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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt - Farrar
Format: Book
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Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less... |
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The Magic Half
Annie Barrows - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; New edition
Format: Book
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Miri is the non-twin child in a family with two sets of them—older brothers and younger sisters. When her family moves to an old farmhouse in a new town, the only good thing seems to be Miri's ten-sided attic bedroom. But when Miri gets sent to her room after accidentally bashing... |
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall - Knopf Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful... |
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Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Print book
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Sheila Tubman (Peter Hatcher's sworn enemy) sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of spiders, the dark, swimming and, most of all, dogs. When her family leaves the city for a summer in the country,... |
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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Lesley M. M. Blume - Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianistsa legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset... |
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A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Puffin
Format: Paperback
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Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in. But when she learns that she'll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for drudgery... |
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Candlewick
Format: Book
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The beloved original text now offered in a definitive gift edition by esteemed illustrator Inga Moore."Then she slipped through the door, and shut it behind her, breathing quite fast with excitement, and wonder, and delight. She was standing inside the secret garden."First published... |
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Ramona the Pest
Beverly Cleary - HarperTrophy
Format: Paperback
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Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough to do it too!Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate's boingy curls during recess. Even worse, her crush... |
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Extra Credit
Andrew Clements - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; English Language edition
Format: Hardcover
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It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork. She just doesn't like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade - unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant... |
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The Mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story. "We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malones family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class... |
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The BFG
Roald Dahl - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become... |
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Matilda
Roald Dahl - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress.... |
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer - and learning to love what you have.The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket - and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense... |
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The Search for WondLa
Tony DiTerlizzi - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasures - a scrap... |
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Out of My Mind
Sharon M Draper - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"If there is one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind" should be it" (Denver Post") .Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything... |
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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 Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes - Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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Wanda Petronski, a little Polish girl in an American school, is laughed at because she always wears a faded blue dress, until her classmates learn a lesson. "Sensitive, intuitive, restrained."--Saturday Review |
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Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Format: Paperback
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Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truth |
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Igraine The Brave
Cornelia Funke - Chicken House/Scholastic
Format: DVD
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In the spirit of DRAGON RIDER and THE THIEF LORD, an enchanting fairy tale told with Cornelia's trademark warmth and wit: Perfect Funke fare for readers in the middle grades--Cornelia's "sweet spot"!Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth... |
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Turtle in Paradise
Jennifer L. Holm - Random House
Format: Book
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In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley TempleShe's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After... |
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover
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Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers... |
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
Format: Book
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When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Ja |
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Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai - Harper
Format: Book
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Inside Out and Back Again is a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama, this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been... |
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Savvy
Ingrid Law - Puffin Books
Format: eBook
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A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic.For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" - a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark... |
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A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture.It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most... |
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Honor WinnerA New York Times BestsellerThis stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley... |
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The Year of the Dog (A Pacy Lin Novel)
Grace Lin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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It's the Chinese Year of the Dog, and as Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to "find herself." Universal themes of friendship, family, and finding one's passion in life make this novel appealing to readers of all backgrounds.... |
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Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on the porch and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. Whether Pippis scrubbing her floors, doing arithmetic or stirring things... |
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Rules
Cynthia Lord - transcribed by Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Format: Audio CD
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A heartfelt and witty debut about feeling different and finding acceptance--beyond the rules.Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles... |
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11 Birthdays
Wendy Mass - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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GROUNDHOG DAY meets FLIPPED in this tale of a girl stuck in her birthday.It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited -- after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's... |
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Anne of Green Gables
L M Montgomery - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback
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"The books I read most as a child were Lucy Maud Montgomery." -- Madeleine L'EngleA classic for all ages, this official, unabridged edition of Anne of Green Gables features the unforgettable character of Anne Shirley and special memories, exclusively from L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter.Redheaded... |
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Fablehaven
Brandon Mull - Aladdin Paperbacks/Simon & Schuster Children's
Format: Paperback
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Fablehaven, a sanctuary for mystical creatures, survives as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Kendra and her brother Seth do not know their grandfather is the current caretaker, but they soon face the challenge of their lives when powerful forces of evil are unleashed.... |
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Liesl & Po
Lauren Oliver - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a luminous novel that glows with rare magic, ghostly wonders, and a true friendship that lights even the darkest of places. An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, its perfect for fans of the authors other middle grade novels: The Spindlers... |
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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The timeless Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson about a wisecracking, ornery, completely unforgettable young heroine. Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and shes hated them all. She has a reputation for being brash,... |
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The Higher Power of Lucky (Hard Pan Trilogy)
William Prynne - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Lucky, age ten, cant wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43) , the rock-bottom only choice she has. Its all Brigittes fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians... |
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Westing Game: Anniversary Edition
Ellen Raskin - Dutton Books for Young Readers; Anniversary edition
Format: Hardcover
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For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading... |
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Glory Be
Augusta Scattergood - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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A Mississippi town in 1964 gets riled when tempers flare at the segregated public pool.As much as Gloriana June Hemphill, or Glory as everyone knows her, wants to turn twelve, there are times when Glory wishes she could turn back the clock a year. Jesslyn, her sister and former confidante,... |
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The Hope Chest
Karen Schwabach
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A perfect Common Core tie-in, The Hope Chest includes backmatter with period photographs, historical notes about the suffrage movement, and a Voting in America timeline. It's also a New York State Curriculum title for fourth grade.Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal |
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When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Library Binding
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Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid,... |
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book
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welve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket, who invites her on an adventure, implying... |
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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf
Format: Paperback
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With this debut book of a new mystery series, Wendelin Van Draanen establishes Samantha Keyes as a crime fighter to watch. Though, actually, the book opens with Sammy watching...a crime in progress. And when the man with the wad of cash in one hand and the open purse in the other catches... |
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Charlotte's Web
E B White - HarperCollins
Format: Large print book
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This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's... |
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One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. "This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare."*Eleven-year-old... |
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The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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30th Anniversary edition with a new introduction from the author Hannah is tired of holiday gatheringsall her family ever talks about is the past. In fact, it seems to her that's what they do every Jewish holiday. But this year's Passover Seder will be differentHannah will be mysteriously... |
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