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Finn Family Moomintroll (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson The Moomins, creatures always ready for adventure, find a magical hat that can change anything-or anyone-into something else! ...

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Moominsummer Madness (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson A flood hits Moomin Valley and triggers a series of adventures for the Moomins....

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Boy: Tales of Childhood מאת Roald Dahl "'I am only eight years old,' I told myself. 'No little boy of eight has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.'"So thought Roald Dahl in 1924 when his plan to get revenge on the mean and disgusting candy-store owner Mrs. Pratchett seemed to have worked all too well. Writing about this and other b...

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Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy מאת Andrea Warren An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of warOver a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed-race child -- with little ...

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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books) מאת Moying Li Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended. I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself.In 1966 Moying, a student at a prestigious language school i...

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Comet in Moominland (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, he and his friend Sniff travel to the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to consult the Professors. Along the way, they have many adventures, but the greatest adventure of all awaits them when they learn that the comet is headed straight for ...

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Moominland Midwinter (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson Everyone knows that the Moomins sleep through the winter, but this year Moomintroll has woken up in January. After his initial shock at seeing his familiar haunts under the snow, Moomintroll discovers that winter is worth waking up for after all....

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The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak מאת Tomek Bogacki In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children were capable of governing themselves, he encouraged the orphans to elect a parliament, run a court, and put out their own weekly n...

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Louis the Fish (Reading Rainbow Book) מאת Arthur Yorinks "'One day last spring, Louis, a butcher, turned into a fish. Silvery scales. Big lips. A tail. A salmon'...Yorinks and Egielski work together as if they were one. Their joint pacing and a variety of verbal and visual viewpoints make Louis the Fish an outstanding and refreshingly unusual picture book...

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Love Letters to the Dead מאת Ava Dellaira It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But ho...

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Crossing Stones מאת Helen Frost Maybe you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat. Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family’s closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can...

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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw מאת Isaac Bashevis Singer An ALA Notable Book....

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Moominpappa's Memoirs (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson When stricken with a severe cold, Moominpappa decides to set down an account of his eventful youth, which he shares chapter by chapter with Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin....

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Annie on My Mind מאת Nancy Garden This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.  Of the author and the book, th...

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My Name Is Yoon (Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, 2004) מאת Helen Recorvits Getting to feel at home in a new countryYoon’s name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon fe...

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Moominpappa at Sea (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson When the Moomin family members need a change of scenery, they decide to take up residence in a lighthouse. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves....

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Sky Sweeper מאת Phillis Gershator Young Takeboki needs a job and the monks in the temple need a flower keeper – so Takeboki sets to work, sweeping up flowers and leaves and creating swirling miniature worlds of his own in the temple garden. As the years go by, others ask him: Don’t you want a better job? But as the sea...

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The Amazing Bone (Reading Rainbow Book) מאת William Steig Can Pearl, a pig, and her new frined, a small talking bone, outwit a band of robbers and a hungry fox?...

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Sparks Fly High: The Legend of Dancing Point מאת Mary Quattlebaum Colonel Lightfoot is never modest, especially when it comes to his dancing or his fine Virginia land. One piece of that land is turning to mud, and the devil himself is rumored to live in that murky mess, for on dark nights sparks fly high. How to put an end to the devil’s mischief? Why,...

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George Washington's Cows מאת David Small "George Washington's cows were kept upstairs,And given their own special room.They never were seen by light of day.No matter for what or by whom."These cows are just the beginning of George's problems. To be sure, his hogs are helpful around the house, but it irks Martha ...

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Where Does Joe Go? מאת Tracey Campbell Pearson A Christmas story for all year round! Joe's Snack Bar is a favorite summer spot where happy customers from all over town come to buy ice cream cones and french fries. But every time autumn rolls around, Joe shuts down shop and disappears until the next summer. The townspeople all have their own theo...

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Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg מאת Andrea Warren “Living in a cave under the ground for six weeks . . . I do not think a child could have passed through what I did and have forgotten it.” – Lucy McRae, age 10, 1863 Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil ...

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How I Learned Geography מאת Uri Shulevitz A 2009 Caldecott Honor Book Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the ...

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So Sleepy Story מאת Uri Shulevitz In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy ? until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once mo...

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Jennifer's Diary מאת Anne Fine Jennifer?s aunt has given her a beautiful rainbow-colored diary. The trouble is, Jennifer can?t think of a single thing to write in it. Her friend Iola is just bursting with ideas to fill the glossy blank pages of a new diary ? stories about rescuing drowning victims and eerie ghosts in pi...

