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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Christopher Paul Curtis - Dell Laurel Leaf
Format: Paperback
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A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they... |
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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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Island War
Patricia Reilly Giff - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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A two-time Newbery Honor-winning author spins a tale of children surviving on their own on a remote Japanese-occupied island during World War II.Izzy has come to the remote Aleutian Island in 1941 because her mother is studying the rare birds there. Matt has been dragged there by his father,... |
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A Bear Named Trouble
Marion Dane Bauer - Clarion Books; None edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ten-year-old Jonathan practically lives at the Anchorage Zoo, where his father is a keeper. He loves animals, and even imagines himself inside their bodies, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel.Meanwhile, a young brown bear is wandering through the woods near Anchorage, alone and hungry.... |
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Curse of the Arctic Star (Nancy Drew Diaries)
Carolyn Keene - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Nancy and her friends must navigate a cruise ship crisis in the first book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series. Nancy, Bess, and George are cruising dangerous waters on a tour of Alaska. Becca Wright, an old friend of Nancys, is the Assistant Cruise Director... |
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Missing on Superstition Mountain
Elise Broach - Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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It’s summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore Superstition Mountain, which is near their home. But when their cat Josie goes missing, they see no other... |
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The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; First Paperback Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Doing homework becomes a thing of the past! Meet the D Squad, a foursome of fifth graders at the Grand Canyon School made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker. They are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machine, code-named... |
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Going Wild
LISA MCMANN - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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Spider-Man meets Animorphs in this thrilling new middle grade series from Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Unwanteds series. Newbery Medal-winning author Katherine Applegate calls Going Wild "gripping, action-packed, and filled with humor and heart."Charlie... |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms... |
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
FIROOZEH DUMAS - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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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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Unbelievably Boring Bart
JAMES PATTERSON - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover
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There's more than meets the eye in James Patterson's newest illustrated middle grade novel--a book so fun kids will actually put down their games to read it!Invisible creatures are attacking the school, and 12-year-old Bartholomew Bean is the only one who can stop them! Okay, so maybe Bart... |
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No Passengers Beyond This Point
Gennifer Choldenko - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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A reality-bending adventure from a Newbery Honor-winning authorSiblings India, Finn, and Mouse are stunned when their mom tells them they are flying that night--without her--to their Uncle Red's home in Colorado. But things take an even more dramatic turn when their plane lands in a very... |
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The Leanin' Dog
K. A. Nuzum - HarperCollins; Sixth Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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More than anything, Dessa Dean needed a friend. A friend to love and confide in, a friend with whom she could share her heart. A friend who would delight in all the beauty and joy and fun of Christmas, only four days away. Hope had just about run out, but then . . . there came a scratchin... |
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The Smoky Corridor: A Haunted Mystery
Chris Grabenstein - Random House Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Zack is about to start at his new school, and in addition to homework, school lunches, and bullies, Zack must also contend with a ruthless hit man seeking a lost treasure, a voodoo savvy ghost waiting to take possession of a new body, and a soul-sucking zombie in the basement. Suddenly... |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn... |
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The Rescue Begins in Delaware
Cheri Pray Earl - Familius
Format: Paperback
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George and Gracie begin their adventure in Dover, Delaware 1776. The kids are surprised to discover that one of them changes into an animal every time they travel, and this time Gracie is a horse. All the twins want to do is return a pair of antique school desks and search for their parents.... |
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The Worst Class Trip Ever
Dave Barry - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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In this hilarious novel, written in the voice of eighth-grader Wyatt Palmer, Dave Barry takes us on a class trip to Washington, DC. Wyatt, his best friend, Matt, and a few kids from Culver Middle School find themselves in a heap of trouble-not just with their teachers, who have long lost... |
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Spy School Secret Service
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has had a lot of field success despite only just beginning his second... |
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The Postcard
Tony Abbott - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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She died today. One phone call changes Jason's summer vacation-and life!-forever. When Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her things. At first he gripes about spending his summer miles away from his best friend, doing chores, and sweating... |
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Chomp
Carl Hiaasen - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one. When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show... |
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Sunny Side Up
Jennifer L. Holm - Graphix
Format: Paperback
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Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first she thought Florida might be fun -- it is the home of Disney World, after all. But the place where Gramps lives is no amusement park. It's full of . . . old people. Really old people.... |
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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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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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Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
Ridley Pearson - Disney/Hyperion Books
Format: Paperback
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Finn Whitman and his fellow DHIs, teenagers chosen to serve as actors for a new technology, investigate strange occurrences at Disney theme park attractions, racing to uncover a supernatural force that could destroy the world.Book Details:Format: HardcoverPublication Date: 9/1/2009Pages:... |
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Football Genius
Tim Green - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Troy White has a phenomenal gift. He can predict football plays before they happen. Any position. Any player. Any team. When Troy's single mom gets a job working in public relations for the Atlanta Falcons, Troy figures it's his chance to prove what he can do. But first he has to get to the Falcons—and... |
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More to the Story
Hena Khan - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes a new story inspired by Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Little Women, featuring four sisters from a modern American Muslim family living in Georgia.When Jameela Mirza is picked to be feature editor of her middle... |
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A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Harry Mazer
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They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst... |
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Walk Two Moons (Newbery Medal Book)
Sharon Creech
Format: Book
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In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree... |
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Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus ...
