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The Dog in the Wood
Monika Schr?der - Front Street, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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When the Russians come, where do you go? Fritz loves his vegetable garden. His tomatoes are delicious, he's attentive to the asparagus, and he remembers how to keep slugs off the strawberries. But his tranquil life on the family farm is about to end - the Russians are near, Hitler has died,... |
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Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning
Danette Haworth - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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Violet is happy with things just the way they are in her sleepy, backwoods Florida town. She loves going to the fish fry with her best friend Lottie, and collecting Brain Freeze cups with her good friend Eddie. She loves squeezing into the open trunk of the old cypress tree, looking for alligators... |
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Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
David Chotjewitz - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover
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Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences. |
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The Madman of Piney Woods
Christopher Paul Curtis - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence... |
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Attack of the Turtle
Drew Carlson - Eerdmans Pub Co
Format: Hardcover
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During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare. |
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The Dog in the Wood
Monika Schr?der - Front Street, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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When the Russians come, where do you go? Fritz loves his vegetable garden. His tomatoes are delicious, he's attentive to the asparagus, and he remembers how to keep slugs off the strawberries. But his tranquil life on the family farm is about to end - the Russians are near, Hitler has died,... |
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Stella by starlight
Sharon M Draper - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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When the Ku Klux Klan's unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this Depression-era tour de force from Sharon Draper, the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind.Stella lives in the segregated South - in Bumblebee,... |
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The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Book
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Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute - she sneaks out to join him.
So begins... |
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Dear Hank Williams
Kimberly Willis Holt - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment -- learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt... |
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The Girl in the Torch
Robert Sharenow - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants are arriving in the promised land of New York City. Twelve-year-old Sarah has always dreamed of America, a land of freedom and possibility. In her small village she stares at a postcard of the Statue of Liberty and imagines the Lady... |
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The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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Travis keeps bringing home strays. And Callie has her hands full keeping the wild animals-her brother included-away from her mother's critical eye. Whether it's wrangling a rogue armadillo or stray dog, a guileless younger brother or standoffish cousin, the trials and tribulations... |
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Finding Someplace
Denise Lewis Patrick - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Reesie Boone just knows that thirteen is going to be her best year yet-this will be the year she makes her very first fashion design on her Ma Maw's sewing machine. She'll skip down the streets of New Orleans with her best friends, Ayanna and Orlando, and everyone will look at her in admiration.But... |
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A Night Divided
Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous... |
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Paper wishes
Lois Sepahban - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join... |
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I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
Lauren Tarshis - Scholastic
Format: Print book
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For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast... |
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Ruby Lee and Me
Shannon Hitchcock - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Everything's changing for Sarah Beth Willis. After Robin's tragic accident, everyone seems different somehow. Days on the farm aren't the same, and the simple fun of riding a bike or playing outside can be scary. And there's talk in town about the new sixth-grade teacher at Shady Creek.... |
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What the Moon Said
Gayle Rosengren - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Thanks to her superstitious mother, Esther knows some tricks for avoiding bad luck: toss salt over your left shoulder, never button your shirt crooked, and avoid black cats. But even luck can't keep her family safe from the Great Depression. When Pa loses his job, Esther's family... |
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A Million Shades of Gray
Cynthia Kadohata - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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YTin is brave. . No one in his village denies that - his mother may wish that hed spend more time on school work than on elephant training, but still she knows that it takes a great deal of courage and calm to deal with elephants the way that YTin does. He is almost the best trainer in the village... |
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Family Tree
Ann M. Martin - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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In 1930, Abby Nichols is eight, and can't imagine what her future holds. The best things today would be having a dime for the fair, keeping her Pops from being angry, and saving up eighty-seven cents to surprise her little sister with a tea set for Christmas.
But Abby's... |
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This Is Just a Test
Madelyn Rosenberg - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot on his plate. Preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah would be enough work even if it didn't involve trying to please his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers, who argue about everything. But David just wants everyone to be happy.That includes his friend Scott,... |
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Keeping Score
Linda Sue Park - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Against the background of major league baseball and the Korean War, Maggie Fortini, who is a diehard Brooklyn Dodgers fan, finds a way to make a difference in the world when her brother Jim is drafted into the army and needs her help. 75,000 first printing. |
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The Gallery
Laura Marx Fitzgerald - Dial Books
Format: Book
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It's 1929, and twelve-year-old Martha has no choice but to work as a maid in the New York City mansion of the wealthy Sewell family. But, despite the Gatsby-like parties and trimmings of success, she suspects something might be deeply wrong in the household - specifically with Rose... |
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