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Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt - Berkley; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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The Newbery Award winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton - a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. |
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Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Pura Belpr Award WinnerIRA Notable Book for a Global SocietyNew York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and SharingEsperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants. But a sudden tragedy forces... |
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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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Out Of The Dust
Karen Hesse - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with... |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.This... |
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Sing Down the Moon
Scott O'Dell - Perfection Learning
Format: Hardcover
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On a beautiful spring morning while grazing their sheep, Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird see two men coming toward them. Right away, Bright Morning knows who the men are: slavers come to the Navaho country to steal girls and sell them to families in town. In minutes, both girls... |
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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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An Elephant in the Garden
Michael Morpurgo - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene... |
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One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia - Amistad
Format: Library Binding
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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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Fourmile
Watt Key - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book
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Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax Ganey, the man dating his widowed mother, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious stranger arrives at their Alabama farm, a former Army Ranger in Iraq rambling across the country, and Foster believes he has found an ally against Dax. The stranger... |
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My Brother's Secret
Dan Smith - Chicken House
Format: Print book
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A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates.Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, training to join the Hitler Youth. Stefan,... |
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The Executioner's Daughter
Jane Hardstaff - Egmont Usa
Format: Print book
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All her life, Moss has lived in the Tower of London with her father, who serves as the executioner for King Henry VIII. Prisoners condemned to death must face Pa and his axe - and Moss catches their severed heads. Her father insists he has no choice: if he leaves the Tower, he will be killed.... |
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My Brother's Secret
Dan Smith - Chicken House
Format: Print book
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A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates.Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, training to join the Hitler Youth. Stefan,... |
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Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Book
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things... |
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Heart of a Samurai
Margi Preus - Amulet Books
Format: Book
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In 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan's borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on the way. Manjiro, a fourteen-year-old... |
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