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| J Fiction Alexander* |
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio |
After being exiled by his merchant uncle for daydreaming, Carlo is sent off in disgrace. With a treasure map he discovers in a book and with some interesting traveling companions, Carlo begins his quest across the desert on the Road of Golden Dreams, finding much more than he expects! |
J Fiction Auch |
Wing Nut |
Grady and his mother have been drifting ever since his father died. When their car breaks down in rural Pennsylvania, Grady's mother takes a job as housekeeper to an old man who turns out to be an excellent auto mechanic. Grady has always wanted to learn about cars. Just when he thinks they will finally settle down, something happens.
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| J
Fiction Bath |
The
Secret of Castle Cant |
As
the orphaned maidservant to the daughter of the Baron
of Cant, Lucy Wickwright has always done what she's
told. Until now that is. Lucy gets caught up in a secret
rebellion, and much to her surprise, finds that the
future of the Barony is in her hands.
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J Fiction Balliett |
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A cool new teacher, frogs, tea at an old lady's house, mysterious
letters written to three people. These are all possible
clues surrounding a stolen painting that is being held for
ransom. Two students begin to piece things together using
pentominoes and intuition. Hey, what are pentominoes anyway?
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| J Fiction Beam |
Getting To First Base With Danalda Chase |
Darcy Spillman LOVES baseball. He also finds a new interest in Danalda Chase. Since baseball is what Darcy knows, he turns his pursuit of a kiss from Danalda Chase into a game. |
| J Fiction Berryhill |
Chance Fortune and the Outlaws |
Josh Blevins, resident of a planet almost, but not quite like Earth, has only one dream. He longs to attend the Burlington Academy for the Superhuman, a sort of Hogwarts for superheroes, but there’s a major problem — he has no superpowers. |
| J
Fiction Bode |
The
Nobodies |
Fern
recently discovered that she is an Anybody, someone
who can make the imaginary real. Now she and her buddy
Howard are off to learn all about their amazing powers
at Camp Happy Sunshine Good Times. However, the camp
is anything but happy.
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| J Fiction Bonk |
Dustin Grubbs One Man Show |
Poor Dustin wants to be an actor when he grows up, but his sixth-grade class can't seem to get through a single performance of their play without the fire alarm going off or parts of the scenery crashing down. In the end, it is Justin who saves the day. |
J Fiction Boyce |
Framed |
Dylan lives and works at his family's Oasis Auto Marvel in Manod where every day is pretty much the same—drab and gray. Then a caravan of white vans unexpectedly appears with valuable paintings to be stored in an abandoned quarry. Suddenly, he finds himself involved in the biggest painting heist in the town's history.
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| J
Fiction Boyce |
Millions |
Damian
discovers a bagful of money that he is sure dropped
from the sky and decides to get help from his older
brother, Anthony. The two boys must decide what to do
with the money...give it away or spend it?
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J Fiction Bredsdorff |
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In a remote seaside cottage, a wise grandmother gives advice
regarding human nature to her loving granddaughter. "Crow-Girl"
heeds the dying woman's words and begins weaving a journey
from grief to fulfillment.
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J/ Fiction Bruchac |
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Jake Forrest loves to play lacrosse with his friends. He
is good, very good because lacrosse is part of him, as an
Algonquin Indian. When he moves away from the Reservation
and attends a private school in Washington, D.C., Jake finds
lacrosse is played there, too. But it is not the same game.
Only winning counts.
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J Fiction Bunting * |
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Callie has agreed to go snowboarding on Mammoth Mountain
with her best friend, Jen. But how can she go through with
it when she is secretly afraid of heights?
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| J Fiction Cassidy |
Scarlett |
Rebellious Scarlett, with her flame red hair, black fingernails and pierced tongue has pushed her fed-up and divorced mother too far. Scarlett is sent off to rural Ireland to live with her father and his new family. Her saving grace is a mysterious gypsy and his horse. |
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Fiction Chipman |
From
the Lighthouse |
After
Weezie's mother leaves the family, she and her family
must find the strength to deal with another tragedy.
