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Crenshaw
by Katherine Applegate
Fearing his family will have to move into their minivan when they suffer another financial setback, Jackson finds support and comfort through his friendship with a giant imaginary cat. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The One and Only Ivan.
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The Secret School
by Avi
In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
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The Sword in the Tree
by Clyde Robert Bulla
When young Shan is forced away from his home at Weldon Castle by his ruthless uncle, he becomes determined to return in the future in order to reclaim what is rightfully his.
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No Talking
by Andrew Clements
With the boys and girls of Laketon Elementary at definite odds, Dave's single insult to Lynsey is the final straw that leads to a competition of silence between the two groups, causing a quiet chaos within the school and a confused principal who has no idea how to get things back to normal.
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Tuesdays at the Castle
by Jessica Day George
Loving life in a magical castle that adjusts its appearance every Tuesday, Princess Celie enthusiastically maps out every subsequent change and is challenged to put her knowledge to the test when her parents disappear during an ambush.
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Honus and Me : a Baseball Card Adventure
by Dan Gutman
Cleaning out Miss Young's attic, young baseball fan Joe Stoshack is ecstatic when he discovers the world's most valuable baseball card, which magically transports him back in time to the 1909 World Series and to the side of the legendary Honus Wagner.
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Running Out of Time
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
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Midnight Rider
by Joan Hiatt Harlow
On the eve of the Revolutionary War, young Hannah Andrews, an indentured servant to a British family, finds herself in a struggle between the family with whom she lives and the cause in which she believes, but after dressing up as a boy and attending a Sons of Liberty meeting, Hannah decides to take a stand--risking her life as a messenger for the Revolutionaries.
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Paul Bunyan, a Tall Tale
by Steven Kellogg
Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.
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Orphan Train Girl : the Young Readers' Edition of Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian, who was an orphan, solve a mystery from her past.
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Slacker
by Gordon Korman
Trying to cruise through school doing as little work as possible, an unmotivated boy gets his comeuppance when a community service project escalates into an all-out battle with an extracurricular activity-obsessed, mean-spirited girl.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Wild Wings
by Gill Lewis
Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.
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The Story of Harriet Tubman
by Kate McMullan
Recounts the difficult early years, escape to the north, and heroic work leading more than three hundred slaves to freedom.
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Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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The Kite Fighters
by Linda Sue Park
In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition.
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We're Not From Here
by Geoff Rodkey
After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it is up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School
by Louis Sachar
High atop Wayside School's sideways school, mean Mrs. Gorf is changed into an apple and replaced by Mrs. Jewls, who has her own special way of teaching arithmetic, while pretty Maurecia offers to beat up the school bully.
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Frozen Stiff
by Sherry Shahan
Sneaking away when their mothers go off to town, Cody and Derek find themselves in trouble after a mishap leaves them stranded in an unknown region of southeast Alaska where they soon face hunger, glacier floods, and wild animals.
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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A Crooked Kind of Perfect
by Linda Urban
Upset when her dreams of becoming a grand pianist are squashed when her father returns from the store with an old organ, ten-year-old Zoe Elias tries to make the best of it and so practices hard in order to get her moment in the spotlight at the annual Perform-O-Rama organ contest.
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Ways to Make Sunshine
by Renée Watson
The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
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Save Me a Seat
by Sarah Weeks
Two boys, one white, one Indian-American, gain strength from each other from afar as they struggle to navigate middle school, family relationships and friendships.
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Christopher Mouse : the Tale of a Small Traveler
by William Wise
Having escaped from a taxidermist, ran for his life from a hungry cat at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and successfully maneuvered through other great adventures, Christopher Mouse has got quite a lot of stories to tell for just a simple, little mouse.
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Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
by Brenda Woods
Earning money by playing the clarinet for New Orleans tourists, budding musician Saint remains behind to protect a stray dog when Hurricane Katrina hits and forces the pair to take shelter in an elderly neighbor's home.
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Secret Coders
by Gene Luen Yang
Attending an elite school where enterprising students are challenged to solve a variety of clues and puzzles using computer programming, Hopper and her friend, Eni, resolve to crack the school founder's most elusive mystery together.
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