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When I Wore My Sailor Suit מאת Uri Shulevitz When he puts on his sailor suit, sailor hat, and sailor whistle, the boy in this book is ready for a journey. He imagines himself on a ship, sailing across the sea, in search of treasure. A sailor’s life is dangerous. But a sailor must be brave no matter what happens. In this char...

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My Dad מאת Anthony Browne In an endearing homage to dads everywhere, a boy describes -- and exaggerates -- the many accomplishments and feats of his father. Among the traits praised are his enormous talent for singing, his near-professional wrestling skills, his extreme bravery in the face of danger (he's not even afraid of ...

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The Return of the Killer Cat מאת Anne Fine When Ellie tells Tuffy the family is leaving for the week, Tuffy couldn’t be more thrilled. A whole blissful week of rolling around in the flower bed and lounging on top of the TV? Tuffy can’t wait! But the cat sitter the family procures doesn’t understand Tuffy’s refined feline pa...

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One Potato, Two Potato מאת Cynthia DeFelice Mr. and Mrs. O?Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share ? one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O?Grady comes upon a big black object. It?s a pot ? no ordinary pot, ...

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The Ghost of Fossil Glen (Ghost Mysteries) מאת Cynthia DeFelice Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking her help....

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The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century מאת Uri Shulevitz Through Three Continents in the Twelfth CenturyImagine a time when streets were narrow and dirty, towns were surrounded by walls, brigands lurked alongside roads that were treacherous and few, bridges over rivers were rare, and a man setting out on a journey never knew if he would return...

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Speak to Me: (And I Will Listen between the Lines) מאת Karen English Six voices from an inner-city classroomIn a series of candid free-form poems, Karen English presents the thoughts of six third-grade children in one day and one classroom at an inner-city public school. Malcolm is the central observer, but also a dreamer. Rica has turned eight today, and her ...

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Under the Persimmon Tree מאת Suzanne Fisher Staples Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan   Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means ?star,? suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her m...

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The Missing Manatee מאת Cynthia DeFelice A tribute to Florida, fishing, and familyAll Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod - and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it's always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his mother telling his father to move out...

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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book) מאת Peter Sis A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER   “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to...

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Tales from Moominvalley (Moomintrolls) מאת Tove Jansson In these nine delightfully funny stories, readers will discover how the Moomin family spend their first Christmas out of hibernation, how they save young Ninny from permanent invisibility, and what happens when Moomintroll catches the last dragon in the world....

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The Three Little Pigs: An Old Story (Sunburst Book) מאת Margot Zemach This much beloved story has inspired a visual interpretation that has the look of a classic. ...

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Snow (Caldecott Honor Book) מאת Uri Shulevitz "When a young boy sees a single snowflake fall, he rejoices that a major storm is on the way, despite predictions to the contrary. But it is the child who prevails as the 'snowflakes keep coming and coming and coming.' Shulevitz's outstanding illustrations...enrich and extend the brief text." --Star...

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Memories of Summer מאת Ruth White It is the mid-1950s, and Lyrics familys dream is finally coming true -- they are moving from the backwoods of southwest Virginia to Flint, Michigan, where her father hopes to get an assembly-line job for a car manufacturer. Thirteen-year-old Lyric has always been close to and admired her older siste...

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Collected Poems for Children מאת Ted Hughes This collection brings together the more than 250 children’s poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progressing to more complex and sophisticated poems that he felt were written “within hearing...

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Delicious! מאת Helen Cooper Cat, Squirrel, and Duck have a very serious problem: there are no ripe pumpkins in the garden for their favorite soup! They?ll have to make something else, but while Cat and Squirrel are willing to experiment, all Duck wants is pumpkin soup. He won?t even try a taste of the fish soup or mu...

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And If the Moon Could Talk מאת Kate Banks It is night. Inside a house, a child is getting ready for bed. A hall light is switched on, toys and animals are settled in their places. Papa reads a story, Mama comes in to say good night, dreams wait to enter sleep...And if the moon could talk, it would tell of the many different nighttime activi...

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The Diary of a Killer Cat מאת Anne Fine The hilarious confessions of a ferocious felinePoor Ellie is horrified when her cat, Tuffy, drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. Before long, another apparent victim arrives though the cat-door. Can softhearted Ellie get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ...

