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Nasty Bugs
A whimsical tribute to naughty and mischievous insects features sixteen pieces by children's poets.
32 p. 2012
Easy Nonfiction Book
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Ada, Alma Flor
Love Amalia
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
125 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Clements, Andrew
About Average
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
120 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Coy, John
Love of the Game
Sixth-grader Jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home but some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.
182 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Fleischman, Sid
The White Elephant
In old Siam, young elephant trainer Run-Run and his old charge, Walking Mountain, must deal with the curse of a sacred white elephant.
95 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book
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Grimes, Nikki
Halfway to Perfect
Despite what Dyamonde and Free say, Damaria worries that she is getting fat, until a classmate's problem with diabetes causes her to change her thoughts about body image.
104 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Han, Jenny
Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream
Korean American fourth-grader Clara Lee longs to be Little Miss Apple Pie, and when her luck seems suddenly to change for the better, she overcomes her fear of public speaking and enters the competition.
149 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Hest, Amy
Letters to Leo
In a series of letters to her new dog, fourth-grader Annie Rossi relates her daily exploits and remembers her mother.
154 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Holt, Kimberly Willis
Piper Reed Gets a Job
When she discovers the price of the coveted clubhouse, ten-year-old Piper and her fellow Gypsy Club members try to earn the money by creating a birthday-party-planning business.
149 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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Hood, Ann
Angel of the Battlefield
When their parents divorce, twelve-year-old twins Felix and Maisie move with their mother to live in the attic of a historic Newport, Rhode Island, mansion where they discover a hidden room that carries with it an intriguing secret.
193 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Jennings, Patrick
Guinea Dog
When his mother brings home a guinea pig instead of the dog he has always wanted, fifth-grader Rufus is not happy--until the rodent starts acting exactly like a dog.
183 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Jones, Diana Wynne
Earwig and the Witch
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
110 p. 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Kerley, Barbara.
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy)
Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.
1 v. (unpaged) 2010
Children's Fiction Book KERLEY
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Krishnaswami, Uma
The Grand Plan to Fix Everything
Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.
266 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Larson, Kirby
The Friendship Doll
Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.
201 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Levine, Gail Carson
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do it : False Apology Poems
Inspired by William Carlos William's famous poem, "This Is Just to Say," a collection of ironic apology poems imagines how tricksters really feel about the mischief they make.
79 p. 2012
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Lin, Grace
The Year of the Dog : a Novel
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
134 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book LIN
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Look, Lenore.
Alvin Ho : Allergic to Camping Hiking and other Natural Disasters
When Alvin's father takes him camping to instill a love of nature, like that of their home-town hero Henry David Thoreau, Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear of everything.
170 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book LOOK
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Madison, Alan
100 Days and 99 Nights
Author Alan Madison looks at the way a family copes with having a parent away on a 100 day, 99 night military tour of duty through the eyes of the very loveable Esmerelda (Esme) Swishback McCarthur. Esme wants to be good while her dad is away. In fact, she feels like it's her duty to be good. But being good can be hard, especially if you have a little brother like Ike. By following Esme's story, as she awaits her father's return, readers will see how heroism can translate to every member of a family.
137 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Marsden, Carolyn
The Jade Dragon
A Chinese American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom learns that friendship cannot be bought.
169 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book
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