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J Fiction Choldenko |
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If you're 5'11" in the 7th grade and coming to a new school
in the middle of the year, you're going to encounter problems.
Add to it that it's 1935 and you reside in Alcatraz and
you've got a double whammy! Well, at least you can take
comfort in the fact that there's 0% crime rate where you
live.
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| J
Fiction Cohn |
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Annabel
goes to visit her dad and his new family in Australia, hoping to convince
him to move back to New York.
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| J
Fiction Collins |
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Gregor
misses his dad who disappeared two years, seven months, and thirteen
days ago. No one knows what happened to him. One day, Gregor and his
two-year-old sister Boots are in the laundry room and then they disappear,
too.
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J Fiction Couloumbis |
Misadventures of Maude March |
After Maude and her sister run away from their guardians on a buggy pony and a plow horse, Maude's reputation of "horse thief" quickly changes to "bank robber" when the girls find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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| J
Fiction Creech
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Annie
has been running all her life, not out of fear or desperation, but
out of joy, for running is her great pleasure in life. Max runs, but
his running is changing and Annie is not sure why.
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| J/
Fiction Cushman
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Rodzina
is sent on the orphan train from Chicago to try to find a new family
after her parents death. She almost becomes a servant in Nebraska and
a replacement mother in Wyoming until she finally settles in California.
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J Fiction D'Adamo |
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Iqbal knows that his life is worth more than a rug. He and
other children have been sold as slaves to Hussain Khan
to work in his carpet factory. Iqbal knows how to weave
beautiful carpets. He also knows that no matter how many
carpets he and the other children weave, they will never
pay off their families' debts. He uses his talents, intelligence
and courage to bring them new hope.
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J Fiction DeFelice * |
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It's the end of the school year and Allie and Dub's sixth-grade
teacher wants them to befriend a new, strange boy, L.J.
When their contact with L.J. coincides with the disappearance
of their teacher's dog, Allie hopes to solve the mystery
with help from another dog-a ghost dog!
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| J/
Fiction DeFelice * |
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For
the love of a new motorbike, the thousand dollar variety, Joe toils
in the fields with the Mexican laborers on his father's farm. He discovers
racism and romance as he begins to view his world in an entirely different
light.
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J Fiction Dhami |
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They rule at school. They rule at home. They have the look.
They have the attitude. They have an aunt coming from India
to take care of them. Hey wait! Who needs that?! The Bindi
Babes-three sisters on a mission to send their aunt back
to where she belongs.
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| J
Fiction Dowell |
Chicken
Boy |
When
Tobin McCauley thinks of chickens, he sees his granny
wringing the head off of one and watching it flap around.
He's not so sure they have much of a brain, let alone
a soul, but Henry has a different idea. Henry says that
chickens hold the secret to the meaning of life. What
Tobin finds in chickens is a new meaning in his own
life.
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J Fiction Dunmore |
Ingo |
The lovely Mermaid sculpture has an angry slash through her old, dark wood. "Why did they hurt her?" Sapphire asks her Dad. She had fallen in love with a human, Mathew Trewhella. "But, Dad, that's your name!" Now he has disappeared at sea, just like his namesake. Sapphire amazingly discovers that she can breathe and swim underwater!
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| J
Fiction Falcone |
Walking
With the Dead |
Since
the family business is running a museum called Oddities,
Alex and his father are excited by their new piece,
an ancient Greek corpse. Then things start getting weird:
Alex has crazy dreams, gets struck by lightning, falls
through a door into the night sky, and the corpse wakes
up!
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| J
Fiction Fleischman
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Kevin
and Holly are running, escaping from Arizona to California in Holly's
old beat-up VW. First their archeologist mother was lost in a cave-in,
then their house was burglarized and now they're being stalked by a
mysterious man in white!
