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From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression.
“A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News
In 1932, American's dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing...
“A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News
In 1932, American's dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing...
5) Sold
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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2016.
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English
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Living an isolated life in their strict father's parsonage out on the English moors, the Brontë siblings have always been inseparable, their vivid imaginations actually transporting them into their created worlds, but when Branwell begins to slip into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as their characters refuse to let them go.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 9
Language
English
Description
A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.
10) Superfudge
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Series
Fudge books volume 3
Language
English
Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
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Series
NERDS volume 5
Language
English
Description
When Miss Information kidnaps the president's daughter, it is up to twelve-year old Ruby, also known as Pufferfish, to use her super-nanobyte-enhanded allerigies in leading the NERDS' investigation.
12) Eleven
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Series
Winnie years volume 1
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English
Description
The year between turning eleven and turning twelve brings many changes for Winnie and her friends.
14) Bicycle mystery
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Series
Boxcar children volume 15
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English
Description
While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
16) Caboose mystery
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Series
Boxcar children volume 11
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the Alden family as they ride across country in a caboose that has a strange history--or is it a mystery?.
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
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English
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The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
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Factory (Aya De Leon) volume 1
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the Factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andrea has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she never imagined that she would have to straighten her hair and go undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist. In order to gain the boy's trust, Andrea finds herself doing...
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