Fiction
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| Title: |
100 Cupboards
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| Author: |
Nathan D. Wilson |
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Henry York, a sheltered, timid boy from Boston, jumps into a wild adventure when his parents are kidnapped and he moves to Kansas to live with his cousin, Henrietta in a house with magical cupboards. |
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| Title: |
Al Capone Does My Shirts
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| Author: |
Gennifer Choldenko |
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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 |
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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 |
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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: |
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: |
Graveyard Book
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| Author: |
Neil Gaiman |
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Bod is a baby when his entire family is murdered. He narrowly escapes the scene of the crime and is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Owens, two ghostly residents of the local graveyard. |
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| Title: |
Hattie Big Sky
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| Author: |
Kirby Larson |
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Hattie inherits her uncles farm in rural Montana. At sixteen and orphaned, she is ready for new opportunities, but homesteading in the year 1918 is anything but easy. |
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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 Green's 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: |
Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
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| Author: |
Brian Selznick |
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Twelve-year-old Hugo lives in hiding within the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris while attempting to repair a broken mechanical man who may have a secret message from his father, but a toyseller and his daughter threaten to change everything. |
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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: |
Mysterious Benedict Society
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| Author: |
Trent Lee Stewart |
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Eleven-year-old orphan Reynie Muldoon responds to an ad recruiting "gifted children looking for special opportunities. He and four other children become the Mysterious Benedict Society and start training to foil the plans of a criminal mastermind who wants to take over the world. |
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| Title: |
Peak
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| Author: |
Roland Smith |
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Fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello has a passion for climbing, and when he is gets in trouble for scaling tall buildings; his mom and stepdad ship him out of the country to climb Mount Everest with his father. |
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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: |
Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
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| Author: |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
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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: |
Savvy
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| Author: |
Ingrid Law |
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Mibs can't wait for her thirteenth birthday because in the Beaumont family thirteen is when family members get their "savvy," or unworldly power. Her excitement is cut short when her father is injured in a car accident. |
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| Title: |
Scepter of the Ancients
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| Author: |
Derek Landy |
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Skullduggery Pleasant saves twelve-year-old Stephanie when she's attacked in her late Uncle Gordon's house. Skeleton/detective and girl team up to keep the evil Serpine from finding a magic artifact that could allow him to rule the world. Artemis Fowl fans take note. |
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| Title: |
Schooled
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| Author: |
Gordon Korman |
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Cap's isolated farm life with his grandmother, Rain, has ill-prepared him to be dumped into public middle school where he's tormented by the in-crowd for his backward ways. |
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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: |
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: |
Waiting For Normal
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| Author: |
Leslie Connor |
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After her mother and step-father divorce, twelve-year-old Addie tries to make the best of her new home, living in a run-down trailer with her increasingly unstable "Mommers," but secretly dreams of a more normal life. |
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| Title: |
When You Reach Me
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| Author: |
Rebecca Stead |
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Manhattan twelve-year-old Miranda receives a mysterious letter that seems to come from another time and place, yet reveals things about Miranda and her best friend, Sal, who may be in trouble. |
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Non-Fiction
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| Title: |
Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith
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| Author: |
Deborah Heiligman |
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Charles Darwin believed in reason; he even drew up a chart with the pros and cons of marriage, but he eventually married Emma Wedgwood and their unique relationship (he was a man of science and she was devoutly religious) thrived despite their differences. |
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| Title: |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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| Author: |
Phillip Hoose |
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A black teen is dragged off to jail in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman (nine months before Rosa Parks did the same), and decides to spend her life battling racism. |
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| Title: |
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini
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| Author: |
Sid Fleischman |
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Who better to write about the amazing escape artist Harry Houdini than a fellow magician? Fleishman gives an inside look at how Houdini used his death-defying stunts to become a legend. |
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| Title: |
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
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| Author: |
Ji-li Jiang |
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In 1960s China during the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li's comfortable life becomes one of degradation and hardship when the new Communist government makes an example of her family. |
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