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| J
Fiction Fleischman
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The Entertainer and the Dybbuk |
A struggling ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe, The Great Freddie's biggest problem is that his lips move, even when his dummy is supposed to be speaking. Everything changes when Freddie finds himself possessed by a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit of a twelve-year-old boy, Avrom, who was murdered by the Nazis. Avrom needs Freddie's help and in return he is able to help Freddie in ways he could never have imagined. |
J Fiction Ford |
Scout |
In free verse, 11-year-old Cecelia calls herself "Scout," her woods name. Here, in the nature center, can she and her new friend, Redbud, escape the complex emotions that live in both their homes—grief from the recent loss of her mother and Redbud's abusive ex-Marine father?
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| J Fiction Frederick* |
The Mother-Daughter Book Club |
Four sixth-grade girls are pressured to join a book club with their mothers in which they read Little Women. In alternating chapters, each of the girls tells of how unlikely friendships are formed as they get to know each other in the club meetings. |
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Fiction Funke
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Meggie
learns that her father, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those wicked characters abducts them
and tries to force him to read an immortal monster out of the story.
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| J Fiction Gutman* |
The Million Dollar Putt |
Bogie has a natural golf swing — but he's blind, and blind golf is a team sport. Can his next-door neighbor, kooky Birdie, learn enough about golf to be his coach? And what else will they learn about one another? |
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| J Fiction Hahn |
Witch Catcher |
Jen feels that there's something "indefinably scary" about Moura, her Dad's new girlfriend. She's beautiful and stylish, true, yet way too interested in the castle-like estate that her dad has inherited. Then Jen's cat accidentally breaks a mysterious globe "witch catcher" and bizarre things begin to happen.... |
J Fiction Harkrader |
Airball: My Life in Briefs |
Kirby's seventh grade basketball team can hardly dribble, let alone win a game, but this team may provide his once in a lifetime chance to do what he loves and solve the mystery of the father whom he never knew. And now, Coach has come up with a secret weapon - Stealth uniforms - guaranteed to help the sorry group. So how come these spectacular suits are invisible? Will Kirby have to meet his fate in his underwear?
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Fiction Henkes
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Martha's
classmate, Olive, dies suddenly in a bicycle accident after a short,
lonely life. Though they hardly knew each other in life, an unusual
connection is somehow formed between the girls when a page from Olive's
personal journal is delivered to Martha by Olive's mother.
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Fiction Hiaasen |
Flush |
People
have different ways of promoting a cause, but Noah's
Dad has taken a more "hands-on" approach. He sank the
boat! Noah cannot believe he is visiting his Dad in
jail on Father's Day --and yet, here he is. Now he must
prove that the casino boat has been illegally dumping
waste in the Florida Keys and his only allies are a
scary looking woman named Shelly and a seedy character
called "Lice."
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| J Fiction Holm |
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf |
Ginny's stuff — report cards, receipts, notes, letters, IMs and school assignments — tells the story of her frequently horrible seventh-grade year. |
| J/
Fiction Hughes |
I
Am the Wallpaper |
Even
on MY birthday, my sister manages to steal the show.
With her around I feel almost invisible, like wallpaper.
In a "pivotal life moment," I decide I am
sick of being unnoticed, unimportant, and powerless.
Look out, it is time for a change!
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J Fiction Jaramillo |
La Linea |
In a small Mexican rancho, Miguel has been waiting for the letter from his father that will finally give him, and only him, the permission and the money to cross the Mexican border, la linea, and be reunited with his family. He gets his long awaited wish, but things go terribly wrong when he realizes that Elena, his younger sister, has tagged along for the journey.
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Fiction Kehret* |
The
Ghost's Grave |
Josh
is sent to stay all summer with his eccentric Aunt Ethel.
He thinks life will be dull without a TV or computer.
But his adventure begins when he meets the ghost of
a coal miner and finds a buried box of cash. Who buried
the money, and why, and how far will that person go
to get the money back?
