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| Fiction Adaline Falling Star Adaline Carson is left behind with her father's cousin who puts her to work as a servant. By Mary Pope Osborne The Ashwater Experiment Used to life on the road with her nomadic parents, Hillary is spooked at spending seventh grade in one school. By Amy Koss The Ausere Academy The three orphaned Baudelaire siblings are sent to Prufrock Prep, a dreadful boarding school. By Lemony Snicket Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Mary Elizabeth wins the lead in My Fair Lady and the hatred of the school princess. By Dyan Sheldon Esperanza Rising In 1924, after her father is killed by bandits, Esperanza and her mother come to California to work picking crops. By Pam Munoz Ryan |
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| The Graduation of Jake Moon Jake loves and resents his grandfather whose Alzheimer's disease grows worse each day. By Barabra Park Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Fourteen-year-old Harry attends the Quidditch World Cup and returns for his fourth year at Hogwarts. By J.K. Rowling Hope was Here "Do not date the cook." is a rule 16-year-old Hope dis-cards in her new job as waitress at the Welcome Stariways Diner. By Joan Bauer I Was A Rat! Who is the little boy who shows up at the door of Old Bob a cobbler and his washwoman wife, Joan? By Philip Pullman Nory Ryan's Song As the Irish Potato Famine takes hold in 1845, 12-year-old Nory must find a way to help her family survive. By Patricia Reilly Giff Sacajawea Seven-year-old Pomp is told the story of the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition |
| by his mother, Sacajawea and William Clark By Joseph Bruchac A Year Down Yonder Fifteen-year-old Mary Alice spends the school year of 1937 with her crusty Grandma Dowdel. By Richard Peck The Year of Miss Anges in 1948, 12 children in a one-room schoolhouse in a romote Alaskan vilage meet their remarkable and unique teacher. By Kirkpatrick Hill The Giver When he tirns 12 Joahn begins to find the perfect society nothing but. By Lois Lowery The Golden Compass After Lyra thwarts a murder attempt on her uncle, Lord Asriel, she must find out whu children are being kidnapped all over England. By Philip Pullman Maniac Magee A homeless boy brings together a small town were black and white residents rarely meet. By Jerry Spinelli |
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| NON-FICTION Angels Ride and Others Fall Poems In 21 lively poems, written in both English and Spanish, a young boy describes his life in Los Angeles. By Francisco X. Alcon The Girl Who Spun Gold In an elegant West Indian "Rumplestilskin" story, Quashiba's mother tells Big King her daughter can spin the finest golden thread. By Virginia Hamilton Satchel Paige This pitcher extraordi-naire for the Negro Leagues was the first black pitcher to be drafted in the major leagues. By Lisa Cline-Ransome Spirit of Endurance In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew became stranded in Antartica, when their ship was trapped in ice. By Jennifer Armstrong |
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