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Strings attached
by Judy Blundell
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him
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What I saw and how I lied
by Judy Blundell
When Joe Spooner brings an old buddy back home with him from the battlefields of World War II, Evie finds herself in a complicated situation that becomes even more dangerous when their family's guest suddenly drowns as dark family secrets are revealed.
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Deadly
by Julie Chibbaro
In the early nineteen hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author
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A northern light
by Jennifer Donnelly
While working at the local hotel, the drowned body of a young woman washes onto the shore and gets Mattie thinking again of the loss of her mother, her family¡s struggles, and her unhappy life in her small community, but when she reads the girl¡s letters, Mattie is inspired and becomes determined to follow her dream of moving to New York City to become a writer. 50,000 first printing.
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Dead end in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, 12-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore. By the author of the Newbery Honor book, Joey Pigza Loses Control.
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Summer of my German soldier
by Bette Greene
Set during World War II, a curious, 12-year-old Jewish girl, Patty Bergen, finds herself drawn to the German prison camp in her hometown in Arkansas, but an unexpected friendship develops between her and a soldier that puts her in a position that may forever alter her life. An ALA Notable Book.
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A farewell to arms
by Ernest Hemingway
An American's love for an English nurse during the First World War ends in tragedy
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Moon over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Jumping off a train in Kansas to learn more about her father’s exciting past, Abilene Tucker is initially disappointed by the run-down Depression town she encounters before finding a hidden box of mementos and letters that mention a spy who played an important role in the town’s secret history.
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Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith
Dreaming of being a pilot her whole life, Ida Mae Jones sees her chance during World War II, but she cannot be accepted into the WASP because she is black, forcing Ida Mae to choose between her racial heritage and chasing her dream.
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Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys
Josie, the 17-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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Esperanza rising
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.
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All quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war
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Half brother
by Kenneth Oppel
Documents the childhood efforts of Ben Tomlin to protect a young chimpanzee raised in his home as a family member as part of a university science experiment that subsequently lost funding. By the Printz Honor-winning author of Airborn. 15,000 first printing.
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I pledge allegiance
by Chris Lynch
Enlisting as a group when one of them is drafted into the Vietnam War, best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan and Beck pledge their loyalty to one another before reporting to different branches of service, where they are watched over by Morris, who has been experiencing haunting dreams.
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Hattie ever after
by Kirby Larson
In 1919, 17-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie—and her sweetheart Charlie—to become a female reporter in San Francisco, in the sequel to Hattie Big Sky, that was written, in part, to answer many questions that readers posed about the irrepressible Hattie.
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Out of the dust
by Karen Hesse
A poem cycle that reads as a novel tells the story of fifteen-year-old Billie Jo and his fight against the elements during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of 1934. By the author of The Music of Dolphins.
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Everybody sees the ants : a novel
by A. S. King
Experiencing vivid dreams about meeting his long-lost POW/MIA grandfather, Lucky Linderman struggles to fit into a home life marked by a distant father, a weary mother and a cruel bully who compromises Lucky's grasp on reality. By the Printz Honor-winning author of The Dust of 100 Dogs.
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The year of the bomb
by Ronald Kidd
Set in 1955, horror film fans Paul and his friends are excited when they meet movie extras who are working on a horror film in their town, but when rumors of a Communist conspiracy begin to circulate, Paul and the boys have to figure a way out of the strange situation in which they find themselves before things take a dangerous turn.
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