Kristen Tracy - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Fair: just, equitable, what is right.Unfair: the life of Camille McPhee.Imagine being Camille McPhee. She has low blood sugar, so she carries extra food in a cooler. Would you want to do that?Didn’t think so.And you wouldn’t want to fall under the school bus. That happened to Camille,... |
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A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Winner of the Newbery Medal "Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago" - School Library Journal (starred review) It was within the pages of Richard Peck's Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago that Mary Alice... |
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Project Mulberry
Linda Sue Park - Clarion Books
Format: Print book
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Julia Song and her friend Patrick would love to win a blue ribbon, maybe even two, at the state fair. They've always done projects together, and they work well as a team. This time, though, they're having trouble coming up with just the right plan. Then Julia's mother offers... |
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Rosetown
Cynthia Rylant - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant comes the charming story of nine-year-old Flora Smallwood and the eventful year she spends in the quiet community of Rosetown, Indiana.For nine-year-old Flora Smallwood, Rosetown, Indiana, is full of surprises, many of the best of which happen at the Wing... |
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The Rookie Bookie
L. Jon Wertheim - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Using the tips, truths, and stats they explore in their New York Times bestseller Scorecasting, two dads pack super sports savvy and important math and financial concepts into a fun and heartwarming first novel for kids. |
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The Mostly True Story of Jack
Kelly Barnhill - Little
Format: Hardcover
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Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . .When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for quite a long time.When he arrives,... |
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Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign Id seen only in Gideons stories: Manifest - a town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live... |
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The Talent Show
Dan Gutman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When their town gets destroyed by a tornado, everyone is pretty depressed. So in order to cheer everyone up and raise some money, the community decides to put on a talent show. Unfortunately, no one in town is particularly talented. But that doesnt stop everyone from giving it their all!... |
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Trouble the Water
Frances O'Roark Dowell - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning author of Dovey Coe comes a sweeping tale of the friendship between a black girl and a white boy and the prejudices they must overcome in segregated Celeste, Kentucky, as the pair try to solve the mysteries surrounding a lonely old dog.Eleven-year-old Callie is fearless,... |
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My Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana--far away from her mentally disabled mother, her "slow" father who can't read an electric bill, and her classmates who taunt her. So when Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to sp the summer... |
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My Diary from the Edge of the World
Jodi Lynn Anderson - Aladdin
Format: Print book
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Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.Spirited, restless... |
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Moo
Sharon Creech - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This uplifting New York Times bestseller reminds us that if we're open to new experiences, life is full of surprises.Fans of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Love That Dog and Hate That Cat will love her newest tween novel, Moo. Following one family's momentous move from the city to rural... |
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The Get Rich Quick Club
Dan Gutman - HarperCollins
Format: Audio CD
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I'm just lying out there in the backyard one night, staring up at the sky. Then suddenly a dollar bill lands on my face. I pick it up. It looks real. I have no idea where it came from. Then another one falls. And another. I look up and see bills fluttering down from the clouds above... |
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Touch Blue
Cynthia Lord - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Touch Blue and your wish will come true."Why take chances?" says eleven-year-old Tess Brooks. "Especially when its so easy to let the universe know what you want by touching blue or turning around three times or crossing your fingers."But Tess is coming to know that... |
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Shakespeare's Secret
Elise Broach - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
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Hero changed into a T-shirt, grabbed a book, and padded barefoot into her sister's room. The large windows overlooked the backyard. She could see the moonlight streaming over the trees and bushes, making long, crazy shadows across the grass. Was there a diamond hidden out there somewhere?... |
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Starting with Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Alice at EIGHTand boy was she a pistol! The very youngest book in the beloved series gets a makeover. Eight-year-old Alice McKinley wants pierced ears, really long hair, a pet, and, most of all, a mother. Oh, and some friends would be nice. As the new girl in third grade, Alice doesnt know... |
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Last Man Out
Mike Lupica - Philomel Books
Format: Print book
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From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Fantasy League comes a story of heroes, family, the thrills of skateboarding, and football.When the Brighton Bears suit up on game day, 12-year-old Tommy Gallagher is the toughest kid on the football field. And the bravest.... |
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Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk
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'Harper Lee has a worthy successor. Wolk is a big new talent' - The Times Crow has lived her whole life on a tiny, starkly beautiful island. Her only companions are Osh, the man who rescued her from a washed-up skiff as a baby and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their neighbour acro |
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The Danger Box
Blue Balliett - Scholastic Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An all-new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game.A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.A mischievous girl who doesn't belong.A mysterious notebook .A fire.A stranger.A death.These are some of the things you'll... |
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Bud, not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Laurel-Leaf Books
Format: Paperback
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
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Willow Run
Patricia Reilly Giff - Wendy Lamb Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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1944Meggie Dillons life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned in because hes German, and people might think hes a spy. Is it true? Could Grandpa be taken... |