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Seeing the Elephant: A Story of the Civil War מאת Pat Hughes Young Izzie wishes he could join the Union Army with his brothers, Ario and Cal. He wonders what it would be like to “see the elephant”—soldier talk for going into battle for the first time. But it seems the closest Izzie will ever get to battle is visiting wounded soldiers at a Wash...

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More About Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood מאת Roald Dahl Twenty-five years ago in Boy, the world’s favorite storyteller recollected scenes from his youth—some funny, some frightening, all true. More About Boy is the expanded story of Roald Dahl’s childhood, with his original text augmented by never-before-seen material f...

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Madlenka's Dog מאת Peter Sis Another delightful romp around Madlenka’s city blockMadlenka wants a dog! She doesn’t really care what kind, so long as it’s a dog that she can put on a leash and walk around the block. But her mother and father say NO! What is Madlenka to do? It just takes some imagination . . . Madlen...

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The House of Joyful Living מאת Roni Schotter High on the roof of an apartment building is a garden where neighbors come to laugh, to dance, and to share – stories of helping others, breakfasts of challah and herring, and, once a summer, a Roof Party! Surrounded by loving adults, a girl with cabbage curls feels she li...

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Madlenka מאת Peter Sis Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the Latin Amer...

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Dangerous Skies מאת Suzanne Fisher Staples A Season of ChangeAlong the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like brother and sister, they are bound by surname, but not by skin color. And just as Buck has come to rely on Tunes, Tunes has come ...

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Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunburst Book) מאת Jacob Grimm Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony....

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If Animals Kissed Good Night (Melanie Kroupa Books) מאת Ann Whitford Paul If animals kissedlike we kiss good night,Giraffe and his calfwould stretch their necks highand kiss just beneaththe top of the sky. In a cozy bedtime chat with her mom, a young girl wonders how animal families might say good night. Would W...

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Puss in Boots (Caldecott Honor Book) מאת Charles Perrault Fred Marcellino's magnificent interpretation of this classic tale belongs on the shelf of special favorites. "Riveting . . . A provocative, unforgettable visual experience."--1991 Caldecott Committee. ALA Notable Children's Book; Booklist Editors' Choice; The Horn Book's Fanfare Honor List; Publishe...

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Mimmy and Sophie All Around the Town מאת Miriam Cohen Homemade fun and simple pleasures abound Mimmy and Sophie are sisters who live in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. Even though their parents don't have a lot of money, Mimmy and Sophie still have lots of fun together, whether they're finding treasure, going to Coney Island, or...

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The House of Djinn מאת Suzanne Fisher Staples It has been ten years since Shabanu staged her death to secure the safety of her daughter, Mumtaz, from her husband’s murderous brother. Mumtaz has been raised by her father’s family with the education and security her mother desired for her, but with little understanding and l...

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Angus and the Cat מאת Marjorie Flack Angus the terrier has to share his home with a new cat who eats Angus's food and sits in his favorite places. How will they ever get along?...

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The Amazing Bone מאת William Steig It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school. Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. "In any language," says the bone. "And I can imitate any sound there is." (Its former owner was a witch.) Pe...

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My Brother מאת Anthony Browne The boy in this book has a big brother who is good at everything. He’s a wild rock singer and a terrific climber. He’s read hundreds of books, he writes brilliant stories, and he’s brave enough to stand up to bullies. To his adoring younger brother, this big brother is a hero. M...

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The Ghost of Poplar Point (Ghost Mysteries) מאת Cynthia DeFelice Allie Nichols, ?Ghost Magnet,? has only just finished sixth grade, but already she?s grappled with her fair share of adventure: three ghosts have sought her help in less than two months. Now that summer has finally arrived, Allie is ready for a break. Too bad ghosts don?t know about summer...

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Caleb and Kate מאת William Steig When Caleb finds himself transformed into a dog and is unable to tell his wife his true identity, he decides to become her companion....

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Five Creatures מאת Emily Jenkins Three humans and two catsFive creatures live in our house. Three humans, and two cats. Three short, and two tall. Four grownups, and one child (that's me!). In this book of lighthearted comparisons, simple text and warm pictures work together to depict vari...

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Timelock: The Caretaker Trilogy: Book 3 מאת David Klass Jack Danielson has spent the last year saving the oceans and the Amazon, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that was written before his birth. Now he’s more than ready to get back to life as a typical teenager and spend some quality time with his girlfriend, P.J. Too bad the world has othe...

