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Applegate, Katherine
Home of the Brave
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
249 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book APPLEGA
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Clements, Andrew
No Talking
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a no talking contest.
146 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book CLEMENT
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Compestine, Ying Chang
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed bourgeois, and people of laughter.
248 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book COMPEST
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Debon, Nicolas
The Strongest Man in the World
Louis Cyr astounded audiences throughout North America and Europe with his amazing feats and mammoth proportions. Discover the life and times of this extraordinary hero in this picture book biography.
27 p. 2007
Children's Nonfiction Book 921 C99
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George, Jessica Day
Dragon Slippers
Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.
324 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book GEORGE
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Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.
91 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book GIFFORD
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Hest, Amy
Remembering Mrs. Rossi
Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother. When Mrs. Rossi died suddenly, she left not only Annie but also a classfull of students - who pour out their hearts in a scrapbook Annie will treasure forever.
143 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book HEST
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Landy, Derek
Skulduggery Pleasant
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.
392 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book LANDY
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Manning, Phillip Lars
Dinomummy: The Life, Death, and Discovery of Dakota, a Dinosaur from Hell Creek
In 2000, teenager Tyler Lyson stumbled across the fossil remains of a hadrosaur in the remote hills of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. The fossil named Dakota was gradually uncovered and moved to a lab for further excavation and analysis. Stunning computer-generated artwork brings Dakota and its environment back to life.
64 p. 2007
Children's Nonfiction Book 567.914 M
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Marsden, Carolyn
When Heaven Fell
When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.
183 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book MARSDEN
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O'Connor, Barbara
How to Steal a Dog
Georgina is desperate to improve her homeless situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience. She persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
170 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book O'CONNO
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Olander, Johan
A Field Guide to Monsters
Reports the habitat, diet, lifecycle, and other characteristics of a variety of unusual monsters, as observed and recorded by a monstrologist.
2007
Children's Fiction Book OLANDER
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Peck, Richard
On the Wings of Heroes
A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.
148 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book PECK
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Sanderson, Brandon
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
308 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book SANDERS
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Selznick, Brian
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
533 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book SELZNIC
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Tarshis, Lauren.
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.
199 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book TARSHIS
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