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| J Fiction Kent |
Kimchi and Calamari |
Homework should not be so hard! How is Korean-born Joseph supposed to write a 2,000 word ancestry report when he can sum up his family history in two words: "I'm adopted"?! Searching for his roots means upsetting his adopted Italian family, but this may be his best chance to finally find the family that matches the face he sees in the mirror. |
| J Fiction Kerley |
Greetings from Planet Earth |
It is 1977. As Theo struggles with his science homework, a one picture and one minute message from planet Earth like the one that is being sent into space on the Voyager 2, he has too many unanswered questions in his life — why his father didn't come home from Vietnam and why his mother won't talk about him. |
| J Fiction Ketchum |
Where the Great Hawk Flies |
"Who wrecked Grandfather's wigwam? Could it be that yellow-haired new neighbor Hiram?" wonders Daniel, who is half-Indian and half-white. |
| J/
Fiction Klise* |
Deliver
Us From Normal |
Life
for Charlie Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal,
Illinois. He comes from a large loud family that lives
in a (rented) mustard yellow brick house and they are
poor. They stand out everywhere they go-targets for
snickers and jokes from the other kids in Normal. Then,
after an ugly incident at school, the Harrisong family
flee, starting an adventure to the deep south that takes
them away for good.
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J Fiction Krishnaswami |
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Maya is spending the summer in India with her nervous mother,
who is trying to sell her grandfather's house. "In India,
everything's so bright," her mother says. Maybe that brightness
can shed some light on why Maya's parents have divorced
- and why her father has disappeared.
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| J/
Fiction Lasky* |
Broken
Song |
A
gifted violinist, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom lives
in the Pale, "the only region in Russia where Jews
were allowed to settle." When Cossacks massacre
most of his family during a pogrom, Reuven is determined
to survive. He escapes first to Poland disguised as
a peasant woman, carrying his baby sister in a basket
on his back. But his ultimate goal is for them to reach
America-the Golden Country.
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| J
Fiction Levine |
Catch
a Tiger By the Toe |
The
time is 1953. There is hysteria across the country trying
to route out Communism. Senator Joe McCarthy is holding
Congressional hearings to find out who the Communitsts
are and friends are turning each other in. Jamie's family
has many secrets. These secrets,if revealed could put
her family in danger and so she lies to protect her
family. Jamie's trying hard to keep it together, but
its all spinning out of control.
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Fiction Machado |
From
Another World |
A
ghostly voice cries in the night leading Mariano and
his friends on a quest through history to solve the
cruel murder of a 19th century Brazilian slave girl.
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J/ Fiction Mackel |
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Sean's dream is to be a glass blower and create wondrous
art, but his parents see no future in it. Then with the
discovery of a seemingly simple glass bottle, Sean's world
is turned upside down and inside out. He proves that glass
can be truly magical; and with a little help from some out
of this world aliens, his dream just may come true.
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Fiction Marston |
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Resigned
to her fate as the future wife of the god Amun, fourteen-year-old Egyptian
princess Meret prepares to spend the rest of her life shut up in a
temple, alone forever. Yet the gods smile on her in the human form
of Hector, the young Greek soldier who is in love with her.
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J Fiction McAllister |
Urchin of the Riding Stars |
Urchin, an abandoned and orphaned squirrel, is raised on Mismantle Island where evil treachery abounds and threatens the kingdom.
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| J
Fiction McCaughrean
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Cissy,
her parents, and a collection of colorful characters arrive in Oklahoma
in 1893, hoping to build a new life. But when they refuse to sell their
land to the railroad, and then the railroad refuses to stop in their
town, they come up with all kinds of crazy schemes to make the train
stop so their town can prosper.
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| J/
Fiction Morris |
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Dinadan's
greatest desire is to be a minstrel, but instead he is destined to
be knighted and serve as one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round
Table.
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J Fiction Morpurgo * |
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips |
Lily keeps a diary during World War II in England. She tells of her adventures with her cat, Tips, and how she met the American soldiers practicing their landing into Normandy.
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J Fiction Napoli * |
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Alvin is suffocating under Mamma's overprotectiveness. He
wants to follow in his hero's footsteps--Matthew Henson,
the first African American explorer. After a big fight with
Mamma, Alvin runs away. It is January, Alvin is trapped
in a freight train with no heat, heading toward North Pole.
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| J
Fiction Nitz |
Defending
Irene |
Irene
and her parents have moved to Italy for the year. She
loves to play soccer. When Irene joins a highly competitive
all-boys team, she learns quickly that girls aren't
supposed to play. Irene must learn to overcome cultural
clashes both on and off the field.
