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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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Belle Prater's Boy

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Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth. Everyone in Coal Station,...
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The Interrogation of Gabriel James

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Through a police interview interspersed with flashbacks, a teen talks us through his involvement in two killings connected to his discovery of a secret cult....
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The Pout-Pout Fish (Book & CD Set)
A Pout-Pout Fish Adventure

Macmillan Young Listeners
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERDeep in the water, Mr. Fish swims about With his fish face stuck In a permanent pout. Can his pals cheer him up? Will his pout...
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The Green Book

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Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to...
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Rotten Ralph Helps Out
Rotten Ralph Rotten Readers

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Rotten Ralph’s attempts to help Sarah with her school project on ancient Egypt are now repackaged in a brand-new format for beginning readers.
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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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Dragons in the Waters

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The follow-up to The Arm of the Starfish has Simon and the O’Keefes trying to find a stolen painting and a murderer, all while trapped aboard a ship....
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Dirt Road Home

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This companion to the acclaimed novel Alabama Moon follows the story of one of the characters as he is sent to a tougher juvie facility than the one he escaped....

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Tuck Everlasting

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Is eternal life a blessing or a curse?  
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Amos & Boris

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Friends come in all shapes and sizes.
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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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The Revealers

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How does a scrawny kid deal with a bully?Knowledge equals power.
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How to Steal a Dog

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Georgina Hayes may be homeless, but she’s not hopeless.
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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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Elsewhere

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Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?
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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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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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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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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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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.
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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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Joey Pigza Loses Control
Joey Pigza

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In this Newbery Honor winner, Joey finds out his dad is just as wired as he is.