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Monkeys and the Universe (Monkey Readers) מאת Kate Banks Max’s older brother, Pete, is building a model of the solar system, and he won’t let Max help. It’s enough to make a little monkey feel like nothing more than a speck in the big, wide universe. But after a trip to the observatory, Max and Pete learn that there’s room in the galaxy ...

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Lenny's Space מאת Kate Banks Nine-year-old Lenny Brewster is captivated by the world – the mysteries of machines, the magic of snow, the pure joy of a perfect ride down a slippery slide. He knows a lot, but not how to share it with others. Of course, it doesn’t help having an absent father, a preoccupied mother, a...

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Leaving the Nest מאת Mordicai Gerstein What do a baby blue jay, a kitten, a girl, and a baby squirrel have in common?They are emphatically curious about the world.They find it difficult to leave the place where they feel safest.And, eventually, they must all spread their wings and fly. With his ever-inventive art, Cal...

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The Man Who Made Time Travel (Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (Awards)) מאת Kathryn Lasky Who would solve one of the most perplexing scientific problems of all time?This dramatic picture-book biography brings to life – with illustrations that glow with wit and inspiration – the fascinating story of the quest to measure longitude. While the scientific establishment of the eight...

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Guerrilla Season מאת Pat Hughes Matt Howard is old enough to join the Southern guerrillas and help protect Missouri from Union forces. But Matt would rather farm than fight. What’s more, Matt’s mother insists that the family take a neutral position. In Missouri’s Civil War, armed men often bang on doors in the midd...

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The Golden Key (A Sunburst Book) מאת George Macdonald The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden key....

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The Cat Who Walked Across France מאת Kate Banks An unforgettable tour of FranceThe cat and the old woman have lived happily together for many years in the stone house by the sea. But when the old woman dies, the cat is packed up with her belongings and sent north to the village where she was born. Soon he is forgotten. He walks the streets aimles...

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The Great Turkey Walk מאת Kathleen Karr Yeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys?Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but he's nobody's fool. When it's time to be done with school and make his way in the world, Simon hatches a plan that could earn h...

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Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children מאת Nikki Giovanni A favorite collection of thirty-five poems for and about black children celebrates the energy and joy of life....

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Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen מאת Cari Best I can pop a wheelie, I can touch the sky,I can pedal backwards, I can really fly! Sally Jean was born to ride. And her bicycle, Flash, is just abouther best friend. But one day something terrible – and wonderful– happens. Sally Jean grows. Suddenly she fi...

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Little Audrey מאת Ruth White “What else would you wish for?” Daddy says. “If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?” I shrug. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe . . .” “Maybe what?” “For us to live better than we do.” He does not say anything.

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Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade (Jack Henry) מאת Jack Gantos Jack, a sixth grader who has been at five schools in the past six years, keeps a diary in which he records all of his trials and tribulations, including a pesky brother, a wacko teacher, and alligators in the canal out back....

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My Mom מאת Anthony Browne The perfect gift for Mother's DayFollowing up on his bestseller My Dad, the inimitable Anthony Browne returns to celebrate the every-mom. In this paean to motherhood, we first meet Mom over a cup of coffee, clad in a floral robe. The robe is ever present as her child describes her wondro...

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The Revealers מאת Doug Wilhelm Throwing light on a dark problemParkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unoffi...

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Buttermilk Hill מאת Ruth White Finding a way to cope through poetryThe days seem carefree for Piper Berry in her hometown of Buttermilk Hill, North Carolina -- days filled with fishing with her daddy and ten-year-old aunt/best friend Lindy and listening to her grandmother's stories. But then Mama, Tiny Lambert (whom reader...

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Doctor De Soto מאת William Steig "Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain.Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" anim...

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The Elephant Quilt: Stitch by Stitch to California! מאת Susan Lowell ?We?re going to see the Elephant!? That?s what people say when they head West on a journey promising to be ?something powerful strange. Like a real live elephant, but even bigger ? stranger ? wilder ? scarier!? Lily Rose is raring to go. Along the way she?ll help stitch her family?...

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The Runaway Princess מאת Kate Coombs “A dragon darkens our dells. A witch haunts our woods. Bandits roam our moors” . . . King Stromgard swept on. “In the tradition of so many monarchs, I offer my daughter’s hand in marriage and half my kingdom to the prince who can rid us of these evils, restoring peace and prospe...

