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On the Far Side of the Mountain
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Our Only May Amelia
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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The Lottery Rose
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Walk Two Moons
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Baseball In April
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The Egypt Game
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The young man and the sea
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Surviving The Applewhites
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A Single Shard
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Elephant Run
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Bud Not Buddy
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Middle School: The worst years of my life
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Feathers
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The London Eye Mystery
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Counting by 7's
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Ring of Endless Life
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Sammy Keyes and The Hotel Thief :
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Dear  America I Thought My Soul Would:

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Death Mountain:

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Becoming Ben Franklin:

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1. City of Orphans
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2. Stand Tall
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3. A String in a Harp
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4. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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5. Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
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6. Guardians of Ga'hoole 02: The Journey Ring of Endless Light
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Baseball in April and Other Stories provides a reassuring look at growing up. Written for a middle-school audience, this collection of short stories offers a window into how circumstances in the lives of students in this age group are often perceived and how problems are resolved.

“Broken Chain” centers on first love and troublesome brothers. In preparing his bike for his first date with Sandra, Alfonso breaks the chain. Although his brother Ernie will not change his plans to help Alfonso, he does come through in time so that Alfonso can use Ernie’s bike for his date. At least Alfonso can “ride” Sandra on his handlebars. The story ends with her hands on his, and “it felt like love.”

“Baseball in April” also focuses on two brothers, Jesse and Michael, nine and ten years old, respectively, who hope to play Little League Baseball. Not making the cut, they join the Hobos, the leftovers, but only Jesse stays with the team. Despite their best efforts, the Hobos lose all their games. One day, only four boys show up for practice. Jesse fails to show up the following day and feels guilty, worried that a sole teammate will find himself on the bench, waiting.

In “Two Dreamers,” a boy and his grandfather think about speculating in real estate. Hector’s grandfather Luis is inspired by his son-in-law’s ability to buy and sell a house with enough profit to buy a brand-new car and to build a brick fence around his house. Unsupported by his wife, Luis and nine-year-old Hector inspect a house, and his grandfather persuades Hector to call the agent to learn the price. When it is far more money than anticipated, and because Hector’s grandmother almost catches them, Luis and Hector gratefully escape to mow the yard—two “hardworking guys” who still have dreams.

In “Barbie,” owning a real Barbie is Veronica’s dream. A Christmas ago, she received an imitation Barbie, and this Christmas there was no doll at all until Uncle Rudy surprises her with a real Barbie. Ecstatic, she takes her doll to play with her friend Martha, but when Martha tries to switch Barbies, Veronica leaves. On the way home, Veronica realizes that Barbie’s head is missing and spends hours searching for it. Heartbroken, she goes to bed, cradling both of her “Barbies.”

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In The Egypt Game, April and her friends invent a game inspired by the Egyptians. Fascinated by ancient Egypt, they invent their own hieroglyphs, perform rituals, and study the ancient Egyptian gods. When a child is murdered, the game must be put on hold. April is later attacked, but saved, and the killer is brought to justice.

After her father dies and her mother neglects her, April goes to live with her grandmother. April has trouble adjusting to this situation, but grows to love her grandmother.

April and her friend Melanie invent the Egypt game. Their group gradually grows larger, and the kids perform elaborate rituals and invent their own hieroglyphs. They enact their rituals in the storage yard of an antique shop owned by the Professor.

The Egypt Game goes on hiatus after a girl is murdered. Later, April is attacked, but then saved by the Professor. The murderer is brought to justice, and the Egypt Game ends; but a new game involving gypsies is proposed.

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After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna.

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Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Vicky Austin is filled with strong feelings as she stands near Commander Rodney's grave while her grandfather, who himself is dying of cancer, recites the funeral service. Watching his condition deteriorate as the summer passes on beautiful Seven Bay Island is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate things, she finds herself the center of attention for three very different boys: Leo is an old friend wanting comfort and longing for romance; Zachary, whose attempted suicide inadvertently caused the Commander's death, is attractive and sophisticated but desperately troubled; and Adam, her older brother's friend, offers her a wonderful chance to assist in his experiments with dolphins but treats her as a young girl just when she's ready to feel most grown-up.
Called upon to be dependable, stable, and wise, Vicky is exhilarated but often overwhelmed. Forces of darkness and light, tragedy and joy, hover about her, and at times she doesn't know which will prevail.

