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The Babe & I
David A Adler
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It's 1932 and hard times are everywhere. But life isn't all bad. America still loves baseball, and Babe Ruth is the star of the game. And two boys are about to discover that with some creativity, hard work, and a little help from the Babe himself, they can do their part to help ou |
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Train to Somewhere
Eve Bunting - Clarion Books
Format: Print book
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Marianne, heading west with fourteen other children on an Orphan Train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. When her mother left Marianne at the orphanage, hadn't she promised she'd come for her after making a new life in the West? Stop after stop... |
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Our House: The Stories of Levittown
Pam Conrad - Scholastic
Format: Library Binding
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A history of Levittown, which was founded by William Levitt after World War II, is told from the perspectives of six children, highlighting one from each decade from the forties through the nineties. |
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Full of Beans
Jennifer L Holm - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award Five Starred Reviews A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means "locals")... |
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Faraway Summer
Johanna Hurwitz - Morrow Junior Books
Format: Print book
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Two weeks seems like forever to Dossi Rabinowitz, a poor Jewish orphan from New York City who is sent by the Fresh Air Fund to a small Vermont town during the summer of 1910. With her journal as her closest companion, Dossi reflects on her struggle to understand her Christian host family... |
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Skunked!: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet
Jacqueline Kelly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From Newbery honor author Jacqueline Kelly comes a new illustrated chapter book series for younger readers featuring the beloved characters from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. In Calpurnia Tate, Animal Doctor in Training, Callie Vee, Travis, and Dr. Pritzker help animals big and small.When... |
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The Bobbin Girl
Emily Arnold MacCully
Format: Hardcover
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Rebecca Putney is a bobbin girl who helps support her struggling family by working all day in a hot, noisy cotton mill. Working conditions at the mill are poor, and there is talk of lowering the workers' wages. Rebecca's friend Judith wants to protest the pay cut--but troublemaker |
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Pink and Say
Patricia Polacco - Philomel Books
Format: Audio CD
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When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter, Rosa, she kept every word in her heart and was to retell it many times. I will tell it in Sheldon's own words as nearly as I can.He was wounded in a fierce battle and left for dead in a pasture somewhere in Georgia when... |
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