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Leaving Glorytown: One Boy's Struggle Under Castro מאת Eduardo F. Calcines Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed b...

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Francie (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books) מאת Karen English Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North.Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't kept, and Francie painfully learns that her dreams of starting...

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Minn and Jake (Sunburst Books) מאת Janet S. Wong A surprising friendshipDo you ever feel like you’ve somehow lost your true best friend? Minn feels this way. So does Jake. But Minn and Jake have no intention of being friends. Minn’s a string bean. Jake’s a shrimp. Minn’s a girl. Jake’s a boy. And in fifth grade, who wants a b...

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Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story מאת Michael Collins Astronaut Michael Collins adds a revised chapter to the extraordinary story of his training and participation in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 flights....

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The Boxer (Sunburst Book) מאת Kathleen Karr Ever since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five siblings, sacrificing his own schooling in the process. Still, there's been hardly enough money each month to make the rent, and Johnny's dream of a house in Brooklyn, away fro...

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The Shining Company (A Sunburst Book) מאת Rosemary Sutcliff In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons....

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Dreamquake (The Dreamhunter Duet, Book 2) מאת Elizabeth Knox The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St. Lazarus’s E...

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Amos & Boris מאת William Steig Amos the mouse and Boris the whale: a devoted pair of friends with nothing at all in common, except good hearts and a willingness to help their fellow mammal. They meet after Amos sets out to sea in his homemade boat, the Rodent, and soon finds himself in extreme need of rescue. Enter Boris....

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Notso Hotso מאת Anne Fine Why do bad things happen to good dogs?   It’s a dog’s life for Anthony. Not only is he lacking the respecthe deserves from the neighborhood dogs and cats, but anskin condition has him frantic and frazzled. And just whenAnthony thinks things can’t get worse, ...

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Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer מאת Janet S. Wong There are a few things / about your best friend that you can only learn / when you see where he’s from. Minn knew / that Jake was from the city. But she didn’t know / that his grandmother was Korean. That he liked taking bubble baths. / That his brother, Soup, might be an eat...

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A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts מאת Pamela S. Turner For more than fifty years, explorer-naturalist George Schaller has been on a mission: to save the world’s great wild beasts and their environments. In this compelling biography, illustrated with Schaller’s own striking photographs, Pamela S. Turner examines the amazing life and gr...

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Keesha's House מאת Helen Frost An unforgettable narrative collage told in poemsKeesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason ...

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Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade (Jack Henry) מאת Jack Gantos A prequel to Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade.Inspired by the author's childhood diaries, this new collection of Jack Henry stories depicts a fifth-grade year to end all fifth-grade years. Living in a Miami rental home with a busy railroad track running a stone's throw from...

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The Treasure (Sunburst Book) מאת Uri Shulevitz A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure....

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Skunkdog מאת Emily Jenkins Dumpling is a dog of enormous enthusiasm, excellent obedience skills – and no sense of smell. She doesn’t care about flowers, garbage, or any of the other smelly things most dogs enjoy. As a result, Dumpling has no dog friends. With a useless nose, she can’t relate. Dumpling is lo...

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Once Upon an Ordinary School Day מאת Colin McNaughton A celebration of extraordinary teachers!The boy's breakfast is ordinary, his walk to school is ordinary, even his thoughts are ordinary. But when he goes to his classroom and sits down at his desk, his day begins to change - a new teacher, Mr. Gee, bursts into the classroom with an extra...

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Makeovers by Marcia מאת Claudia Mills Pretty is as pretty doesPretty, popular Marcia Faitak is not her usual self. Over the summer she gained five pounds, and when school begins, Marcia, desperate for an invitation from Alex Ryan to the October dance, goes on a diet. In art class, she's supposed to bring a red apple to life...

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Jimmy's Stars מאת Mary Ann Rodman It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he’s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. Ellie ca...

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The Huckabuck Family: and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back מאת Carl Sandburg A picture-book version of the classic Rootabaga story.Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories have amused generations of children with their distinctly American fairy-tale flavor. In The Huckabuck family, which was from his first collection, Jonas Jonas, Mama Mama, and Pony Pony Huckabuck must pull up sta...

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Signal מאת Cynthia DeFelice One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area—alien meaning ...

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The Boy in the Burning House מאת Tim Wynne-Jones Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's fath...