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With his spiked hair and all-black clothing, 13-year-old Jake looks the part of the juvenile delinquent he's supposed to be. He's moved from Rhode Island to rural North Carolina to stay with his grandfather, and the only educational institution that will have him is the Creative Academy, the homeschool run by the zany Applewhite family. The Applewhites, from four-year-old Destiny to grandfather Zedediah, are all creative, talented, artistic types, and their haphazardly run school is more of a self-education opportunity. E.D., the almost 13-year-old daughter of the clan, feels like the odd one out — her talents lie in organization, not in art, writing, dance, or theater, like the rest of the family. But when her director father undertakes a local production of The Sound of Music, all the Applewhites throw themselves into making it a success. E.D. is indispensable as stage manager, and Jake gets a starring role in the play and discovers a passion for the stage. Just like the butterflies they hatch from caterpillars as part of a self-directed science project, the two adolescents find their wings.

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Author: Holly  Sloan
Counting by 7s is the story of Willow Chance, the adopted daughter of an older couple who die in a car accident at the beginning of our book.  Willow is a genius with an uber green thumb and a tendency to be obsessed with medical conditions.  Her unique character makes it difficult for her to blend into our world, and she doesn’t have a lot of friends or many people to turn to in the midst of her loss.  But a variety of characters come into her life that help her navigate the difficult waters of grief and each of them in turn find ways to change their own lives for good.  In the end, Counting by 7s is a story about how we build families with the people in our lives and manage to hang on by our fingernails in the face of adverse circumstances.  It is a moving story of love and hope and how sometimes complete strangers can completely turn your life around and become a family.

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A Single Shard is the story of a twelve-year-old boy growing up in Ch’ulp’o, a twelfth-century Korean town. An orphan, he is called Tree-ear after a kind of mushroom that grows “without benefit of parent seed.” He and his protector, Crane-man, live under a bridge and eat scraps of food from garbage heaps. Crane-man has taught Tree-ear that they must live honorably by scavenging and not give in to the temptation to steal.

The town of Ch’ulp’o is famous for its pottery. The clay in the region allows potters to glaze their pots a beautiful, highly prized gray-green color called celadon. In his free time, Tree-ear likes to hide in the bushes and watch Min, an old master potter, make pots grow on his pottery wheel. Min is a perfectionist who typically forms and discards far more pots than he keeps. As a result, he is not only the best but also one of the slowest potters in the village.

One day Tree-ear finds the potter away from home. Tree-ear sneaks into the yard to look more closely at several of Min’s creations. The delicate pieces—a duck formed to pour water from its bill, a large jug shaped like a melon, and a plain rectangular box that hides several other boxes inside it—amaze him. When Tree-ear drops and breaks a piece of the box, he offers to pay for the broken pottery with nine days of work.

Tree-ear secretly hopes that Min will teach him to become a potter, but Min makes him cut firewood to stoke the village kiln instead. This is a difficult job, blistering Tree-ear’s hands and straining his muscles. At the end of each day, Tree-ear is exhausted. Lucky for him, he has Crane-man to treat his blisters, tell him stories, and provide him with small meals of scavenged food at the end of each day.

After his nine days of work are finished, Tree-ear returns to Min and offers to work for him permanently, even though Min refuses to pay any money for the work. He hopes that Min will teach him to make pots, but Min sends Tree-ear to the clay pits outside town to cut clay and bring it home. Tree-ear finds the job difficult. However, the new job has a positive side. Min’s kindly wife provides him a midday meal of rice, fish, and cabbage—far better food than Tree-ear normally earns scavenging.

