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Meigs, Cornelia,
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
This award winner tells the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston to her success as a writer of such classics as Little women.
195 p. 1968
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Brink, Carol Ryrie
Caddie Woodlawn
Caddie grows up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-19th century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. Each chapter brings an exciting adventure: a midnight gallop on her horse across a frozen river to warn her American Indian friends of the white men's plan to attack; a prairie fire approaching the school house; and a letter from England that may change the family's life forever. Caddie is big-hearted, she's brave, and she's mechanically inclined!
275 p. 1990
Children's Fiction Book BRINK
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Henry, Marguerite
Misty of Chincoteague
Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.
173 p. 1975
Children's Fiction Book HENRY
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George, Jean Craighead
My Side of the Mountain
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
177 p. 1991
Children's Fiction Book GEORGE
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Konigsburg, E. L.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
182 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book KONIGSB
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O'Brien, Robert C.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
233 p. 1971
Children's Fiction Book O'BRIEN
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Raskin, Ellen.
The Westing Game
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
185 p. 1978
Children's Fiction Book RASKIN
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Bauer, Marion Dane
On My Honor
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
90 p. 1986
Children's Fiction Book BAUER
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Freedman, Russell
Lincoln : A Photobiography
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
150 p. 1987
Children's Nonfiction Book 921 L63
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Spinelli, Jerry
Maniac Magee
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
184 p. 1990
Children's Fiction Book SPINELL
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Lowry, Lois
The Giver
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
180 p. 1993
Children's Fiction Book LOWRY
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Creech, Sharon.
Walk Two Moons
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
280 p. 1994
Children's Fiction Book CREECH
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Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Bud, Not Buddy
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
245 p. 1999
Children's Fiction Book CURTIS
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Murphy, Jim
An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
1793, Philadelphia. In a powerful, dramatic narrative, Murphy describes the yellow fever and the toll it took. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Murphy spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia's free blacks in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis that President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the city while escaping the deadly contagion. The search for the fever's causes and cure, not found for more than a century afterward, provides a suspenseful counterpoint to this true story of a city under siege.
165 p. 2003
Children's Nonfiction Book 614.54109 M
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Hitler Youth : Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that gave Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement.
176 p. 2005
Children's Nonfiction Book 943.086 B
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Law, Ingrid
Savvy
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her savvy, a magical power unique to each member of her family, just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
342 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book LAW
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Gaiman, Neil.
The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
312 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book GAIMAN
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