Fiction
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| Title: |
Al Capone Does My Shirts
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| Author: |
Gennifer Choldenko |
| Summary: |
In 1935, Moose's family moves to Alcatraz for his dad's new job and so his sister can go to a special school, but with neighbors like Al Capone and the warden's bossy daughter, life for Moose is nothing like he expected. |
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| Title: |
Among the Hidden
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| Author: |
Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| Summary: |
Luke, a secret third child in a society that only allows two children per family, finds he's not the only one. |
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| Title: |
Breadwinner
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| Author: |
Deborah Ellis |
| Summary: |
After her father is jailed, Parvana dresses as a boy and sells wares on the streets to support her family, but if the Taliban finds out she's a girl, the punishment could be severe. |
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| Title: |
Coraline
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| Author: |
Neil Gaiman |
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A passageway behind the drawing room door reveals an alternate reality with alternate parents who have creepy black button eyes, and who want to keep Coraline to themselves forever and ever. |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Panther's Path
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| Author: |
Elizabeth Alder |
| Summary: |
Half British and half Mohawk Billy Calder becomes Tecumseh's translator during the War of 1812 to help the Indians save their land from American settlers. Based on a true story. |
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| Title: |
Edge on the Sword
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| Author: |
Rebecca Tingle |
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With the help of her new bodyguard, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, the daughter of a king and a newly betrothed bride, learns to protect herself from enemies who wish to kill her and stop the alliance. |
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| Title: |
Esperanza Rising
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| Author: |
Pam Munoz Ryan |
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When her father is brutally murdered, fourteen-year-old Esperanza and her mother leave Mexico to work in a 1930s California migrant camp. |
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| Title: |
Freak the Mighty
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| Author: |
Rodman Philbrick |
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When a brainy, short kid and a big, slow kid team up, they become Freak the Mighty: a force that can deal with anything. |
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| Title: |
Girl Named Disaster
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| Author: |
Nancy Farmer |
| Summary: |
Eleven-year-old Nhamo escapes marriage to a cruel man and undertakes a harrowing journey by boat to Zimbabwe. |
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| Title: |
Girls
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| Author: |
Amy Goldman Koss |
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Maya goes to bed Friday night knowing she's best friends with the most popular girls in school, but by Saturday morning Maya's out of the group and she doesn't know why. |
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| Title: |
Gold Dust
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| Author: |
Chris Lynch |
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In 1975, Richard shares his passion for baseball with his new Caribbean friend, Napoleon Ellis, while Napoleon tries to show Richard how tough it is to be the target of racial prejudice. |
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| Title: |
Homecoming
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| Author: |
Cynthia Voigt |
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Dicey and her three younger siblings walk one hundred miles to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in search of family after their mother leaves them in a shopping mall. |
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| Title: |
Homeless Bird
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| Author: |
Gloria Whelan |
| Summary: |
Married off to a very sick boy with unkind parents, young Koly must decide whether to live her life ruled by the traditions of India or find the courage to create her own future. |
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| Title: |
Hoot
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| Author: |
Carl Hiaasen |
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Soon after Roy moves to Florida, he becomes involved with a scrappy young boy and his sister who are trying to save the burrowing owls that are threatened by a new construction site. |
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| Title: |
Hush
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| Author: |
Jacqueline Woodson |
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When Toswiah Greens father testifies against the white policemen who murdered a black teen, Toswiah and her family are forced to enter a witness protection program and begin entirely new lives. |
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| Title: |
Interstellar Pig
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| Author: |
William Sleator |
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While at his parent's summer house on the beach, Barney meets three very strange neighbors who introduce him to an addictive game called "Interstellar Pig." |
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| Title: |
Light in the Forest
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| Author: |
Conrad Richter |
| Summary: |
The year he turns fifteen, John Cameron Butler- raised as True Son by the Lenni Lenape Indians- is forced by the United States government to return to the white parents he never knew. |
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| Title: |
Love That Dog
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| Author: |
Sharon Creech |
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Even though Jack thinks writing poetry is for girls, his teacher's creative efforts inspire him to write a poem about his beloved dog. |
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| Title: |
Millicent Min, Girl Genius
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| Author: |
Lisa Yee |
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Millicent, a certified genius, thinks she has the answer to everything, but soon realizes there's more to life than book smarts- friends matter, too. |