At first, Tree-ear is thrilled with himself for earning his lunch, but soon he grows worried. Crane-man has always shared everything with him, and now Tree-ear gets a meal every midday which he cannot carry home. He soon solves this problem by bringing his own bowl for Min’s wife to fill. He eats half of the food and hides the other half to take home to Crane-man in the evening. Tree-ear is used to eating very little, and it fills him with satisfaction to help the old beggar eat so well.

After Tree-ear collects enough clay, he learns to drain it at a nearby stream, thus making purified clay and glazes. Rather than explain how to do each job, Min barks orders and leaves Tree-ear to figure out how to fulfill them. Tree-ear works by experimentation and by watching other potters. Min responds to mistakes with criticism, but he never rewards good work with praise.

By eavesdropping on other potters, Tree-ear learns that Min is struggling to earn a living because his perfectionism makes him so slow. What he needs is a royal commission, a contract to produce pottery for the king’s household. This position is well-paid and extremely honorable. It is the dream of many potters, but Min pursues it with more drive than anyone else in town.

From long habit as a scavenger, Tree-ear is observant. He notices before anyone else that a certain potter, Kang, has developed a new technique to make beautiful inlaid patterns on his pots. It is a great innovation, but Kang is a poor potter whose work is sloppy. Tree-ear observes the man working in secret and realizes that this new technique will draw attention. He wants to tell Min about it, but he does not know if it is right to give his master another man’s secrets. He asks Crane-man, who advises against telling Min, at least until Kang makes his innovation public.

Min’s wife continues to give Tree-ear his lunch every day, and she soon realizes that he is hiding half of his food to take home. Every afternoon she surreptitiously refills his bowl so that he will have a full meal to take with him. This means that Tree-ear gets to eat half of a meal with Crane-man every night, in addition to the half meal he eats at midday. He realizes that Min’s wife would probably give him a whole extra meal every day if he ate all of his food at midday, but he is too proud to find out.

In addition to working hard for Min, Tree-ear does many small tasks for Min’s wife, hoping that this is adequate thanks for the extra food she gives him. He rarely speaks to her, but the two of them develop an affection for each other. When winter arrives, she gives him a beautiful warm jacket and pair of pants that she originally made for her son, who died when he was Tree-ear’s size. Tree-ear is thankful, but he cannot bear wearing such wonderful clothes when Crane-man has none. He gives Crane-man the jacket and keeps the pants for himself.

Word arrives in town that an emissary of the king is going to visit Ch’ulp’o to award royal commissions to the best of the potters. Everyone in town begins working to ready their best pieces. When the emissary, Kim, arrives, everyone sets up..

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It is 1941, and fourteen-year-old Nick Freestone has been sent by his mother to live on his father's teak plantation in Burma to escape the dangers of the London Blitz. Unfortunately, the War in the Pacific is also gearing up, and the Japanese takeover of Burma is imminent. Soon after Nick arrives, Rangoon falls to the invaders, and Japanese troops infiltrate the country. The Freestone plantation is overrun and converted into an operating center for the Japanese command; Nick's father is taken to a labor camp, and Nick himself is held prisoner on the plantation and forced to work for the enemy officers. With the help of Taung Baw, a legendary, ancient Buddhist monk whose name means "Hilltop," Nick and Mya (a young Burmese girl whose father was the head "mahout," or elephant handler on the plantation) manage to escape and attempt a daring rescue of Nick's father. Riding on the back of a huge, rogue elephant named Hannibal, Nick, Mya, and Hilltop journey through the dangerous jungle in pursuit of their quest, enduring heat and hunger, evading occupation troops, and navigating among Burmese natives who might be friend or foe.