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Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking tour de force, Caldecott Medalist and bookmaking pioneer Brian Selznick sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey. Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious... |
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Revolution
Deborah Wiles - Scholastic Pr
Format: Hardcover
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*A 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST* It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi, are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote. They're calling it Freedom... |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Format: Print book
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Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence - when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him - to his |
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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
Leslie Connor - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book
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From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful story, perfect for fans of Wonder and When You Reach Me.Eleven-year-old... |
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So B. It
Sarah Weeks
Format: Print book
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You couldnt really tell about Mamas brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girls, and she only knew twenty-three words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the |
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Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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*"With winning results, Lord brings the same sensitivity to the subject of dementia that she brought to autism in her Newbery Honor book, Rules." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA moving middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of Rules.When Lucys family moves to an old house... |
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The Left Behinds: The iPhone that Saved George Washington
David Potter - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Percy Jackson fans will embrace this humorous time travel adventure, the first in a series, about an iPhone malfunction that sends three kids back to 1776 in time to rescue George Washington. On Christmas Day, Mel finds General George Washington lying dead as a doornail in a stable. But Mel knows... |
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The Green Glass Sea
Ellen Klages - Viking Juvenile; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father - but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working... |
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Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Now on CD! In this New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Slate Favorite Book of the Year, Odyssey Award Honor Audiobook, and Stonewall Book Award Book, a small-town boy hops a bus to New York City to crash an audition for E.T.:... |
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The Goat
Anne Fleming - Groundwood Books
Format: Print book
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When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. Rumor says there s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? As Kid soon discovers, a goat... |
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The Tapper Twins Go to War
Geoff Rodkey - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it's like to be in middle school in our digitally-saturated world, told as a colorful "oral history" with photos, screenshots, text messages, chat logs, and online gaming... |
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York: The Shadow Cipher
LAURA RUBY - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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"The pleasures of the novel go far beyond the crackling, breathless plot and the satisfaction of watching the puzzle fall into place. The book is shot through with humor, both laugh-out-loud and subtle." - New York Times Book ReviewFrom National Book Award finalist and Printz... |
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Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestseller,Liar Spy is a story about games and friendship. Seventh-grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building and meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safers first spy recruit. His assignment Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives... |
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Not If I Can Help It
Carolyn Mackler - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning Carolyn Mackler, the story of Willa, who has been living with Sensory Processing Disorder but is thrown for a BIG loop when her dad announces he's dating Willa's best friend's mom.Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely... |
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Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When the Ku Klux Klans unwelcome reappearance rattles Stellas segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel that soars The New York Times Book Review that School Library Journal called storytelling at its finest in a starred... |
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Greetings from Nowhere
Barbara O'Connor - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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Aggie isn't expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since her husband died, she is all alone with her cat, Ugly, and keeping up with the bills and repairs has become next to impossible. The pool is empty, the garden is overgrown, and not a soul has come... |
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How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it. Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left... |
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Codename Zero
Chris Rylander - Harpercollins Childrens Books
Format: Print book
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From Chris Rylander, author of the breakout hit Fourth Stall saga, comes an incredibly funny and clever mash-up of middle grade school story and spy adventure.There are places in the world where heroes are born. There are places where brave men and women fight a never-ending battle against... |
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Soar
Joan Bauer - Puffin Books
Format: Print book
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Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer hits a home run with her newest protagonist, who always sees the positive side of any situation. Jeremiah is not one to let anything keep him down. Starting with his adoption by computer genius Walt, Jeremiah has looked on his life as a series of lucky... |
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Out Of The Dust
Karen Hesse - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover(1st Edition)
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. |
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Vanishing Acts
Phillip Margolin - HarperCollins; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From tracking down her best friend, who's nowhere to be found, to secretly helping her attorney father solve a missing-person case, Madison Kincaid is a busy seventh-grade sleuth. Teaming up with new classmate Jake, she hits the sidewalks of Portland, Oregon, determined to find out what's... |
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Bat 6
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers, Aki and Shazam. Told from 21 different points of view, "Bat 6" explores the subject of Japanese-American racial prejudice after the war.
