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Baskin, Nora Raleigh
Anything but Typical
Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world.
195 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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Casanova, Mary
The Klipfish Code
Sent with her younger brother to Godøy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.
227 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book
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Deedy, Carmen Agra.
The Cheshire Cheese Cat : a Dickens of a Tale
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.
228 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Friend, Catherine.
Barn Boot Blues
When her parents swap urban life in Minneapolis for rural life on a farm 100 miles away, twelve-year-old Taylor feels as if she is living on another planet.
142 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Greenwald, Tom
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.
220 p. 2011
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Kehret, Peg
Runaway Twin
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
197 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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Lake, Matthew
Weird History : a Twisted Tour of America's Bizarre Past
Take a wild and wacky magical history tour! Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran show kids the stranger side of America's past. They uncover abandoned places and haunted spaces, dig up ancient mysteries, shine a light on secret societies, and tell some spine-tingling cemetery stories.
128 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Lowry, Lois.
Bless this Mouse
Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.
151 p. 2011
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Palacio, R. J.
Wonder
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
315 p. 2012
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Paulsen, Gary
Masters of Disaster
Twelve-year-old Henry's grand adventures spell disaster for best chums Riley and Reed, who always seems to land in a pile of "smelly goo."
102 p. 2010
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Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Bird in a Box
In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Includes author's notes.
278 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Ride, Sally
Mission Planet Earth : Our World and Its Climate -- and How Humans are Changing Them
Beginning with Sally Ride's unique, astronaut's-eye view of Earth's fragile atmosphere, "Mission: Planet Earth" describes how water, air, and other climate systems shape our world, and how a disruption in one part of the system can spread through the entire planet. Features helpful diagrams and stunning photographs.
80 p. 2009
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Stevermer, Caroline.
Magic Below Stairs
Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.
199 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Tracy, Kristen
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus--
Ten-year-old Camille McPhee relates the ups and downs of her fourth-grade year at her Idaho elementary school as she tries to adjust to the absence of her best friend, maintain control of her low-blood sugar, cope with the intensifying conflict between her parents, and understand the importance of honesty and fairness.
293 p. 2009
Children's Fiction Book
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Ylvisaker, Anne
The Luck of the Buttons
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.
224 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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