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The Canning Season

Polly Horvath - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clarks ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins...
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The Winter Room

Gary Paulsen - Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover

The winter room is where Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove. There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales of superheroes.Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The Woodcutter,"...
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare - Cornerstone Books
Format: Large print book

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 Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick; 1rst EDITION edition
Format: Hardcover

A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline honors the enduring power of lovequotSomeone will come for you but first you must open your heart quotOnce in a house on Egypt Street there lived a china rabbit named Edward...
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The View From Saturday

E L Konigsburg - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

HOW HAD MRS. OLINSKI CHOSEN her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade...
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The Unusual Suspects

Michael Buckley - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

With the winning combination of Nancy Drew meets Shrek, this next book in the new Sisters Grimm series will entertain fans with the same hilarious mix of mysteries with fairy tale twists-plus some new, outrageous adventures. In the tradition of Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events...
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The Scarecrow and His Servant

Philip Pullman - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

A tattered scarecrow stands in the middle of a muddy field, taking no notice of the violent thunderstorm around him. But when a bolt of lightning strikes him, fizzing its way through his turnip head and down his broomstick, the Scarecrow blinks with surprise-and comes to life. So begins...
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Ranger's Apprentice

John Flanagan - Philomel; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the pastthe Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old...
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The White Darkness

Geraldine Mccaughrean - HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while nowwhich is ridiculous since hes been dead for ninety years But look at it this way In ninety years Ill be dead too and the age difference wont matter Sym is not your average teenage girl She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave...
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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Format: Book

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked room.
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The Shakespeare Stealer

Gary L Blackwood

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The Slave Dancer

Paula Fox - Bradbury Pr
Format: Hardcover

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
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Zia

Scott O'Dell

A young Indian girl, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana, whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins.
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The Giver: With Related Readings

Lois Lowry

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, The Night Gardener is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. More than just a spooky tale, it's also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytelling.The Night Gardener follows two abandoned...
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Chasing Vermeer

Blue Balliett - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

This bewitching first novel is a puzzle, wrapped in a mystery, disguised as an adventure, and delivered as a work of art.When a book of unexplainable occurances brings Petra Andalee & Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric...
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No Talking

Andrew Clements - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"You have the right to remain silent." However... The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the principal uses her red plastic bullhorn. A lot....
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The Wednesday Wars

Gary D Schmidt - Clarion
Format: Print book

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York.Meet Holling Hoodhood,...
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Kit's Wilderness

David Almond

The Printz Award-winning classic gets a new look.Written in haunting, lyrical prose, Kit's Wilderness examines the bonds of family from one generation to the next, and explores how meaning and beauty can be revealed from the depths of darkness.The
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Peak

Roland Smith - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. - Peak Marcello After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile...
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Bread and Roses, Too

Katherine Paterson - Clarion Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Rosas mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union songs, and Rosa is terrified that her mother...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

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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On The Wings of Heroes

Richard Peck - Dial Books
Format: Print book

Davy Bowman's brother and their dad hung the moon. Dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davy's brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II has invaded Davy's homefront boyhood. There's an air raid...
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Airborn

Kenneth Oppel
Format: Print book

Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked...
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