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Holes
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Louis Sachar
Following a miscarriage of justice, the ever-unlucky Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to imprisonment at a boys' juvenile detention center known as Camp Green Lake. There's just one thing about Camp Green Lake--there's no lake, just a dried-up lake bed in which, every day, each boy must dig a hole five feet deep and five feet across. The sadistic ...
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Katherine Paterson
In this classic novel, the friendship between young Jess and Leslie grows as they meet in Terabithia--their secret hiding place--and only ends with the tragic death of one of them. Set in contemporary rural America, "the story is one of remarkable richness and depth, beautifully written".--The Horn Book.
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Tuck Everlasting
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Natalie Babbitt
Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? It's 1880, and the members of the Tuck family (Ma, Pa, and their two sons) haven't aged since the day 80 years ago when they unknowingly drank from a magical spring. When friends and family noticed that the Tucks never aged, they were labeled as bewitched and cast out of society. Since that time, the Tucks ...
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Second Summer of the Sisterhood
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Ann Brashares
As four lifelong friends prepare to split up for the summer, they discover that a pair of secondhand jeans looks good on all of them, despite their different physiques. They promise to rotate the jeans among them and, upon their reunion at summer's end, record their favorite adventures on the pant legs.
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Pigman
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Paul Zindel
High school sophomores John Conlon and Lorraine Jensen, both unhappy at home, spend their free time playing pranks on strangers. When one of their schemes brings them in contact with the elderly Mr. Pignati, who calls himself "the Pigman," the pair befriends the lonely man. Although the friendship enriches all of their lives, John and Lorraine ...
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Wilson Rawls
This classic tells of a ten-year-old boy in the Ozarks during the depression who desperately wants and works for a pair of coon dogs. He finally saves enough to get them, and Old Dan and Little Ann become his inseparable companions in this fine novel of courage, hard work, and ultimate heartbreak.
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Frog & Toad Are Friends
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Arnold Lobel
Five short vignettes celebrate the wonderful friendship shared by a frog and a toad. In one story Frog attempts to awaken the hibernating Toad so that they can enjoy the spring together, and in another Toad insists on wearing a bathing suit when he goes swimming--even though he thinks it makes him look funny. Three-color drawings accompany the ...
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Dear Mr Henshaw
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Beverly Cleary
Given the homework assignment of writing to a famous author, sixth-grader Leigh Botts writes to Boyd Henshaw, the author of his favorite book, WAYS TO AMUSE A DOG. Mr. Henshaw's reply includes some silly answers to Leigh's questions about a writer's life, but he also encloses a series of questions about Leigh that Leigh must answer and send back ...
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Egypt Game
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The A-Z Antique Shop is a shabby store run by a taciturn older man known as the Professor. The shop's abandoned storage yard features a few curios and soon draws the attention of 11-year-old April Hall, her friend Melanie Ross, and Melanie's younger brother, Marshall. Inspired by their mutual love of Egypt, April and Melanie turn the storage yard ...
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View from Saturday
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E L Konigsburg
Four unlikely students are selected by their teacher, Mrs. Olinski, to form the sixth grade team for their school's Academic Bowl. During a series of competitions, the individual talents of team members Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julian are used to propel the team to the state championship. Meanwhile, the team's success re-instills feelings of ...
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Hundred Dresses
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Eleanor Estes
A story about Wanda, who wore the same faded dress to school every day but claimed to have a hundred dresses at home. This tender and lovely story has beautiful full-color illustrations that brilliantly convey the feeling and overtones of the story. Newbery Honor Book.
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Chrysanthemum
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Kevin Henkes
Chrysanthemum loved her name . . . until she went to school. "I'm named after my grandmother", said Victoria. "You're named after a flower". Chrysanthemum wilted. Nothing got any better--until the students met their music teacher, Mrs. Delphinium Twinkle. Full color.
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Freak the Mighty
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Rodman Philbrick
An enormous, antisocial boy with learning disabilities, Max prefers to spend time alone in the basement, away from the prying eyes of his grandparents, who are afraid that he will become like his father, who was imprisoned for the murder of Max's mother. Though Max has known Kevin for years, the two finally become friends in junior high. Kevin, ...
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Surviving the Applewhites
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Stephanie S Tolan
Word is Jack Semple was kicked out of every school in his home state. Now, the only place that will take him is the Creative Academy, a home school run by a chaotic, quarrelsome family named Applewhite. When Jake meets E.D. Applewhite, a scruffy girl longing for order, the only thing they have in common is the determination to survive the family's ...
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Ann Brashares
The girls from the Sisterhood return in the next film based on Ann Brashares' bestselling series, set for theatrical release by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 8. This tie-in includes "Forever in Blue," the final novel in the series, a full-color insert of movie stills, and favorite moments from the entire series.
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Tiger Rising
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K Dicamillo
This National Book Award finalist introduces 12-year-old Rob Horton, who encounters a real tiger in the misty Florida woods. That same day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other and be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things can't be locked up forever.
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Crash
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Jerry Spinelli
The activities of a school bully as told from the bully's perspective. Shallow, vain, and arrogant seventh-grader Crash Coogan has been bulldozing over people his entire life but his most consistent victim is Penn Webb--a Quaker who lives down the street from Crash.
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The Missing Piece
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Shel Silverstein
A circle has difficulty finding its missing piece but has a good time looking for it.
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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Patricia Reilly Giff
In this Newbery Honor Book, a troublesome 12-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
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Days with Frog and Toad
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Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad are very good friends who look after each other. Their day-to-day dilemmas, such as trying to fly a kite, or receiving a birthday hat that doesn't fit, seem to strengthen their friendship. The stories are gently told and well illustrated.
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Someone Like You
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Sarah Dessen
Best friends Halley and Scarlett face many challenges during their junior year of high school. Chief among them: the death of Scarlett's boyfriend in a motorcycle accident and Scarlett's realization that she is pregnant with his child.
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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
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Mem Fox
After overhearing his parents say that his elderly friend, Miss Nancy, has lost her memory, a young boy named Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge tries to find out what a memory is so that he can get Miss Nancy's back for her. Will Wilfrid be able to discover the true meaning of what a memory is? Illustrated with watercolor paintings.
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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
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Ann Brashares
Join Brashares' beloved sisterhood once again in this dazzling, fearless novel. It's a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby--here and now, past and future, together and apart.
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Looking for Alaska
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John Green
Close friendships, hilarious pranks, and illicit smoking await scrawny, nerdy high-school junior Miles Halter when he goes away to Culver Creek, an Alabama boarding school. Immediately nicknamed Pudge by his roommate--a small, well-muscled scholarship student called the Colonel--Miles becomes a part of a tightly-knit group of pranksters headed by ...
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Lilys Crossing
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Patricia Reilly Giff
Lily is looking forward to her upcoming summer vacation at the beach, but then World War II arrives, and everything changes. Her father goes overseas to fight, and Lily is left at home with her bossy grandmother. Her concern for her father's safety is made more difficult by the fact that her best summer friend is moving away, and the only kid in ...
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