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1) Eventown
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The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it's impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee's mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to...
2) Also
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This moving story follows one family through generations of time spent together and shows readers that memories allow us to connect to the past, the present, and also to each other.
4) The giver
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Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
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Fantasy Books for Kids
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Jonas' world is perfect. But when Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back......
6) Fred forgets
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A very forgetful elephant named Fred is "reminded" by his friend Monkey that he intended to do everything from riding a unicycle upside-down to singing a song wearing a dress.
8) Kaleidoscope
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An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope...
10) Holding on
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A young girl spends song-filled summers with her music-loving grandmother in the Philippines, but when her beloved Lola starts slipping into silence and stillness, the girl helps her grandmother hold on with music and the joyful memories the songs bring.
11) Do you remember?
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"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
12) Nancy knows
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Nancy the elephant remembers all kinds of things in all kinds of ways, but now she knows she has forgotten something. But what could it be?
14) The memory thief
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When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
16) Who was that?
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Simple text asks the reader a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must find the visual clues that give the answer.
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A prisoner on the planet Apokolips, her memory of her powers suppressed, Supergirl has been reduced to a serving girl for Granny Goodness and the Female Furies; but when she watches trainees prepare for the Cinder Games something in their moves is familiar, and with the help of a Mother Box she enters the games in disguise and wins, recovers her true identity, and escapes through a portal, leaving only a boot behind.
20) Lovely old lion
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"Lenny the lion loves his grandpa, King Lion. But when King Lion starts to forget things, Lenny begins to worry. He can't understand why grandpa keeps getting muddled and doesn't want to play any more. Lenny doesn't know what to do, but with a little help from grandpa's old friends, perhaps he can find a way to help him remember"--
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