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kira-kira (kee'ra kee'ra): glittering; shining This is Katie Takeshima's first word, taught to her by big sister Lynn. Lynn is the person who can ... More

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In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic ... More

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When his dog bites the neighborhood bully and the police are sent to take it away, Danny and the dog run off, heading toward Cape Canaveral, where ... More

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From the award-winning author of Paradise Cafe comes a brilliant new novel that's received unanimous critical acclaim. It tells the story of a young ... More

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New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age "Girls' Life Magazine," Ten Best Summer Reads Featured in "Teen Discussion Groups @ the Library" ... More

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The "Hollywood" where Sammy Santos and Juliana Ramos live is a tough barrio at the edge of a small town in southern New Mexico, where in 1969, Sammy ... More

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The acclaimed author of "Soldier Boys" now pens a taut and thoughtful novel set in 1969 during the Vietnam War that captures the sights and sounds of ... More

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During eighth grade, Carrie moves in with her grandmother, becomes friends with an indrawn classmate, and comes to terms with her mother's death.

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The acclaimed author of "Soldier Boys" now pens a taut and thoughtful novel set in 1969 during the Vietnam War that captures the sights and sounds of ... More

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This fictional re-creation of a crime that happened in Hahn's Maryland hometown in 1955Nthe murder of two teenage girlsNis at once a mystery and a ... More

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Luna has learned an awful lot in her thirteen years---how to skin a rabbit, where to pick the perfect wildflowers, how to gut a fish. Now, she'll ... More

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When eleven year old Katy Sue loses her mother, Edna, to meningitis, she and her family must adjust to life without her. The rural farm in the 1940's ... More

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In September of 1943, one year after her father's death, nine-year-old Isabelle begins writing him letters, which are interspersed with letters to ... More

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Julia goes to visit her two grandchildren and, as they wander through the natural history museum, she tells them of her childhood. Julia tells them ... More

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It seems like everything 11-year-old Willa Mae wants to know just isn't proper material for her curiosity. But some mysteries have a way of ... More

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This book is set in Ireland in 1984. After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left ... More

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Millie's is a small family -- just a mother, a father, a small brother, Hamish, and her. Both her parents had been orphaned (and were introduced in ... More

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Set in North Dakota in the spring of 1941, with the actual events of a freak March blizzard weaved in, this taut, gripping story about grief, ... More

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In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife ... More

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In 1977, twelve-year-old Lane, living with her family on an army base in the politically tense Panama Canal Zone, tries to cope with the aftermath of ... More

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Two funny, poignant adventures of Katie Roberts, detailed in her humorous diaries set in the years after World War II, are now combined in one ... More

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Heartfelt and funny, this novel-in-letters set during World War II introduces a winning heroine who learns to cope with the loss of her father - with ... More

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In western Pennsylvania during World War II, eleven-year-old Little Buck makes a shocking discovery when his beloved grandfather dies, causing him to ... More

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In 1937, 13-year-old LaMarr's mother flies off with a stunt pilot. Sent to live with an aunt and uncle, LaMarr awaits her mother's return and is ... More

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A young boy on an Indian reservation in the Southwest cannot conceive of life without his great-grandfather, but the ailing medicine man leads him to ... More

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