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Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies

Jill Wolfson Henry Holt and Co.

The new novel from Jill Wolfson—an exciting, fresh voice in middle-grade fiction Whitney has been in so many foster homes that she can give a complete...

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The Girl Who Saw Lions

Berlie Doherty A Neal Porter Book

"BE STRONG MY ABELA." Orphaned by AIDS in Africa, Abela has a long journey ahead. When Abela’s mother dies of Aids in their African village, she is left to...

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Nicholas Dane

Melvin Burgess Henry Holt and Co.

When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane’s mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of...

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Alabama Moon

Watt Key Square Fish

After losing his father, a boy has to find a way to survive on his own.

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Larky Mavis

Brock Cole; Illustrated by the author Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Another orginal picture-book fairy tale Larky Mavis, an eccentric soul, finds three peanuts in the middle of the road. The first tastes like liver and...

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Good Enough To Eat

Brock Cole Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Once there was a poor girl who had no mama and no papa and nothing at all, not even a name. But then one day an Ogre comes knocking at the town’s gate,...

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Dillon Dillon

Kate Banks Sunburst Paperbacks

What kind of parents would name their child Dillon Dillon? For his tenth birthday, Dillon's parents give him a red rowboat with his name painted on the...

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Finding Stinko

Michael de Guzman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Newboy hasn’t spoken in three years. One morning he opened his mouth and nothing came out. He doesn’t know why he stopped talking, but what he does know is...

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The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

Cynthia DeFelice Square Fish

A Matter of Life or Death It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has...

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What I Call Life

Jill Wolfson Square Fish

A witty and moving novel that uncovers another side of the foster-care system

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Everything on a Waffle

Polly Horvath Square Fish

Haven’t you ever just known something deep in your heart without reason?

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The Heights

Brian James Square Fish

A compelling, gritty, and heartbreaking novel about love and betrayal, based on the literary classic, Wuthering Heights.

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Year of No Rain

Alice Mead Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important...

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Colibri

Ann Cameron Frances Foster Books

A young Mayan girl’s quest for the family she was stolen from She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibrí, Spanish...

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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	Emil and Karl Yankev Glatshteyn; Translated by Jeffrey Shandler Square Fish A remarkable suspense novel first published in 1938, it anticipates the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust.

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Sheep

Valerie Hobbs Square Fish

Every dog needs a boy.

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Brooklyn Bridge

Karen Hesse; Illustrated by Chris Sheban Square Fish

From the incomparable Karen Hesse comes a powerfully evocative and accessible family story, set at the turn of the century, by turns serious, funny, and with a...

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Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	One Dark and Dreadful Night Randy Cecil Henry Holt and Co. Good evening, and welcome to the Wayward Orphans Theatre. I am Maestro Von Haughty. Tonight I am proud to present three tales of terror and misfortune... A...

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The Night of the Burning

Devorah's Story

Linda Press Wulf Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Devorah’s world is shattered by the tragedies of post–Great War Europe: gas poisoning, famine, typhoid, and influenza. Then comes the Night of the Burning,...

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Once

Morris Gleitzman Henry Holt and Co.

Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and...

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The Secret of Zoom

Lynne Jonell Square Fish

A mystery involving strange explosions, hidden tunnels, and . . . singing orphans?

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The Champion of Children

The Story of Janusz Korczak

Tomek Bogacki Frances Foster Books

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children...

National Jewish Book Award - Finalist

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Is It Night or Day?

Fern Schumer Chapman Melanie Kroupa Books

It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon:...

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Then

Morris Gleitzman Henry Holt and Co.

Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn...

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