Published in 2007, Roland Smith's Elephant Run is a riveting story that is notable for its realistic setting, interesting and well-developed characters, and intricate plot. The steamy jungles of Burma come alive, and its native inhabitants carve small villages out of an environment in which ferocious tigers and enormous elephants make their natural homes. Elephants known to be dangerous are identified by an iron bell around their necks, so that villagers will know to get out of the way when the behemoths meander by. For the most part, however, these usually gentle creatures work side by side with their skilled mahouts, moving logs and helping to build the trappings of civilization. The characters, especially Nick and Mya, are multidimensional; Nick begins the narrative as a callow, physically pampered city boy, but emerges as a hardy youth capable of surviving in the unforgiving land almost as well as any native. Intelligent, athletic Mya chafes at cultural traditions that prevent women from becoming mahouts. The plot itself is suspenseful and action-packed, and includes audacious disguises, a desperate and ingenious rescue plot, a terrifying flight through the jungle on elephant back, and a secret hiding place built into the old plantation house. The fast-moving pace of the story along with its ample substance make this book an ideal choice for reluctant readers.

Elephant Run is especially valuable in the canon of young adult literature because of its historical accuracy and its examination of the effects of colonization and forced occupation upon native populations. The people of Burma, as represented especially by the mahouts in the narrative, have long existed under the rule of British imperialism, and their allegiances are torn when the Japanese arrive, promising to free the Burmese from their oppressors. When they discover that life under the notoriously brutal regime of the Japanese military is even worse, the victims find themselves victimized yet again; loyalties are constantly changing, and it is impossible to tell who can be trusted. It is notable that, even as he depicts the horrific treatment meted out upon prisoners of war and the native Burmese alike by the Japanese occupation forces, the author refuses to stereotype. Japanese commanders Sergeant Sonji and Colonel Nagayoshi, who exhibit glimpses of tortured humanity, are pawns within a barbaric system of shifting power, where mistakes are not tolerated, and the consequence of failure is death.

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Guardians of Ga'hoole 02: The Journey Ring of Endless Light BY: Kathryn Lasky

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Guardians of Ga'hoole 02: The Journey Ring of Endless Light BY: Kathryn Lasky

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Soren, a young Barn Owl, his three friends — a Great Grey Owl, an Elf Owl and a Burrowing Owl — and a blind snake named Mrs. Plithiver, but often called Mrs. P, search for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The owls of Ga'Hoole are rumored to do good deeds. Soren's small band of owls hopes to join this noble order and fight the evil of St. Aegolius, an "orphanage" that steals eggs and young owls and brainwashes them.

As Soren and his friends journey, they are attacked by crows, talk to a dying owl who warns them that there are greater dangers than St. Aegolius, kill a bobcat, are enchanted by the waters of the Mirror Lakes and learn to see the worth of other bird species. In the end, they work together, using their individual talents, to find the island of Ga'Hoole and the famed tree.

Soren's band chooses to live with these noble owls. They enter into training and learn about the different areas or chaws, groupings of owls that do specific jobs, such as taking care of the tree or studying weather patterns. Each owl in Soren's small band is chosen for a different chaw, and Soren struggles with the chaw he is given because of his instructor. He eventually realizes it's a good fit for him.

Throughout the story, Soren fights against his feelings of loneliness and anger over how he was pushed from his parents' nest by his brother and consequently captured and taken to St. Aegolius. He worries about his little sister, Eglantine; he doesn't know if she is dead or alive. In the end, a large group of owlets and young owls are rescued and brought back to the tree. Eglantine is among them, but all the owlets seem to be under a spell. They do not respond to anything until they hear strains of music; only then do Eglantine and the other young owls begin to recover.

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Author:  Siobhan  Dowd,
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye, but after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off—except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery.

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On The Far Side Of The Mountain BY:Jean Craighead George

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On The Far Side Of The Mountain BY:Jean Craighead George

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Sam Gribley's quest to live off the land and his joy in the solitude of the Catskill Mountains is interrupted when his lively sister, Alice, stays on after his family of 10 visits during the summer. At least she is company and quite inventive at making labor-saving devices.Sam's world is more upset when a man who claims to be a government official confiscates his peregrine falcon and hunting partner, Frightful. Before long, Alice also disappears, leaving mysterious markers which point out her trail. Sam feels he must find Alice, and in doing so, discovers strange information about the man who took Frightful from him.This book has mystery and suspense woven into its obvious woods survival theme. We find out more about the training and terminology used in falconry, as well as useful tips on marking a trail and tracking. Meet the old friends again, Jessie Coon James and Baron Weasel plus a group of new characters, both human and animal.

