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The white darkness : a novel
by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symmes's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the centerof a hollow Earth
2007; 373 p.; isbn:0060890355 More Information |
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Stones in water
Donna Jo Napoli
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After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice
1997; 209 p.; isbn:0525458425 More Information |
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Darkwing
Kenneth Oppel ; illustrated by Keith Thompson
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Coming to terms with the fact that he is not a bird but an entirely new species, one similar to that of the nearly extinct saurians, featherless Dusk prepares to help his friends leave their home for good when a threat to his colony makes its presence known
2007; 422 p.; isbn:006085054X More Information |
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Bread and roses, too
Katherine Paterson
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Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts
2006; 275 p.; isbn:0618654798 More Information |
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The legend of Bass Reeves : being the true and fictional account of the most valiant marshal in the West
Gary Paulsen
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An account of the life of Bass Reeves
2006; 137 p.; isbn:038574661X More Information |
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Criss cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins
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Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love
2005; 337 p.; isbn:0060092726 More Information |
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Beowulf, a hero's tale retold
by James Rumford
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A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom
2007; ; isbn:061875637X More Information |
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A drowned maiden's hair : a melodrama
Laura Amy Schlitz
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At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances
2006; 389 p.; isbn:0763629308 More Information |
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The new policeman
Kate Thompson
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Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed
2005; 442 p.; isbn:0061174297 More Information |
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Homeless bird
Gloria Whelan
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When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it
2000; 216 p.; isbn:0060284528 More Information |
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The missing manatee
Cynthia DeFelice
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While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer
2005; 181 p.; |
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Raven's gate
Anthony Horowitz
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle
2005; 254 p.; isbn:0439679958 More Information |
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