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The Search for Belle Prater

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The sequel to the beloved Newbery Honor Book, Belle Prater’s Boy Since Belle Prater inexplicably disappeared about a year ago, her son, Woodrow, and his...
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Hole in My Life

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In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand...
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A House Like a Lotus

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The conclusion to the Polly O’Keefe stories that began with The Arm of the Starfish and Dragons in the Waters finds Polly taking an unforgettable trip to...
  
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Being Teddy Roosevelt

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Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to...
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Flirt Club

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When two self-professed middle school drama geeks––Isabelle and Annie (a.k.a. Cisco and The Bean)––fail at their attemps in romance, they start Flirt Club, an...
  
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Lincoln Shot
A President's Life Remembered

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Noted children’s book biographer Barry Denenberg, award-winning illustrator Christopher Bing, and book designer Rich Deas collaborate on an intimate portrait...
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Charles and Emma
The Darwins' Leap of Faith

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A multiple award-winning and beautifully written exploration of Charles Darwin’s life as husband, father, and scientist.
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How Oliver Olson Changed the World

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Oliver Olson’s teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents...
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Brave Irene

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Mrs. Bobbin isn’t feeling very well and can’t deliver the beautiful ball gown she’s made for the duchess to wear that very evening. Even though it’s snowing...
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The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

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Once you’ve finally captured the most enormous frog in Carter, Georgia, what exactly are you supposed to do with it?

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Tikki Tikki Tembo

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Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the...
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey Pigza

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In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.
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American Born Chinese

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Three very different characters, one simple goal: to fit in.
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The Revealers

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How does a scrawny kid deal with a bully?Knowledge equals power.
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Bystander

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A seventh grade boy must choose between being a witness to bullying—or becoming a victim.
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green...
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Speak

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In this powerful novel, a teenage heroine delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school.
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The Gardener

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By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to...
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We Are Witnesses
Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

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Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.
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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice

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Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...
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Knots on a Counting Rope

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In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness. "A rich...
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I, Juan de Pareja

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The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

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In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing...
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Hachiko Waits

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The loyalty and devotion of a dog has no bounds.