Shadow of a bull
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Maia Wojciechowska
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor
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It's like this, Cat
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Emily Cheney Neville
Although he acquired Cat only to defy his father, Dave Mitchell matures through the experiences that are instigated by his pet
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A wrinkle in time
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Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government, in a re-release of the classic story. A Newbery Medal Book. Simultaneous. 500,000 first printing.
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The bronze bow
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Elizabeth George Speare
A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus of Nazareth teaches him love and understanding of others. A Newbery Medal book. Reissue.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Scott O'Dell
A young Indian girl learns the art of survival when she is stranded on an isolated Pacific island
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Onion John
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Joseph Krumgold
The friendship between Andy and the elderly Onion John, an immigrant handyman, becomes strained when Andy's father tries to change the old man's ways
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The witch of Blackbird Pond
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Elizabeth George Speare
Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut
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Rifles for Watie
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Harold Keith
Jeff Bussey, a Union volunteer, sees the Civil War from both sides when he is sent to spy on Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee raiders
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Miracles on Maple Hill
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Virginia Sorensen
Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to Grandma's old farmhouse on Maple Hill. A Newbery Medal book. Simultaneous.
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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
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Jean Lee Latham
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
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The wheel on the school
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Meindert De Jong
Dutch schoolgirl Lina's composition about storks began the children's campaign to bring storks back to their village
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And now Miguel
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Joseph Krumgold
Miguel, the middle son of a family of sheep-raisers, finds himself at the awkward age between boyhood and manhood
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Secret of the Andes
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Ann Nolan Clark
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors
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Ginger Pye
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Eleanor Estes
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children
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Amos Fortune, free man : Free Man
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Elizabeth Yates
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty
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The door in the wall
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Marguerite De Angeli
The crippled son of a powerful nobleman sets out to prove his courage and his right to be recognized by the king
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King of the wind
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Marguerite Henry
Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses
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The twenty-one balloons
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William Pène du Bois
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic
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Miss Hickory
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Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head
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Strawberry girl by Lois Lenski Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer's cannot wait to pick some ripe and juicy strawberries, but she and her family, just moved to the Florida backwoods, have to deal first with some natural obstacles and some feuding neighbors. Winner of the Newbery Medal.
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