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The Mysterious Flu of 1918
David Getz; Illustrations by Peter McCarty
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It was the worst epidemic in this country's history, and the search for its cause is still one of science's most urgent quests. It was 1918, the last year...
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
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Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman...
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After the Death of Anna Gonzales
Terri Fields
Henry Holt and Co.
A powerful look at the effects of one girl’s suicide on her high school "I can feel The whispering of the hallway walls Growing louder as the groups...
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The Music Thief
Peni R. Griffin
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In a harsh and noisy time, a young girl's key to her dreams -- music -- may be closer than she thinks. There was a new song playing in the back of Alma's...
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Walk Softly, Rachel
Kate Banks
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Fourteen-year-old Rachel remembers little about her brother, Jake, except that he died in a car accident when she was seven and he was seventeen. Her parents...
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Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star
Randy Powell
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Grady is skateboarding toward a major decision No longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. one...
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When Ratboy Lived Next Door
Chris Woodworth
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From the spring day in 1962 when Willis Merrill and his pet raccoon arrive in Maywood, Indiana, they are nothing but trouble for Lydia Carson. Lydia...
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Jellybeans
Sylvia Van Ommen, illustrated by the author
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George, a young rabbit, gets a message from his pal Oscar, a cat. "How about going to the park to eat jellybeans?" And so the two friends meet up and have a...
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Julia's Kitchen
Brenda A. Ferber
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Cara Segal is a born worrier. She figures her worrying works like a whisper in God’s ear – if Cara’s concerned about car crashes, kidnappings, or murders, she...
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Friends of the Heart / Amici del Cuore
Kate Banks
Frances Foster Books
A friendship transcends distance and time Ollie is a great whistler, while Lucrezia can’t whistle at all. Ollie has traveled the world, but Lucrezia is afraid...
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Drawing the Ocean
Carolyn MacCullough
Roaring Brook Press
A gifted painter, Sadie comes from California to Connecticut determined to fit in at her new school. Yet her first attempt at making friends in the new town...
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Hummingbird
Kimberly Greene Angle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner’s life is tied to the simple rhythms and cycles of the watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia, that she has grown up on. Thanks...
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Jimmy's Stars
Mary Ann Rodman
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It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone,...
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Head Case
Sarah Aronson
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ONE MISTAKE. ONE BAD NIGHT. ONE TOO MANY DRINKS. A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and...
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Little Audrey
Ruth White
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“What else would you wish for?” Daddy says. “If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?” I shrug. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe . . .”...
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The Beginner's Guide to Living
Lia Hills
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seven days after his mother dies in a sudden, senseless accident, seventeen-year-old Will embarks on a search for meaning that leads him to the great...
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Give Up the Ghost
Megan Crewe
Square Fish
Cass McKenna prefers the friendship of ghosts because they’re uncomplicated and dependable, and they know the dirt on everybody....
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The Road to Home
MJ Auch
Henry Holt and Co.
Following Journey to Nowhere and Frozen Summer, this is the third novel in a powerful American pioneer trilogy. "I knew I couldn't count on Papa any more,...
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The Doll with the Yellow Star
Yona Zeldis McDonough; Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root
Henry Holt and Co.
A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesn’t want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in...
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The Bug Cemetery
Frances Hill; Illustrated by Vera Rosenberry
Henry Holt and Co.
A reassuring look at the cycles of life. "When I found a dead ladybug one day, my sister, Wilma, buried it for me. She painted a rock to use as a...
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A Hundred Days from Home
Randall Wright
Henry Holt and Co.
An adolescent boy struggles with the loss of one friendship and the flowering of a new one. The mouth of the basin had washed away so that the pool had...
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Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Lucille Clifton; Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi
Henry Holt and Co.
Everett Anderson's Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips with his father's death. Lucille Clifton captures Everett's...
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Behind the Mask
Yangsook Choi
Frances Foster Books
Halloween is coming. “What are you going to be?” the children ask one another. Kimin says he will be his grandfather. “Going as an old man is not very scary,”...
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Going Under
Kathe Koja
Frances Foster Books
Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the...
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