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Gaither sisters volume 2
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...
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English
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Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then, just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she loses the special volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry that was given to her...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers an account of the first fourteen years of the author's life in poems, telling of her time spent between her mother's native Cuba and her home in Los Angeles, until the revolution in Cuba dramatically alters relations between the two countries she loves.
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Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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Description
When Justice Jack, a self-appointed superhero, begins trying to track down the missing Mrs. Wedgewod and some stolen cash, the older folks in Santa Martina are delighted but Sammy knows it will be up to her to really solve the mystery.
8) Eden's wish
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Series
Eden of the lamp volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Posing as a middle school student, genie Eden finds herself in the middle of a centuries-old conflict between powerful immortals and dodging a ruthless organization run by a former genie who will stop at nothing to acquire her lamp and its power.
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Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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Description
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.
10) Shipwreck island
Author
Series
Shipwreck Island volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sarah's dad and stepmom then decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
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Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan books volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Bobby inadvertently gets into a fight with his best friend Holly, their disagreement develops into a boys versus girls war involving their whole fourth-grade class.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Description
A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.
14) Comic con artist
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 21
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy work undercover at a comic book convention to find a forger.
15) Counting by 7s
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Language
English
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Description
In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family.
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that...
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that...
16) Good luck, Ivy
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1976, Ivy must choose between participating in a gymnastics tournament and attending a family reunion.
17) The wolf keepers
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying.
18) City of fire
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
19) House arrest
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe must stay undercover on the Deprivation house reality show to discover who's behind the continuing "accidents."
Author
Series
American girls collection. Julie, 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. 1974 volume 3
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
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