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Bread and Roses, Too
Rosaís mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union songs, and Rosa is terrified that her mother and older sister, Anna, are endangering their lives by marching against the corrupt mill owners. |
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Bridge To Terabithia
Jess Aarons had to be the Fastest runner at Lark Creek Elementary School, the best, but when he was challenged by Leslie Burke, a girl, that was just the beginning of a new season in Jess's life. |
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Come Sing, Jimmy Jo
"You got the gift," his grandma told him. But every time eleven-year-old James thought of singing and playing his guitar in front of people, he felt sick. |
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The Day of the Pelican
Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. |
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Flip-Flop Girl
Vinnie Matthews needs a lifesaver-not the candy kind, but a real one, one that will bring her daddy back to life and let her family return to their home in Washington. |
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she had just been placed! |
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Jacob Have I Loved
"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. . . ." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise know that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone Loved. |
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Jip, His Story
Jip could not understand why no one had claimed him after he tumbled off a wagon on the West Hill Road when he was a small child. Brought to the town poor farm, Jip was content to tend the animals and do chores-until the day the lunatic arrived. |
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Lyddie
She was no better than a slave, Lyddie thought. The dept-ridden farm had been let to neighbor, and she and her brother had been hired out. Was the end really near, as their mother had said when she fled with the babies after the hungry bear had broken into their Vermont farm house? |
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The Master Puppeteer
Who is the man called Saburo, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor of the Japanese city of Osaka? And what is his connection with the Hanaza, the puppet theater run by the harsh master of Yoshida? |
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Of Nightingales That Weep
The daughter of a samurai never weeps. But Takiko, whose warrior father has been killed in the civil wars between the Heike and Genji clans, finds this a hard rule, for she resents and even fears her mother's new husband. |
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Park's Quest
Like the bold knights in his fantasies, eleven-year-old Park is on a quest: He wants to learn about his father, who died in Vietnam. Not only has he no memory of his father, his mother won't discuss him. |
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Preacher's Boy
It's the end of a century, and some say the end of an age. According to certain members of the church where Robbie's father preaches, the end of the world may be at hand. |
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Rebels Of the Heavenly Kingdom
Rescued from kidnappers, Wang Lee found himself with a strange secret group. They were the God-worshiping Society, Mei Lin told him, dedicated to overthrowing the hated Manchu emperor of China. Wang Lee must join the rebels and learn to be a soldier—and to kill. |
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The Same Stuff as Stars
Angel Morgan needs help.
Her daddy is in jail, and her mother has abandoned Angel and her little brother, Bernie, at their greatgrandmother's crumbling Vermont farmhouse. |
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Sign Of The Chrysanthemum
His desperate search for the father he has never seen leads thirteen-year-old Muna to danger and adventure in the crowded, colorful capital city of twelfth-century Japan. But where should he look for him? |
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