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Almost Paradise
by Corabel Shofner
When her mother is wrongly imprisoned for a crime committed by her boyfriend, 12-year-old Ruby and her pet pig are sent to Ruby's estranged Aunt Eleanor's home on a peach orchard, where she endeavors to heal family wounds and clear her mother's name.
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It All Comes Down to This
by Karen English
Wanting to participate in community activities but feeling marginalized in her new, all-white 1965 Los Angeles neighborhood, 12-year-old Sophie struggles until the riots in nearby Watts and the unfair arrest of a friend make her realize that her life is more complicated than she realized.
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The List
by Patricia Forde
Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and she realizes she must also save the culture itself.
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Orphan Island
by Laurel Snyder
Living on an idyllic but sinister island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children share bountiful food and security under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.
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Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Separated from his aging caregiver grandfather and placed in a foster home, Prez forges an unusual friendship with an alien who appears as a dog to everyone else and entreats Prez to help compile a list of Earth's redeeming qualities to prevent the planet from being destroyed.
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
by Janet Fox
It's 1940, and Kat Bateson's been sent to Rookskill Castle to escape the bombs of war, but what she finds there might be equally frightening: ghostly children haunt the twisty halls, a Nazi spy may be hiding in their midst, and the creepy headmistress doesn't seem entirely human.
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Chasing Secrets
by Gennifer Choldenko
Secretly harboring a passion for science while being forced to attend a snooty finishing school in 1900 San Francisco, Lizzie helps her doctor father make house calls and wonders if the bubonic plague has actually come to the city.
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Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question
by Martha Freeman
Reluctantly staying at her aunt and uncle's farm while her parents are traveling, plucky city girl Effie stumbles across a mystery involving an old family feud and finds herself contending with a neighbor's avoidance, politics, and an eccentric inventor ancestor.
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The Great Shelby Holmes
by Elizabeth Eulberg
Spunky sixth-grade girl sleuth Shelby and her sports-loving sidekick, Watson, tackle a dognapper in their Harlem neighborhood, in a modern adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes character.
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| Hold Fast by Blue BalliettAfter her father disappears and her family is forced to move to a homeless shelter, bright, determined fifth-grader Early Pearl begins to suspect that the clues she needs to reunite her family are hidden in the Langston Hughes book her father left behind. |
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