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| Title: |
Peter and the Starcatchers
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| Author: |
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |
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In this prequel to Peter Pan, the orphan, Peter, meets Molly Aster, a Starcatcher, who tells him about the mysterious and highly coveted starstuff in the Never Land's cargo. |
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| Title: |
Sam I Am
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| Author: |
Ilene Cooper |
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The holidays become troublesome for Sam when his mother, a Christian, and his father, a Jew, decide to makes some changes in how the family celebrates the season. |
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| Title: |
Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
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| Author: |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
| Summary: |
Sammy just has to investigate when
trick-or-treating on Halloween lands her in the path of a skeleton running from the scene of a crime. |
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| Title: |
Soldier Boys
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| Author: |
Dean Hughes |
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The lives of a German soldier and an American soldier are transformed as they witness the horrors of World War II and cross paths in the Battle of the Bulge. |
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| Title: |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
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| Author: |
Virginia Hamilton |
| Summary: |
Fourteen year-old Tree follows the ghost of her uncle through a magical mirror into the past, and there learns how to cope with her absent mother and retarded brother. |
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| Title: |
Thief
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| Author: |
Megan Whalen Turner |
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Gen, a feisty, braggart thief, is released from prison in exchange for becoming a thief for his king. |
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| Title: |
Trickster's Choice
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| Author: |
Tamora Pierce |
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When Alianne's parents won't allow her to become a spy like her father, she sets sail to calm down and ends up kidnapped by slavers and sold to nobles who desperately need a spy and a thief. |
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| Title: |
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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| Author: |
Avi |
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As the lone young lady on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte finds herself in the middle of a mutiny between a murderous captain and his rebellious crew. |
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| Title: |
Various
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| Author: |
Steve Augarde |
| Summary: |
Midge discovers something in the old, rundown pig barn on her uncle's farm that may embroil her in the world of The Various-tribes of faeries both friendly and dangerous who live in the nearby woods. |
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| Title: |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
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| Author: |
Kimberly Willis Holt |
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In Antler, Texas, thirteen-year-old Toby's boring summer is altered by the arrival of a trailer carrying 643-pound Zachary Beaver, the fattest boy in the world. |
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| Title: |
Who Will Tell My Brother?
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| Author: |
Marlene Carvell |
| Summary: |
Evan Hill wants to change his school's mascot-a cartoon Indian Chief-because it's disrespectful to his Native American heritage, but his request stirs prejudice and violence in his small community. |
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| Title: |
Zazoo
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| Author: |
Richard Mosher |
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Zazoo, a Vietnamese girl raised in a small French village by her adopted grandfather, corresponds with a mysterious boy who inspires her curiosity about her Grand-Pierre's work during World War II. |
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Non-Fiction
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| Title: |
Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America
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| Author: |
Jim Murphy |
| Summary: |
With the focus on New York City, personal accounts and newspaper articles describe the power and devastation of a snowstorm that blanketed the Northeast in 1888. |
| Call Number: |
974.71041 MUR |
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| Title: |
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
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| Author: |
Michael Capuzzo |
| Summary: |
In 1916 East Coast beach-goers were shocked and terrified by a series of white shark attacks which resulted in the deaths of three men and a boy. |
| Call Number: |
597.31566 CAP |
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| Title: |
Growing Up in Coal Country
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| Author: |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| Summary: |
A hard life for working children in a mining community is tempered by the camaraderie of family and friends. |
| Call Number: |
331.382233 BAR |
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| Title: |
Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
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| Author: |
Karen Levine |
| Summary: |
In 2000, a museum in Japan received an old suitcase from a World War II Nazi death camp marked with the words Hana Brady and orphan, leading the museums director on a journey through history and across the globe to find answers. |
| Call Number: |
B BRADY |
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| Title: |
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
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| Author: |
Ji-li Jiang |
| Summary: |
In 1960s China during the Cultural Revolution, Ji-lis comfortable life becomes one of degradation and hardship when the new Communist government makes an example of her family. |
| Call Number: |
951.056 JIA |
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