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Six unlikely friends become fascinated with Egypt and create a make believe game in an empty storage yard behind an antiques shop. Soon strange things begin to happen to the six, and their game eventually leads to the discovery of who kidnapped and murdered a neighborhood child weeks earlier.
This book was a Newbery Honor Book in 1968, as well as an ALA notable book. It received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and won first prize in the Spring Book Festival in New York in 1967. The suspenseful plot and the friends� interactions with each other make this one of the very best of Snyder�s works.
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The four Stanley children move into a big old house in the country with their new older stepsister, Amanda. Amanda is interested in witchcraft and claims to be a real witch. Before long, strange things start to happen in the house and nobody knows if Amanda is to blame or if the house is haunted.
This book was a Newbery Honor book in 1972, as well as an ALA notable book. It received the Christopher Medal and made the Hans Christian Andersen International Honors List. The book is not only suspenseful but interesting because of the inside look at a new stepfamily and how the family members deal with one another.
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In this story, Jessica finds a hairless kitten, which she names Worm, and decides to take care of it. Jessica is very lonely and starts to act out. Jessica blames her odd behavior and strange thoughts on Worm, and decides that he is a witch�s cat.
This book was a Newbery Honor Book in 1973, as well as an ALA notable book. It was also nominated for the National Book Award of 1972. Any child who has ever felt lonely and turns to a pet for companionship will identify with this story.
Libby was home schooled as a child, but now she�s being sent to public middle school for the first time. She doesn�t get along with her classmates. Because of her love of writing, she ends up in a writers� club with other students and is forced to interact with them. They all have their share of personal problems, including Libby, and this brings them all closer together and causes them to become friends.
This book was a Junior Literary Guild selection and named one of the Best Books for Young Adults by the ALA in 1990. Any child who has moved to a new school and didn�t fit in will identify with Libby.
Cat is a girl who is growing up during the Depression in the Midwest. She is too caught up in her own problems to see the bigger problems facing her family and her neighbors including sickness, dust and poverty. When her youngest sister gets sick, Cat matures quickly and opens her eyes to the world around her.
This book was a Junior Library Guild selection as well as the Book of the Month Club selection in February of 1995. It made the School Library Journal and the New York Public Library�s Best Books lists in 1994. It was nominated for numerous other awards and received star reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.
