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Ultimate Weird but True
TRUE BOOK
Presents facts, brief stories, photos, and illustrations showing that fact can be as weird as fiction.
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192 p. 2011
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Birney, Betty G
The World According to Humphrey
ANIMAL STORIES
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
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124 p. 2004
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D'Lacey, Chris.
The Fire Within
FANTASY
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
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340 p. 2005
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DiCamillo, Kate
Bink & Gollie
FUNNY STORIES
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
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81 p. 2010
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Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
SCARY STORIES
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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162 p. 2002
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Key, Watt
Alabama Moon
ADVENTURE
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.
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298 p. 2008
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L'Engle, Madeleine
A Wrinkle in Time
SCIENCE FICTION
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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211 p. 1962
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Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
REALISTIC FICTION
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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191, 7 p. 2007
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Smith, Jeff
Out from Boneville
GRAPHIC NOVEL
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins--Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone--are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures are just beginning!.
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138 p. 2005
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Walsh, Pat
The Crowfield Curse
MYSTERY
In 1347, when fourteen-year-old orphan William Paynel, an impoverished servant at Crowfield Abbey, goes into the forest to gather wood and finds a magical creature caught in a trap, he discovers he has the ability to see fays and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery involving Old Magic, a bitter feud, and ancient secrets.
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326 p. 2010
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