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson - Moline Public Library
Format: Paperback
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An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" (The New York Times Book Review) .During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with... |
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Macaroni Boy
Katherine Ayres
Format: Paperback
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During the Great Depression, a boy who faces bullying stumbles upon a mystery and comes of age in this novel that integrates fact and opinion and has a rich 1930's vocabulary. Extra material: An Author's Note is included in the back of the book.Mike Costa has lived |
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Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series, 1)
Jack Gantos - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the years best contribution to childrens literature and the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named... |
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Fleabrain Loves Franny
Joanne Rocklin - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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This gem of a novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952. Franny Katzenback, while recovering from polio, reads and falls in love with the brand-new book Charlotte's Web. Bored and lonely and yearning for a Charlotte of her own, Franny starts up a correspondence with an eloquent flea named... |
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The Forbidden Library
Django Wexler - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Forbidden Library kicks off an action-packed fantasy series with classic appeal, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes--perfect for fans of Story Thieves, Coraline, Inkheart, and Harry PotterAlice always thought fairy tales had happy... |
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The Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Four starred reviews!"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." -- The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Candice finds a letter in an old attic... |
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The Journey of Little Charlie
Christopher Paul Curtis - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died and Cap'n Buck -- the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina -- has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap'n Buck and agrees to track down some folks accused of stealing... |
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The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder - HarperCollins; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside. Soon... |
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Paperboy
Vince Vawter - Yearling; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird.Booklist, Starred An unforgettable boy and his unforgettable story. I loved it! ROB BUYEA, author of Because of Mr. Terupt and Mr. Terupt Falls Again This Newbery Honor winner is perfect for fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Kings Speech, and The Help.... |
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Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. Even though it's claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure... |
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars
Nathan Hale - Amulet Books
Format: Print book
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From Nathan Hale, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List maker, comes the definitive graphic novel about the Alamo. Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous... |
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Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
Kimberly Willis Holt - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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With unwavering emotion and masterful storytelling, National Book Award-winning author Kimberly Willis Holt explores themes of loss, family, love, and the importance of finding a place to call home.Stevie's life seems safe and full of love until the day tragedy strikes. Stevie is sent to live... |
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly - Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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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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Lone Stars
MIKE LUPICA - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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An uplifting story about role models, football, and tackling fear set in the heart of Friday Night Lights country - from the bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team, and Fantasy League.Clay is a quarterback's dream. When he zips across the field, arms outstretched,... |
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The Light in the Lake
Sarah R. Baughman - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable debut novel that takes readers on a journey of discovery, magic, science, and hope. Twelve-year-old Addie should stay away from Maple Lake. After all, her twin brother, Amos, drowned there only a few months ago. But its crisp, clear water runs in Addie's veins, and the notebook... |
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The Next Great Paulie Fink
Ali Benjamin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this highly anticipated second novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn't easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a classroom prankster like Paulie Fink.When Caitlyn Breen enters the tiny... |
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The League of Unexceptional Children
Gitty Daneshvari - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Are you average? Normal? Forgettable? If so, the League of Unexceptional Children is for you This first book in a hilarious new adventure series is for anyone who's struggled to be noticed in a sea of above-average overachievers. What "is" the League of Unexceptional Children?... |
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Harper Collins Publishers Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson - Harper & Row
Format: Print book
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This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss.Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him.... |
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Mabel Opal Pear and the Rules for Spying
Amanda Hosch - Capstone Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A young spy gets entangled in an action-filled, whodunit mystery! When Mabel's parents leave town without warning, she isn't worried. They're spies, after all. But when her beloved Aunt Gertie is arrested for leading a smuggling ring, then her obnoxious Uncle Frank and Aunt Stella show... |
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Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm - HarperCollins; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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She may be a miracle, but she's no proper young lady!It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson... |
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The Boys Start the War
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Format: Paperback
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Hatford brothers expected three boys to move into the house where their best friends used to live. When the Malloy sisters arrive instead, the boys make a plan to drive them back to Ohio., |
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer.... |
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Once Was a Time
Leila Sales - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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In the war-ravaged England of 1940, Charlotte Bromley is sure of only one thing: Kitty McLaughlin is her best friend in the whole world. But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves, Charlotte is faced with an impossible... |
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Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder - HarperCollins
Format: Library Binding
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Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.Little House in the Big Woods... |
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Little Blog on the Prairie
Cathleen Davitt Bell - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Gen's family is more comfortable spending time apart than together. Then Gen's mom signs them up for Camp Frontier—a vacation that promises the "thrill" of living like 1890s pioneers. Forced to give up all of her modern possessions, Gen nevertheless manages to email... |
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