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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
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Asch, Frank
Star Jumper : Journal of a Cardboard Genius
Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced his little brother is evil. To escape he invents a spaceship made out of cardboard, duct tape and imagination.
128 p. 2006
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Going, K. L.
The Liberation of Gabriel King
In Georgia during the summer of 1976, Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African American girl who is facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade.
151 p. 2005
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Graff, Lisa
The Thing About Georgie
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
220 p. 2006
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Gutman, Dan
The Homework Machine
Four fifth-grade students -- a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker -- as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.
146 p. 2006
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Hale, Shannon
Princess Academy
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
314 p. 2007
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Jonell, Lynne
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.
352 p. 2008
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Jones, Marcia Thornton
Champ
Together Riley and Champ make a great team. But they stand to lose more at the Founders Day dog show than a blue ribbon. Could they be separated forever?
187 p. 2007
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Lin, Grace
The Year of the Dog
It's the Chinese Year of the Dog. As Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to find herself. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the Year of the Dog is a lucky one for her after all.
134 p. 2007
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Lord, Cynthia
Rules
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
200 p. 2008
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Pennypacker, Sara
Clementine
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
136 p. 2006
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Wilson, Nathan D.
Leepike Ridge
While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters.
224 p. 2007
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