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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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37 Things I Love (in no particular order)

Henry Holt and Co.
Ellis only has four days of her sophomore year left, and summer is so close that she can almost taste it. But even with vacation just within reach, Ellis isn’t...
  
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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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Flirt Club

Square Fish
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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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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Lincoln Shot
A President's Life Remembered

Square Fish
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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Tikki Tikki Tembo

Square Fish
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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Bystander

Square Fish
A seventh grade boy must choose between being a witness to bullying—or becoming a victim.
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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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American Born Chinese

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

Square Fish
How does a scrawny kid deal with a bully?Knowledge equals power.
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Breaking Stalin's Nose

Henry Holt and Co.
One of Horn Book’s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is...
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Square Fish
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

Square Fish
In this powerful novel, a teenage heroine delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school.
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For Boys Only
The Biggest, Baddest Book Ever

Feiwel & Friends
Hey, Boys! Want to have some fun? Maybe learn how to land an airplane in an emergency? Or fight off an alligator? Escape from being tied up? How about...
  
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Knots on a Counting Rope

Square Fish
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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We Are Witnesses
Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Square Fish
Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.
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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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The Colors of Us

Owlet Paperbacks
A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist’s perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to...