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| J Fiction Paratore * |
The Cupid Chronicles |
Willa has two different campaigns running: one is to hold dances in her family's Cape Cod Inn to raise money to save her local library and two, to further her romance with the blue-eyed, attractive Joseph Kennelly. Will it be a competition to which is the most important in her life? |
J Fiction Paterson * |
Bread and Roses, Too |
Life in the tenements is hard, then it becomes dangerous when the mill workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts go on strike. To keep them out of harm's way, Rosa and the other children are sent by train to Vermont. She meets Jake who has his own reasons for leaving Lawrence.
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| J Fiction Paulsen * |
Lawn Boy |
Sometimes, it takes the most unlikely birthday present to teach you life lessons. In the case of our 12-year-old hero, an old lawn mower becomes his ticket to learning basic principles in economics. Of course, making money on the side doesn't hurt either. |
J Fiction Pearsall |
All of the Above |
Room 307, Cleveland, Ohio. Math teacher Mr. Collins and his worst math class in twenty years— can his struggling students build a world record tetrahedron and get into the Guinness Book of World Records?
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Fiction Pearsall |
Crooked
River |
Rebecca
is terrified when she returns home to find a Native
American man chained in her home. He has been accused
of murder and is being held to stand trial. Rebecca
learns that he is innocent, but will he get a fair trial
in a town seething with hatred for Native Americans?
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| J Fiction Pitchford |
The Big One-Oh |
Charley Maplewood has a birthday coming up, a big one, so he should have a party, right? He needs a theme, some fun activities, and friends. The problem is, he has no friends. How can he get some? |
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| J/
Fiction Rabin |
Betsy
and the Emperor |
The
one bright star in exiled Napoleon's black sky is Betsy,
a blazingly rebellious teenager whose family is reluctantly
housing the unwelcome prisoner. Betsy is determined
to befriend this former Emperor of France, and Napoleon
is more than intrigued. Based on a true story!
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J Fiction Reeve * |
Larklight or, The Revenge of the White Spiders! or, To Saturn's Rings and Back! |
Things are not what they seem in Art and Myrtle's world. They live with their scientist father and robot servants in a house-shaped spacecraft traveling in deep space. A gruff, but kindly boy pirate with his alien crew, a large evil spider in a bowler hat, and vacuuming "hoverhogs" are just a few of the inhabitants in this fantastic Victorian adventure.
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J Fiction Reiche |
Ghost Ship: A Novel |
Vicki believes the figurehead from a 230-year-old ship hides a secret. Meanwhile, the crew of the ship expects Vicki to lift their curse.
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| J Fiction Rinaldi * |
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An enthralling tale is woven and told through the words
of Fletcher Christian's fourteen-year-old daughter as she
seeks her father and struggles not to reveal his identity
as the famous instigator of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
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J/ Fiction Rinaldi * |
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Based on a true story, this book tells about Sarah Tracy,
who leaves her family's home in New York to take a job helping
to restore Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. While
there, she and Mr., Upton Herbert, the plantation's superintendent,
deal with many challenges in protecting Mount Vernon during
the Civil War.
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J/ Fiction Roberts * |
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Amanda Jane is a fourteen year old whose nickname is Rebel.
Spending a summer with her grandmother in Seattle, she meets
15-year-old Moses. They discover a robbery that involves
counterfeit money and encounter problems as they try to
solve the crime by themselves.
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J Fiction Rodman |
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It's 1964 and Alice's father, an FBI agent, has been transferred
from Chicago to Mississippi to protect black people who
are registering to vote. According to Alice, "Living in
Mississippi was like living in a foreign country". Struggling
to make new friends, acclimate herself to a new school and
town seem almost impossible. However, she realizes that
her life is a snap compared to what Valerie, the first black
student in her school is facing.
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J Fiction Russell |
Dogboy |
In medieval England, young Brind has been raised with Sir Edmund's fine hunting mastiffs. Brind eats, plays, and even sleeps with them. Now it is time for Brind and many of the dogs to join the master on the long journey to France, and to war.
