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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick : Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
A collection of stories based on illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.
195 p. 2011
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Airgood, Ellen
Prairie Evers
Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend.
215 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Angleberger, Tom
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
141 p. 2010
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Barrow, Randi G
Saving Zasha
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.
229 p. 2011
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Broach, Elise
Shakespeare's Secret
A girl named Hero, her eccentric next-door neighbor, and an ordinary boy named Danny search for a diamond hidden in Hero's house that could crack the mystery of William Shakespeare's true identity.
250 p. 2005
Children's Fiction Book BROACH
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Burg, Ann E.
All the Broken Pieces : a Novel in Verse
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
218 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book BURG
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Burns, T. R.
The Bad Apple
After accidentally killing a substitute teacher with an apple, twelve-year-old Seamus Hinkle is sent to Kilter Academy where, in order to excel as he always has, he must behave badly and pull pranks on his teachers, but along with new friends Lemon and Elinor he discovers that there is more to the Academy than meets the eye.
337 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Buyea, Rob
Because of Mr. Terupt
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
269 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Cottrell Boyce, Frank
Cosmic
12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good.
313 p. 2010
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Curtis, Christopher Paul
The Mighty Miss Malone
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.
307 p. 2012
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Cushman, Karen.
Alchemy and Meggy Swann
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
167 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book CUSHMAN
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Deedy, Carmen Agra.
The Cheshire Cheese Cat : a Dickens of a Tale
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.
228 p. 2011
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Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Out of My Mind
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
295 p. 2010
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
Storyteller
Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feels a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.
166 p. 2010
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Grimes, Nikki
Planet Middle School
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
154 p. 2011
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Hahn, Mary Downing
Closed for the Season : a Mystery Story
When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
182 p. 2009
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Hobbs, Will
Take Me to the River
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
184 p. 2011
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Kehret, Peg
Runaway Twin
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
197 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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Kelly, Jacqueline
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
340 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book KELLY
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Key, Watt
Alabama Moon
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.
298 p. 2008
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