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Coraline
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I always tell kids that this book is Alice In Wonderland Meets The Twilight Zone. Coraline's parents are really not paying the right amount of attention to her and...
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Crispin At the Edge of the World
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Bear and Crispin have solved the mystery of Crispin's identity and have escaped the walls of Great Wexly. They set forth to create a new life for themselves, but,...
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Crispin Cross of Lead
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It's 1377 in a bleak town in England, and young Crispin's mother has just died, leaving him alone in the world with nothing but a hovel and a friendship...
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Dave at Night
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Papa dies leaving Dave and his brother, Gideon behind. Gideon is adopted by their Uncle Jack, but no one wants Dave, so he ends up in the Hebrew Home...
Realistic Fiction
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Esperanza Rising
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Life in Mexico is ideal when we first meet Esperanza and her family amidst their vineyards and their love. It all quickly and harshly disappears, though, as her father...
Historical fiction
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Good Night, Maman
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“You have to go, all of you. Tonight.” With these words, Karin Levi’s world changed-- again. Karin, her brother, Marc, and their mother, Maman, could...
Realistic Fiction
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Heaven
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Fourteen-year-old Marley's life is turned upside down the day her family receives a letter asking for her baptismal record. Marley learns that her Mom and Dad are really her...
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Locomotion
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Lonnie C. Motion hurries to write his poem before Miss Edna's voice, which rings in his ears, can tell him to be quiet and snuff out the "candle" of...
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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“No wonder she hasn’t been adopted. She’s a mountain of trouble, that Hollis Woods.” Hollis is twelve years old, and she’s been in plenty of foster homes....
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Plunked
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Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loves to play baseball. He's a fist-bumping, sometimes a swing and a miss and just as often sending a scalding single to left field kind of...
Historical fiction
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Rodzina
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Imagine yourself as a twelve-year-old orphan in 1881, who is being put on the "Orphan Train" and sent out West to be adopted by some family along the way....
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Ruby Holler
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Thirteen-year-old Dallas and his sister Florida are orphans who have been foisted off, unsuccessfully, on a string of foster families. Life looks bleak to this pair, and then the...
Realistic Fiction
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Sahara Special
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This is a fabulous read-aloud tale of a young fifth grade girl who is struggling to find her place in school and in the world. Just think of the...
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is about to be placed in another foster home. One look at fat, old Maime Trotter, and Gilly knows she's got control of this situation, no...
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The Mighty Miss Malone
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"Powers keep on lyin' While your people keep on dyin'" -- Stevie Wonder, "Higher Ground" . "'My mother died four years ago.' "'Sorry to hear that.' "'It's OK, she...
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The Other Side of Truth
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This is the powerful story of a young brother and sister who flee Nigeria when their mother is brutally murdered. They go to England and...
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The Pinballs
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Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J. are foster children. Harvey's father ran over him with the car. Thomas J. just appeared out of nowhere as a toddler. Carlie has trouble...
Historical fiction
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Imagine being a 13-year-old girl who sets forth alone in 1832 on a great sailing ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Surrounded by the rough sailors, she finds herself...
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
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If you haven't read it, go get it! Byron Watson is growing up and flexing his young male muscles, perhaps beyond the bounds of what is proper and even...
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Underland Chronicles, Book 1: Gregor the Overlander
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Reluctant Reader
Okay, you've read the one about the girl who falls down the rabbit hole and finds some wacky characters, right? Well,...
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