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J Fiction Sateren |
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Cathy is willing to do whatever it takes to win the friendship
of the stylish Cassidy. She changes her name; call her Cat.
She changes her looks; overalls to leopard print pants.
She even changes her taste in music from Beethoven to the
rockin' Milo Lennox. But is it enough? Scoring tickets for
the Milo Lennox concert will be the perfect opportunity
for her to prove her transformation from bookish braniac
to cool cat!
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J Fiction Schade |
Travels of Thelonious |
Thelonious Chipmunk believes the legends that tell of humans in the long ago times. He is one of the Talker Animals and wants to know as much as he can about humans. In a disastrous storm in the Untamed Forest, Thelonious is swept away by a flood and carried to the City of Ruins where humans once dwelled.
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J Fiction Schlitz |
A Drowned Maiden's Hair |
Maud is a 'plain, clever and bad' girl living at an orphanage in the early 1900s. A family of elderly sisters think she's perfect and adopt her. Maud believes her problems have ended only to find a family secret that offers danger as well as love.
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| J
Fiction Schumacher |
The
Chain Letter |
Breaking
a chain letter isn't bad luck, right? At least, that
is what Livvie thinks, but her superstitious friend
Joyce doesn't agree. When Livvie's applesauce explodes,
gum gets stuck on her shoe, her foot catches on the
pommel horse and she knocks down the gym teacher, Livvie
isn't so sure anymore.
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Fiction Seely |
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Thomas
loves reading about the Wild West in his hidden dime novels (small
paperbacks). When his father offers him the chance to leave his grandparents
in Virginia and live with him and his new family in Kansas, Thomas
jumps at the chance. Now he can become a real cowboy or so he thinks.
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| J Fiction Service |
Tomorrow's Magic |
The present day is rather bleak, both in weather and future outlook, so when Heather and Wellington discover that Merlin is alive in their time, they search for King Arthur, hoping his return will change the world for the better. |
| J
Fiction Shearer |
Sea
Legs |
Eric
and Clive miss their father when he is away at sea,
so they decide they will join him on the ship-- except
they don't tell him and they don't want him to see them
since they have come aboard as stowaways! Will they
be able to pull it off?
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| J Fiction Sherman* |
Changeling |
Stolen by fairies as a baby, Neef, the mortal changeling has grown up in New York Between, a place full of fairy and Folk. When she accidentally breaks a fairy law, Neef finds herself banished, and must complete three death-defying tasks in order to return to her beloved fairy home. |
| J/
Fiction Slade |
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The
farming town of Horseshow is in the middle of a drought, so when Abram
Harsich comes to town with the promise of a rain-making machine, everyone
wants to help. That's when the children begin to disappear.
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| J Fiction Smith |
Tofu & T.rex |
Peshtigo School is filled with eccentric students, including Hans-Peter's cousin Freddie, who was kicked out of her Texas high school for burning the field in a protest against animal cruelty. Now Hans-Peter has to share a house with Freddie. Will troublesome Freddie ruin Hans-Peter's chance of getting into this weird but exclusive school? |
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Fiction Snyder |
Magic
Nation Thing |
Abby
is not the least bit interested in her mother's private
detective agency or any of her cases until Miranda is
missing. When she picks up Miranda's locket, her hands
feel warm and she sees in her mind exactly where Miranda
could be found.
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J Fiction Springer |
The Case of the Missing Marquess |
When Enola Holmes' mother disappears, her much older brother Sherlock seems bent on sending her off to boarding school while HE solves the mystery. Setting off to London in disguise, Enola will solve not only the mystery of her mother's disappearance, but the kidnapping of a young marquess as well.
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J Fiction Strickland * |
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Taking the characters from John Bellairs's novels, the author
continues the fantastical and supernatural adventures of
Lewis Barnavelt. Lewis has found a silver whistle by a grave
while on a scout camping trip. He is tempted to blow it;
should he?
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Fiction Swallow |
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She
is not a bad kid. She does the wrong things for the right reasons.