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Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor BY: Michael Burgan 

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Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor BY: Michael Burgan 

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Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working conditions to light. Hine and his fellow Progressives wanted to end child labor. He knew photography would reveal the truth and teach and change the world. With his camera Hine showed people what life was like for immigrants, the poor, and the children working in mines, factories, and mills. In the words of an historian, the more than 7,000 photos Hine took of American children at work aroused public sentiment against child labor in a way that no printed page or public lecture could.

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Summary of Middle School:the worst years of my life

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Summary of Middle School:the worst years of my life

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Author: Paterson
It's Rafe Khatchadorian's first day at Hills Village Middle School, and it's shaping up to be the worst year ever. He has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix, but luckily he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off. With his best friend, Leonardo the Silent, awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive code of conduct. Chewing gum in class: 5,000 points! Running in the hallway: 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm: 50,000 points!
But not everyone thinks Rafe's plan is a good idea, especially not the teachers, parents, and bullies who keep getting in his way.

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Pictures Of Hollis Woods BY:Patricia Reilly Giff

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Pictures Of Hollis Woods BY:Patricia Reilly Giff

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After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill. Hollis is a talented artist and her life stories unfold through her pictures.

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas BY: John Boyne

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas BY: John Boyne

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During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) and his family leave Berlin to take up residence near the concentration camp where his father (David Thewlis) has just become commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out behind his house one day and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy of his age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship, oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.

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A STRING IN THE HARP is the story of a mysterious harp tuning key and its powers to merge present day life in Borth, Wales with the ancient, mythical time when the land was ruled by kings, warriors, and bards.

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The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year-old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East Side. With Bruno’s boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies--but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer (among other employments) to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection.

Against a backdrop alive with the sights and sounds of tenement New York, Maks, as boy detective, must confront a teeming world of wealth and crime, while struggling against powerful forces threatening new immigrants and the fabric of family love.

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Author:  Christopher Paul Curtis,
A 10 year old orphan who has grown up in Flint, Michigan. The book opens in 1936, four years after Bud's mother's death. Bud has just been placed with the Amoses, his third foster family. Unfortunately, the Amoses' son Todd bullies Bud, causing Bud to escape.Bud decides to run away from his foster home in the hope of finding a permanent home and a better life. He brings with him mementos of his mother - a bag of stones, a special blanket, a childhood photograph of his mom, and fliers for a jazz band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, and their leader Herman E. Calloway. Bud decides that he should try to find Calloway, who he thinks might be his father.

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Author: Jacqueline Woodson,
Taking place in the 1970s, in an urban all African American school, this book highlights the hard topics of racism, faith, hope, and disabilities. A white boy comes to the school and is soon dubbed “Jesus Boy”. His entrance as the only white student causes tension and misunderstandings. Some of the students believe that he is Jesus and others simply hope he is. He is very quiet and doesn’t let Trevor, the class bully, hurt him. He just calmly talks to Trevor and never retaliates.Jesus Boy knows sign language which intrigues Frannie since she has known sign language her whole life. Frannie has grown up with a deaf older brother, and is very sensitive to how people treat and perceive him. She is hesitant about being friends with Jesus Boy because she does not understand him and wonders why he would cross over “the bridge” to their side. She is torn because she knows how difficult it can be to be the new kid, but she does not want to stand out. Frannie’s best friend Samantha believes that Jesus Boy truly is Jesus Christ and that he has come in this time of chaos and because of the war. During all that is going on Frannie constantly thinks of the poem she read in class that said "Hope is the thing with feathers".

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At age 12, Tree stands 6′ 3 1/2″ and not much makes sense — why his parents are getting divorced, why he’s terrible on the basketball court — but he begins to find his purpose helping Grandpa…and then comes Sophie, an older, bolder girl at school with a motto and a mission.

