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The Red Shoeby Dubosarsky, UrsulaFunny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally ... |
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Rex Zero and the End of the Worldby Wynne-Jones, TimIn the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his p... |
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How It Happened in Peach Hillby Jocelyn, MartheWhen fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ... |
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Revenge of the WitchThe Last Apprentice, Book Oneby Delaney, JosephYoung Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, ... |
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The Game of Silenceby Erdrich, Louise |
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A Dream of FreedomThe Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968by McWhorter, DianeIn this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of ... |
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Ghost GirlA Blue Ridge Mountain Storyby Ray, DeliaEleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over t... |
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Olive's Oceanby Henkes, KevinOn a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her... |
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Cold Tomby Prue, Sally |
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Shaperby Haas, JessieWhile recovering from the loss of his dog Shep, fourteen-year-old Chad tries to learn how to control the family dog Queenie with the help of a friendly new nei... |
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