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Dory Fantasmagory
by Abby Hanlon
Dory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts.
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Finding Winnie : The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
by Lindsay Mattick
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
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The Superlative A. Lincoln : Poems
About Our 16th President
by Eileen R. Meyer
Whimsical poems, engaging artwork and fun facts combine in a young reader’s portrait of the 16th president that highlights his lesser-known qualities, from his dislike of his “Honest Abe” nickname and his status as the tallest president to his talents as a wrestler and storyteller.
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City Spies
by James Ponti
Sentenced to juvenile detention after exposing her foster parents' crimes, a talented young hacker is rescued by a British spy who recruits five teen savants from different world regions to become elite agents for MI5.
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May B.
by Caroline Starr Rose
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
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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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The Enormous Egg
by Oliver Butterworth
When twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell takes care of an gigantic egg laid by one of his hens, he is shocked to find that it hatches into a triceratops.
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The World According to Humphrey
by Betty G. Birney
Sent to live in Room 26, Humphrey, the class hamster, begins to learn a lot about humans through simple observation from his cage, in an amusing tale about a curious creature who takes full advantage of his educational opportunities.
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Invisible Inkling
by Emily Jenkins
When Hank Wolowitz runs into trouble in the form of a lunch-stealing bully, he finds an unlikely ally in an invisible refugee pumpkin-loving bandapat named Inkling.
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Judy Moody Gets Famous!
by Megan McDonald
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
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Jake Drake, Bully Buster
by Andrew Clements
Provides the "memoirs" of Jake Drake, a boy who transformed himself from first-grade geek to the cool dude of the fourth grade by using his wit to outsmart the bullies at his school.
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Orphan Train Girl
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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Dandelions
by Eve Bunting
Moving to their new home on the prairie, Zoe sees that her mother is unhappy with their desolate lifestyle, but while on a ride to the nearby town, Zoe sees something special that may make her mother happy once again.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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Dinosaurs Before Dark
by Mary Pope Osborne
When he and his younger sister discover a tree house that travels through time, Jack and his younger sister, Annie, begin an adventure that takes them to the era of dinosaurs.
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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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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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Stuart Little
by E. B. White
Follows the adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.
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