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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious... |
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From Fever 1793 "Where's Polly?" I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. "Did you pass by the blacksmith's? "I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan," Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots. "And?" I waved a mosquito... |
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell - Scholastic Audio
Format: Audiobook
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National Book Award, Young Peoples Literature, 2008Evie slowly finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies in this brilliant mystery, which won the 2008 National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature. |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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These shallow graves
Jennifer Donnelly - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of A Northern Light and Revolution. This thrilling mystery is perfect for fans of The Cellar and Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. It's a story of dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which... |
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Out Of The Dust
Karen Hesse - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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This gripping story, written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration.... |
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Kimberly Willis Holt
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Nothing ever happens in Toby's small Texas town. Nothing much until this summer that's full of big changes.It's tough for Toby when his mother leaves home to become a country singer. And Toby takes it hard when his best friend Cal's older brother goes off to fight in Vietnam. |
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Dead to Me
Mary McCoy - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Don't believe anything they say." |
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Burn Baby Burn
Meg Medina - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer... |
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Richard Peck - Dial; 1st edition
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This Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist is an unforgettable modern classic and features the debut of the larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—make their annual summer visits... |
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Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope PeÌrez - Carolrhoda Lab TM
Format: Hardcover
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A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honor Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year2016 Toms Rivera Book Award Winner "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes... |
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The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureNewbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early... |
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Out of The Easy
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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It's 1950 and the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie Moraine wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled... |
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Three Day Summer
Sarvenaz Tash - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Boy meets girl...at the most amazing concert the world has ever seen.Michael is unsure about most things. Go to college? Enlist in the military? Break up with his girlfriend? All big question marks. He is living for the moment and all he wants is a few days at the biggest concert of the summer.Cora... |
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Countdown
Deborah Wiles - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war.It's 1962, and it seems everyone is living in fear. Twelve-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, DC, during the days surrounding the Cuban... |
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