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Stuey Lewis Against All Odds
Stories from the Third Grade

Margaret Ferguson Books
Stuey Lewis has conquered second grade, but third grade's no piece of cake, either. Can he figure out how to transport his whole class to outer space, navigate...
  
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The Search for Belle Prater

Square Fish
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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Paiute Princess
The Story of Sarah Winnemucca

Frances Foster Books
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her...
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Hole in My Life

Square Fish
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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The Plant Hunters
True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth

Melanie Kroupa Books
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and...
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A House Like a Lotus

Square Fish
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

Square Fish
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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How Oliver Olson Changed the World

Square Fish
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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The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

Square Fish
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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Brave Irene

Square Fish
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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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey Pigza

Square Fish
In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.
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The Revealers

Square Fish
How does a scrawny kid deal with a bully?Knowledge equals power.
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Speak

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

Square Fish
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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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice

Square Fish
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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7 x 9 = Trouble!

Sunburst Paperbacks
Wilson Williams worries about passing his times-table tests Wilson has a hard time with math, especially with Mrs. Porter's timed multiplication tests. If...
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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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You Don't Know Me

Square Fish
"A rewarding an dimportant message for all readers . . . Klass blazes past his previous literary efforts stylistically, introducing elements of magical realism...
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Joey Pigza Loses Control
Joey Pigza

Square Fish
In this Newbery Honor winner, Joey finds out his dad is just as wired as he is.
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Puss in Boots

Square Fish
The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller’s son are portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to...
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Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen

Melanie Kroupa Books
I can pop a wheelie, I can touch the sky, I can pedal backwards, I can really fly! Sally Jean was born to ride. And her bicycle, Flash, is just about her...
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The Wall
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Frances Foster Books
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...
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The Library

Square Fish
Meet an unforgettable bibliophile.
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My Name Is Yoon

Frances Foster Books
Getting to feel at home in a new country Yoon’s name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her...