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Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Sherman Alexie (Read by)
Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.
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Thanksgiving on Thursday
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M Osborne
Jack and Annie are whisked back to 1620s Massachusetts where the Pilgrims and Native Americans are scheduled to feast together the next day. This story offers an age-appropriate, in-depth picture of what life was like for the early American settlers. Illustrations.
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Cry the Beloved Country
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Alan Paton
Often called the most important South African novel, this is the story of love and courage in the face of injustice.
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Roll of thunder, hear my cry
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Mildred D Taylor
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. ...
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High Tide in Hawaii
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M Osborne
When the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to Hawaii, it's for more than a vacation--they're in search of a fourth kind of magic for Morgan. On the way they help an island community survive a tidal wave and, of course, take some time out to surf. Illustrations.
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Judy Moody: Around the World in 8 1/2 Days
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Megan McDonald, Peter H Reynolds (Illustrator)
A brand-new friend and a big class project put Judy in an international mood in this comical new adventure. Illustrations.
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Scrambled States of America
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Laurie Keller
Bored with always being stuck in the same place, the various states of the United States begin swapping locations with each other. How will Wisconsin like taking the place of Hawaii? What will happen when Nevada and Mississippi fall in love and decide to get married? Color illustrations accompany the text of this clever geography lesson.
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Elijah of Buxton
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and talks too much. But everything changes when a former slave steals ...
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Chosen
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Chaim Potok
In Potok's first novel, Danny Saunders must reconcile his rigidly repressive Hasidic heritage with his thirst for secular knowledge, and with his friendship with Reuven Malter, a liberal Jew. As always, Potok's primary concern is the way Jewish traditions often conflict with the values of contemporary society, and how a sensitive, thinking person ...
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Paddle-To-The-Sea
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Holling Clancy Holling
A young Indian boy in Canada carves a little canoe with a figure inside and sets him on the snow just north of Lake Superior. When the snow melts the canoe, named Paddle-to-the-Sea, is off on a long trip through each of the Great Lakes, down the St. Lawrence River and into the Atlantic Ocean. This book chronicles its remarkable journey in words ...
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Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
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Francisco Jimenez
A collection of 12 short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farm workers.
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Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Nine-year-old Kenny narrates this story about his middle-class, African-American family and their 1963 trip from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama. The trip's purpose is two-fold--to visit their grandmother, and to get Kenny's older brother away from the rough crowd he has been running with. Sadly, racism rears its ugly head as the family ...
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Forged by Fire
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Sharon Mills Draper
When his mother leaves him at home while she goes to buy drugs, 3-year-old Gerald Nickelby accidentally starts a fire and is badly burned. Afterward, his mother is charged with child neglect and sentenced to jail, and Gerald is sent to live with his firm but loving Aunt Queen. Six years later, after his mother is released from jail and Aunt Queen ...
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile
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Eloise McGraw
The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled.
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Grandfather's Journey
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Allen Say (Illustrator)
Inspired by memories of his grandfather, author/illustrator Allen Say presents the true story of his family's ties to two very different countries. Beginning with his grandfather's first journey from Japan to the United States, Say describes how his grandfather adapted to life in America while still remembering and missing his native country. ...
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Touching Spirit Bear
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Ben Mikaelsen
Cole Mattews has been violent and destructive for most of his 15 years, but when his beating of Peter Driscal results in brain damage, Cole is forced to face the consequences. Sent to an island in the harsh climes of Alaska, he must fend for himself for a year. Initially thinking that he can escape the island, the troubled teen is set upon by a ...
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Lost horizon
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James Hilton
A fantastic tale of adventure by the English novelist. Four Europeans travelling in the Far East find themselves stranded in a lost world when their plane goes off course near Nepal and is forced to land in a mysterious kingdom called Shangri-La. One of the four, a young Englishman named Conway, narrates the tale of their experiences, which become ...
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Uncle Jed's Barbershop
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Margaree King Mitchell
Set in the 1920s, this is the story of Sarah Jean's favorite relative, Uncle Jed. Uncle Jed and Sarah Jean live in the segregated South, where Uncle Jed is the only African-American barber. He travels to the homes of family and friends to cut their hair, but dreams of opening up his own shop and has been slowly saving his money for the big event. ...
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Tar Beach
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Faith Ringgold
This book offers an up-close view of 1939 Harlem, as seen by an 8-year-old girl. The dreamlike illustrations are rich with color and imagination. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1991.
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Breaking Through
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Francisco Jimenez
Fourteen-year-old Francisco Jimenez and his family leave Mexico and arrive at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sisters not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant ...
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Devil's Arithmetic
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Jane Yolen
Bored during a Passover ceremony and tired of her grandfather's constant reflection on the Holocaust, 12-year-old Hannah finds her self transported through time from America in 1988 to Poland in 1942. There Hannah finds that she is no longer Hannah, but a girl named Chaya who is being sent to a concentration camp.
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Chicken Sunday
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Patricia Polacco
A young white girl named Patricia and her two best friends, a pair of African-American brothers named Stewart and Winston, perform a secret ceremony that makes them brothers and sister. After Patricia's grandmother dies, she adopts the boy's grandmother, Miss Eula, as her own. When the trio hears Miss Eula wishing for a beautiful hat to wear on ...
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We're Different, We're the Same
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Bobbi Jane Kates, Joe Mathieu (Illustrator)
Illustrations and simple rhyming text show that while the body parts of various human and Muppet characters may look different, they have similar uses.
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Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners
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Lucille Recht Penner
An exploration of the food, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims. Readers will also learn about the difficulty of day-to-day life in the 1600s, when people had to endure insects living in their hair, beds, and food, and the deadly ravages of diseases that are today considered manageable. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and lithographs.
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City of the Beasts
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Isabel Allende
Accompanied by his grandmother, a writer for "International Geographic Magazine," 15-year-old Alexander Cold travels to the Amazon on a mission to uncover the legendary Yeti. Their exploration team also includes an anthropologist and a doctor and is lead by a local guide and his daughter, Nadia. Before long, Alexander finds himself bonding with ...
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