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An unforgettable heroine narrates Holm's extraordinary debut novel set in Washington State in 1899. Twelve-year-old tomboy May Amelia Jackson, the youngest of seven children and the only girl in a Finnish immigrant family, lives in the wilderness along the Nasel River: ""I have so many brothers, more than any girl should have. My secret birthday wish is to get a sister."" Holm's uncanny ability to give each of the siblings--and a wide range of adults--a distinctive character while maintaining May Amelia's spunky narrative voice, gives the novel its immediacy and potency. Through May Amelia's travels, readers witness the diverse ways of life in the expanding West: peaceful relations with the Chinook Indians, the plight of a widow barmaid, the taboos around her brother's interest in an Irish girl, the dangers posed by the neighboring logging camp, her aunt's life in the nearby boomtown of Astoria, Ore., as well as the rhythms of the seasons. The sometimes gruesome realities of the Jacksons' lives are tempered by May's strength of character and her bond to her favorite brother, Wilbert. Readers will fall in love with May Amelia's spirited nature; when she saves her brothers from a cougar, she tells them, ""I reckon it's a Darn Good Thing I'm not a Proper Young Lady or you'd be a cougar's supper right about now."" This novel is not to be missed. Ages 9-up. (June)

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The Lottery Rose. Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures.The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt focuses on the difficult life of a young boy faced with domestic abuse. After he is taken out of his abusive situation, he must heal himself with the help of new friends and people who care for him. He also learns how to forgive and not quickly judge others. The Lottery Rose. Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures.

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In Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal Hiddle is thirteen when she and her father move from the home Sal loves in Bybanks, Kentucky, to a small house in the town of Euclid, Ohio. They move so that Sal’s father John can be closer to a red-haired woman named Margaret. Sal believes her father is romantically involved with Margaret, but she later discovers that is not the case.Sal is the only child of John and Sugar. One April morning, Sugar announces that she’s going on a trip alone. She is apparently struggling with personal issues, including the fact that she is unable to have more children, and the journey seems to be one of self-discovery. Sugar is in Idaho when the bus she is riding runs off a cliff, killing everyone on board except Margaret. John visits Margaret in the hospital when he goes to Idaho to tend to Sugar’s burial and discovers Margaret was seated next to Sugar when the wreck occurred. It’s because John feels a connection to Sugar that he moves with Sal to Ohio.

Once in Ohio, Sal becomes friends with a girl in her class named Phoebe Winterbottom. Phoebe lives with her older sister and her parents in Margaret’s neighborhood. Soon after the friendship between Phoebe and Sal becomes solid, Phoebe’s mother disappears. Sal commiserates with Phoebe’s loss, having suffered when Sugar left home. Phoebe’s mother is gone only a few days when she returns with the grown son she’d given up for adoption. Phoebe’s story has a happy ending, a stark contrast to Sal’s own story.

Soon after Phoebe’s situation is resolved, Sal’s paternal grandparents, Gram and Gramps Hiddle, arrive to take her to Idaho. They plan their trip to stop at the places Sugar had visited and intend to arrive at Sugar’s grave on her birthday. As they set out on their trip, Gram and Gramps suggest Sal entertain them by telling a story. She begins the story of her friendship with Phoebe, intertwining her own memories along the way. Pieces of Phoebe’s story prompt memories of Sal’s life and she pours it all out to her grandparents. Meanwhile, Sal and her grandparents have some adventures of their own. Gram is snake bit while swimming and they spend a couple of days in a hospital. As they continue their trip, Gram becomes increasingly ill and the trip is halted when she becomes so sick that she has to be hospitalized again. Gramps, realizing that it’s important to Sal to reach her mother’s grave on Sugar’s birthday, hands over the keys to the car and Sal sets out on the last few hours of the journey alone.

She reaches the spot where the bus went off the cliff and, though she still doesn’t really understand the reason for Sugar’s trip, comes to terms with her life. She is picked up by the police but upon hearing her story, simply drive her back to the hospital and return the car to Gramps. There, Sal discovers that Gram has died.

The stay in Ohio is fairly brief and Sal returns to her beloved farm in Bybanks, Kentucky, with her father. They are joined by Gramps.

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