But she learns that her impetuosity can lead to serious consequences.
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| J Fiction Thomas* |
Blind Mountain |
A day hike turns into a dangerous adventure when Sam's father is accidentally blinded, delaying their descent down the mountain by several days. Finding out that they are being stalked by a dangerous predator doesn't help matters. |
| J Fiction Timberlake |
That Girl Lucy Moon |
Lucy Moon has always fought injustice, but in sixth grade, her activism gets her labeled a bad influence, with double detentions and weekends serving in Youth Action with horrible Mrs. Mudd. Lucy begins to wonder if it's worth continuing to fight. |
J Fiction Tolan * |
Listen! |
Charley's leg is broken, and so is her heart. She has avoided the woods ever since the accident and the death of her mother. When the dog first appears in the woods across the lake she is drawn to him. He is wild and fierce, and she's not sure taming him is worth the risk. Somehow she feels she must try, as if her whole life depends upon it.
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| J
Fiction Townley |
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Princess
Sylvie and the other characters of the book THE GREAT GOOD THING face
unexpected stresses and challenges when their book is loaded onto the
Web.
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| J
Fiction Van Draanen * |
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Sammy
Keyes, seventh-grade super sleuth is at it again! This time, her routine
class assignment leads to intrigue at the Vault, a local art gallery.
Fortunately, Sammy has the help of Grams, her sharp and sassy grandmother,
to piece together the toughest case yet!
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J Fiction Van Draanen * |
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Our favorite detective, Sammy, is totally bummed out. She
finds out that her 14th birthday is only her 13th because
her Mom wanted to get her into school early and changed
her birth certificate. Add to this her discovery of a number
of dead cats found in neighborhood dumpsters, and you have
only the beginning of another Sammy Keyes mystery that will
CATapult you into another adventure full of twists and turns.
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Fiction White
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The
Collins girls, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia and Carolina, live with
their mama in a small house in the country. It's 1955 and their daddy
has been gone for 8 years. Times are hard and Mama works long hours
in the kitchen of the hospital. When cousin Tadpole runs away from
abusive Uncle Matthew, he heads for the Collins family and home.
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| J Fiction White |
Way Down Deep |
Who could have abandoned two-year-old Ruby on Way Down Deep's courthouse steps? No matter, the good-natured twelve-year-old is now known and loved by everyone in the Appalachian town. Then a surprising past surfaces that might change her sweet life forever. |
| J
Fiction Wilhelm |
The
Revealers |
Parkland
Middle School is better known by its students as Darkland
because of all the un-checked bullying of kids by other
kids. Russell is terrified of Richie Tucker and tries
to avoid him without much luck. His life is a constant
state of misery until he meets Elliot and Catalina,
and they become the Revealers. They are determined to
do something about the bullying. The trick is--can they
survive what they reveal?
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| J
Fiction Williams |
Amalee |
Amalee
lives alone with her dad. But his four "big, goofy
friends" from college consider themselves her parents,
too. As if being in middle school ("less colors,
less friendliness, and more meanness") isn't hard
enough! Even worse, she feels meaner and isn't sure
about her own friends anymore. Could life get more complicated?
Unfortunately, it does. And Amalee is surprised at just
who tenderly rises to the occasion--each in his or her
own unique way.
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| J Fiction Wilson |
Leepike Ridge |
Swept downstream, Tom becomes lost in an underwater cavern. While exploring many caves hoping to find a way back home, he discovers a dead body, a dog, a man with a long braided beard, and cutthroat treasure hunters. |
J Fiction Yee |
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time |
No basketball camp for Stanford this summer—he's flunked sixth-grade English and will be in summer school. If his friends know, they'll dump him, but his dad has to know and is majorly disappointed, and what will Emily, the cute new girl in town, think?
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J Fiction Young |
15 Minutes |
Seventh grader Casey Little is always late for everything until he discovers his grandfather's time travel watch. It's 15-minute go-back feature allows him to avoid his usual toilet dunking by the school bullies, get 100% on tests and be popular. But with this power also comes responsibility.
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