In this soul-stirring debut memoir, Maria Mutch explores the miraculous power that care and communication have in the face of the deep, personal isolation that often comes with disability. A chronic… |
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The secret book of Grazia dei Rossi
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Jacqueline Park |
Grazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d'Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope's Jewish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. I… |
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Aftershock
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Bernard Ashley |
"Makis and his mother Sofia escape a devastating Greek earthquake which has claimed his father's life. They move to North London and at first it is hard, especially at school, but being a gifted foot… |
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Closed doors
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Lisa O'Donnell |
"[A] young boy on a small Scottish island, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, discovers that a secret can be a dangerous thing. Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at two thi… |
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