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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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The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerNewbery Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School) Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2015New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds... |
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The Mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis - Wendy Lamb Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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xWe are a family on a journey to a place called wonderfulx is the motto of Deza Malones family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression hashit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When... |
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Raymie Nightingale
Kate Dicamillo - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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A 2016 National Book Award Finalist!Two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo returns to her roots with a moving, masterful story of an unforgettable summer friendship.Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie... |
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name - Cindy. It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes... |
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba - Puffin Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village adapted for young readers. Now available in paperback! When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's... |
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Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
UMA KRISHNASWAMI - Tu Books
Format: School & Library Binding
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Nine-year-old Maria Singh longs to play softball in the first-ever girls' team forming in Yuba City, California. It's the spring of 1945, and World War II is dragging on. Miss Newman, Maria's teacher, is inspired by Babe Ruth and the All-American Girls' League to start a girls'... |
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Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai - Harper
Format: Paperback
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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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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Linda Sue Park - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes... |
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Andrea Davis Pinkney - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.The lives... |
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Echo
Pam MunÌ?oz Ryan - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a 2016 Newbery Honor, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades... |
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The Gold Cadillac
Mildred D. Taylor
Format: Paperback(Reprint)
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'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car; only suspicion and anger... |
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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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