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Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam
Cynthia Kadohata
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A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog
2007; 312 p.; isbn:1416906371 More Information |
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Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
R.L. LaFevers ; illustrated by Yoko Tanaka
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Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work
2007; 343 p.; isbn:0618756388 More Information |
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The smugglers
Iain Lawrence
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In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme
1999; 183 p.; isbn:0385326637 More Information |
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My 13th season
Kristi Roberts
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Already downhearted due to the loss of her mother and her father's overwhelming grief, thirteen-year-old Fran decides to give up her dream of becoming the first female in professional baseball after a coach attacks her just for being a girl
2005; 154 p.; isbn:0805074953 More Information |
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The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures
by Brian Selznick
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When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized
2007; 533 p.; isbn:0439813786 More Information |
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Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania
2007; 274 p.; isbn:0375813756 More Information |
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The Amulet of Samarkand
by Jonathan Stroud.
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Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
2003; 462 p.; isbn:078681859X More Information |
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Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree
by Lauren Tarshis
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A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers
2007; 199 p.; isbn:0803731647 More Information |
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A crooked kind of perfect
Linda Urban
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Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life
2007; 213 p.; isbn:0152060073 More Information |
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Each little bird that sings
Deborah Wiles.
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Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
2005; 247 p.; isbn:0152051139 More Information |
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Love, Ruby Lavender
Deborah Wiles
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When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death
2001; 188 p.; isbn:0152023143 More Information |
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The revealers
Doug Wilhelm.
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Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School.
2003; 207 p.; isbn:0374362556 More Information |
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