The whipping boy
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Sid Fleischman
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws
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Sarah, plain and tall
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Patricia MacLachlan
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay
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The hero and the crown
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Robin McKinley
With the aid of the wizard Luthe and the Blue Sword, Aerin wins the birthright due to her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. A Newbery Medal book. Reissue.
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Beverly Cleary
Lonely, especially since he is the new kid in school, Leigh Botts begins writing letters to his favorite author, Mr. Henshaw, describing his life since his parent's divorce, and through these letters he finds comfort, compassion, and a knack for writing, in a poignant Newbery Medal-winning novel. Reissue.
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Dicey's song
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Cynthia Voigt
After moving in with her grandmother, Dicey Tillerman begins to realize that her younger brothers and sister will still need a lot of attention from her
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Jacob have I loved
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Katherine Paterson
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity
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A gathering of days : a novel
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Joan W. Blos
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend
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The Westing game
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Ellen Raskin
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance
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Bridge to Terabithia : Movie Tie-in
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Katherine Paterson
Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community
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Roll of thunder, hear my cry
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Mildred D. Taylor
Facing a year of night riders and burnings, Cassie and her family continue their struggle to keep their land and hold onto what rightfully belongs to them, despite the difficult battles they must continue to endure. Reprint. Winner of the Newbery Medal.
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The grey king
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Susan Cooper
A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark
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M.C. Higgins, the great
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Virginia Hamilton
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love
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The slave dancer
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Paula Fox
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo
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Julie of the wolves
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Jean Craighead George
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack
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Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh
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Robert C. O'Brien
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived
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The summer of the swans
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Betsy Cromer Byars
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost
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Sounder
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William Howard Armstrong
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder
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The high king
by
Lloyd Alexander
A heroic fantasy describing Taran's quest to recover the most powerful weapon in Prydain from the baron bent on the Kingdom's destruction
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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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E. L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself
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Up a road slowly
by
Irene Hunt
After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with her Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes, including love, jealousy, and tragedy, as she grows into a young woman. Winner of the Newbery Medal. Reprint.
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I, Juan de Pareja
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Elizabeth Borton Trevino
Although Juan is a slave, a friendship develops between him and his benevolent master, the great Spanish artist Velazquez, who secretly teaches him to paint
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