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Doll Bones
Holly Black - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A BOOKLIST Editor's Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. A NYPL "100 Titles... |
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A Gathering of Days:
Joan W. Blos - Aladdin
Format: Paperback
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The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. |
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The Incredible Journey
Sheila Every Burnford - Yearling Books
Format: Audiobook
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Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure,... |
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The Pinballs
Betsy Cromer Byars - Harper & Row
Format: Paperback
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You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled,... |
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The School Story
Andrew Clements - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Natalie's best friend, Zoe, is sure that the novel Natalie's written is good enough to be published. But how can a twelve-year-old girl publish a book? Natalie's mother is an editor for a big children's publisher, but Natalie doesn't want to ask for any favors. Then... |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Christopher Paul Curtis - Dell Laurel Leaf
Format: Paperback
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A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they... |
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The Midwifes Apprentice
Karen Cushman - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Lyrical yet unsentimental, The Midwifes Apprentice won the coveted 1996 Newbery Medal. Filled with striking characters, it paints unforgettable pictures of village life in the Middle Ages, the midwifes craft, and a very remarkable girls growing independence and pride. Brat has no name,... |
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Mockingbird (Mok'ing-brd)
Kathryn Erskine - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl... |
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The Skin I'm In
Sharon Flake - Jump At The Sun
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like. |
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Ranger's Apprentice
John Flanagan - Philomel; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the pastthe Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old... |
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Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Format: Book
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Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey across the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her,... |
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Protecting Marie
Kevin Henkes - Greenwillow Books
Format: Paperback
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Fanny has wanted a dog all her life. For a brief moment her dream came true, but then her father decided the puppy brought too much chaos to his neat, ordered home. Fanny has never been able to forgive him for it. So when Fanny's father brings home a new, older dog, she's not sure... |
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Everything on a Waffle
Polly Horvath
Format: Book
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Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. |
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When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya.... |
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Swindle
Gordon Korman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ocean's 11... with 11-year-olds, in a super stand-alone heist caper from Gordon Korman!After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card.... |
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If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island
Ellen Levine
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If your name were changed at Ellis Island--Would everyone in your family travel together?--How long would you stay at Ellis Island?--Would your name be changed?This book tells you what it was like if when Ellis Island was opened in 1892 as a center for |
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Linda Sue Park - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes... |
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A Long Way From Chicago
Richard Peck - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother! |
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Becoming Naomi Leon
Pam Munoz Ryan - 2004.
Format: Hardcover
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The highly anticipated new novel from the Pura Belpre and Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author of ESPERANZA RISING.Naomi Soledad Len Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram) , her difficulty speaking... |
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Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)
Jerry Spinelli - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs.. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadnt made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years,... |
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